More from the October ramble from Falmer to Rottingdean.
A View of a Distant Sea
Tag: signpost
We’re on a road to nowhere
Public Footpath
Unicorns at Easter
Easter Sunday morning we took off from our Wooler hotel, walking though town before coming to St Cuthbert’s way and beginning what would turn out to be a 14½-mile walk, nearly to Beal. Click on the images below to see them larger.
Wooler
The trip described in the last couple of posts was taken about a month ago – we were going to be walking along St Cuthbert’s Way in Northumberland, from Wooler to Holy Island/Lindisfarne. From the Berwick-upon-Tweed train station we were taken by taxi to our first night’s resting place in Wooler. After checking in, we took a walk around town. (Click any of the images below to see them enlarged.)
Whose woods these are I think I know
Public Footpath
A recent article in the NY Times discussed the millions of acres of public land in the US that are inaccessible to the public because they’re entirely surrounded by private property, which is sacrosanct. In the UK, by contrast, there is custom going back centuries, that protects the people’s access to the commons. Everywhere you go you find public footpaths that cross private land, allowing one walking and rambling access to extensive swathes of the countryside. Of course, this is not wholly uncontested even here but the notion of public goods is much more widely recognized.