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Can’t say how much fun this was last year (even though it rained solidly). This year is set to be a complete cracker of a classic village fete. We’ll be there…see you there too!

Photo by Benjamin Ellis

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 →