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There is no mention of stopping people accessing anywhere...as long as they do it legally. Do these people have a right to gallop their horses across the land?...not unless they are on a bridleway or they have permission from the landowner...would they be happy to see the local hunt up there?
Aye, yer right there Mr H. Flipping people driving 4x4s on the Ridgeway for example - gawd knows how they're allowed to get away with that! It's just that every time something's fenced off, or we're made to pay to get to it, we seem to lose a bit of our rightful link to the past. Take the Rollright Stones - last time I was there I had to pay a quid to get in; that's OK, don't mind paying a quid because it goes towards the upkeep of the place. The Kings Stone across the road though is fenced off so you can't touch it. So too the Whispering Knights along the path from the Rollright Stones. You hold the metal fence to get as close as you can but you can't get very close. Every time we do that (put something between us and our predecessors) we lose a little of the connection between them and us.
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