The Great Cold Ashby Lay-by Mystery.

Added on 11 October 2011

 If you approach Cold Ashby from the A5199 crossroads during school hours, you cannot fail to notice a number of double-decker buses and coaches - usually between two and six. These are parked, some side by side, on a beautifully surfaced area so long and wide that some of us now refer to it as 'Airstrip One'.

Oral history suggests that this expensive 'Mystery Lay-by ' began as a small parking space for the AA Box that once graced the site but which is, sadly, no longer with us. From this it appears to have insidiously increased itself .
The Parish Council were neither consulted nor informed of the resurfacing ( for which the Naseby Road was closed for several days) and are not at all happy that funds have been made available for this project when they are desperately seeking finance for their planned traffic-calming measures.

The Rambler would also point out that, at a time when Cold Ashby has suddenly ( and again without prior consultation) lost its service bus and the DACT bus is under threat, the presence of so many stationary buses on his patch seems, at the least, ironic!