[Stones] So, is this what some think of our heritage?

[Ric]

well done!

i have sent endless missives complaining about the
lamentable state of the Ridgeway ...

 - and also about its officially truncated status,
where it does a 90 degree turn at Avebury, in the
guidebooks, whereas you can easily see it continuing
on to the Sanctuary and beyond Overton Hill, to East
Kennet and away! The fact that the Ridgeway has not
been officially identified beyond Overton i can only
attribute to mental laziness?

it's quite clearly marked on the O/S as 'Ridgeway' as
far south as Alton Priors (site of megaliths buried
beneath disused church), but not in the official
guide?

ye gods, who are these spokespeople for the British
countryside, they don't seem to know their right hand
from their left?

:-|

Ric



--- The Webmistress <the.webmistress at virgin.net>
wrote:

> on 24/6/07 4:59 PM, Ric wrote:
> 
> > you can't always blame these
> > people if there's no-one there to stop them. park
> on a
> > yellow line in Swindon and you get clamped (or
> worse);
> > chew up ancient pathways in the countryside with
> an
> > 'off roader' and the authorities are looking the
> other
> > way ...
> 
> The traffic is now banned (only the last year or so)
> and I have stood there
> with a single fellow traveller and simply blocked
> the way of a pair of 4x4s
> whose foreign occupants (with an excellent commend
> of english and perfect
> vision to see the signage) resisted all attempts to
> make them back up until
> we began to photograph the vehicles, number-plates
> and all, and point out we
> would simply send them to both the police and their
> embassies. Immediately.
> 
> They backed off, and went off to the car-park.
> 
> It needs persistence and a touch of
> bloody-mindedness, but it can and will
> get better.