Volunteers have installed accessible gates at Spring Gardens, making it easier for people to access the new community woodland.
Frome’s Missing Links volunteers have adapted the existing kissing gates by the rail crossing in Spring Gardens to make it possible to get through with bikes, scooters and buggies.
Frome’s Missing Links chair Rich Ackroyd said, “It’s going to be a great way to visit the new community woodland. Families can get on their bikes at Welshmill and pedal safely through Whatcombe Fields up to the poplar woods, where the tarmac ends. It’s then a short push up the slope and a few steps to the rail crossing where the adapted gates make it possible to push bikes through. And then you’re right there at the woodland.”
The community woodland was created in memory of Frome resident Moko Sellars, who died aged 39 in 2022.
In the future, Frome’s Missing Links aims to extend the tarmacked path to the new kissing gates, avoiding the steps that lead to the rail crossing and connecting with Jack’s Lane.
The group’s volunteers have also helped at the new woodland by rebuilding a drystone wall and maintaining the hedging along the Whatcombe Fields section of the path.
Frome’s Missing Links is a local community group working on creating a fully tarmacked multi-user path between Frome, surrounding villages and Colliers Way.
If you would like to get involved, the volunteers meet on Fridays and undertake various practical jobs. Contact mail@fromesmissinglinks.org.uk to find out more.
