You only know heaven, what Thomas Hardy would have done from him. On Saturday, the demonstrators will arrive at BRIDEHEAD in Dorset, jump through a low stone wall and participate in a “peaceful infringement” to express their anger and grief in Arrival To a place in a type of landscape, Hardy wrote about it in an exciting way.
They will be hiking near a lake, listening to the songs and some will join a writing workshop, with attention to the closing of a lenient path used by the locals and visitors to generations.
Last year, it sold the family that lived there for more than two centuries Billport and based oxfordshire, Who specializes in obtaining and managing rural property.
To the panic of the people who loved to visit the lands, last month was closed to the lake and the falling waterfall, which was used as a crime theater in Broadchurch TV drama.
Campaign Group The right to roam The case was taken and the infringement systems.
“We will celebrate the call that people had with BRIDEHEAD for decades. We will enjoy peace of the reasons exactly as people have done for generations and we will pay attention to the permitted access to the landowners when land owners can only withdraw this permission.”
“We encourage [UK] The government to protect the current access and expand the scope of access to the countryside, especially in places such as Dorfs Where there is a real shortage of reaching the nearby countryside. This is not related to collective transgression. This is about a kind of emphasis on a historical familiar right. “
People have expressed their dissatisfaction with the loss of access, including some who have spread the ashes of loved ones there and cannot now return to the place.
Visitors book in Village Church, St. Michael and all angels It is used as a place to register their dissatisfaction. One of them said: “We are late. We have missed a treatment.” Another said: “It is a tragedy that will not be shared with those who appreciate it a lot.”
Kevan Manwaring, university lecturer in creative writing, to plan to join the infringement. He said: “BRIDEHEAD is a very special place that deserves to be open to the audience. England. It is not just a NIMBY-RISH case. “
Hardy knew this region well, with one of the main characters in his novel Joud, who is mysteriously named Soo Bridaid. Manuering said he liked to think that the author was sympathetic to the issue: “His novels depict England is not closed, written with post -exposure. Egdon Heath [which features prominently in The Return of the Native] He relied on Heathland, which spanned his family hut in BuckKhampton to Poole and Bournemouth. It will be very difficult to walk now. “
During the infringement of the infringement, Manwaring plans to read a poem written by BRIDE River, which rises under the artificial lake in BRIDEHEAD: “Earth and life have formed/in your fixed, gentle and postal ways.”
Some concern about the future of rural real estate houses. One family left so that their home could be used as a real estate office. A long -term population told Al -Wasim newspaper this week that there is “fog” about what will happen after that.
Before the protest, Billport said it might reopen the path if “issues” could be addressed.
A spokesman said: “After purchasing a bridehead, our main focus is to organize a series of promotion work to both real estate real estate in Littlebredy, which will bring it to a minimum and expected current standards for energy and safety required by all owners,” said a spokesman.
“This was to provide a real estate office and employee residence.” There were no plans for any other evacuation operations.
“In a similar context, access to some small spaces of the property were temporarily suspended pending a healthy and safe review of access methods, trees and open water. If we can treat any problems enough, we intend to reopen the area to the public.”
