National Trust - Bath Skyline
Six-mile circular trail of woods and meadows on high ground, with sweeping views over the city.
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This guide to the National Trust's Bath Skyline turns on a November night in seventeen seventy-eight, when two men of fashionable society, an Irish count and a relative of Madame du Barry, fell out over a gambling debt in the city below. It follows them up onto Claverton Down before dawn, each carrying two pistols and a sword. Best heard on the open ridge, facing down into the valley toward the city's stone terraces.
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