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What about when the Farmer has blocked off the styles with barbed wire as i found whilst walking in Dovedale last weds. Three styles were barbed over and the wall had beeb built up to prvent access. These were all on the western ridge of Dovedale on Bunster hill near st Bertrams well. Not only that we went to look at "the lovley and historic Dew pound with four walls going into it so cattle could drink from four seperate fields. Only to find that same farmer had filled it with rubble (IIam tops farm). Two of the styles are realy ancient with great stones. If the climbup hadn't have been so steep i would have gone back with some wirecutters
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How awful about the dew pond. It is strange people do stuff like that when you'd think their families probably have been in the area for generations, and you'd think they'd value the historicness of it. Or is it 'familiarity breeds contempt'. The barbed wire though, that sounds like contempt for walkers, but why? What I came across this weekend wasn't so obvious, it was more 'remove all signs and dare them to walk across my yard' (it put me off anyway). In your case, would you not be completely justified in snipping the wire - it's a right of way?