The National Trust has unveiled plans for its very first 'green corridor' - and it will be barely half an hour from Bristol.
It will run through 40 hectares of riverside meadows newly acquired by the trust, linking the centre of Bath to the surrounding countryside and creating a new habitat for wildlife.
Bathampton Meadows, on the banks of the Avon, was previously a mixture of farmland and council-owned land, and was once mooted as the site of a proposed park and ride.
