Country diary: This small bridge is becoming the site of so many stories | Derek Niemann

Frome, Somerset: Dippers and fritillaries and pink campion …

there is a deep satisfaction in accumulating associations with a regular haunt Enchantment surely fills the eyes of first-time visitors who come upon this little stone bridge over the stream. Do they marvel at the judgment of hands in building, wedding rock with rock, face against face? Do they arrive on a brighter morning than this, one on which sunbeams chase each other under the arch and cast sparkling reflections of water on the…