Re: Right to Roam off the AR Topic?


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Posted by Jock on April 09, 2007 at 22:42:25 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.

In Reply to: Re: Right to Roam off the AR Topic? posted by Peter Hyland on April 09, 2007 at 21:38:08:

... and as far as I can see has nothing whatever to do with Arthur Ransome, unless I've missed something.

Well, if my memory serves me well, it may do and you may have.

In CC there is a reference to the Wherrymen once being able to sail through the now chained off broad (Hoveton Great Broad) which would make it much easier for a craft without an engine to navigate between Horning and Wroxham. (The river Bure has many mature trees along its banks making this section quite difficult to progress under sail alone.)

Now we don't know what AR thought about the chaining off. However, although the rise and fall was only a few inches, technically Hoveton Great Broad was tidal water and there was a presumed right of navigation. (At the same time as HGB was chained off the lowest connecting channel to the Bure was dammed effectively making HGB non-tidal.) AR would have known about this and so it may be significant that he chooses to share this bit of old lore with us.

[Note to Mike Field. During WWII the regular reed cutting along the banks of the Broads was interrupted. As reeds decayed and rotted, bushes and small trees began to grow where once there was open water. After the war this growth of bushes was accelerated by the increasing use of fertilisers in agriculture. The current open water space of certain Broads such as Hoveton Great Broad is much smaller than it would have been in the 1930's.]


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