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Walking the Welsh hills? Take care you’re not forced to spend the night on Yr Wyddfa’s little sister, Cadair Idris. The diarist and curate, Francis Kilvert found himself here in 1871. A hearty Victorian walker who liked nothing better than ‘villaging about’ in the Welsh border parishes of Hay-on-Wye, the 31-year old had ascended Cadair…
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Wooden liars – in defence of trespass In Britain a Public Right of Way (PROW) is precisely what it says. Never mind that the land owner needs to pasture a bull here, or that the route passes through the owner’s back kitchen, this is a statutory, inalienable right. (And why did they build their kitchen…
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Better known for his famous Natural History of Selbourne, the genial Hampshire clergyman Gilbert White also kept a Garden Kalendar (published by The Scholar Press, 1975). Two hundred and seventy years on, I’m following in his horticultural footsteps on my allotment, Plot 55. I’m starting as he did on a cold day in February with…
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After seven years as an RAF pilot, Stracey Laws joined the 19th Hyderabad Regt. of the Indian Army. In March 1939 he was sent to meet his commanding officer’s daughter off the Delhi train.
Bill Laws 