A note from the administrator.

I have had to close the forum to new members. Registration is shut. I'm sorry for it - but I can no longer vouch for who comes through the door.

You may also find that certain older topics are no longer where you left them. I have, with great reluctance, removed a small number of threads and posts from this forum. I did so at the written request of a firm of solicitors acting for the landowner, who hold that the material touched on matters they would prefer were not aired in public.

I have complied, because I am one man and they are not. I want it set down plainly, here, that I did so under protest, and that I do not accept the grounds. Nothing removed was untrue. Nothing removed was anyone's business to suppress.

But I will not delete this board. What is left here stays, and you may read it for as long as I can keep the lights on. I have locked the doors; I have not burned the house. I have kept copies of everything. I would ask, gently, that those of you who hold anything of your own do the same.

E. Selwood

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by Chalkways_Fran
Tue Aug 06, 2024 10:40 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Strangers on the estate
Replies: 4
Views: 28

Same men, or the same sort, on the eastern paths I lost. So there it is. Where the diversions dont keep you out, the men do. Between the two of them you cannot get within half a mile of the middle of that estate any more. Thirty years I have walked this country and I have never known the like.
by Chalkways_Fran
Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:45 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: They buy up the special bits, everywhere
Replies: 5
Views: 28

<t>I have walked a great deal of this country and I will tell you, once you see it you cannot unsee it. It is always the special bit. Never the ordinary field. A holy well in the next county locked behind a new gate. A barrow up north with the path off it diverted the very same way ours were. I used...
by Chalkways_Fran
Fri May 21, 2021 10:00 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Surveying the empty field
Replies: 3
Views: 24

Saw the pegs. There has been a roofless manor and a few sarsens in that field as long as I have walked it and nothing else. They have surveyed it twice now in three years that I have seen. You dont measure the same empty field over and over for nothing, but I couldnt tell you what for.
by Chalkways_Fran
Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:30 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Footpaths that have moved
Replies: 3
Views: 24

<t>Maybe. Fifty diversions across the county is one thing, Mech. Three in two years all on one estate all pushing you to the edge is another. I am not saying there is a secret. I am saying somebody is spending real money to keep strangers off the middle of that land, and I would like to know why. Th...
by Chalkways_Fran
Mon Jun 15, 2020 7:00 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Footpaths that have moved
Replies: 3
Views: 24

Footpaths that have moved

<t>For the walkers. I have lost three rights of way in two years out past the old ruin ground, the vanished village Selwood had us all going round and round about a while back. Some firm has been quietly buying that whole corner up, and now the paths are going. Not closed on paper, all done proper, ...
by Chalkways_Fran
Tue Apr 16, 2019 10:30 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Sad news, about an old friend of this forum
Replies: 3
Views: 28

Sorry to hear it. I met George once on the Ridgeway, years back, knew him by his hat from his profile picture, and walked the best part of a mile with him. He named every barrow we passed and who had dug it and when. Good man. The hill is a bit emptier.
by Chalkways_Fran
Sat Jan 09, 2016 11:05 am
Forum: Lost Villages & Deserted Settlements
Topic: A settlement that stops - and leaves no paperwork of its stopping
Replies: -1
Views: 178

<t>Late to this. I think Ive been to your village, Selwood, if its the spot I have in mind. Theres a ruin off the byway out that way, I can dig out the proper grid ref if you want it. Walked through it October before last. Whats actually there: two farm buildings, one still roofed and used for stora...
by Chalkways_Fran
Sat May 03, 2014 7:05 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Walker checking in
Replies: 0
Views: 14

Walker checking in

Fran. I walk, long distances, alone mostly. I notice paths that have moved and paths that have quietly closed, because they're my roads. Not much of a one for chat. I'll post when I've something worth posting.

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