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INTRODUCING STARRY STARRY FORTNIGHT
12-26 February
This month we’re going national!
To mark the 20th anniversary of the Scottish Land Reform act* we are encouraging people to get out and celebrate the wonder of the winter night, and to call for a greater @Right_2Roam in England
12-26 February
This month we’re going national!
To mark the 20th anniversary of the Scottish Land Reform act* we are encouraging people to get out and celebrate the wonder of the winter night, and to call for a greater @Right_2Roam in England
It’s a way for all of us to demonstrate - wherever we are - our determination for wider opportunities of access across our national parks - not only camping, but to extend our current right to roam beyond the current mere 8%.
📸Gillian Healey
📸Gillian Healey
✍️📸📹Write, photograph, video your experiences and use them to call for a greater Right to Roam by writing to your MP using the @Right_2Roam template here:
righttoroam.org.uk/mpletter
Share your experiences online: #RightToRoam #TheStarsAreForEveryone.
righttoroam.org.uk/mpletter
Share your experiences online: #RightToRoam #TheStarsAreForEveryone.
A 🧵 on the awful High Court decision to effectively end the common right to wild camp on #Dartmoor, and a backward step for the #RightToRoam and access for #WildCamping that now puts power back in the hands of wealthy landowners inside a designated UK National Park…
Wild camping (i.e. short stay, small group, carry everything there and back, leave no footprint) has historically been understood to permitted on #Dartmoor in designated areas without needing the land owner’s permission
Wild camping is the realm of hikers and backpackers. The rules ensure that the use is temporary, unobtrusive and untraceable once they move on. #Dartmoor has been the *only* UK National Park to allow this freedom and is seen as a role model to help widen access in other NPs…
I’m going to do one of my long but hopefully interesting (at least in part) walking threads, for a very special bit of Dartmoor. Lots of people visit the two tors, but seeing a broader view of the prehistoric landscape can really put it into a new perspective, twas a good walk 🙂
We parked near the Holming Beam car park, I had promised Pat the weather would be ‘better than when we walked to the Beardown Man’..
reader, it was not.
Undeterred (as it wasn’t exactly RAINY, just misty) we head off to find out what a Holming Beam was (we still don’t know).
reader, it was not.
Undeterred (as it wasn’t exactly RAINY, just misty) we head off to find out what a Holming Beam was (we still don’t know).
I take him to all the best places, there’s even some bamboo! So fancy. ☺️ There was a fair bit of debris out from the firing the day before, too.
Michael Davitt, refugee, physically disadvantaged, revolutionary, agrarian agitator, parliamentarian, journalist, author and servant of his people was born #OnThisDay 175 years ago in Sraide, #Mayo
@davittmuseum @visitmayo @mayotourism @MayoTrails @MayoDotIE #GlobalIrishNation
@davittmuseum @visitmayo @mayotourism @MayoTrails @MayoDotIE #GlobalIrishNation
2) Davitt was born during the #GreatFamine into a family of #Irish speaking tenant farmers who were evicted from their land when he was just 4 years old
#IrishHistory
#IrishHistory
3) Landless, Davitt’s family were now economic refugees and opted to leave their home first to #Liverpool and then onwards to Haslingden a cotton milling town in #Lancashire
In honour of the victims of yesterday's terror attack on #LondonBridge, a repeat of our history of that iconic bridge:
Remember the #nurseryrhyme "London Bridge is falling down"? Here's the story of #London Bridge!
#nspoli #NovaScotia #mining #ns #minerals #geology
Remember the #nurseryrhyme "London Bridge is falling down"? Here's the story of #London Bridge!
#nspoli #NovaScotia #mining #ns #minerals #geology
There's been a series of bridges across the #RiverThames in #London since #Roman times, 2000 years ago. They were wooden till a stone one was built between 1176 and 1209.
#nspoli #NovaScotia #NS #mining #minerals #geology #builtheritage
#nspoli #NovaScotia #NS #mining #minerals #geology #builtheritage
The 1176 #LondonBridge stood over 600 years. The heads of traitors were impaled on it - so many that there was an official Keeper of the Heads! The first head, in 1305, was that of #WilliamWallace, the #Scottish solider #MelGibson played in #Braveheart.
#nspoli #NovaScotia #NS
#nspoli #NovaScotia #NS
Remember "London Bridge is falling down"? Here's the story of #LondonBridge!
There's been a series of bridges across the #RiverThames in #London since #Roman times, 2000 years ago. They were wooden till a stone one was built between 1176 and 1209.
#nspoli #NovaScotia #mining #ns
There's been a series of bridges across the #RiverThames in #London since #Roman times, 2000 years ago. They were wooden till a stone one was built between 1176 and 1209.
#nspoli #NovaScotia #mining #ns
The 1176 #LondonBridge stood over 600 years. The heads of traitors were impaled on it - so many that there was an official Keeper of the Heads! The first head, in 1305, was that of #WilliamWallace, the #Scottish solider #MelGibson played in #Braveheart.
#nspoli #NovaScotia
#nspoli #NovaScotia
A new #LondonBridge was completed in 1831. It was made of #granite from #Haytor Quarry, which is now part of the #Dartmoor National Park.
Its lamps were made from the melted-down cannons of #NapoleonBonaparte's army.
#nspoli #NovaScotia #minerals #mining #NS
Its lamps were made from the melted-down cannons of #NapoleonBonaparte's army.
#nspoli #NovaScotia #minerals #mining #NS
