Devon style

[AHPP]

Why does only Devon use bank hedges? Availability of stone for the faces? Plenty of other places have stone. 

[Squaredy]

12 hours ago, AHPP said:

Why does only Devon use bank hedges? Availability of stone for the faces? Plenty of other places have stone. 

Cornwall and Pembrokeshire as well.

[AHPP]

OK. South West generally. Same question. 

Edited 12 hours ago by AHPP

[AHPP]

Speaking to a hedgelayer mate just now and he reckons the styles were just the product of a very unglobalised world. You’d marry a girl from the next village and might see a hedge there, but no further afield. Still not a full answer. 

[Dan Maynard]

I believe it's an ancient practice, evidence for bronze age fields in Cornwall and on Dartmoor. I guess it has to do with the local quality and quantity of stone too, not enough for dry stone walls but too much to leave in the middle of the field so banking up the boundaries makes sense.