Kelston Round Hill

A walk.  In 1995 a girl called Sarah Louise Gray was riding her horse along the Cotswold Way when something happened and she died, apparently from a heart condition.  The stone below commemorates the spot.  There is something intangibly sad on coming across this stone, it is miles from any road and is on the path that eventually leads to Bath.  She was only 17 years old and a fine grave in Haycombe cemetery marks her place of rest, there is a small horse statue at the foot of the grave as well.  She was a much loved daughter.

I would see the stone as I walked to Kelston Round Hill, a place, you will see it in the video below, a copse on the top of the hill, a permissive path leads to it.

the track down from Bath racecourse

Looking West towards Bristol

looking towards Bath

The wayfaring tree

The video - A Film for Sarah, has a haunting musical track, and by the use of a drone captures the magic of Kelston Round Hill, for some a place of pilgrimage to remember those lost.  A friend who kept hounds, would take their ashes up there and nail a small plaque to a tree to remember the times when the dogs ran freely over the fields.

Kelston could mean the Place of the Celts (If you want to be a little fanciful) for there is a barrow cemetery, or what is left of it to the East and an Iron Age settlement as well.

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