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| Big Blackley looking towards Blackley Lane | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| field entrance from the road |
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The bridleway from Great Forest leads into Big Blackley
field and out onto Blackley Lane (which was sometimes known as Dragon Lane in the past). It’s a sad fact that rural crime is on the
increase; all field entrances on roads are now blocked by bollards such as these or
by padlocked gates and large pieces of farm machinery to stop people driving onto the
fields to dump unwanted vehicles, joy ride across the crop, set up illegal camps or to break into buildings and farmyards to steal.
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| public footpath signs |
Big Blackley field borders
Blackley Lane up to Gypsy Corner where people park in the gateway to canoodle, flytip (builders' rubble, garden rubbish, house rubbish ...), partake in illegal substances, let their dogs out or just sit in their cars in the sunshine while they eat their lunch and enjoy the countryside. But when you've dodged the rubbish, skirted around the piece of farm machinery (see above) and stepped carefully through the dog mess you have a choice of footpaths to follow.
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| footpath between the two Blackley fields |
One footpath heads off towards Willows Green and the other cuts down between the two fields, with Far Blackley on the left and Big Blackley on the right, heading towards Gardeners Field.
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| behind the trees |
Halfway down the footpath a little copse of
trees hides a dark pond that is beginning to dry out.
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| blossom |
The blackthorn hedges around the field are covered in blossom this month and we're hoping they'll have a good crop of sloes this autumn.
