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 geocache_gaz
Thu Apr 13, 2023 10:00 am
Forum: Earthworks, Barrows & Standing Stones
Topic: Locked out of the Soldier's Grave
Replies: 2
Views: 31

not silly anne. half the byways i used to cache are gated now. and its always the ones with something old on em, a barrow, a stone, a ruin, never the boring fields. ive given up reading anything into it but i do notice it.
by geocache_gaz
Thu May 20, 2021 8:10 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Surveying the empty field
Replies: 3
Views: 24

Surveying the empty field

<t>anyone know whats being planned out by the old ruin? you know the one, the vanished village off the byway thats been in the lost villages board. walked through last week and theres survey pegs all over the field by the manor ruin, orange tape, and a notice cable tied to the new gate too faded to ...
by geocache_gaz
Mon Dec 28, 2020 1:00 pm
Forum: Earthworks, Barrows & Standing Stones
Topic: Drone over the lynchets
Replies: 1
Views: 13

Drone over the lynchets

got a little drone for christmas and ive been flying it over the strip lynchets on the down, the old plough terraces. from the air they just leap out at you, great green steps down the hillside you'd never clock from the ground. stuck a clip up. anyone know how old theyre reckoned to be?
by geocache_gaz
Tue Jun 16, 2020 11:20 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Footpaths that have moved
Replies: 3
Views: 24

yeah ive hit this. went for a cache out that way and the path on the map just isnt there, diverted round the field edge behind a brand new fence, proper money spent on keeping you to the boundary. thought it was just me being useless with the GPS. whats in the middle thats so precious
by geocache_gaz
Mon Sep 10, 2018 10:00 pm
Forum: Lost Villages & Deserted Settlements
Topic: Shrunken-village earthworks - the lidar is showing it now
Replies: 3
Views: 19

oh this is brilliant, been playing with it all evening. the holloway i always walk shows up as part of a whole pattern, theres a green road and house platforms id never clocked. spent two hours on it, thanks a lot Col, theres my weekend gone.
by geocache_gaz
Mon Oct 23, 2017 10:00 am
Forum: Ghost Stories & Strange Stuff
Topic: Phantom hitchhiker on the A4?
Replies: 3
Views: 25

ok the man who wants to get home to a village that isnt there anymore has genuinely got me a bit. thanks Mrs A and Mick. driving that road in daylight from now on. lovely and horrible, this thread, in equal measure.
by geocache_gaz
Sat Oct 21, 2017 11:30 pm
Forum: Ghost Stories & Strange Stuff
Topic: Phantom hitchhiker on the A4?
Replies: 3
Views: 25

Phantom hitchhiker on the A4?

<t>weird one. driving back from a cache hunt late on the A4 near the downs, picked nobody up i promise, but i SAW someone, side of the road by the old coach route, dressed wrong, old-fashioned, just standing. gone in the mirror. probably a tired bloke and me driving badly. but then i googled it and ...
by geocache_gaz
Wed Sep 20, 2017 12:00 pm
Forum: Earthworks, Barrows & Standing Stones
Topic: Footpath blocked up near the down - is this legal?
Replies: 4
Views: 28

reported it. council says theyll look into it. will update if anything happens (betting nothing does).
by geocache_gaz
Sun Sep 17, 2017 10:00 am
Forum: Earthworks, Barrows & Standing Stones
Topic: Footpath blocked up near the down - is this legal?
Replies: 4
Views: 28

cheers Trev. couldnt find an order for it which is what bugs me. landowners one of those that buys up and you never see a face, just a managing agent in another county. ill report it and see.
by geocache_gaz
Sat Sep 16, 2017 3:00 pm
Forum: Earthworks, Barrows & Standing Stones
Topic: Footpath blocked up near the down - is this legal?
Replies: 4
Views: 28

Footpath blocked up near the down - is this legal?

<t>out caching saturday and a path ive used for years is just gone. proper old right of way, on the map, and theres a new fence across it and a sign sending you all the way round the field edge. new stile, new waymarkers, very tidy job. can they just do that? felt off, like being quietly told to cle...

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