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Think this may have been done before but can't find the thread. The guys n girls that maintain the paths n trails that we all enjoy walking...........but where have you walked and seen Stiles, gates and finger posts that serve no point or unusual / interesting landmarks.
Just for a bit of fun........
These are along the section of the Yorkshire Wolds Way from Sherburn to Filey.
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There is no other way to walk ???
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Ahhh, you found another curly bench :) There's 6 of them altogether O0
There's lots of quirky things to find on and near the YWW O0
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All I'll say is this is somewhere on the YWW way too ...
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Gate-maze near Wentbridge....
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I can't find it on the Internet but there are two signs in Dublin that's says it all.
The first on the front says "one way" and on the back it says "your going the wrong way"
The other is "your going this way" and on the back " you have been there already"
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All I'll say is this is somewhere on the YWW way too ...
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I'll keep an eye out for it and see if I can duplicate your photo :)
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Here's a pointless ladder style spotted on my Ridgeway walk:
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5492/12776268963_65bef499de_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/38217037@N06/12776268963/)
Does look like there used to be a bit of fence on the right which may have fallen into the stream who knows
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They must have planned to partition this field at some point by building the start of a stile, but then abandoned the idea. :P
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On today's walk saw this pointless stile
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anyone know the name of this type of gate?
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if I remember my I-Spy book correctly it's a'Sqeeze Stile'
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There's an old stile that's been gradually rotting away in the middle of a field at South Heath (near Great Missenden) for at least 15 years to my knowledge. I suppose nobody could be bothered to remove it, and it isn't in the way.
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Please keep fingers crossed for me, I've not put photos on this forum before so hoping this comes through. About 5/ 6 weeks ago walking in area between Cat n Fiddle and Teggs Nose I came across this fingerpost (SJ 9597 7531) that made me smile. Only had mobile with me so hope its clear enough, or even there :o
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Lots of these anomalous styles about, they exist where there was once a field margin to cross. Hedges die out, post and wire replace them, then they get knocked down. The loss of our small dairy herds have meant that many larger areas of purely arable cultivation, without the need for stock proof fields boundaries. This has increased the hidden loss of hedgerows, which I am afraid is aided by the RSPB's attitude to hedge management. Well maintained thorn hedges are cheap stock proof field margins, but for a period of their life they need to be cut in the spring, banned by RSPB, weed species and overgrown thorn hedge plants soon get knocked out by cattle, leaving an isolated stile in the stealthily enlarged field.
Course the other cause is blind bureaucracy feeding an unquestioning factor, 'who' today, with targets to meet, will question a docket that says put up a stile where it is not needed. A fence line is on a map somewhere in town hall, overweight buttocks in swivel chair clicks a print command. One more sturdy decision towards early retirement.
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Please keep fingers crossed for me, I've not put photos on this forum before so hoping this comes through. About 5/ 6 weeks ago walking in area between Cat n Fiddle and Teggs Nose I came across this fingerpost (SJ 9597 7531) that made me smile. Only had mobile with me so hope its clear enough, or even there :o
;D What does the finger pointing away from the camera say?
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Jac, the finger you ask about says "SNIPE HOUSE" which is the property you can see behind the trees.
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Spotted this one today in the Loggerheads area of the Clwydians
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This one from my recent Offas Dyke walk ... clearly it's quite a new construction, wonder why they bothered ::)
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haha :-\
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Maybe they want to protect the lawn or something important in the ground . ;D
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This one from my recent Offas Dyke walk ... clearly it's quite a new construction, wonder why they bothered ::)
Well they had to put the Footpath sign somewhere :D
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It does tell that the route is intended to be a wheelchair friendly way, because that is what the that new construction is. I think the 1:25k OS map might show a fence line at that point, the landowner may not need it any longer so has not maintained it or renewed it to the gate, but the authority with the duty of care to provide access through the virtual reality of the fence line is required to act to the guide lines.
After 3 years on a LAF some of the speak may have rubbed off 8)
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Two from the Chilterns yesterday.
There might once have been a way through the wood where it says No Horses, but there certainly isn't now.
A bit of twisted wire under the steps indicates there used to be a fence there.
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A classic near Lake Burwain reservoir Foulridge
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That has got to be the best one yet ;D .... but the question is..... did you climb over it? :D
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Here's my offering from today's blustery walk along the banks of the River Humber:
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That has got to be the best one yet ;D .... but the question is..... did you climb over it? :D
Ha ha no Mel but a bit further up there was a wall which forced you to the left and originally the reason I guess for the stile.
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That has got to be the best one yet ;D .... but the question is..... did you climb over it? :D
Nice one :D
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Near Castle Neroche, Somerset yesterday.
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I thought of this old thread this summer . . .
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;D
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This one doesn't appear to be doing much.
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O0
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There's precise, if confusing
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And then there's less precise
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^^^BRILLIANT ;D ;D ;D
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Half of all stiles, or more, are unnecessary since they only have a value if animals are or may be in one of the fields.
But what REALLY gets my goat is barbed wire.
For animal husbandry barbed wire is completely unnecessary. They don't climb fences. No, barbed wire has one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to deter humans.
When I am in charge (don't hold breath) barbed wire will be illegal. Meantime, it should at least be banned on all access land.
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Half of all stiles, or more, are unnecessary since they only have a value if animals are or may be in one of the fields.
But what REALLY gets my goat is barbed wire.
For animal husbandry barbed wire is completely unnecessary. They don't climb fences. No, barbed wire has one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to deter humans.
When I am in charge (don't hold breath) barbed wire will be illegal. Meantime, it should at least be banned on all access land.
Barbed wire was developed originally as a cattle proof fence. Relatively cheap and you only needed 3 strands. It stopped cows scratching themselves on the fence and knocking it over. Even has its own museum https://www.rushcounty.org/barbedwiremuseum/ (https://www.rushcounty.org/barbedwiremuseum/) It's on my bucket list ( about 5093 on that list)
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Even has its own museum https://www.rushcounty.org/barbedwiremuseum/
They have to be kidding me :o. They even have a section on collecting, one wonders how they exhibit their prize pieces at home.
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For animal husbandry barbed wire is completely unnecessary. They don't climb fences. No, barbed wire has one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to deter humans.
1 strand of barbed wire is the norm, for a good stock fence as the top strand for the reason pointed out by Ninethace. Other strands are only necessary if the livestock are likely to push their heads through a gap. But there are plenty of signs in fencing that are pointedly anti-visitor.
Barbed wire wrapped on a top rail of a locked 5 bar gate, almost certainly human deterrent. One rarely sees a gap near the hanging end of the gate, which might indicate an understanding that countryside visitors might be using the gateway.
A pile of rusty barbed wire loosely discarded on the outerside of a fence is another indicator.
I once visited a disputed path on the morning of the Public Inquiry. There was another person inspecting it and the fence that was in position, where a gate should be. I help him over the fence, top strand barbed, then plain high tensile and pig netting, fairly standard all purpose fence. However it was booby trapped, the staple that should have been the middle staple for the netting was one stand lower. This means that when someone climbs over, the netting will swing out when they are astride the fence and risk tearing trousers or even castration.
Something made me hold back pointing this out, it was just as well as that person was the Inspector for the Public Inquiry. If I had voiced my suspicions I might have jeopardized his impartiality for the inquiry, as it was he bought our chance meeting to the attention of those attending.
The PI was successful in favour of the route being a new or recovered Right of Way.
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(https://i.postimg.cc/dk3SLhpc/pointless-stile.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/dk3SLhpc)
On my walk along the Combrook valley today..It reminded me of a stile in Wales that my friend clambered over with a struggle as it was a high one...I was about to do the same, until I noticed a gap one side...I promptly walked round it. ;)
I returned to my car today around 2pm and sat in it where upon it started to pour down...I was glad about the timing as I had lost my fleece which had been strapped to my ruck sack...it was over 20 years old..about time for its demise I suppose. :o
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Animals in fields? :o
File alongside “trees in woods”. An absolute menace.
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(https://i.postimg.cc/dk3SLhpc/pointless-stile.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/dk3SLhpc)
On my walk along the Combrook valley today..It reminded me of a stile in Wales that my friend clambered over with a struggle as it was a high one...I was about to do the same, until I noticed a gap one side...I promptly walked round it. ;)
I returned to my car today around 2pm and sat in it where upon it started to pour down...I was glad about the timing as I had lost my fleece which had been strapped to my ruck sack...it was over 20 years old..about time for its demise I suppose. :o
Spendthrift! ;D
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Spendthrift! ;D
Waste not...want not.. :) It was a great fleece double walled..strong zips..I bought it at a services on the M6 one winter when I forgot my usual coat, thinking to myself, this is dear and probably will not last long...
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Waste not...want not.. :) It was a great fleece double walled..strong zips..I bought it at a services on the M6 one winter when I forgot my usual coat, thinking to myself, this is dear and probably will not last long...
I'd have gone back for it :)
I once retraced my footsteps for some way back down Moel Edno to search for and find my fleece hat that I'd dropped. I've also walked halfway back round a Chilterns walk to find my camera lens, but top of the list, which I think I've told on here a long time ago, was returning to Hampstead Heath the day after I left a x10 handlens behind, and it was still there, busy place though it is.
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Re. the 'Dangerous tree' sign, jest not, a walker was killed by a falling tree a few days ago on the Isabel Trail in Stafford.
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I hiked in the rain this morning did about 5 miles. In a dip in the wood, a 10' long footbridge has been built across a 2' wide stream, its really good, has a grip rail to one side and the walking area is 24" wide. In order to get onto the bridge however, I had to wade through about twenty feet of sticky horrible muddy water and mud first. At the other end of the bridge, I had to wade through about fifteen feet of sticky horrible muddy water and mud to get to solid ground again. Someone didn't think it through properly!
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I hiked in the rain this morning did about 5 miles. In a dip in the wood, a 10' long footbridge has been built across a 2' wide stream, its really good, has a grip rail to one side and the walking area is 24" wide. In order to get onto the bridge however, I had to wade through about twenty feet of sticky horrible muddy water and mud first. At the other end of the bridge, I had to wade through about fifteen feet of sticky horrible muddy water and mud to get to solid ground again. Someone didn't think it through properly!
This is a version of Ludwig's 2nd Law. The original Ludwig's Law was developed by yours truly as a result of empirical observation. Mad King Lugwig II of Bavaria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_II_of_Bavaria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_II_of_Bavaria)) was a bit of an architectural eccentric. I noted when skiing in the area of Bavaria and Austria, where he lived, all toilets were down a flight of slippery tiled steps which had to be negotiated wearing ski boots on a surface that had the same coefficient of friction as a wet hard boiled egg on Teflon. Given the universality of this arrangement, we decided it must be the result of some insane architectural decree and thus Ludwig's 1st law was born: the likelihood of a toilet being downstairs is inversely proportional to the ease of negotiation of the stairs. Ludwig's 2nd law, based on his inability to complete things, states: any device to ease the progress of the traveller shall be close to, but never equal to, the requirement. Thus any boardwalk will be placed in the middle of a boggy bit but will never be as long as the boggy bit. A subsection of the same law is the reason that the only muddy bit of a field will be at gate you want to get through and the deepest part of the mud will be by the latch.
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Excellent! ;D ;D
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I'd have gone back for it :)
I once retraced my footsteps for some way back down Moel Edno to search for and find my fleece hat that I'd dropped. I've also walked halfway back round a Chilterns walk to find my camera lens, but top of the list, which I think I've told on here a long time ago, was returning to Hampstead Heath the day after I left a x10 handlens behind, and it was still there, busy place though it is.
I was too knackered...& it was ****ing it down as I stepped into the car...I will say a prayer for it tonight..
ps that reminds me of a time nothing to do with walking but a rear light cover of my truck, was knocked of by an errant dog who clipped it as it bolted across a main road......I saw it come off in my rear view...I went back expecting to find it in bits having been run over by cars...there it was lying in the middle of the road on the dotted lines..the dog was caught by its owner looking none the worse for wear..
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Has it occurred to nobody that the muddy bits are allus by the gate cos thats where folk are concentrated in terms of foot fall? etc etc. You can guarantee it.
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My theory is that all mud is caused by humans (and their animals) .. no humans, no mud
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Has it occurred to nobody that the muddy bits are allus by the gate cos thats where folk are concentrated in terms of foot fall? etc etc. You can guarantee it.
Often yes, but sometimes because the disagreeable farmer has deliberately placed a cattle feeder close to it on the footpath >:(
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And said muddy bit by gate is always at the very end of your walk, with the car park in sight a hundred metres away.
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And said muddy bit by gate is always at the very end of your walk, with the car park in sight a hundred metres away.
I accept lots of churned up mud with cow hoof prints around a stile, no problem... it`s when the mud is covered with cows round the stile, I get a tad nervous
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My theory is that all mud is caused by humans (and their animals) .. no humans, no mud
That's an interesting point, because I've observed there is a big difference between the mud in the grass and along the paths on any camp site I spend a night on prior to starting a multiple-day walk, and any mud at my tent pitches up in the unpopulated hills. The former sticks to anything while the latter wipes off easily.
The answer is probably due to the different lowland and upland surface soils, but there could be something in your theory.
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This one's great. Not only is there no fence where the style is, there is a bank and hedge blocking the way on just beyond it.
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I have to admire the efforts of the developers to preserve the stile and fingerpost when they built the visitors centre and put in the new path a little to the right of the old one to a safer road crossing.
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Not seen one of these before...
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I have, though no idea where. Where was that one?
they look expensive to make!
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I like that, though, as said it does look expensive! Could have done with one yesterday when I was making a show of myself trying to get over a fence!
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Where was that one?
Walking along Teesdale Way near Girsby, which is south of Teesside Airport.
Wonder where that idea came from?
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Known as a clapper stile?
I remember a picture in my I-spy book of many, many years ago. I never did tick that one off :(
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Known as a clapper stile?
I remember a picture in my I-spy book of many, many years ago. I never did tick that one off :(
Yes! .. to both the name, and also to the I-spy book ... happy, innocent days :-) Big Chief I-spy, probably would be cultural appropriations nowadays!
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Yes! .. to both the name, and also to the I-spy book ... happy, innocent days :-) Big Chief I-spy, probably would be cultural appropriations nowadays!
Innocent days they certainly were - though perhaps uninformed might better describe them. Now PC has taken over even the Exeter Chiefs Rugby team and being requested and considering changing their name/ insignia as being offensive to first nation Americans ???
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That's not just the name though, that's the headdresses and the wigwam, at the side of the pitch. Next thing you know, they will be SMOKING A PIPE OF PEACE! ;D At least tomahawks are illegal now ...
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That's not just the name though, that's the headdresses and the wigwam, at the side of the pitch. Next thing you know, they will be SMOKING A PIPE OF PEACE! ;D At least tomahawks are illegal now ...
and exchanging wampum instead of shirts?
Seriously, I'm don't attend matches or even follow rugby so didn't know they had a wigwam/tepee? at the side of the pitch. I just rather like the head dress logo and don't see it as in anyway derogatory though presumably it has no connection other than the name.
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Here are a couple of websites that address the issues.
This is a kids' site, but it offers a quick overview of regalia and some magnificent photos: https://www.cbc.ca/kidscbc2/the-feed/do-you-know-what-regalia-is (https://www.cbc.ca/kidscbc2/the-feed/do-you-know-what-regalia-is)
This is a blog post from a Cree language instructor at the U of A. For those interested in a deeper dive into cultural appropriation, the Simon Fraser University link is worth a look: https://apihtawikosisan.com/hall-of-shame/an-open-letter-to-non-natives-in-headdresses/ (https://apihtawikosisan.com/hall-of-shame/an-open-letter-to-non-natives-in-headdresses/)
And if you really want to go for it, check out this free U of A MOOC course: https://apihtawikosisan.com/2020/11/indigenous-canada-mooc/ (https://apihtawikosisan.com/2020/11/indigenous-canada-mooc/)
No need to reply as this thread has definitely walked off the edge of the forum board, but I wanted to leave this out there for anyone who might be interested.
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this was a gate I photographed recently on the top of a summit in Scotland, the fence line just abruptly finished & no real need for the gate & the fence was not really needed either but it makes a good theme for a photography project... gateway to the highlands. O0
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Spotted this today, somerby to bag enderby Lincolnshire
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The mind boggles at times. ???
Not one, but two extended bolts have been welded onto the original gate bolt, to extend it far enough to reach, not the catch, but a bolt head, on the catch, (that might be more luck than judgment though) which actually does a very fine job of keeping the gate closed.That is, until the post leans some more. :D
These are chastened times.
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;D
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Spotted this today, somerby to bag enderby Lincolnshire
(https://i.postimg.cc/kDnjDqwL/AD6-F4940-1-BDE-4-B79-B58-D-6-DD53-B7548-FF.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/kDnjDqwL)
Those stiles & gates in what appear to be in the middle of fields will last a very long time, though. A folly for all walkers to pay homage to. :D
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While walking along Coughton Lane near Coughton Court, Warwickshire on Saturday.
I saw Santa Claus sitting on top of a hedgerow shaped like a steam engine, with a rather curious sign below him. :coolsmiley:
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