The Bristol Hill Cemetery
You might remember that a month or so back I was whining about map quality and about the way Google maps showed a second cemetery where one didn’t exist? Well, Brad corrected me in a comment on that post, and I visited the place where he suggested I could find some indications of the cemetery.
The cemetery isn’t really visible from the top of the hill, but at the bottom there are some signs to indicate where it was.
Right at the centre of this picture, between the trees, you can just make out the left edge of Bristol Hill tower. I’ll do a separate shoot of the tower one day; it’s a nice spot. There’s a plaque in the stone monument off to the right. I’ve processed it in high contrast black and white to make the text easier to read.
As the text at the bottom says, there are at least 400 other people believe to be buried here. If you look at how small the hill is it’s almost hard to believe. There can’t be much space between the graves at all. It would be interesting to get Tony Robinson’s Time Team people to visit and do some ground radar work here.
Who said what?