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Hairyloon

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Posted: Tue May 06, 14 11:57 am Post subject:
It was on Countryfile this week. As the chap selling it said: what's it matter who owns it? We've all still got the right to climb all over it. If it is important who owns it, then maybe crowdsource the money?

wellington womble

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Posted: Wed May 07, 14 6:15 pm Post subject:
That's a nice idea. Bit of a big fundraising effort, though.

Rob R

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Posted: Wed May 07, 14 6:37 pm Post subject:
Good on the chap selling it, not the usual aristo/money story.

Nick

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Posted: Fri May 09, 14 4:04 pm Post subject:
I hear the locals are clubbing together to buy it, to stop a Russian oligarch from doing so.

Hairyloon

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Posted: Fri May 09, 14 5:34 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

I hear the locals are clubbing together to buy it, to stop a Russian oligarch from doing so.

Good luck to them. How wide are they casting "local"?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Posted: Fri May 09, 14 5:43 pm Post subject:
No idea, was just chatter on 6music as I drove home. Not sure how much it matters, as you can walk on it, whoever owns it.

Nick

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Posted: Fri May 23, 14 8:08 pm Post subject:
To be honest, mountains are last week. Villages. On the other hand... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-27521470

Hairyloon

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Posted: Fri May 23, 14 8:59 pm Post subject:
Sounds like a bargain.

Nick

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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 14 6:05 pm Post subject:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-28164745 Sold, not to the locals.

Rob R

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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 14 6:17 pm Post subject:
I wonder why this got such high community backing and Flixton Island has had virtually none at a quarter of the price. It's much more useful than a mountain.

Hairyloon

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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 14 7:04 pm Post subject:
Maybe just a better organised community.

Rob R

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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 14 7:40 pm Post subject:
Or perhaps mountains are more evocative than flat marshy bits of ground.

Nick

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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 14 8:46 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Maybe just a better organised community.

Yorkshire folk talk the talk, but won't come up with the cash, whilst Cumbrians just get on and get the job done?

Hairyloon

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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 14 9:14 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Hairyloon wrote:

Maybe just a better organised community.

Yorkshire folk talk the talk, but won't come up with the cash, whilst Cumbrians just get on and get the job done?

You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment.

Hairyloon

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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Fri Jul 04, 14 9:15 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Hairyloon wrote:

Maybe just a better organised community.

Yorkshire folk talk the talk, but won't come up with the cash, whilst Cumbrians just get on and get the job done?

You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment.

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