Posts Tagged ‘british heritage’
Lost Footpaths the Ramblers Project
Lost Footpaths, the Ramblers Project. The cry ‘if you don’t use it, you lose it’, apt that when it comes to re-discovering Britain’s lost footpaths. The Ramblers group of Britain are passionate about keeping open over 100,000 miles of footpaths in Britain. However many of these footpaths have been lost, they are unmapped. As a…
Read MoreThe Holloway Lanes
What are the holloways? Scattered across the countryside of Britain are old track ways, the holloway lanes, ancient routes across the countryside. Some of these ancient paths were stabilized with asphalt but many were left as un-metaled tracks. In certain parts of southern England, these track-ways have deepened, hollowed out by centuries of traffic to…
Read MoreHeritage in the Hedgerows
The Heritage in the Hedgerow close to my heart. What is the heritage in the hedgerows of Britain? When I was a child growing up in rural Hampshire, it was common practice to be sent to school in Spring with a slice of bread covered with a scrape of beef dripping and told by my…
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