* In the long run, though, the conservationists lost the war, for in the 1990s the M3 was extended through Twyford Down.

* Stephen Poliakoff’s play Strawberry Fields (1977), for example, features a far-right group called the English People’s Party, violently opposed to immigration and pollution, and obsessed with the rape of the countryside and blight of the motor car; one character calls it a ‘sort of conservation wing of the National Front’.