11 keen and determined local residents took up tools on Saturday 11 April, to clear the layby at High Bridge where High Road bends to the right. Volunteers went on to also litter pick many of the village streets, lanes and drainage ditches; adding 7 tyres, an old bedstead, a fridge, various engine and lawn mower parts, a trolley basket, even a safe, to the 20+ black bags of rubbish, bottles and cans that were cleared and taken to Purton Recycling Centre.
Others set to work cutting down the brambles and nettles on the verge and bank of Swill Brook, as it runs under the road. It now looks like the beautiful stream it should be, after masses of overhanging branches, smothered in dead vegetation washed over them during the floods earlier this year, were also cut back.
The event was nearly scuppered by someone fly-tipping a derelict caravan and several plastic crates on the layby. Wiltshire Council’s swift response to the notification of this, meant it was cleared the day before. The Council also provided much of the kit and collected the black bags.
But we’ve not stopped there – most of these litter picking heroes have volunteered to regularly clear particular roads in Ashton Keynes in their own time, including Happy Land, Fore and Back Streets, Kent End, Park Place and Maysey Mews, and others Rixon Gate from Bradstone to Jenny’s Kitchen, as well as the AK Green Project litter picking Cox’s Hill.
If you would like to get involved; to litter pick your road or one near you, please text Karen Shaw on 07989 857435.
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