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The Avenue, BATH, BA2 0HU

The path alongside the burial grounds on The Avenue has a characteristic set of bollards to prevent larger traffic. There are a number of similar ones dotted around the village.

Looking across the rows of graves and on to the lychgate at the far end, the grounds were enlarged before WWII. Today there is precious little space left and moves are being made to find a new cemetery. See Image] for the lychgate.

Timsbury is mentioned in the Domesday Book. From about 1800 it was a mining town in the North Somerset coalfield, this has now ceased. St. Mary's Church is at the far end of High Street.

A terrace of five on the High Street.

On the left is Pitfour Terrace, shown in Image On the right is the mid C17 Pitfour House https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1129599 , with information on the former occupants at http://www.timsbury.org.uk/pitfour-house/ . The gatepiers with ball finials, rather hidden in shadow on the left, are also listed https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1136004 .

The village has a number of churches but this burial ground is distinctly separate from them. The original plot was acquired around the turn of the century, close to the Conygre Colliery, and was about one third of the current size. The lychgate marks the entrance. See Image] for another view.

The Guss and Crook public house is to the right.

Prtty much the view in Image, at a slightly wider angle. The grade II* listed church dates from "1826-32, east end of 1852 by Sir George G. Scott" https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1129594 .

Timsbury has its origins somewhere in Anglo-Saxon times, but there appears to have been some form of place of worship by Domesday. Certainly, by the late thirteenth century a church was established for the little gathering of houses and farms here. One of the local lords of the manor, Sir Barnaby Samborne (standard bearer to Elizabeth I), was enshrined in the churchyard and somehow evaded the destructive efforts of the Puritans. However, the church found more trouble with general dilapidation and the lot had to be demolished in 1820. It was rebuilt in 1826 based on designs by no less a luminary than Sir George Gilbert Scott; side aisles were added in 1852. See Image] for more views.