It looks the same all over, but because of what Ashbrook described as “botanical issues of great detail,” only one side qualified as access land, open for rambling.
To Hayes, it seemed as if all these technicalities undercut the rights that the CROW Act was supposed to enshrine.
In Sweden, the tourism board developed an ad campaign around the allure of what the country calls allemansrätten, or everyman’s right.
“It’s a right protected by the law that allows me to sleep and eat and walk pretty much wherever I want,” the voice-over explains.
“Part of that bundle of rights in England for the last several hundred years has been the right to exclude other people from your land,” Shrubsole says.
Persons:
you’ve, Henry II, Ashbrook, Hayes, “ It’s, Guy Shrubsole, Shrubsole, Norman, squires, ” Shrubsole, Duke of Westminster, William the Conqueror, “, ”, that’s
Organizations:
Scottish, ramblers
Locations:
Scotland, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Austria, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, England, Britain, United States