28-01-2022, 12:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 28-01-2022, 12:10 PM by Mike Costigan.)
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.