Why the By Ways didn't open following this year's Summer Solstice.....

 

 Those who have followed this blog since it's inception in 2013, may recall a posting with the title: "English Heritage...Hands off our By Ways" dated 8th May 2014 (which incidentally, 283 of you dropped in for a visit).....well we can confirm that according to a letter from Wiltshire Council's Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 that EH have now achieved their aim - in part!    whilst driving at the usual snail's pace along the A303 the other day, I did wonder why the barriers had remained in place at By Ways 11 and 12 after the this year's Summer Solstice, when normally they are removed during the week or weeks following.....and so, we have the answer here in this most recent
"Prohibition of Driving" experimental order - for 18 months.....as received from
"a chum"!!!

Huh! 18 months they say?   Well we think this could be OMD....
Ochestral Manouvers In The Dark by English Heritage, and you just wait, they will, after 18 months, announce that it's been a great success and make it permanent when we've taken our eye off the ball!
The Order may of course be "music to the ears" for some, but a Sad Song for those residents/itinerants who have remained on By Way 12 for years in some cases with their ramshackle collection of caravans, tents, little fires and dreadlocks!