The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us

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When they do ask you to leave, you don’t necessarily have to retrace your steps; it is your right to leave at the closest available exit. Every chapter of his marvellous book includes an illicit journey and often a night's wild camping in a place that is out-of-bounds to the public.

The Book of Trespass review – a leap over England Nick Hayes: The Book of Trespass review – a leap over England

In doing so, he draws out the histories of colonial extraction that have led to England’s current demarcation, with much of the country now functioning as a quilt of fenced-off private idylls. And there were nice mentions for how so many European countries go much further on rights of access to land without tipping into anarchy. It fascinated me because it's a nice mix of history, geography, law, anecdotes, gorgeous illustrations.While the past year has seen the UK cooped up inside or exploring their local patch of woodland for the 17th time, The Book of Trespass transports the reader through the English countryside in an exploration of how societal structures have formed divisions in both land and community. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Its purpose was to ‘create a deterrent to intrusions at high-profile secure sites and to provide police officers with a specific power of arrest of a trespasser at such sites where no other apparent existing offence had been committed’.

The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes

The first-class carriage was empty but for an older couple, in evening wear, who reported my presence to the ticket collector. The Ramblers Association is a large organisation of 100,000 members, which supports the right to Roam – join up, they offer lots of activities and information. Please bear in mind we all work part time and have limited capacity to respond to enquiries outside our core areas of work. Then we need to persuade all the people who don’t have much access to land why their lives would be improved if they did.

For Hayes, Basildon Park house serves as one symbol among many of the way, down the centuries, land was effectively stolen from the people, its grand estates constructed on the back of their exploitation. Highclere Castle in Hampshire – where Downton Abbey was filmed – is among the sites where Nick Hayes has trespassed.

The Book of Trespass : Crossing the Lines that Divide Us The Book of Trespass : Crossing the Lines that Divide Us

Central are the Norman Conquest and the centuries of enclosure that followed, where patterns of common ownership were overturned and replaced by private ownership by landed aristocracy and later by those who had made their fortunes in industry and/or the British Empire, often relying on slavery. But if you look at the figures, it’s clear that it’s not at all unreasonable for us to require greater access to the land. I was evicted into a wall of armpits with a tone of moral outrage, as if I had sinned rather than sought some space, and I suddenly saw the whole event as symbolic of land rights in England. For all its exuberance and erudition, The Book of Trespass is unlikely to cross our culture-war fences.The basic thesis is this – that our private property laws in England are designed to exclude us from the land to which we once had a right and should have a right again. to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.

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Color adjustments – users can select various color contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Splendidly eloquent nature-writing evokes the woodlands, the wildlife, the landscapes and ecologies of the countryside that the post-Norman millennium of property law – or, if you prefer, “violence and theft” – has shaped, for good or ill. Nick’s demand is that we should be ashamed, it feels almost like religious fanaticism – we must stand in white at each corner of the churchyard to be whipped for our sins before we can deserve to make society better.These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. His Grace – genial, generous, green-minded – will enjoy Hayes’s account of slipping into the 11,000-acre estate around Boughton House in Northants (the “English Versailles”, and one of the Buccleuch seats) only to be scolded for his intrusion by both male (menacing) and female (polite) guardians in “a caricature of gendered debate”.