A little article from the Yorkshire Dales National Park

[wills-mill]

OK, it's a couple of years old. Not quite sure what to say about this one.

 

The fight to save the Roman Cam High Road in the Yorkshire Dales - Walks - Yorkshire Life

[daveindales]

I live a couple of miles from there. This caused quite a bit of uproar round here. The right decision was made. The alternative was to take hundreds of thousands of tons of timber through the very small village that I live in. The two forests are about 3800 acres in total. Just imagine how many Lorry loads are to come out The road would have been totally knackered. The only people complaining about the Roman road route were those non locals and the swampy brigade. I used to work in these particular woods and know the area well.

 

One idiot even suggested that lorries on the Roman road would destroy cave systems.

[wills-mill]

It's a sensible idea Dave, I just loved the double nimbyism of not wanting the plantation in the first place, then not wanting to deal with the timber at the point of harvest.

 

The irony of a 'wilderness' with an arrow straight Roman road and a massive Victorian viaduct

[daveindales]

all the forests around here were only really planted during the 1960's as a tax fiddle. The larger one mentioned in the write up was owned by the Burton brothers, of burtons men's ware fame. There really was no thought about how to eventually get the wood out and to the main roads. Lorries are still leading the wood out today, from along the Roman road.