070316.Upper Weston, Cotswald Public Path, Unconsecrated
March 16, 2007 at 4:11 am | In Bath, Chisel Marks, cemeteries - churchyards - and tombstones, countryside, cumulus clouds, somerset | 8 Comments
This is just a memorial on the Cotswald Trail overlooking Upper Weston, Weston, Newbridge, Lower Weston, Sion Hill, King’s Mead, and Bath City Centre, etc., and not an actual grave marker, but it claims to denote the spot–the spot where something happened, someone died. Unlike yesterday’s grave marker that reports a cruel murder in Hampton Down, here we know the spot where someone died but we don’t know why. So who was 17-year-old Sarah Louise Gray (1978(?)-17 Nov 1995) and why was she so far from the city. How did she die?Enough of these grave posts, the trail is beautiful (see info at Cheltenham DP)…but a bit muddy. There’s a great view of the city from there.
I’ll respond to everyone soon. I just got back from a trip to SW Somerset, I was on a bus for 9+ hours. Ahhhhh….
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Seventeen years old, and she died in 1995? The stone sounds like a more elegant version of our roadside flower memorials- where someone was killed in an car accident. It would be odd to have a car accident on a walking trail, though.
Comment by JosyC — March 16, 2007 #
JC, that stone was shopped just like the other one!
xo
Comment by Ame — March 16, 2007 #
what a vast beautiful landscape!
hmmm..it is kind of strange. Perhaps she died of an accident?
Comment by kris — March 16, 2007 #
Horse riding!?
Hi James – you came to Somerset, you should have said! I am teaching in BANES next week, Tuesday & Wednesday in Radstock – I’ll take the camera!
Comment by Mountainboy — March 17, 2007 #
Watch out for Mountainboy Jamesy Boy! He might just sneak up behind you with his camera…or a hatchet…or a huge TOMBSTONE and CLOBBER ya one!
Be VERY AFRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAID! Don’t want to have to send the police out hunting for you OR evidence…oh, wait a minute, he IS the police! LOL!
xo
Comment by Ame — March 17, 2007 #
does anyone know why Sarah Louise Gray died? have been searching for the reason of her death for days, and i often walk past the memorial grave. does anyone know?
Comment by Marisa — June 12, 2008 #
well its on a bridleway so im guessing it was a horse riding accident. i walked up there just today and was wondering how she died so decided to look her name up.
Comment by s.c — October 25, 2009 #
She was riding her horse, yes, but she collapsed and died from an undiagnosed heart condition. Another tragic case of SAD – Sudden Adult Death syndrome.
She was a wonderful girl and today is the 14th anniversary of her passing. Always loved and missed xx
Comment by Amy — November 17, 2009 #