I write in response to Edwina Abrook’s letter (August 29).

I wish to put across my views and that of my mother on the Hilperton relief road. Many residents in this area enjoyed walking this little bit of countryside we had left in suburbia.

My elderly mother who lives within walking distance of these fields, and is one of the many who walked them regularly with her dog, is saddened to lose these beautiful fields.

It was a welcome break to take her dog to these fields and meet her many friends and acquaintances doing likewise, as she lives alone and it broke the day up.

She has lived for 60 years in Trowbridge, and walked these fields for 40 years. Not everyone can jump into a car and ‘pop up’ to the countryside park at Southwick.

I don’t understand why Mrs Abrook bought a house on a main road in the first place if that was a problem for her.

So, Mrs Abrook, a resident of this area for only two-and-a-half years, not everyone’s “birthdays and Christmases have come at once”. I have been a resident for 58 years and also enjoy walking those fields.

Mrs G Curtis, Trowbridge.