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There is a glacial lake in Shropshire known as Fenemere. Oddly, because when I knew Fenemere it was rented to a carp fishery syndicate, and in the special inner world of carp fishing enthusiasts the names of lakes are usually changed to keep them secret. In 1951 a record-breaking…
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I started posting on Substack a couple of years ago, when the melancholy of lockdown made it impossible for me to distract myself from my growing…
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Herefordshire Planning Committee has to decide whether to approve the erection of another giant Anaerobic Digester in the middle of Herefordshire’s best…
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Eels were once the most widely eaten fish in England, eaten in greater quantities than all the other fresh and sea fish combined. Before the drainage of…
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I have swum and rowed and fished and frolicked in and around the River Wye much of my life, the river I loved when I was a boy, where I have rowed boats…
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I had been trying to reach one of the county’s planning officers by telephone, hoping talk would be better than emails, until getting no answer I…
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Farming contributes only 0.6% to the Gross Domestic Product of the UK and involves around 138,000 full-time farmers and around 150,000 part-time…
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Scene One. The Bull.Thanks for reading Countryside Insider! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Landlord is putting another log…
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