OK chaps time to get writing
The Daily Telegraph letters page today carries two lettersabout the
Tennysons trail on the Isle of Wight. Reference is made to green lanes in
other parts of the country.
Link to the DT is www.dailytelegraph.com
email is dtletters@telegraph.co.uk
Re: Need to differentiate wheels
Date: 30 December 2002
Sir - The report of the 4x4 drivers and motorcyclists who are wreaking
havoc along Tennyson's trail on the Isle of Wight comes as no surprise to
those who have seen similar damage all over the country (report, Dec 27). The Ridgeway in Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire, the Lake District
and the North Yorkshire National Park are among those areas similarly
afflicted.
Unfortunately the law on byways open to all traffic (BOATS) does not
distinguish between different kinds of wheels - a pony and cart or a heavy
four-wheel-drive vehicle. Nobody is allowed to damage a highway, yet
off-roaders appear to be doing so with impunity. The rights of way law is
in a mess, so hundreds of people are starting to campaign to get it
changed.
But councils are reluctant to make Traffic Regulation Orders because the
police appear to be unable to enforce them. There is no way of ensuring
that damage, deep muddy ruts, inconvenience to other users and destruction
of fragile environments and archaeological deposits will not continue
until the law is changed.
From:
Elizabeth Still, Bucklebury, Berks
Re: Tennyson lesson
Date: 30 December 2002
Sir - The "unnamed [Tennyson] work" from which the quote about "the noble
down" comes is To the Rev. F.D. Maurice, written in 1854. The poem invited
the reverend, who was godfather to Tennyson's eldest son, Hallam, to visit
the Isle of Wight, where Tennyson had recently been able to purchase his
house, Farringford, from the proceeds of Maud.
Destruction of the Tennyson Trail must be halted.
From:
Elizabeth Hutchings, Newport, Isle of Wight
rgrds
John
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