Re: owner gave permission to camp here?


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Posted by Adam Quinan on December 07, 2004 at 23:22:34 from 65.48.152.132 user Adam.

In Reply to: Re: owner gave permission to camp here? posted by Mike Dennis on December 06, 2004 at 20:32:04:

Mike Dennis wrote amongst other things :
Like it or not, the entire UK is owned by somebody (and often gained in the past by dubious means).

I like the apocryphal story of the unemployed miner who was wandering over the Pennine grouse moor when the local rich landowner came across him and started berating him for trespassing.
"Well", asked the miner, "how did you get ownership of this land?'
"I inherited it from my father", replied the owner.
"How did he get it?"
"He inherited it from his father going right back to William the Conqueror's time" replied the aristocrat.
"How did your first ancestor get this land?"
"He fought for it".
"Right, then I'll fight you for it!"


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