Our Byway

Our house is located on a byway, where the council has imposed parking restrictions at this end because the byway would otherwise be frequently blocked by commuters to our local railway station, parking on the verges. However, the local vegetation ignores parking restrictions and had grown out over the byway by between three and four feet (one metre), so that vehicles using this byway were driving over our lawns and in danger of hitting the posts of our fence. I actually watched one chap scratch the side of his four-by-four, with the chain, by driving onto the lawn between the posts. The council's attitude is that it is the landowner's problem, but the landowner is not very concerned.

Last weekend a group of volunteers were working on a village project of adding a tea room to the railway station and were kind enough to remove most of the vegetation that had overgrown the byway, back to a sensible location. Today's picture shows the byway as it now is, more than a metre wider than last week, much tidier with its clearly defined edges and more pleasant to walk or drive along.

My thanks goes out to them as this is work which I have done myself in the past, but am no longer able to do.