St Mary's Churchyard is a tranquil haven next to busy Bathwick Street, largely maintained by the Friends - who range from novice gardeners to experts.
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15 Aug 2025
Normal service is resumed 🥂🍾!
For more information about our Roman Sarcophagus see item no. 6 in the Cemetery Trail on our website.
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Fantastic to see that at last a thoroughly deserving woman has been given a plaque in Bath, now in position waiting for its final finish & polish.
Huge respect to the shop owner who managed to find a way round the plaque gate-keeper community!
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Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends retweeted
1 of 6 - Late on the evening of 30/4 I was advised by one of the church officers on the ground in Bath that a drone was being flown “dangerously close” to the nest box at St Johns. When I checked the system, the pole camera was completely dead. @Hawkandowluk @ASPBathNES
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£3.50 from the local supermarket a few years back...unbeatable value for money!!!
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It's full-on growing season for weeds at the moment so plenty to do for our hard-working volunteers this morning in perfect gardening weather.
It's always a good time to visit, but late spring/early summer is always the most colourful.
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No wonder we are #1 of 169 Tours and Activities in Bath - with 664 Trip Advisor reviews in 2025 - 657 rated 5* and the remaining 7 rated 4* - and all 100% FREE #bathguides #visitbath
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Pure trolling: "We closed the gate that forced you to keep yr dog on a lead but now it's safe you must keep yr dog on a lead".
Other news: while NT can't afford/won't mend one Bathwick gate to stop noise that made them lock it open they funded 10 new closed gates at Bathampton.
Cattle will be returning to some fields on the Bath Skyline. Please remember to keep your dog on a lead if walking them through a field containing livestock.
These green spaces are for everyone to enjoy. Please be respectful of others.
📷 National Trust / Sarah Fox
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Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends retweeted
The wait is nearly over.... Here is our special summer walks programme for 2026. 9 topics, 58 walks, 1000 places. Bookings open 29 April
bathguides.org.uk/summer-spe…
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We're participating in World Heritage Day tomorrow. Pop along and say hello and find out about the social aspect of Bath Assembly Rooms.
#WorldHeritageDay
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Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends retweeted
210 years, 14-16 Apr 1816, Bussa led the largest revolt of enslaved #Africans in #Barbadian history; first of three rebellions in British West Indies, with 1823 Demerara, 1831-32 #Jamaica, that shook public support for slavery in the years leading up to Abolition.
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31 MARCH 1776, BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS: “I desire you would Remember the Ladies,” Abigail Adams writes to husband John. “Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.” founders.archives.gov/docume…
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Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends retweeted
Mar 25
UN votes to recognise slavery as 'gravest crime against humanity' bbc.in/3PnDIe6
Community note
UN did not recognize slavery as the "gravest crime", only the transatlantic slave trade, and it also calls for "reparations" to be paid.
Most historical slavery is not covered by this resolution, and none of the current slavery.
news.un.org/en/story/2026/…
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Just imagine: America might never have succeeded in securing independence without Washington putting his faith in Smallpox inoculation. How times have changed!
17 MARCH 1776, BOSTON: Washington at first forbids any troops to enter Boston, both to prevent looting and because he is convinced that “the enemy with a malicious assiduity, have spread the infection of the smallpox through all parts of the town.”
ALT George Washington, painted in 1776 by Charles Willson Peale
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Our hard-working volunteers enjoyed a beautiful sunny morning for our regular monthly gardening session today. Great to see several visits from a yellow Brimstone butterfly enjoying our nature-friendly historic churchyard!
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Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends retweeted
Fascinating stories of women from our city's long and varied history. All for International Womens Day.
Friday 6 March and Sunday 8 at 2.30 starting in Abbey Churchyard
bathguides.org.uk/internatio…
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Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends retweeted
Mar 1
Rev250 resource of the day — Published #OTD March 1, 1776, in London, the political cartoon “The State Blacksmiths Forging fetters for the Americans” with Lord North at the left, Lord Sandwich and Lord Mansfield working at the anvil: britishmuseum.org/collection…
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Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends retweeted
Join us for special free walks to celebrate International Women's Day 2026 - no booking required #IWD #bathguides #visitbath
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Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends retweeted
Feb 22
Cyclist probably on a hire e-bike badly damages road sign
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