Transcription of ROADSIDE HEDGES AND VERGES IN CORNWALL
{{id}} {{{paragraph}}}
ROADSIDE HEDGESAND VERGESIN CORNWALLC opyright Robin Menneer 2008 History of ROADSIDE HEDGES / old roads & enclosures / pack-horse & slide / turnpikehedges / VERGES - the long meadow / walking on top of HEDGES / hedge & highwayresponsibilities / HEDGES alongside private roads and ramps / hedge trimming & road repairs/ modern road traffic and HEDGES / traffic pollution / current ROADSIDE hedge are over four and a half thousand miles of roads in CORNWALL , so there are roughly9,000 miles of HEDGES alongside them. Highways and HEDGES are inextricably wedded, physicallyand historically. As the land was enclosed, HEDGES were built beside the existing tracks, and as newlanes and roads evolved, new HEDGES were built alongside them.
HISTORY OF ROADSIDE HEDGES Hedges alongside paths and roads have to be looked at differently from field hedges. Sometimes they are neolithic, 5,000 - …
Domain:
Source:
Link to this page:
Please notify us if you found a problem with this document:
{{id}} {{{paragraph}}}