Beating a path
About a year ago the Preservation Trust approached the Town Council to seek help in restoring the pennant surface of the lovely and well-used footpath between the top of Church Street and Barton Orchard had fallen into a parlous state over the past few years, with the asphalt surface badly damaged and unsightly. It was on Wiltshire Council’s repairs list, but they were simply planning to re-asphalt the path.
So, just over a year ago, the Preservation Trust with support from the Town Council, offered to supply pennant stone slabs if Wiltshire’s contractors would lay the stone paving instead of asphalt.
A generous donation from a Trust member, and funding from the Trust and the Town Council, paid for the stone, Wiltshire’s contractors carried out the work, and the resurfaced path reopened in March. A small project, but one that has enhanced a rather neglected corner of the town.
