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Farming as many people still picture it, rather than its high technology reality. Bob Phillipson, of Pendle Hall Farm, on the banks of the River Calder, near Padiham, must have been one of the last people to use one horse power in his hay meadow.
WE ALL seek freedom of movement, h u t the mass walks of ramblers which Look place earlier this y ea r over many of th e hi i>h m o o r s a r e wrong. For a start, those who
Countryman ERIC HALSALL has a view of the countryside many will find contra- versial. Me says the town dwellers’ free dom to roam should not he at the farmers’ expense
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the law is an ass, and that it takes d ra s tic action to change it — hut one cannot
get away from the fact that those ramblers who took part in the walks wore trespassing.
ownership by trespass is to break the law.
To violate someone's
less though they may seem to the public, belong to someone, ami those lands produce food for the table in the form of sheep, beef or fowl meat. The simplest way to bring
The lands, bleak and use
have taken part in such walks arc quite* simply tres passing, and to trespass is against the law of the land. I know that in many ways
it home to the general pub lic is to ask: "Would you like a procession of walkers through your garden?"
paigners are first-class but they are judged by their individual members who so often let them down. The vandalism which some peo ple cause to the countryside — the farmers' workshop — is in to le ra b le by any standards.
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blameless. For instance, when 1 was farm managing, one of my tenants had a field in which there were three footpaths. To get from one corner to the other there were footpaths round
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both sides of the field, and there was one direct line across the centre of the field. I applied to have the direct path closed to enable the farmer to plough with out interruption.
objections, an inquiry was held in the local town hall and, it being commonsense (or so we thought), my ten ant and I never bothered to go into great detail to pres ent our case.
As th e re were some
tion were presented by a solicitor from Liverpool, and he won the case to keep all three paths open. In conversation after the
The Ramblers' Associa
want to, see them as the workplaces of farmers. Some people enjoy a visit
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to the countryside by park ing the car in a lay-by. never gettin g out of it. turning the radio on to pop music •— at full blast — and picnicking by throwing all their left-overs and rubbish out of the car window for someone else to clean up.
tions which believe passion ately in their rights are let down all to often by their own members.
not interested in facts, he was interested in being able to tell his organisation that he had won the case. It was another victory and a statis tic in his favour. The Ramblers’ Associa
paths across farmland. Everything went well until it rained. Then the footpath became boggy, and feet walked alongside the path — until eventually the so- called footpath became as wide as a main road! Even the powers that be
tion lost many would-be friends on that day. 1 have negotiated foot
decision, I said to him that as a former Rover Scout, 1 liked to have the right to wander the countryside, but that I was rather surprised at the decision. Mis reply was that he was
experts they are supposed to be. One such organisation rebuilt a perfectly ade quate. though somewhat Meath Uobinson-ish style, near my home in Ciiviger with a gloriously con structed contraption of post and rails, but failed to rea lise that lower rails need to be closer together than higher ones to prevent lambs from dodging through — and a busy main road was only a few yards away! Quite rightly the Royal
Nor are they all the
Society for the Protection of Birds has had to fence in with "No Access" signs a re a s where birds are breeding in colonies, to pre- v e n t p e o p I e f r o m transgressing.
are worried that this type of thing is happening on a much greater scale on the famous w alk s a ro u n d England. Some members of organisations think the National Parks belong to them. They cannot, or don’t
1 don't blame any organisa tion for this —• dumped his supposedly empty paint cans over the hedge and on to ground grazed by cows. Paint with lead in it can kill cows, which being inquisi tive by nature, lick such cans. That individual could only be taught his lesson that the countryside is not a dump by f in d in g his “empty" paint cans decorat ing a tree in his front gar den on th e fo llow in g morning. It is education in the
Another individual — and
ways of the countryside the town dweller needs, not just free access to everywhere. There are two sides to every story. Q
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