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Green Tree Road, RADSTOCK, BA3 2UU

There are two former chapels on this site; to the left is a modern extension at the rear of a neo-gothic baptist chapel facing West Road, which is listed https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1115225 , with the date given unequivocally as 1839. This neo-classical facade, which also has a quatrefoil, faces Millard's Hill and has a tablet inscribed "Primitive Methodist Chapel AD 1858", is not listed. (Both have been converted into flats, known as Millard's Court.) https://docplayer.net/85018444-Midsomer-norton-and-welton-conservation-area-character-appraisal.html describes this as "built of squared coursed white lias limestone rubble with oolitic limestone dressings and semi-circular headed windows and central door". But it gives a date of 1935 for the listed building next door. I think, however, that must be the date of the extension.

The foot of the hill in steady rain. By the time it has reached the junction with Station Road and West Road (the A382) behind the white end terrace it has crossed into Image

At Manor Farm, by the footpath from Norton Radstock Greenway to Millard's Hill. "C18, possibly earlier. Two builds. Two storeys, limestone rubble with pantile roof and coped verges with saddle-stones. Large segmental headed through archway to left of centre with small window over with chamfered reveals" http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=31961&mode=adv .

The footbridge just visible to the left of shot replaced the old railway bridge some time ago, but certain railway apparatus seems to have been retained near to its original location.

Many old railway lines are now usefully converted into cycleroutes and motor vehicle-free pathways. This was the old section of the Five Arches line between Midsomer and Radstock, but is now part of National Route 24. It's known as the Norton-Radstock Greenway; with substantial lottery funding it has been opened up to allow pupils of Norton School to travel without using the roads.

Disregarding the inevitable vandalism, perhaps cyclists suffer more frequently than otherwise expected. Is there a particularly bad spot?

A poster on the Norton Radstock Greenway, advertising local tours and rides.

Just in case there is any doubt or uncertainties this notice sets out what is expected of users of the cyclepath. Pity it has partly obscured the mileage marker.

The old wall of the former GWR line bridge at Station Road has been kept but the new working to turn it into a cyclepath is a simple concrete mass.