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Title: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: C2C09 Shaun on 14:56:45, 11/02/14
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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Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Mel on 18:21:14, 11/02/14
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
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Mel on 18:27:05, 11/02/14
All I'll say is this is somewhere on the YWW way too ...
 
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Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Mel on 18:34:18, 11/02/14
Gate-maze near Wentbridge....
 
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Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: angry climber on 19:10:58, 11/02/14
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"



Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: C2C09 Shaun on 20:14:34, 11/02/14
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  :)
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: sussamb on 09:56:09, 21/02/14
Here's a pointless ladder style spotted on my Ridgeway walk:
 
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Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Rhino on 18:58:43, 25/02/14
(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
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Bohemian Brummie on 18:15:06, 27/02/14
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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Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: CallMeSteven on 15:50:13, 05/03/14
On today's walk saw this pointless stile

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Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: wiki2 on 15:29:58, 10/10/15
anyone know the name of this type of gate?
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Jac on 09:08:29, 11/10/15
if I remember my I-Spy book correctly it's a'Sqeeze Stile'
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: midnight rambler on 20:35:07, 11/10/15
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.
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Mick wmexile on 11:05:06, 12/10/15
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
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: barewirewalker on 11:40:41, 12/10/15
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.
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Jac on 17:57:16, 12/10/15
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?
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Mick wmexile on 19:25:43, 13/10/15
Jac, the finger you ask about says "SNIPE HOUSE" which is the property you can see behind the trees.
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Hillhiker1 on 17:25:08, 25/10/15
Spotted this one today in the Loggerheads area of the Clwydians
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: sussamb on 14:29:09, 05/11/15
This one from my recent Offas Dyke walk ... clearly it's quite a new construction, wonder why they bothered  ::)

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Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: wildCAMPER on 17:25:02, 05/11/15
haha  :-\
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: AdanClinton on 06:26:42, 09/11/15
Maybe they want to protect the lawn or something important in the ground . ;D
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: CallMeSteven on 15:53:13, 10/11/15
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
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: barewirewalker on 08:50:07, 11/11/15
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)
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: fernman on 11:49:50, 11/11/15
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.
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Rhino on 17:39:22, 06/02/16
A classic near Lake Burwain reservoir Foulridge


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Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Mel on 14:46:27, 07/02/16
That has got to be the best one yet  ;D  .... but the question is..... did you climb over it?  :D
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Mel on 14:49:49, 07/02/16
Here's my offering from today's blustery walk along the banks of the River Humber:
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Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Rhino on 20:45:31, 07/02/16
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.
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: lostme1 on 08:39:09, 08/02/16
That has got to be the best one yet  ;D  .... but the question is..... did you climb over it?  :D

Nice one   :D
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Annejacko on 15:39:26, 22/02/16
(http://i63.tinypic.com/2vxf62x.jpg)

Near Castle Neroche, Somerset yesterday.
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: staggerindragon on 21:15:33, 05/10/19
I thought of this old thread this summer . . .


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Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: sussamb on 06:38:39, 06/10/19
 ;D
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: alan de enfield on 09:00:18, 06/10/19
This one doesn't appear to be doing much.

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Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: sussamb on 11:34:39, 06/10/19
 O0
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: ninthace on 14:28:05, 06/10/19
There's precise, if confusing
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And then there's less precise
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Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: pleb on 11:03:25, 07/10/19
^^^BRILLIANT  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: JerryW on 16:40:17, 07/10/19
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.
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: ninthace on 17:45:00, 07/10/19
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)
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: vghikers on 17:59:29, 07/10/19
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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.
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: barewirewalker on 14:22:36, 08/10/19
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.
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: GnP on 22:14:20, 10/10/19
(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
 
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: WhitstableDave on 09:08:25, 11/10/19
Animals in fields? :o

File alongside “trees in woods”. An absolute menace.
(http://www.cruisingmates.co.uk/coppermine/albums/userpics/10054/Tenterden_walk_2.jpg)
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: pleb on 10:44:26, 11/10/19
(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
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: GnP on 11:20:31, 11/10/19
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...
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: fernman on 12:50:15, 11/10/19
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.
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: fernman on 12:53:04, 11/10/19
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.
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: gunwharfman on 13:34:14, 11/10/19
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!
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: ninthace on 14:00:38, 11/10/19
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.
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: gunwharfman on 14:12:05, 11/10/19
Excellent!  ;D  ;D
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: GnP on 14:32:07, 11/10/19
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..
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: pleb on 15:51:13, 11/10/19
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.
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: JerryW on 16:25:09, 11/10/19
My theory is that all mud is caused by humans (and their animals) .. no humans, no mud
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: vghikers on 16:57:49, 11/10/19
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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 >:(
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: fernman on 17:21:43, 11/10/19
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.
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: GnP on 17:29:04, 11/10/19
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
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: fernman on 17:33:47, 11/10/19
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.
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: archaeoroutes on 15:07:39, 31/10/19
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.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48991151051_f656fe0be1.jpg)
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.
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Dodgylegs on 18:29:27, 21/11/21
Not seen one of these before...


(https://i.postimg.cc/TwjY9XHL/942932-CB-1-AFF-4821-A92-B-883724-A24-D62.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/34RT8zhY)


(https://i.postimg.cc/3Jz5dcnP/4-C25-AB13-17-BE-4-C0-B-BD73-6-E09152-BBC8-A.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/7f1QRmvV)
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: JerryW on 09:25:05, 22/11/21
I have, though no idea where. Where was that one?
they look expensive to make!
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: pdstsp on 11:14:42, 22/11/21
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!
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Dodgylegs on 14:27:57, 22/11/21
Where was that one?


Walking along Teesdale Way near Girsby, which is south of Teesside Airport.
Wonder where that idea came from?
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Jac on 10:48:54, 23/11/21
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 :(
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: JerryW on 14:47:01, 23/11/21
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!


Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Jac on 15:21:54, 23/11/21
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 ???
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: JerryW on 16:30:42, 23/11/21
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 ...
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Jac on 10:45:46, 24/11/21
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.
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: staggerindragon on 02:25:49, 26/11/21
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.
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: George387 on 11:54:23, 03/01/22
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


(https://scontent.flba3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/255650268_648289026538241_3701085929469729055_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=oaD5oqo7RSUAX9F8I6Y&_nc_ht=scontent.flba3-1.fna&oh=00_AT8GeaJw_wVOZh7MMhVoCSXwYoYalxx_QOmvHXiFDNczpw&oe=61D6E50A)
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Lincolndave on 15:44:29, 31/01/22
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)
(https://i.postimg.cc/9X9s8f9X/AD6-F4940-1-BDE-4-B79-B58-D-6-DD53-B7548-FF.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/kDnjDqwL)
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: GnP on 19:04:49, 17/10/23

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.
 
(https://i.postimg.cc/GmMqzkGj/Lateral-thinking.jpg)
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: Percy on 20:38:13, 17/10/23
 ;D
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: GnP on 21:10:34, 17/10/23
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
Title: Re: Pointless Stiles, Gates and Finger Posts or Unusual / Interesting Landmarks
Post by: GnP on 14:51:57, 26/11/23

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:

(https://i.postimg.cc/VLVgD9NH/PB250635-595x.jpg)


(https://i.postimg.cc/2jH7Sdn8/PB250634-595x.jpg)