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RE: Narrow road, small car, Peak District. - Andy Bennett - 28-01-2022
Otherwise known as the Brazil nut effect after the tendency for Brazil nuts to rise to the surface of Muesli.
RE: Narrow road, small car, Peak District. - Dave Mann - 28-01-2022
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Now this is a narrow road not a million miles from you Tony.
RE: Narrow road, small car, Peak District. - Duncan Grimmond - 28-01-2022
While out walking or driving I’ve often tried to calculate how long it took to build the miles and miles of dry-stone walls that exist in eg the Yorkshire Dales National park. At approximately a ton per yard, the miles and miles of walling that can be seen from almost any high point continues to astonish me. Is this what the farm labourers did in the winter? At say 2-3 yards a day for two men a single mile must have taken 600 days? Clearing the stones from the fields must have taken years in itself, when did they start the work? 12thC?15th C? Having finished the cathedrals did the workforce turn to walling while the masons went in to the next ecclesiastical project? Or as a result of the enclosures Act in the 18thC? The population must have been either huge (cf Cobbett) with unemployment massive or tiny (more likely cf Malthus) and in need of a respite from idleness?
The numbers are beyond my ken! I suppose I could Google it but trying work it out while walking is more interesting! Sad old git on a ramble, sorry! I’ll get on with some work!
RE: Narrow road, small car, Peak District. - Mike Costigan - 28-01-2022
The vast majority of our present-day rural boundaries date from the mid-eighteenth century - as Duncan suggests, as a result of the various enclosures acts. Certainly the majority of the the Yorkshire and Peak District stone walls date from this period; elsewhere old hedges can usually be dated by identifying the number of species within a 30-metre/100-foot length - one species for every hundred years.
RE: Narrow road, small car, Peak District. - Austin in the Shed - 28-01-2022
Another narrow road,this one 350 miles or so from the Derbyshire ones,at the end of our lane.
RE: Narrow road, small car, Peak District. - Mike Costigan - 28-01-2022
Here in Nottinghamshire we have slightly softer edges to our roads! Sorry it's not a Seven, but the Lancia is only 4" wider than a short-chassis Seven (this road is actually on a local bus route).
RE: Narrow road, small car, Peak District. - Ivor Hawkins - 28-01-2022
Do I spy Lotus 7 front mudguards on the yellow van?
RE: Narrow road, small car, Peak District. - Duncan Grimmond - 28-01-2022
If they are Lotus they’re still good looking IMHO.
RE: Narrow road, small car, Peak District. - morrisminor - 28-01-2022
You wouldn't fit a Range Rover down here because they don't like getting their tyres mucky !
RE: Narrow road, small car, Peak District. - Oxford Jack - 28-01-2022
Mind you don't dazzle oncoming traffic with those extra bright headlamp bulbs! ;-}