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And a word for Nigel - there's plenty of unplanned roads in the Cumbrian fells - would you complain ?

You should keep in mind I'm not running Dial-a-Protest! ;)

If they're nasty straight corporate logging tracks then I'm agin 'em but I quite like "shortcut tracks" created by generations of pedestrians, that have grown organically and reflect a sort of bond between the land and those that have lived there. Signatures on the landscape, left by people that used to own it. Or does that sound poncey?

I have to confess I created a road when I were a lad, always driving the tractor along the same line across a virgin field, against orders. It's still being used. Looks bronze age.

And my mother's collapsed side garden was deposited as a mound in a nearby field and I caught her telling an earnest townie it was ancient and called Olive's Tump. I hope to see it on TMA one day.

No, it's nothing like that - do they look organic? There is a cross country trail underneath one stretch of the road - it is formally a Bridleway, and I have a little oral lore concerning it. But the picture shows shooters' roads. People are excluded, I think you'll find. "Oh, you can't go up there" from the gamekeeper in a landrover. I've got some more images and don't know what to do with them. It's a project for Heritage Action - this is what I'm suggesting. I'm embroiled in the original complaint over very similar constructions in Northumberland. It goes on and on and my casebook grows ever larger! No one will oppose the shooters as they are so rich - remember Force Majeure? Here it is.

Shall I post the others under Grey Yauds? It should be Grey Yau's, incidentally - there's a Victorian transcription error. If it's any consolation I've just captured a good image of the Long Mortuary Enclosure at Kirkhaugh, the thing I call Smallhenge. The entire cigar-shaped thing shows as a crop mark and I'll get some 7 x 5 prints made and mail them out. I don't even know the name of the shooting estate that has Croglin Fell - the RSPB bird warden at the Tindale Bird Reserve (Mr D. O'Hara) will certainly know. The nearest campsite is at Plumpton - I have the phone number - there's some lodges with camping too not that far away. And there's an eight turbine planning application under consideration also nearby, at Lamonby. Nobody would try and sneak those through without due process! Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and adjacent to a huge SSSI marking the northernmost outcrop of the Pennines, former home to Hen harrier.