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| bpman Member Since: 21 May 2008 Location: Oslo Posts: 8069  
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Byway next to the henge may close
http://www.lro.com/news-reviews/2014/5/gre...tonehenge/ |
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8th May 2014 8:57pm |
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| munch90 Member Since: 26 Oct 2013 Location: guildford Posts: 3558 
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if cars are parking along there bet they are more worried about not paying to park near stone henge
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8th May 2014 9:15pm |
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| JWL Member Since: 26 Oct 2011 Location: Hereford Posts: 3443 
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It's not as if ordinary cars can't make it along there, that robot Brian, off the car insurance advert trundles along it well enough
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8th May 2014 10:43pm |
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| wyvern Member Since: 13 Dec 2009 Location: Cornwall Posts: 2117  
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We drove past the 'Henge last weekend and the green road was log-jammed with parked vehicles.
The main road is still as slow as before they removed the turn off and took over 30 mins to drive the 3 miles past the site without any other reason for slow traffic other than people slowing down to take a peek or work out that they had missed the turning to the entrance and what to do to get back there ... The signs are very poor with visitors not aware of the entrance being removed as their maps and satnav still directing them that way ... it needs bigger and more explicit signs to point them the right way off the roundabouts at each end of the road ... as these are visitors and not locals who know where they are going. Being from that area originally I would be very upset if they made any changes to access in that area, but its such an issue being the most visited tourist site in the UK that there will always be people who do their own thing and are then followed by others. (and as to visual impact ... the 3000 cars an hour on the main road probably has more impact that the 30 or so parked ones on the by-way..!) just my thoughts!! (English Nature have done the same on Bodmin Moore next to the hurlers and re-classified a road there to stop access for vehicles) Poppy - TDCI (Puma) 110XS 2.2 - Camper conversion - see the build here - https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic56530.html Elgar -TDCI(Puma) 110XS Dormobile - now sold Devon & Cornwall 4x4 Response - DC126  |
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9th May 2014 8:04am |
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| bpman Member Since: 21 May 2008 Location: Oslo Posts: 8069
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it will be interesting to see how it pans out but i suspect EH will get their own way
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9th May 2014 8:14pm |
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| diesel_jim Member Since: 13 Oct 2008 Location: hiding Posts: 6122 
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I drove up that byway today. Parked on it in fact, and wandered around the field on the non-paid side of the green mesh (that the "builders" put up, according to the snotty security woman who didn't like the fact that we'd driven up, walked on the PRoW in the field and saved ourselves £56 as there were 4 of us... plus dog.
Oh, I forgot, "sorry, dogs aren't allowed in the stones"... yeah, because some dog pee will totally erode the stones that have been there for thousands of years... oops, no they won't because you can't get anywhere near the stones anyway!!!! I digress.... I was the only vehicle on that byway. the A303 was at an almost standstill, people slowing to have a look at the stones, but there was no-one parked up. By the time we left two cars had arrived, but nothing much. But as Steve says, sometimes it's chaotic... last time we were out on a forum laning trip we had to wait to cross the "old" road as it was so busy. English heritage won't put a large pile of soil at the end of the byways (for 4x4's only to climb, thus keeping 99% of the traffic off) as they consider it a blot on the landscape and not in keeping with their ethos of a free countryside... but they'll have ugly security fencing and a huge visitors centre, and charge folk £13.90 to look at the stones 
Pished off? me? nah....  |
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10th May 2014 3:03pm |
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