Author Archives: kelstonroundhill

National civil-society pre-COP26 celebration and call to action on the environment. After meeting the national organisers of CelebrationEarth! we’ve offered to host CelebrationEarth! southwest – a gathering to celebrate life and nature at Kelston Roundhill. It will celebrate local environmental … Continue reading →

Bath Spa’s brand new centre for environmental humanities held its kick-off workshop in the Old Barn on Kelston Roundhill yesterday. Led by Prof Kate Rigby, it’s the first such centre in the UK. They’re a distinguished and diverse group of academics: … Continue reading →

When students at the UK’s finest liberal arts establishment Bath Spa University look out dreamily to distant horizons here’s what they see: Newton Park campus by Capability Brown. Photo of Kelston Roundhill by Prof Owain Jones

In part three of our conversation, Martin Palmer, director of the Alliance of Religion and Conservation, talks about how the Romans used local fossils, and interprets the Celtic origins of the name “Kelston”. Behind me is this stone here, part … Continue reading →

Photo by Tim Graham

It’s 3 am on Moorland Road The lamplight strips the scene A trail of blood and bottles Shows where the tribe has been A fox shakes his head from the alley and slowly takes his bow It’s 3 am on … Continue reading →

Tim Graham has started a new Kelston Roundhill Flickr group with a dozen terrific images. He writes Kelston Roundhill is one of my favourite places & I’ve been somewhat of an amateur photographer for the last 2 years so I’ve tried … Continue reading →

What was this hill used for in ancient history? Is there evidence, or do we have to guess? In part two of a series, the artist Penney Ellis and I put these questions to the environmentalist and religious historian Martin Palmer. … Continue reading →

The environmentalist and religious historian Martin Palmer, founder of the Alliance of Religion and Conservation, is a quiet genius based in Bath (and until recently Kelston). His book Sacred Land: Decoding Britain’s Extraordinary Past kicked off his Sacred Land project to help people rediscover … Continue reading →

A girl walks a dog To the crest of the hill Her thoughts of word unspoken. The last flags of day are torn on the west, And all the clouds are broken. Once, a day was a wave through the … Continue reading →