Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends

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.

[Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends @BathwickSt]

Normal service is resumed 🥂🍾!

For more information about our Roman Sarcophagus see item no. 6 in the Cemetery Trail on our website.

[Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends @BathwickSt]

@bob_combedown And yet none of the usual suspects had anything whatsoever to say about the decimation of red-protected House Martins & at-risk bat species on and around the Rec.

[Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends @BathwickSt]

@musomusings Independent Spirit at Bog Island.

[Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends @BathwickSt]

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!

[Bath Peregrines @BathPeregrines]

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

[Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends @BathwickSt]

£3.50 from the local supermarket a few years back...unbeatable value for money!!!

[Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends @BathwickSt]

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.

[Mayor of Bath's Guides @MayorsGuides]

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

[Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends @BathwickSt]

@jacktreacle OK, so I agree irony doesn't work well on X...
But it's on them if some have been provoked into resistance by their doing precisely the opposite elsewhere whilst hiding behind a convenient invented tick-box excuse on the notice displayed.

[Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends @BathwickSt]

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.

[National Trust in Bath @NTinBath]

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

[Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends @BathwickSt]

@jacktreacle The point is theyve kept the gate to the main road locked open for months cos someone complained about the noise it makes pleading lack of funds to fix it even as they funded multiple closed gates in Bathampton. Sooo...safety for toddlers & dogs isn't a concern but for cattle is?

[Mayor of Bath's Guides @MayorsGuides]

The wait is nearly over.... Here is our special summer walks programme for 2026. 9 topics, 58 walks, 1000 places. Bookings open 29 April
https://t.co/ipZttgVFn7
#bathguides

[NT Bath Assembly Rooms @NTAssemblyRooms]

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

[Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends @BathwickSt]

@MayorsGuides Snap!

[BlackHistoryStudies @BlkHistStudies]

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.

[Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends @BathwickSt]

@MayorsGuides Definitely like the look of that one. Bath's burial grounds: surely amongst Bath's most undervalued heritage assets!

[Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends @BathwickSt]

@landatthebottom Congratulations - you waited at least 3 long months to get a photo in which the path wasn't a watery & muddy quagmire & you finally succeeded.
In reality it'll benefit numerous people inc the many international visitors who don't happen to have their walking boots with them

[Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends @BathwickSt]

May this Easter bring peace, hope and renewal to all.
#OTD 15 years ago.

[American Revolution 250 @RevWar250]

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.” https://t.co/Wp03WzACrH

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

UN votes to recognise slavery as 'gravest crime against humanity' https://t.co/fKNudB0K6g

[Bathwick St Mary's Churchyard Friends @BathwickSt]

Just imagine: America might never have succeeded in securing independence without Washington putting his faith in Smallpox inoculation. How times have changed!

[American Revolution 250 @RevWar250]

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.”