If you have been up to the orchard you may have seen the new kissing gate where the stile was. The stile had rotted and was unsafe so the Friends removed it but it then became a concern that children or dogs could easily go out through the gate from the orchard to the road which does carry quite a lot of resident’s traffic plus some fast cars cutting through who shouldn’t be.

We reported this to South Glos. Council and we are very grateful that they have now installed a kissing gate. We hope this will make it easier than climbing over a stile and safer than an unprotected opening.

Angie has been working on a new map of the orchard. There are still 3 cider apple trees that we don’t know the names of but hope that the Bromley Heath Cider Collective might be able to help. All the trees have been relabelled as the copper labels were not successful.