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To: Mitch86
a pleasant stroll in the country would have left me breaking the law. Incredible really.

It's things like this that make it obvious to me why we are over here and you are over there. A pleasant stroll in the country isn't a human right. But if you have no place of your own to stroll, what is so difficult about asking permission first? I hike a lot on other's land and I've always asked permission first. I've only been refused once. It's just common courtesy.

34 posted on 09/26/2011 9:33:28 AM PDT by jboot
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To: jboot

If the landowner is the Duke of Devonshire, and the land you want to walk on is the Derbyshire peak district, are you supposed to drive the 300 miles to ask?

As Woody Guthrie once sang; “this land is your land, this land is my land”. Which country was he from again?

Anyway, this is folly to hypothesise about because there are now well established rights of way and public footpaths (what you might call trails) criss-crossing the land, and have been for 60 years.


35 posted on 09/26/2011 9:55:53 AM PDT by Mitch86
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