BADGER
here ‘In Africa some … walking upright…’: Clive Williams, Basildon, Berkshire, An Illustrated History (self-published), p. 15.
here ‘copses, dells, quarries … for exploration’: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (London: Methuen & Co., 1908), p. 49.
here ‘It seemed … and contentment’: ibid., p. 67.
here ‘The person who casts … are supporting them’: harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Mobilicorpus
here ‘any unjustifiable intrusion … of another’: researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN05116
here ‘create a deterrent … had been committed’: www.gov.uk/government/publications/trespass-on-protected-sites-sections-128-131-of-the-serious-organised-crime-and-police-act-2005
here ‘Here’s the heir apparent’: Jon Ronson, ‘And for your encore, Mr Bin Laden’, Guardian, 26 July 2003.
here ‘any circumstance … injurious consequences’:thelawdictionary.org/aggravation
here ‘There is no requirement … disrupt or deter by intimidating’: www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/trespass-and-nuisance-land
here ‘If the defendant … half a mile on it’: swarb.co.uk/ellis-v-loftus-iron-co-1874
here ‘the danger of mob law … thousands of ramblers’: Manchester Evening Chronicle, April 1932.
here ‘land remained the index … power was erected’: E. P. Thompson, Customs in Common: Studies in Popular Culture (New York: The New Press, 1992), p. 16.
FOX
here ‘wild and uninhabited … the beach’: PIERSON v. POST, Supreme Court of Judicature of New York, 3 Cai. R. 175; 1805 N.Y. LEXIS 311, sites.oxy.edu/whitney/xaccess/ec357/cases/property/pierson_v_post.htm
here ‘it is either so simple … as to defy definition’: legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/ownerships
here ‘there is no word … than possession’: National Safe Deposit Co. v. Stead, 232 U.S. 58, 34 S. Ct. 209, 58 L. Ed. 504 [1914].
here ‘No fences parted fields … But all was common’: Virgil, The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Aeneis, Volume 3, trans. John Dryden (London: J. Tonsen, 1721), p. 219.
here ‘Remus … “So shall it be henceforth with every one who leaps over my walls.”’: Livy, Praefatio, Book 1, Ch. 7, online at Latin Texts and Translations, Perseus under PhiloLogic, perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=PerseusLatinTexts&query=Liv.%201.7.5&getid=1
here today there are over … younger riders: www.tatler.com/gallery/british-hunting-life-uk
here ‘the perfect Science of Lines … his owne’: John Dee, The Mathematical Preface to Elements of Geometry of Euclid of Megara, www.gutenberg.org/files/22062/22062-h/main.html
here ‘this fellow might be … full of fine dirt?’: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, V.i.102–6, shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/full.html
here ‘I think the gentleman … Men’s Consciences’: Proceedings in the Commons, 1601: December 7th, www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/parliament-proceedings-eliz1/pp288-310
here ‘God hath not sette you … not theye necessaries’: Andrew McRae, God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500–1660 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 147.
here ‘Mending Wall’: Robert Frost, ‘Mending Wall’, North of Boston (David Nutt, 1914), p. 11.
here ‘ownership anxiety’ … ‘first possession’: Carol M. Rose. ‘Canons of Property Talk, or, Blackstone’s Anxiety’, The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 108 (1998), digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7977&context=ylj, p. 605.
here ‘property (dominium) … properly his own’: Hugo Grotius, The Rights of War and Peace, (Liberty Fund, 2005), files.libertyfund.org/files/1425/1032-01_LFeBk.pdf, p. 154.
here the first person … claim it as their own: Samuel von Pufendorf, On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to the Natural Law (1673; Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 90.
here ‘Though the earth … thereby makes it his property’: John Locke, The Second Treatise on Civil Government (1689), online at Norton publisher’s archive, wwnorton.com/college/history/archive/resources/documents/ch04_03.htm
here An infamous YouTube video … to assert authority: Goddess of Oddness, ‘Middleton’s George Winn-Darley seems upset’, 29 Jan 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=RApPTurIMBM ; see also www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5144495/Clash-landowner-hunt-saboteurs.html
here ‘The right to destroy … in international law’: John G. Sprankling, ‘The Right to Destroy’, The International Law of Property (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) p. 293.
here ‘In mad fury I descended … this fair people’: Ordericus Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, archive.org/details/ecclesiasticalhi03orde/page/n8/mode/2up
here ‘They have become … as owners of their own land’: John Berger, Ways of Seeing (London: BBC, 1972) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7wi8jd7aC4
here ‘Members of the public’ … ‘It is not for me to express an opinion’: Richard Alleyne, ‘David Cameron’s hunt convicted as judge questions RSPCA’s prosecution costs’, Daily Telegraph, 17 December 2012.
here ‘These people are vigilantes … tin of beans’: ibid.
here ‘Since property was a thing … the ownership of things’: E. P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act (London: Breviary Stuff Publications, 1975), p. 195.
here ‘open country, untenanted land’: OED.
here ‘The only question … from the use of it’: William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1770), files.libertyfund.org/files/2140/Blackstone_1387-01_EBk_v6.0.pdf, p. 308.
here ‘Gainsborough’s painting … of the English countryside’: Olivia Rudgard, ‘Famous view in “Mr and Mrs Andrews” under threat as council plans bypass through Gainsborough countryside’, Daily Telegraph, 10 March 2018.
here ‘Law is not so … the real world’: Clifford Geertz, Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology (New York: Basic Books, 1983), p. 173.
DOG
here ‘We talked about … fire sites, drink cans etc’: Roger Deakin, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm (London: Penguin Books, 2008), p. 247.
here ‘the myth of a barbaric, immoral and outlaw class … working class life’: Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), p. 275.
here ‘MIGHTY oaks from little acorns grow … living tree in East Anglia’: Russell Claydon, ‘Oak Tree Largest Recorded In Region’, East Anglian Daily Times, 3 March 2010.
here ‘by the mid-1500s … in which they had no part’: Gill Barron, ‘Tinker, Vagabond, Journeyman, Tramp’, www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/tinker-vagabond-journeyman-tramp
here ‘children of Belial … without minister’: John Gore, The Poor Man’s Hope (Thomas Alchorne, London, 1635), p. 22.
here ‘these coney-catchers [rabbit hunters]… state of England’: Robert Greene, ‘The Second Part of Cony-Catching’ in The Complete Cony-catching (1592), online at Wattpad.com, www.wattpad.com/411154761-the-complete-cony-catching-by-robert-greene-the
here ‘degrees of superiority and inferiority in our society’: Thomas Dekker, The Bellman of London (1608).
here ‘a country that hath yet her maidenhead’: Sir Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of Guiana. (1848; Project Gutenberg, 2006), www.gutenberg.org/files/2272/2272-h/2272-h.htm
here sentenced to ten years … another landlord tycoon: Lynn Barber, ‘Nasty Nick’, Observer, 15 January 2006.
here When they were alive … ‘Lowlife. Drug dealers, drug takers and queers. Scum’: ‘An Emissary of Beelzebub’, Evening Standard, 22 July 2002; Robert Verkaik, ‘Van Hoogstraten hired “dangerous thugs” to kill business rival, judge rules’, Independent, 20 December 2005; David Millward, ‘“Emissary of Beelzebub” who revels in his own notoriety’, Daily Telegraph, 20 December 2005.
here ‘the scum of the earth’: ‘UK Ramblers “Scum of the Earth”’, news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/233644.stm
here ‘Let them waste their time and money,’ … ‘in your garden?’: Cole Moreton, ‘£200m thug tramples on footpath law’, Independent on Sunday, 20 August 2002.
here ‘Herberts wasn’t actually my word … I said perverts, the dirty mac brigade’: ‘Even Nastier Nick’, Guardian, 8 September 2000.
here In 2014, three men … in north London: Amelia Gentleman, ‘Three charged with stealing food from skip behind Iceland supermarket’, Guardian, 2 January 2014.
here A year later … asked for a quid: Cahal Milmo, ‘Sussex Police “criminalising rough sleepers by using plain clothes officers to catch people begging”’, Independent, 8 February 2016.
here ‘We are all incandescent with rage because of that tweet’: Izzy Lyons, ‘Surrey Police under fire for tweet sympathising with “uprooted” travellers’, Daily Telegraph, 9 August 2018.
here ‘The council also … their stay’: Christopher Hope and Izzy Lyons, ‘Make trespassing a criminal offence to stop travellers moving onto private land, demand backbenchers’, Daily Telegraph, 12 August 2018.
here ‘They are a great nuisance to everybody’: Katherine Quarmby, No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travellers (London: Oneworld Publications, 2013), p. 33.
here ‘although nobody so far … to a lingering death?’: Raymond Wills, Where the River Bends (Lulu.com), p. 168.
here ‘It is hard to believe … a few decades later’: ibid., p. 172.
here ‘combines nationality … dress or eating’: unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sconcerns/popchar/popcharmethods.htm
here ‘an aboriginal droveway … cleared for agriculture’: Richard Mabey, Nature Cure (London: Chatto & Windus, 2005), p. 101.
here ‘Nightingales no longer nest … no birds sing’: Diss Express, 16 February 1981.
here ‘The forest came to be known … and the ash have sprung back’: Richard Mabey, The Common Ground (London: Hutchinson, 1980), p. 60.
SHEEP
here ‘You do realise this is private property?’: Roger Deakin, Waterlog (London: Chatto & Windus, 1999), p. 30.
here ‘I got changed as languidly … mean anything to you?’: ibid., p. 31.
here ‘I say “rights” to point up … or to swim in the sea’: ibid., p. 33.
here ‘He does have an extremely … a bloody chance’: Cole Morton, ‘£200m thug tramples on footpath law’, Independent, 20 August 2000.
here ‘This makes me feel like a schoolboy and want to break bounds’: Roger Deakin, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2008), p. 223.
here ‘Sleeping one time in Burgate Wood … How deep do roots go?’: Roger Deakin, Wildwood (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2007), p. 12.
here ‘When you’ve seen one wall, you’ve seen them all’: holmleighnyd, ‘West Bromwich Albion in China 1978’, March 2011, www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCvLrMQHLJ8
here ‘these walls look less … lucrative trade routes’: Julia Lovell, The Great Wall: China Against the World, 1000 BC–AD 2000 (London: Atlantic Books, 2007), p. 21.
here ‘I will build a great wall … Mark my words’: Here’s Donald Trump’s Presidential Announcement Speech, time.com/3923128/donald-trump-announcement-speech
here A study published in 2005: C. C. Carbon and H. Leder, ‘The wall inside the brain: overestimation of distances crossing the former Iron Curtain’, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12:4 (August 2005).
here ‘half the value of the whole land’: quoted in M. Postan, Mediaeval Trade and Finance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 342.
here ‘unifying the identity of the believers and dividing them from the non-believers’: Thomas Nail, Theory of the Border (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), p. 60.
here ‘heretics, sceptics … of all kinds’: Richard Rex, The Lollards (Macmillan International Higher Education, May 2002), p. xiii.
here ‘They burnt his bones … dispersed the world over’: quoted in Brian Moynahan, The Book of Fire (London: Little, Brown, 2002), p. 494.
here ‘to honour and obey … all my betters’: Alexander Nowell, A Catechism, trans. by Thomas Norton (Cambridge University Press, 1853), archive.org/details/catechismwritten00noweuoft/page/n9/mode/2up, p. 130.
here ‘all were admonished to obedience … of god’: ibid.
here At the time … by the rude oiks of the land: The Venerable Bede had begun a translation of the scripture in Old English in the seventh century and Aldhelm had translated the Book of Psalms. The Lindisfarne Gospels were a translation of the Gospels into Old English, as were the Wessex Gospels in 990.
here ‘Ye ploughman should plow … material things from you’: 1 Corinthians 9:11.
here The line of Moses’ legislation … ‘You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out grain’: Deuteronomy 25:4.
here ‘Tyndale did euyll in translatynge … and cheyte in to loue’: quoted in Brian Moynahan, The Book of Fire (London: Little, Brown, 2002), p.105. In modern English: ‘Tyndale did evil in translating the scripture into our tongue … he regularly changed the word church into the word congregation and the word priest into elder, and charity into love.’
here ‘I will put my laws in their hearts; I shall inscribe them on their minds’: Hebrews 8:10, 10:16.
here ‘You take with you a little … the fact of private property’: Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping (Robert & Co. Ltd, 1927), p. 51.
here ‘Not to swear, nor to offer violence … fair works’: Roger B. Manning, Village Revolts: Social Protest and Popular Disturbances in England, 1509–1640 (New York: Clarendon Press, 1988), p. 235.
here ‘In an enquiry in the August … had lost their homes’: Steve Hindle, ‘Imagining Insurrection in Seventeenth-Century England: Representations of the Midland Rising of 1607’, History Workshop Journal, No. 66, Autumn 2008.
here ‘most odious figure’: ibid.
here ‘the depopulation and the daily excessive conversion of tillage to pasture’: ibid.
here ‘Sr Anth. Mildmaay … a very great number hurt’: Edwin F. Gay, The Midland Revolt and the Inquisitions of Depopulation of 1607 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), p. 216.
here ‘The long wall … the moon shines for no one’: quoted by Julia Lovell in The Great Wall (London: Atlantic Books, 2007), p. 155.
here ‘between 1725 and 1825 … late eighteenth century’s crisis of poverty’: Peter Linebaugh, Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance (Sunderland: PM Press, 2013).
here ‘This proposal is … glad to embrace it’: B. Bellamy, Geddington Chase: The History of a Wood (Irthlingborough, 1986), p. 46.
here ‘The first person … true founder of civil society’: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Origin of the Inequality of Mankind (1754; Project Gutenberg, 2004), www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11136/pg11136-images.html
here ‘what people cannot be … overwhelming evidence’: Moti Nissani, ‘A cognitive reinterpretation of Stanley Milgram’s observations on obedience to authority’, American Psychologist, 45:12, (1990), pp. 1384–1385.
COW
here ‘During my four years … a Dorset landmark’: Richard Drax, ‘The Wall’, 9 July 2010, www.richarddrax.com/news/wall
here We are at the … 14,000-acre estate: whoownsengland.org/2020/01/04/the-ten-landowners-who-own-one-sixth-of-dorset
here ‘Here then is the origin … consequence of slavery’: Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), p. 19. Copyright © 1944 by the University of North Carolina Press, renewed 1972 by Eric Williams. New introduction by Colin A. Palmer © 1994 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.org
here ‘The air of England … breathes it’: Somerset v Stewart (1772).
here ‘Racial differences … slave labour possible’: Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), p. 19.
here ‘But all our phrasing … cracks bones, breaks teeth’: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (London: Spiegel & Grau, 2015), p. 10.
here The Act didn’t work … and 1692: J. Handler, ‘Slave revolts and conspiracies in seventeenth-century Barbados’, jeromehandler.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Revolts-82.pdf, pp. 20-28.
here ‘a desert of magnificence … his getting rid of it’: William Hazlitt, Sketches of the Picture Galleries of England (London: Templeman, 1824), p. 284.
here ‘will not waste a moment … all property whatsoever’: quoted in Nicholas Draper, The Price of Emancipation, Slave Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), p. 79.
here ‘If confiscation is to be … as that of the West Indies?’: ibid., p. 80.
here ‘Without connections, without any natural interest in the soil, the importers of foreign gold have forced their way into parliament by such a torrent of corruption as no private hereditary fortune can resist’: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, The State of the Nation (speech to the House of Lords, 1770), en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_State_of_the_Nation
here ‘An opulent city lay at my mercy … stand astonished at my own moderation!’: Michael Edwardes, The Nabobs at Home (London: Constable, 1991), p. 59.
here ‘conscious and deliberate bleeding of India’: Will Durant, The Case for India (London: Simon & Schuster, 1930), online at www.vifindia.org/sites/default/files/139221701-The-Case-for-India-1930.pdf, p. x.
here ‘whether it should go into a black man’s pocket or my own’: Michael Edwardes, The Nabobs at Home (London: Constable, 1991), p. 37.
here ‘cruelties unheard of … haughtiness and insolence’: Edmund Burke, opening speech of impeachment of Warren Hastings, quoted in Shashi Tharoor, Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (London: Penguin, 2018) p. 15.
here ‘Posterity looking back … to this country’: The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Volume 29 (London: Hansard, 1806), p. 278.
here ‘it’s been much more … history of slavery’: www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs
here ‘You can see their eyes … no longer hear us’: Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (London: Bloomsbury Circus, 2017) p. ix.
here ‘A false conceit of Interest … than Rocks of Adament’: Thomas Tryon, ‘Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies in three parts’ (1684), quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A63791.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext, p. 77.
here ‘So I don’t think … apologise for’: Nicholas Watt, ‘David Cameron defends lack of apology for British massacre at Amritsar’, Guardian, 20 February 2013.
here ‘I can’t be held responsible … and I ignore it’: Adrianne Maslen, ‘Election 2010: Drax hits backs at slave “smear”’, Daily Echo, 6 May 2010.
here ‘A lot of people think … you must have been asleep’: Rants’n’Bants, ‘Talk About Racism!!’, www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLOCaSuyP5U&t=143s
here ‘the Select Committee … for other expenses’: William Cobbett, Parliamentary History of England from the earliest period to the year 1803 (London: Hansard, 1813), p. 655.
here ‘modern invention … the new idea … believe they are white’: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (London: Spiegel & Grau, 2015), p. 7.
here ‘WE the immigrants … your conscience is not clean’: Joshua Idahen and Sons of Kemet, ‘Sons of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile’, www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEpziXD-SDk
here ‘should be content … rather than the cash’: Shashi Tharoor, Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (London: C. Hurst, 2017), p. xx.
here ‘we just don’t have ethnic … We’re the last bastion of Englishness and I want to keep it that way’: Anita Singh, ‘Midsomer Murders creator suspended after calling show “the last bastion of Englishness”’, Daily Telegraph, 14 March 2011.
here ‘were often treated with suspicion … for some, multiculturalism’: Neil Chakraborti and Jon Garland, ‘It’s the Outdated Notion of the Countryside Preserved in the Fictional Midsomer that should be murdered’, Leicester Exchanges, leicesterexchanges.com/2011/04/06/it%e2%80%99s-the-outdated-notion-of-the-countryside-preserved-in-the-fictional-midsomer
here ‘It was an African … in nature. We are here!’: Black Men Walking (London: Oberon Books, 2018), p. 72.
SPIDER
here ‘be very justly divided among his wife and children’: Law Codes of Cnut (1020), Early English Laws, earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk/laws/texts/cn-1018/view/#edition/translation
here By marriage, the husband and … she performs every thing’: William Blackstone, Commentaries of the Laws of England (1765–1770), Online Library of Liberty, oll.libertyfund.org/titles/blackstone-commentaries-on-the-laws-of-england-in-four-books-vol-1, p. 443.
here ‘Our English housewife must be … but not bitter or talkative’: Gervase Markham, The English Hus-wife, ed. by Michael R. Best (1661; McGill-Queen’s Press, 1994), p. 8.
here ‘cow … that goes to bull every moon, with what bull she cares not’: Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors (1566; Project Gutenberg, 2012), www.gutenberg.org/files/38850/38850-h/38850-h.htm, p. 67.
here ‘The midwife and the nurse well made away, / Then let the ladies tattle what they please’: William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, IV. ii, shakespeare.mit.edu/titus/full.html
here ‘the superior learning of witches … deadliest blows at her’: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Women, Church and State, (1893; Project Gutenberg, 2014), www.gutenberg.org/files/45580/45580-h/45580-h.htm, p. 105.
here ‘The witch hunt … and energy away from work’: Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch (New York: Autonomedia, 2017), p. 194.
here ‘These decrees … power and wealth’: Plutarch, Life of Solon, classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/solon.html
here ‘on the ground … was a trespasser’: Harrison v Duke of Rutland: CA 1893.
here ‘Many of the poorer parishioners … eye to overlook them’: John Graunt, Natural and Political Observations (1662), p. 383, en.wikisource.org/wiki/Natural_and_Political_Observations_Made_upon_the_Bills_of_Mortality_(Graunt_1676)/Chapter_10
here ‘Burn me the same way / into the square, and spoke’: Claire Askew, How To Burn A Woman, not yet published.
here ‘a monstrous malicious woman … a plaine atheist’: Sarah F. Williams, Damnable Practices: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), p. 9.
here ‘The closed incestuous … and central government’: Tracey Borman, Witches: A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction (London: Jonathan Cape, 2013), p. 145.
here Across Europe … (in Iceland, it was 92 per cent): Rolf Schulte, Man As Witch: Male Witches in Central Europe (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 70-73.
here ‘The building itself … breath away’: BBC Two documentary: The Last Dukes, October 2015.
here ‘All they asked about … all that carbon monoxide’: Barbara Harford and Sarah Hopkins, eds, Greenham Common: Women at the Wire (London: The Women’s Press: 1984), p. 3.
here ‘As far as I’m concerned’ … ‘as long as you like’: ibid., p. 17.
here ‘Since 2010 … events & activists’: www.diggersanddreamers.org.uk/communities/existing/grow-heathrow
here ‘Our living room … the communal bedroom’: Barbara Harford and Sarah Hopkins, eds, Greenham Common: Women at the Wire (London: The Women’s Press, 1984), p. 78.
here ‘The media have quite … without the other’: ibid., p. 4.
here ‘It is part of the accepted lie … a sort of liberal pastime’: ibid., p. 39.
here ‘The fragile docile image of our sex must die / And we don’t give a damn’: ‘Songs from the Peace Camp’, Guardian, 05 September 2006.
here ‘a type of secular magic’: Tim Cresswell, In Place/Out of Place: Geography, Ideology, and Transgression (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), p. 124.
here ‘Taking down the fence … privilege and deprivation’: Barbara Harford and Sarah Hopkins, eds, Greenham Common: Women at the Wire (London: The Women’s Press, 1984), p. 159.
here ‘An analysis of the media … environment of the camp’: Tim Cresswell, In Place/Out of Place: Geography, Ideology, and Transgression (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), p. 104.
here ‘fish paste and bad oysters’: Peter Stallybrass and Allon White, The Politics and Poetics of Transgression (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986), p. 23.
here ‘being ordered … calculatingly stink’: Daily Mail, 14 November 1983, quoted in Tim Cresswell, In Place/Out of Place: Geography, Ideology, and Transgression (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), p. 107.
here ‘Dirt is matter out of place’: Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (London: Routledge, 1966), p. 36.
here ‘their role is to create … still more illusory’: Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces (1967), foucault.info/documents/heterotopia/foucault.heteroTopia.en
here ‘There’s an almost tangible feeling of doom and desolation. People have given up and moved away’: Conal Urqhart, ‘Village that defied Heathrow is slowly dying as BAA buys up homes’, Guardian, 16 June 2012.
here ‘Previous attempts … land a trespasser’: Observer, 25 February 1983, quoted in Sarah Hipperson, Greenham: Non-violent Women v. The Crown Prerogative (Greenham Publications, 2005), p. 136.
here ‘In court,’ said the longest resident … ‘we had to be listened to’: Barbara Harford and Sarah Hopkins, eds, Greenham Common: Women at the Wire (London: The Women’s Press, 1984), p. 142.
here ‘Greenham was powerful … world of unstoppable women’: Suzanne Moore, ‘How the Greenham Common protest changed lives: “We danced on top of the nuclear silos”’, Guardian, 20 March 2017.
here ‘They are free to express … business decision’: Nadia Khomami, ‘BP to end Tate sponsorship after 26 years’, Guardian, 11 March 2016.
here ‘the women never … to the inevitable’: Tim Cresswell, In Place/Out of Place, Geography, Ideology, and Transgression (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), p. 118.
here ‘while no doubt Grow Heathrow … trespassing on the land’: Andy Dangerfield, ‘Grow Heathrow: Green-fingered squatters’ eviction fight’, BBC News, June 2012.
PHEASANT
here ‘As Julian Fellowes has said … hangs over one a bit’: Secrets of Highclere Castle, Netflix, 2013.
here ‘They turn up here … real Earl and Countess’: ibid.
here ‘we are whisked into a world … the done thing’: David Kemp, Vanity Fair, December 2012.
here ‘It is a likely speculation … phonetic proximity to cunt’: Geoffrey Hughes, An Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in the English-Speaking World (New York and London: M.E Sharpe, 2006), p. 111.
here ‘the prettiest park … to hold half a village’: William Cobbett, Rural Rides (1822; Project Gutenberg, 2010), www.gutenberg.org/files/34238/34238-h/34238-h.htm, p. 9.
here ‘He willingly imposes duties … those who will come after him’: Viscount de Toqueville, quoted in Peregrine Worsthorne, Democracy Needs Aristocracy (London: Harper Perennial, 2010), p. 47.
here ‘Most certainly … did it pass that test?’: ibid., p. 24.
here ‘They went on being taught … marrow of their bones’: ibid.
here ‘I love that faith … shine in that way’: Raymond Zhong, ‘The Anti-Snobbery of Downton Abbey’, Wall Street Journal, February 2013.
here ‘The gentry in many … to be founded’: Harry Hopkins, The Long Affray (London: Papermac, 1986), p. 71.
here ‘To be bred in a place of estimation … without which there is no nation’: Edmund Burke, Letter From The New To The Old Whigs (1791), socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/burke/Works04.pdf, p. 121.
here ‘Those who share the aristocratic empty … rewards fecklessness and irresponsibility’: Lord Carey, ‘My fellow bishops are wrong. Fuelling the culture of welfare dependency is immoral’, Daily Mail, January 2012.
here ‘So long as they may be … to no kind of labour’: Elizabethan surveyor, quoted in H. P. R. Finberg and Joan Thirsk, eds, The Agrarian History of England and Wales (London: Cambridge University Press, 1967), p. xxxv.
here ‘Instead of bearing the burthen … have laid it on the people’: John Wade, The Black Book, Or, Corruption Unmasked (1788; The Lawbook Exchange, 2004), p. 257.
here ‘Brown’s early work … the touch of reality’: John Phibbs, Place-making: The Art of Capability Brown (English Heritage, 2017), p. 57.
here The twenty-four … acres between them: Guy Shrubsole, Who Owns England blog, May 2017, whoownsengland.org/2017/05/08/the-dukes-their-tax-breaks-an-8million-annual-subsidy
here ‘After being brutally evicted … several times over’: George Monbiot, ‘Farming subsidies: this is the most blatant transfer of cash to the rich’, Guardian, 2 July 2013.
here ‘the English gentleman … the soul of the people’: Dr Dibelius, quoted in Peregrine Worsthorne, Democracy Needs Aristocracy (London: Harper Perennial, 2010), p. 82.
here this accounted for … in private hands: J. M. Neeson, Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700–1820 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 17.
here ‘use in competitions … or activities’: ‘Gamebirds and welfare’, Veterinary Record, 166: 376, veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/166/13/376
here ‘In the UK … out of the atmosphere’: Jeremy Hance, ‘Ultimate Bogs: how saving peatlands could help save the planet’, Guardian, 28 July 2017.
here ‘Suggestions of readdressing … environmental benefits!!’: Mark Avery, Inglorious (London: Bloomsbury Natural History, 2015) , p. 154..
here ‘the only unsubsidised upland land use on offer’: Jonathan Young, ‘Marshalls of the Moor’, Daily Telegraph, 11 August 2007.
here ‘It’s all dependent on the moors’ … ‘the moorlands alive’: ibid.
here ‘fully engaged with … North of England is limited’: ‘Briefing note: Grouse Moors and Flooding’, Moorland Association, www.moorlandassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Briefing-Note-Grouse-Moors-and-Flooding1.pdf, p. 3.
here A 2016 study: Nick Odoni, ‘A modelling study and investigation into how annual burning on the Walshaw Moor estate may affect high river flows in Hebden Bridge’.
here found a direct correlation between … down in Hebden: ibid.
here ‘We are not selling up to some rich man’: Gordan Rayner, ‘Highclere Castle is not for sale, Earl tells Lord Lloyd-Webber’, Daily Telegraph, 13 July 2010.
here ‘classes never actually … universe to themselves’: David Cannadine, Class in Britain (London: Penguin Books, 2000), p. 11.
here ‘The corporation’s legally … cause to others’: Joel Bakan, Corporation (Robinson Publishing, 2005), p. 1.
here ‘The point is, have we overlooked something, some source of revenue, previously untapped … if only we had some coal, or gravel, or tin!’: ITV, Downton Abbey, Season 3, Episode 2.
here Since 1995 … 50 per cent of the wealth of the UK: ‘The Invisible Land, The hidden force driving the UK’s unequal economy and broken housing market’ (August 2018), www.ippr.org/files/2018-08/cej-land-tax-august18.pdf, p. 9.
COCKROACH
here ‘throwing cans of Castlemaine in an Aussie version of sharia stoning’: Katie Hopkins, ‘Rescue Boats? I’d use Gunships to Stop Migrants’, Sun, 17 April 2015.
here ‘poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication’: Jasper Jackson, ‘Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as “unreliable”’, Guardian, 8 February 2017.
here ‘Dull doesn’t sell newspapers. Boring doesn’t pay the mortgage’: Alex Morrison, ‘Profile: Paul Dacre, Daily Mail editor’, BBC News, 2 October 2013.
here ‘the idea of the self-made man: it had worked, I’d got there’: Paul Dacre on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, 30 January 2004.
here ‘The “Swarm” On Our Streets’: Claire Ellicott and Stephen Wright, Daily Mail, 30 July 2015; see www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2017/04/03/call-out-daily-mail-s-hypocrisy-over-asylum-seeker-attack
here ‘millions of Africans with the economic motivation to try to get to Europe’: Francis Perraudin, ‘“Marauding” migrants threaten standard of living, says foreign secretary’, Guardian, 10 August 2015.
here ‘However, I will waste as many gooks … turns out to be a very necessary tool’: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, The Vietnam War (Florentine Films, 2017).
here ‘Nouns convey greater permanence … certainty, and predictability’: Aleksandra Cichocka, Michał Bilewicz, John T. Jost, Natasza Marrouch and Marta Witkowska, ‘On the Grammar of Politics, or Why Conservatives Prefer Nouns’, Political Psychology, January 2016.
here ‘Indifference to objective truth … what is actually happening’: George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism (London: Penguin, 2018), p. 16.
here This fence cost the British taxpayer £2.3 million: Matt Broomfield, ‘Calais Jungle wall is completed two months after all the refugees were driven out’, Independent, 13 December 2016.
here just a fraction of the £316 million: ‘How much is the UK spending on security at Calais?’, 19 January 2018, fullfact.org/immigration/uk-spending-security-calais
here ‘The factors that led … as sovereign territories’: Reece Jones, Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move (London: Verso, 2016), p. 90.
here ‘Qualitative data suggests … gas by local police’: Surindar Dhesi, Arshad Isakjee and Thom Davies, ‘An Environmental Health Assessment of the New Migrant Camp in Calais’, (University of Birmingham, 2015), p. 24.
here ‘some nationalists are not far from schizophrenia, living quite happily amid dreams of power and conquest which have no connection with the physical world’: George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism (London: Penguin, 2018), p. 17.
here ‘because Britain has got jobs, it’s got a growing economy it’s an incredible place to live’: ‘David Cameron criticised over migrant “swarm” language’, BBC News, www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33716501, 30 July 2015.
here ‘borders are the worst invention ever made by politicians’: David Hughes and Kate Ferguson, ‘National borders are “the worst invention ever”, says EC chief Jean-Claude Juncker’, Independent, 22 August 2016.
here ‘The newspaper reader … hallmark of modern nations’: Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 2006), p. 36.
here ‘It would not be impossible … clothe ideas and disguise’: The Goebbels Diaries, 1939–1941 trans. by Fred Taylor (New York: Putnam Publishing Group, 1983) quoted in Garth Jowett and Victoria O’Donnell, Propaganda and Persuasion (SAGE, 2006), p. 230.
here ‘these small works … women accused of witchcraft’: Tracey Borman, Witches: A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction (London: Jonathan Cape, 2013), p. 205.
here A report from the EU policy lab … migration into Europe: ‘The Future of Migration in the European Union’, EU Policy Lab, 2018, publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC111774/kjnd29060enn.pdf, p. 20.
here ‘I believe, as do many of my constituents, that this country is full’: ‘MP Richard Drax gives warning on immigration’, Daily Echo, 11 September 2012.
here In England there are 216,000 empty houses: Julia Kollewe, ‘Number of empty homes in England rises to more than 216,000’, Guardian, 11 March 2019.
here Instead, 57 per cent … poorest third of the country: Kaye Lyons and Pamela Duncan, ‘“It’s a shambles”: data shows most asylum seekers put in poorest parts of Britain’, Guardian, 9 April 2017.
here ‘ants, scurrying …in July and August’: Michael Dower, Fourth Wave: the Challenge of Leisure: A Civic Trust Survey (Civic Trust, 1965), quoted in Marion Shoard, Theft of the Countryside (Maurice temple Smith, London, 1980), p. 196.
here Its owner, Viscount Rothermere, is himself a migrant … non-domicile: David Leigh, ‘A who’s who of Britain’s legal offshore tax avoidance’, Guardian, 10 July, 2014. Note: France automatically became the domicile of Viscount Rothermere when he was born because of his father’s resident status.
here according to Private Eye, … Bermuda: ‘Selling England by the offshore pound’, Private Eye, 2016, online at www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/tax-havens.pdf, p. 9.
here Similarly, Paul Dacre … received a minimum of £460,000 of CAP payments: Calculated to 2016 exchange rate. See Kevin Rawlinson and Jasper Jackson, ‘Daily Mail editor received £88,000 in EU subsidies in 2014’, Guardian, 30 March 2016.
here Per year, that’s the same as the maximum limit of welfare for four households in Britain: see www.gov.uk/benefit-cap
here In the three months … rose by 147 per cent: Mark Townsend, ‘Homophobic attacks in UK rose 147% in three months after Brexit vote’, Guardian, 8 October 2016.
here ‘the genius of monarchy … Theirs, yours, ours’: Nigel Farndale, ‘A nation united as one family’, Daily Telegraph, 10 June 2012.
HARE
here ‘[Social] space is a [social] product … a means of control, and hence of domination, of power’: Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space (Oxford, UK, and Cambridge, USA: Blackwell, 1974), p. 26.
here ‘spatial politics’… ‘central theme of modernity’: Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias, trans. by Jay Miskowiec (1967), web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/foucault1.pdf
here the hare is almost always described by reference to what it is not: George Ewart Evans, The Leaping Hare (London: Faber & Faber, 2002), p. 205.
here ‘The grip of the land … or greedy money-bag’: William Morris, Justice (1884), online at www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1884/justice/07geo.htm
here ‘But to me it brings … frantic striving with it’: Octavia Hill, Space for the People, Homes of the London Poor (London: Macmillan, 1883), infed.org/mobi/space-for-the-people.
here ‘unenclosed and unbuilt … of the people’: Epping Forest Act 1878.
here release chemicals called phytoncides which boost the immune system for up to thirty days after immersion: Margaret M. Hansen, Reo Jones and Kirsten Tocchini, ‘Shinrin-Yoku (Forest Bathing) and Nature Therapy: A State-of-the-Art Review’, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5580555/
here ‘radical openness … all oppressively Othering categories’: Edward Soja, Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-imagined Places (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 1996), p. 84.
here Yearning: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics: bell hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics (Boston: South End Press, 1990), p. 152.
here ‘And all … are brilliantly alive’: William Morris, ‘Under an Elm-Tree, Or, Thoughts in the Country-Side’, Commonweal, Vol. 5, No. 182, 6 July 1889, online at www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1889/commonweal/07-elm-tree.htm
here and now only about 0.5 per cent of its original extent survives: Charles Tyzack, Wychwood and Cornbury (The Wychwood Press, 2003), p. 97.
here the fair ‘shall be DISCONTINUED’: Jackson’s Oxford Journal, September 1830, online at ‘History of the Fair’, The Wychwood Project, www.wychwoodproject.org/cms/content/history-fair
here ‘It is understood that his Lordship … as private property’: ibid.
here The most recent example of … where the public are barred from 90 per cent of woodlands: ‘Oxfordshire’s Trees and Woodland, Today and Tomorrow’, www2.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/sites/default/files/folders/documents/environmentandplanning/countryside/treesandwoodland/forestrystatement.pdf, p. 3.
here ‘wilderness is a ferocious … the volcanic heart of life’: Jay Griffiths, Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time (London: Flamingo, 2000), p. 269.
here ‘Dancing on the Green … to their Superiors’: London Magazine (1738), pp. 139–140, quoted in E. P. Thompson, Customs in Common (Merlin, 1991), p. 47.
here Though entirely fabricated … on new arrivals: Kevin Arscott, ‘Winterval: The unpalatable making of a modern myth’, Guardian, 8 November 2011.
here ‘what the fuck do you think an English forest is for’: Jez Butterworth, Jerusalem (London: Nick Hern Books, July 2009), p. 98.
here ‘A New Generation of Vagabonds’: quoted in Tim Cresswell, In Place/Out of Place, Geography, Ideology, and Transgression (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), p. 62.
here ‘social groups create deviance … rules and sanctions to an offender’: Howard S. Becker, The Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance (Cambridge: The Free Press, 1963), p. 9.
here ‘Complaint of loud music in Tisbury … area checked, private party on private land. No criminal offences:’ Lexi Finnigan, ‘Granddaughter of one of the Mitford sisters causes uproar after 21st party keeps locals awake all night’, Daily Telegraph, 26 September 2016.
here ‘The beauty of the landscape … the most grovelling commercialism’: William Morris, ‘Under an Elm-Tree, Or, Thoughts in the Country-Side’, Commonweal, Vol. 5, No. 182, 6 July 1889, online at www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1889/commonweal/07-elm-tree.htm
TOAD
here ‘It is observable that water … the language of the law’: William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1893; The Online Library of Liberty, 2011), files.libertyfund.org/files/2140/Blackstone_1387-01_EBk_v6.0.pdf, p. 314.
here ‘is most defenatly [sic] NON-NAVIGABLE’: George Monbiot, ‘We have no right to our rivers while Richard Benyon’s interests are served’, Guardian, 4 April 2013.
here In England, if you’re by a river … to be there: www.britishcanoeing.org.uk/go-canoeing/access-and-environment/access-to-water
here ‘The Angling Trust … canoeists have legal access’: ‘Benyon rejects canoeists campaign to paddle over angler’s rights’, Angling Trust, 13 December 2012, www.anglingtrust.net/news.asp?section=29&from=2012/12/01&to=2013/01/01&itemid=1444
here there is no empirical … the passage of canoes’: Dr Keith Hendry and Angus Tree, ‘Effects of canoeing on fish stocks and angling’, Environmental Agency, January 2000, p. 24.
here In the fifty years … financial yield of their property: Matthew Wilson, ‘Why Britain’s historic hedgerows should be conserved and cherished’, Financial Times, 13 June 2014.
here ‘While we want … the only way forward’: Angling Trust, ‘Benyon rejects canoeists campaign to paddle over anglers’ rights’, Angling Trust, 13 December 2012, www.anglingtrust.net/news.asp?section=29&from=2012/12/01&to=2013/01/01&itemid=1444
here ‘The law of the … non-tidal waters’: David Bailey, ‘The fight for England’s rivers: Canoeists call for greater access’, BBC News, 12 July 2013.
here Both aspects need to be proven ‘before … owners’: David Hart, ‘Regarding the law of navigation on non-tidal inland waters in England and Wales’, 28 September 2015, www.anglingtrust.net
here ‘a person who enters … commits a trespass’: W. A. Shumaker, The Cyclopedic Dictionary of Law (Nabu Press, 2010), p. 922.
here ‘Recognise and accept … and riparian owners’: ‘QC’s legal advice proves there is no general public right to navigate non-tidal rivers in England and Wales’, Angling Trust, 24 January 2017, www.anglingtrust.net/news.asp?section=29&itemid=3624
here ‘while there is no public right … can navigate it’: www.riveraccessforall.co.uk/what_is_the_issue.php
here ‘any number of arms dealers … knew too much about’: Richard Brooks and Christian Eriksson, ‘Selling England (and Wales) by the pound’, Private Eye, 2016, www.private-eye.co.uk/tax-havens
here ‘in real life I believe … you have your guard up’: Trump: An American Dream (72 Films, 2018).
here ‘the smugglers swore … a toad’: E. P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act (London: Breviary Stuff Publications, 1975), p. 149.
here ‘I’ve done nothing criminal … interfere with my private life?’: ‘£87,000 claim MP rails at public jealousy of “Balmoral” home’, Metro, 21 May 2009.
here ‘It is not the individual … and correct the practice’: Winston Churchill, ‘The Mother of all Monopolies’, speech on 17 July 1909, quoted in Andy Wightman, The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it (Birlinn, April 2013), p. 380.
here he was suspected … drop the case: Charlie Cooper, ‘Wildlife minister Richard Benyon under fire in another game-shooting case’, Independent, 30 May 2012.
here ‘He can disarm … earnest and likeable’: Rob Wilson, ‘Richard Benyon MP on having “the crap” beaten out of him’, Total Politics, 2 April 2013.
STAG
here ‘The splendours of the castle … immortal Shakespeare’: Edward Jesse, Scenes and Tales of Country Life: With Recollections of Natural History, (John Murray, 1844), p. 40.
here In an independent survey … deemed perfectly healthy: savesheffieldtrees.org.uk/key-facts
here ‘we don’t have laxatives … in that department’: ‘“Teagate” poisoning probe leaves bitter taste for Sheffield tree campaigners’, Yorkshire Post, 28 March 2018.
here ‘a meeting point for building collective life’: Henri Lefebvre, Le droit à la ville (Paris: Editions Anthropos, 1968), online at link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11266-018-0030-y
here ‘pie-in-the-sky’: Jamie Blackett, ‘Who Owns England? by Guy Shrubsole review: pie-in-the-sky solutions to the housing crisis’, Daily Telegraph, 8 May 2019.
here ‘conspiracy at every turn’: Owen Patterson, ‘Rewilding is fashionable nonsense – private owners can be trusted to look after Britain’s land’, Daily Telegraph, 5 May 2019.
here ‘A more rigorous editor … about who runs it’: Edward Lucas, ‘Who Owns England? by Guy Shrubsole review – a £72 million question’, The Times, 19 April 2019.
here ‘Sweden has no Eiffel Towers … This is our monument’: visitsweden.com/freedomtoroam
here ‘to enable those living … unreasonably disturbed’: www.outdooraccess-scotland.scot/act-and-access-code/scottish-outdoor-access-code-rights-and-responsibilities
here ‘normal people’: John Stevens, ‘“Marxist” Labour garden tax would hit ten million families: Plans buried in the party’s manifesto plan to replace council tax with a charge based on land value’, Daily Mail, 5 June 2017.
here In 2017 … Responsibilities Statement: www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-land-rights-responsibilities-statement
here ‘Land is a cross-cutting … cultural rights’: Land and Human Rights, www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/LandAndHR/Pages/LandandHumanRightsIndex.aspx
here ‘Growing up in a healthy … right for children’: Annelies Henstra, ‘Child’s right to connect with nature and to a healthy environment’, WCC-2012-Res-101-EN, www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/CRC/Discussions/2016/AnneliesHenstra_en.pdf, p. 1. Copyright © 2016 United Nations. Reprinted with the permission of the United Nations.
here ‘So simple and so clear is this truth, that to see it fully once is always to recognise it’: Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879), p. 135.
here ‘The great cause of inequality … condition of a people’: ibid.
here ‘And then, in that utter clearness … O, Mole, I am afraid!’: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (London: Methuen & Co., 1908), p. 136.
here ‘It is sacred ground … a normal place’: Gordon Deegan, ‘Fairy bush survives the motorway planners’, Irish Times, 29 May 1999.
here the small farmers … one a week: John Swire, ‘More than one farmer a week in the UK dies by suicide’, Farm Business, 15 February 2018.
here ‘frightening land ownership move … straight from the Marxist playbook’: Alex Brummer, ‘Should owners be forced to sell development plots cheaply? ALEX BRUMMER says Labour’s frightening land ownership move is straight from the Marxist playbook’, This Is Money, 4 June 2019.
here In 2017, Crown Lands … common purse: ‘The Crown Estate announces £329.4m income returned for the public finances’, Crown estate website, 28 June 2018.
here ‘Why, yet there want not many, that do fear / In deep of night to walk by this Herne’s oak’: William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, IV, iv, www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=merrywives&Act=4&Scene=4&Scope=scene&LineHighlight=2234#2234.