In a special service at Wells Cathedral on Saturday, 12 November the Right Reverend Michael Beasley will become the 80th Bishop of Bath and Wells, but before that he plans a busy morning meeting people on the route between the two cities, using different modes of transport along the way.
A phrase that has stuck with Bishop Michael from the service when he became a bishop is ‘bishops know their people and their people know them’.
As he seeks to live out that sentiment, rather than make a conventional car journey home from attending Morning Prayer at Bath Abbey, Bishop Michael will taking a different approach.
From the Abbey he will set out on foot to catch the bus to Odd Down Park & Ride. From there he will travel by car to Peasedown St John before swapping to an electric bike to ride through the village to the Hive Community Centre.
After meeting members of the local community the local PCSO will give Bishop Michael a lift in his police car to the White Post, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, where he’ll swap to a tractor to take him to meet staff at the Mulberry factory in Chilcompton. For the final leg of the journey, local haulage firm Massey Wilcox will provide a vintage lorry to drop him back down to Wells in time to prepare for the service.