Category: Easby
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Built for Sheep
A rainbow always makes a good photo. This one lets me talk about the ubiquitous stile. Stiles seem to have stood there since the Flood. They have not. They arrived with enclosure, which began in the 13th century and sped up in the 18th and 19th. Fields were fenced, footpaths survived, and livestock needed keeping…
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Three Stiles in a Row
This morning’s photograph tells you everything. Three stiles, one after another, in close succession. Not one. Not two. Three. As if whoever built them wanted to make absolutely sure that anyone with a dodgy knee, a pushchair, or simply the misfortune of being over seventy would get the message: this path is not for you.…