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Last Friday our local National Trust Ranger Rob Holden visited Kelston Roundhill. Rob Holden on the Clump. You can keep up with his Bath Skyline work on Twitter: @NTBathSkyline The National Trust is the UK’s second-largest landowner (after the Crown … Continue reading →

Another nice “Bath skyline” picture showing the Clump. This was published in the Daily Telegraph in March, credited SWNS.com. I can’t find it online; this is taken with a phone of the paper clipping. Thank you and all due credit … Continue reading →

We’re very pleased to announce that from today Kelston Roundhill is an Enlightenment Meadow. We applied to become a Coronation Meadow under Prince Charles scheme announced today, but were edged in Somerset by Chancellors Farm, Priddy Nr Wells (which does … Continue reading →

Last week was hedgehog awareness week apparently. I wasn’t aware of it. Nor, more to the point, are we aware of hedgehogs on Kelston Roundhill. If it’s going to be a place for educational visits we want plenty. But the … Continue reading →

The City, the National Trust and others speak of an integrated Bath skyline, and the Clump is clearly part of it. For example the DTel of 23 May had a lovely Bath skyline pic with the Clump on the horizon. … Continue reading →

A Friend sends a picture of the Pilton Tithe Barn. So much more spacious than flat beams It was newly reroofed in 2005 after a fire 40 years earlier. It was purchased with a benevolent grant from Glastonbury Festival’s Michael … Continue reading →

Two odd bits of social history: the human side of the old county council, and a link with a 1960s folk album. First a lovely story about Kelston Roundhill: Lindsay Smith, an Avon County Council planner, fretted that all the … Continue reading →

After a period of quiet, this sounds like an attempt at progress on the ash dieback front (from BBC): The government is to plant a quarter of a million ash trees in an attempt to find strains that are resistant … Continue reading →

Here’s a lovely and unusual January pic of the clump from 2008 by veloden (via Flickr)  The colours are quite different. It shows the clump as a vulnerable integrated whole, blasted by south westerly winds into a single shape as … Continue reading →

The charity Plantlife wrote to Doug who chairs Kelston parish council: Wild plant charity Plantlife is hoping to reach out to many wild plant enthusiasts and nature lovers by inviting them to become wild plant ‘pioneers’ and subscribe to a free … Continue reading →