Frome’s Missing Links is working to create safe, family-friendly active travel routes between the busy market town of Frome and its surrounding villages. Starting with a ‘link’ to the traffic-free Colliers Way, which begins just a couple of miles outside Frome, it aims to build the infrastructure that will makes it possible for people to walk, run, scoot, wheel or ride from the town out to the countryside, connecting communities and encouraging healthier lifestyles.
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For over 10 years, Frome’s Missing Links has been working to close the gap between the centre of Frome and the Colliers Way, a traffic-free path leading to the town of Radstock. The route to the path involved using roads with steep gradients that were unsuitable for families, making it inaccessible without a car.
Over the years, the group has negotiated with Network Rail and landowners to establish a safe level route into town, and has built a long section of tarmacked multi-user path out though Whatcombe Fields, to near the rail crossing at Spring Gardens. At the same time, it has prepared another 1.3km path at the other end, heading back towards Frome, constructing an important section of safe and secure fencing alongside the quarry rail line. This has been made possible with a combination of donated funds, donated materials and lots of donated time by professionals and a dedicated group of volunteers, working every Friday throughout the year.
We now have a fantastic opportunity to make another big step towards bridging that gap. We have two pledges totalling £100,000, one from Sustrans and the second from an anonymous donor. Now we just need to raise a further £20,000 and we can complete the section from the Colliers Way to Elliot’s Lane, but we have a deadline of doing this by the end of March 2025!
Please donate as much as you can towards the last £20k to get this section of the path completed.
