Smallcombe Cemetery
Victorian garden cemetery in a wooded valley, with listed chapels and graves of soldiers and artisans.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Smallcombe Cemetery in Bath follows one man buried in its Anglican churchyard: George Fosbery, a Bengal Army lieutenant on India's north-west frontier in the autumn of eighteen sixty-three. It moves from a hilltop outpost under attack to the long retirement he gave over to guns, from machine guns to a tiger-hunting rifle and a self-cocking revolver. Best heard among the stones of the churchyard, in the quiet of the valley.
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