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Commonwood Footpath Upgraded

23.02.11

Wrexham County Borough Council’s Parks Countryside and Rights of Way Section working in partnership with Holt Community Town Trust have replaced a total of 20 stiles with self closing pedestrian gates on a popular footpath which runs through allotments. The path wasn’t particularly user friendly due to the number of stiles walkers had to negotiate. In recent years the stiles had also become dilapidated and a solution was needed. With funding provided from this year's Rights of Way Improvement Plan budget, Wrexham Council’s Park Countryside and Rights of Way Section agreed to supply the gates with Holt Town Trust meeting the cost of installation. Mr Brian Payne from the Trust added “This upgrade to self closing gates facilitates the completion of an attractive circular walk from Holt Village, and a linear route to Wrexham for the more adventurous, greatly adding to the list of accessible footpath walks in the Holt area”.

(Commonwood, outside Holt near Wrexham was an area for villagers to graze their live stock and collect firewood from the early part of the 14th Century onwards. In 1851 Commonwood was ‘enclosed’ into 65 allotment pieces of ca 2.7 acres).

Brian Payne (Holt Town Trust Trustee and footpath worker), Gordon Emery (Contractor), Mike Carding (Commonwood footpath adopter), Bob Campbell (Chairman, Holt Town Trust) and Alison Whitley (Access Ranger for Wrexham County Borough Council’s Parks Countryside and Rights of Way section) check out the new gates at Holt.

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