From Saturday, 5th April - writing with a transport bias
From Melksham (Western Way) across the floor plain (though crops with lost paths to stiles topped with barbed wire) to the Pack Horse Bridge where that path and other from Whaddon and Semington converge to cross the river
Across the fields having crossed the bridge, again recently ploughed and a bit of a scramble, but now more easily followable
This path crosses the railway - it's not one of the ones I've been asked to comment on, but I really don't think it's going to be reachable by people who are less able bearing in mind the previous picture showing the state of the path
A slight pause awaiting the train and marvelling at how far forward we have come with the service over the years.
An so on across more fields and a stream to Broughton Gifford where I picked up the bus that runs three time on Saturday via Bradford-on-Avon to Trowbridge. I spoke with another couple of seniors in the church yard and they were amazed that I had walked "All the way from Melksham"; the asked, worried, how I was going to get back. It seems that although they are residents of Broughton Gifford, they had no real knowledge of the bus there and wouldn't have thought of using it, let alone knowing when and where it went. It shows just what a big job remains to be done to make people aware of the public transport we have.
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