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since March 11, 2021
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This is the final episode of Footprints as Bathscape itself draws to a close early in 2026. And so for the first time ever, the Bathscape team gathered together in the same room to mark the end of an era. I’m joined by Bathscape’s Manager Dan Merrett; Community Projects Officer and Walking Fes…

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This September, alongside our annual walking festival, Bathscape also hosted a Landscape City Conference looking at what the Bathscape Partnership has achieved and to inspire Bath's future. This is the penultimate episode of Footprints, and with the project itself drawing to a close, this epis…
This episode takes the opportunity to explore Bath’s two relatively new universities. Each of them sits in a unique landscape. The University of Bath, high up on Claverton Down, is a modernist 1960s campus surrounded by open skies, mature trees and sweeping views. It started life in 1966 as Bath U…
This month's episode explores Bath’s industrial past and the enormous changes in the landscape Bath has seen over the decades, since many of the factories have disappeared.  Bath’s architectural landscape is often only viewed as Georgian or Roman and we forget that it has had an illustrious in…
The UK's largest free celebration of nature returns to Bristol and Bath from 7th -15th June and the theme of the festival this year is water. So in this episode of Footprints, we celebrate the river Avon and the Kennet and Avon canal surrounding Bath. The Canal and River Trust volunteers are out …
In this episode we explore three of the Downs of Bath. It's debatable how many there are in Bath - some say seven others say 9... We start up on Bannerdown which sits up above Batheaston and has been common land since the early 18th century. Secretary of the Bannerdown Freeholders Association, Rob …
Join us this month as we explore some of the many ways Bathonians use the beautiful Bathscape in their free time. The episode gets going at the saturday morning parkrun up at the National Trust skyline. Parkrun celebrated its 20th anniversary last October and there are now said to be 10m registere…
This year marks the 250th anniversary since Jane Austen's birth in 1775 and as she lived in Bath from 1801 to 1806, Bath will be celebrating! We find out from the Jane Austen Festival Director Georgia Delve what will be happening in the city this summer. Lizzie Bennet (Pride and Prejudice), aka act…

Follies of Bath

This month join us as we explore the follies of Bath. They were the thing in the 18th and 19th centuries. If you had cash to splash, why not show it off in the guise of a temple, a tower or a castle? Dr Amy Frost, Senior Curator, Bath Preservation Trust takes me up to the top of Beckford's Tower an…
Happy New Year and welcome back to Footprints! In this our first episode of 2025, we look back at our highlights from 2024. More than 40 people took part in the shows last year and we'd like to offer them all a huge thanks for the time, knowledge and passion they put into their work and which shows…
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