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    RECYCLING, TEAM WORK, & TRADITION AT MENDIP VIEW

    Oct 24, 2018 4 minutes

    “I have got you a beer, Steve,” says Kevin. Mendip View allotments in Frome is a welcoming place. It’s one of those ‘you wouldn’t know it’s there’ sites. Tucked away behind a row of 1920s houses on a main road and then down an unmade-up track, the allotments’ location easily meets the criterion for the town’s Hidden Garden scheme.

    This row of houses was built on Mendip View, the limestone for them quarried 200 yards away. There was a space left over between the back gardens of the houses and the quarrying area, and it was decided that these should be used for allotments.

    The Allotment Acts of 1922 and 1925 had encouraged local councils to set up “statutory

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