A note from the administrator.

I have had to close the forum to new members. Registration is shut. I'm sorry for it - but I can no longer vouch for who comes through the door.

You may also find that certain older topics are no longer where you left them. I have, with great reluctance, removed a small number of threads and posts from this forum. I did so at the written request of a firm of solicitors acting for the landowner, who hold that the material touched on matters they would prefer were not aired in public.

I have complied, because I am one man and they are not. I want it set down plainly, here, that I did so under protest, and that I do not accept the grounds. Nothing removed was untrue. Nothing removed was anyone's business to suppress.

But I will not delete this board. What is left here stays, and you may read it for as long as I can keep the lights on. I have locked the doors; I have not burned the house. I have kept copies of everything. I would ask, gently, that those of you who hold anything of your own do the same.

E. Selwood

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by Devizes_Mech
Fri Oct 10, 2025 9:30 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: I dont know who else to ask
Replies: 11
Views: 92

<t>right, before this lot runs away with itself. its land agents and a security firm and nothing more, and im saying it plain because somebody has to. sam, a heavy bloke told you a path was shut, thats rude and its probably a lie but its not the bogeyman. bill, theyre guarding a field because the ow...
by Devizes_Mech
Sat Nov 02, 2024 6:00 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Some of you need to wake up
Replies: 3
Views: 32

ranting at folk and naming names and telling everyone theyre sheep, thats how you get yourself shown the door and quite right too. theres a way to say a thing. that wasnt it.
by Devizes_Mech
Tue Aug 06, 2024 2:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Strangers on the estate
Replies: 4
Views: 33

<t>security firm. big landowner thinks hes got trespassers or coursers or just wants his privacy, he hires lads to sit about and look heavy, its legal and its common as muck. dont engage with em, dont give em the satisfaction, and dont let it stop you using a right of way thats yours. thats exactly ...
by Devizes_Mech
Mon Nov 13, 2023 12:20 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: They buy up the special bits, everywhere
Replies: 5
Views: 34

<t>or its just that the odd corners are cheap and the good farmlands not for sale. nobody sells prime arable, course they dont, so the money goes where it can, the scrubby bits with a planning protection that keeps em going for a song. and heritage being skint aint a conspiracy, heritages been skint...
by Devizes_Mech
Tue Jul 11, 2023 11:30 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Locked out of the manor
Replies: 2
Views: 26

new owners, new gate, lots of estates lock up now janet, insurance and liability and ramblers leaving gates open. doesnt have to mean anything sinister. though i grant you the no name no contact bit is odd, most landowners at least put a phone number on the gate.
by Devizes_Mech
Thu Apr 13, 2023 2:45 pm
Forum: Earthworks, Barrows & Standing Stones
Topic: Locked out of the Soldier's Grave
Replies: 2
Views: 31

report it to the council anne, blocked right of way, theyll make em put a stile in at the least, you dont have to just swallow it. landowners chance their arm closing paths all the time, banking on folk being too polite to kick up. kick up.
by Devizes_Mech
Sun Apr 02, 2023 9:30 am
Forum: Myths & Folk Tales
Topic: Why is it Wansdyke - the Devil, or Woden?
Replies: 3
Views: 33

<t>its a saxon boundary ditch morwenna, men with spades and a lot of em, marking whose land was whose, same as a hedge only bigger. no god no devil no weight. mind you ill grant you nobody digs a hedge that size for a field boundary, so there was summat they meant by it. but it was politics not magi...
by Devizes_Mech
Wed Jun 22, 2022 1:10 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: The solstice carry-on - sorry, but somebody has to say it
Replies: 5
Views: 32

<t>its chaos bran, lets not robe it up in pretty words. its a free festival with no license, no bins, no bogs, no marshals, the whole lot dumped on the locals to clear. druid or teenager on cider i dont care, you leave a tent and a bag of cans in a man's field youre a slob. the trust wants to either...
by Devizes_Mech
Sat May 22, 2021 12:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Surveying the empty field
Replies: 3
Views: 29

pre planning surveys. ecology, archaeology, topo, you have to commission the lot before youre allowed to build anything these days, and it dont mean theyre building, could be ten year of consultants counting newts and measuring humps. boring answer i know. usually is.
by Devizes_Mech
Tue Nov 10, 2020 7:50 pm
Forum: Lost Villages & Deserted Settlements
Topic: The year it all stops - a thought about the witch-scares
Replies: 3
Views: 22

<t>or its a village that emptied in a bad year and the registers rotted in a damp vestry, which is what registers do. youve got a hole and youre filling it with king james. half the parishes in england have a witch story and a gap in the books, it dont make every one of em a conspiracy selwood. some...

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