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thesweetcheat wrote:
Years ago at work I was told of an incident where the Ordnance Survey using aerial photography picked up an apparent boundary feature running diagonally across a garden, which they showed on their updated version of the large scale map.

This sparked consternation from the landowner and when it was investigated by a surveyor on the ground, it turned out that the "boundary" was actually a washing line hung with sheets on the day the plane flew over.

You've cracked it Alken...it's a rotary clothes line for the use of travellers along the Ridgeway Path :-)

Sanctuary wrote:
You've cracked it Alken...it's a rotary clothes line for the use of travellers along the Ridgeway Path :-)
And there's me thinking travellers were the great unwashed?

Only speaking from my own experiences sleeping around Scotland using the odd mountain stream, you understand. Not that kind of sleeping around, either. Hey, perhaps that's why?