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 Cherhill_Bill
Mon Sep 22, 2025 8:15 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: I dont know who else to ask
Replies: 11
Views: 100

<t>youre not being daft sam. thats my top ground or near enough and theyve been sat on it the best part of two year now, ive said as much on here before and got told it was land agents. polite men, big clean motors, no farm about em, tell you a paths shut when it aint. dont you go up there again wit...
by Cherhill_Bill
Wed Aug 14, 2024 7:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Putting it all in one place
Replies: 5
Views: 43

youve got the men on my ground down right len, dates and all, im impressed you got the dates. aye and the rest of it. i dont know that i would have wrote it all out together like that but somebody had to and you have. keep me a copy.
by Cherhill_Bill
Wed Aug 07, 2024 9:20 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Strangers on the estate
Replies: 4
Views: 36

theyre winning then mech, cos anne's stopped, frans funnelled, and i keep off my own top ground half the time to save the aggravation. clever, that. nobody lays a finger on you and theyve got the whole down to theirselves.
by Cherhill_Bill
Mon Aug 05, 2024 7:30 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Strangers on the estate
Replies: 4
Views: 36

<t>thats my top ground theyre sat on half the time anne. the firm i wouldnt sell to, theyve got men on it now regardless, range rover at the gate, walking the field. cant move em on, its their land or near enough. tell you the path's closed when it aint. i dont know what theyre guarding up there, th...
by Cherhill_Bill
Wed Sep 14, 2022 10:05 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: A letter from London
Replies: 3
Views: 31

already told em where to go nan, in near enough those words. just wanted it written down somewhere that it happened, in case. selwoods right about the letters. got em in a drawer.
by Cherhill_Bill
Mon Sep 12, 2022 6:40 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: A letter from London
Replies: 3
Views: 31

A letter from London

<t>had a letter. solicitors, london, very polite, asking would i consider selling the top ground or granting access over it. ive farmed it forty year and my father before me. wrote back no thank you. had another letter. then a man came to the gate, no appointment, all smiles, named a figure that mad...
by Cherhill_Bill
Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:00 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: The solstice carry-on - sorry, but somebody has to say it
Replies: 5
Views: 40

fair enough. im not asking to ban anybody. im asking for bins, bogs, and shut my bloody gates. do that and i'll have a flask of tea on the wall for the lot of you next year. leave my heifers in the road again and i wont.
by Cherhill_Bill
Tue Jun 21, 2022 8:00 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: The solstice carry-on - sorry, but somebody has to say it
Replies: 5
Views: 40

The solstice carry-on - sorry, but somebody has to say it

<t>right, ill be the villain. solstice morning and the lane past my place was nose to tail at four in the morning, cars up on the verges, gates left open, my heifers nearly out in the road, a drum going thump thump till past seven, and the mess left after, bottles, a tent somebody just walked off an...
by Cherhill_Bill
Sun Mar 06, 2022 8:45 am
Forum: Lost Villages & Deserted Settlements
Topic: Watching one go
Replies: 2
Views: 20

youre not wrong nan, theyve been after my top ground and all. but its money, same as its always been money. rich men buying out poor villages is the oldest story in this county. depressing aint the same as mysterious.
by Cherhill_Bill
Tue Oct 08, 2019 5:30 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: The cottages on the green
Replies: 3
Views: 32

its land agents nan. london money buys cheap in the quiet villages and sits on it, holiday lets or waiting for the planning to turn. depressing but it aint a mystery, its just money. half the county's going the same way.

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