As I am stuck at home and not feeling too well on this bank holiday weekend, it seems like a good time to catch up on posting pictures from my walks around the vicinity of Bath. So here are the pictures from a walk to Little Solsbury Hill in 2008.
Setting out from Belmont, I head north, so I can pick up Camden Road further up the hill. One could walk out along the main London Road down at river level, but that would be a less pleasant walk.
Camden Cresent. This area of Bath, north of the city centre, must have been the most fashionable part in the city's heyday; reading between the lines of Persuasion, for instance, it seems that further up the hill is generally more fashionable, in which case this and Lansdown Cresent must have been prime real estate at the time.
Looking south from Camden Road over eastern Bath.
Slightly further on, looking south-east where we can see where the Avon valley heads south towards Bradford-on-Avon.
Further on, heading and looking east, this is the Claremont district of Bath. There is a valley here between Lansdown ridge and Solsbury Hill.
Looking south over eastern Bath; Bathwick Hill in the distance.
And this is — no, not a car advert — Solsbury Hill that I'm walking towards.
After passing over the bypass on the east side of Bath, you arrive in the poor old hamlet of Bailbrook (poor because it's had a bypass built underneath it). The most notable thing here is this rather interesting church, Bailbrook Mission Church (also called the Tin Church ).
On Solsbury Hill itself now, finally out of the city.
And looking back from here at Lansdown.
The north half of Lasdown ridge.
And now the panorama from the top of the hill. The top of the hill of mostly rough if grassy ground, as it's not agricultural land; but there's a walkable path around the rim of the hill. So here are photos from all angles at the top of the hill, which commands a good view over all the area east of Bath:
North, Charmy Down. There's a disused airfield that way, apparently.
East, with part of Batheaston in view.
South-east, with Bathford across the valley in view.
South, looking at Bathampton and Bathampton down.
South-west, Bath itself
West, Lansdown ridge.