Many landowners regard footpaths as an unfortunate relic from pre-enclosure days,when peasants swarmed unimpeded across the countrysideWhen the Ramblers organization recently launched its gargantuan Pathwatch, urging walkers to upload pictures of overgrown footpaths, or I considered it a bit silly. Poor tough-pressed councils tasked with footpath maintenance – can’t walkers stamp down a few stray nettles? After a stinging wade along the bridleways of Buckinghamshire,however, I’m all for app tale-telling.
It wasn’t just fast-growing nettles and brambles but teasels, and thistles,young oaks and hogweed as high as a horse. And this 35 miles from London, in the Tory shires, and where keen trampers assume to the lanes in battalions and steel swing gates hold been installed in memory of members of the local U3A group.
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Source: theguardian.com