Explore Bath's world heritage
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One of the best preserved Roman remains in the world.
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A world-class collection of contemporary and historical dress.
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Bath's public art museum housing paintings, sculpture and decorative arts.
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Stunning and historic venues for hire in the heart of a World Heritage city.
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Collecting and keeping safe historical records relating to Bath.
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The City of Bath is designated with UNESCO World Heritage Site status.
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Promoting and assisting film-making in Bath & North East Somerset.
Written in 2019 by a member of a creative writing class, through a collaboration between Bath Record Office and the St. John’s Foundation.
A poem inspired by the map of Somerset and Wiltshire engraved by William Hole in 1612 to illustrate ‘Poly-Olbion’ the epic poem by Michael Drayton.
Sing me a song of Somersetshire
back in the days of old
when maidens and nymphs abound
scantily clad and very cold
Shepherds and sheep - such rustic souls
watch maiden's bosoms a-heaving
in rivers runneth like roots of a tree
mother earth, wandering and weaving
Hunters and peasants live in the woods
like dryads in the oak trees
foraging and waiting from dawn to dusk
by marshes, mountains and seas
Big towns where the well-off live
hold no interest to us country folk
give us a pasture, a field with sheep
or a forest of hearty oak
Sing me a song of Somersetshire
rural, wild and free
folklaw, legend stars and a moon
and rivers that run to the sea.
Ros Foreman 2019
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