I have often used the website to plan greenlane trips, it's handy to find the locations.
Google Street View is also good, often a video can be found on YouTube also.
Let us know how you get on.
Google Street View is also good, often a video can be found on YouTube also.
Let us know how you get on.
tom.brandford
Member
Hi all, have relented & emailed the relevant councils. Will update when have a response. Done the same RE Standon — we all know it’s legal but the home owner is a massive anti so will be useful to have formal response on hand.
There is a byway which goes through a farm and leads upto Stonehenge, the woman there is a proper loon.
She blocked our way once and stood there swearing and waving a big stick. She even admitted we were doing nothing wrong, eventually giving up with the discussion. My wife was there with us and she was amazed at how polite I was, it's the only way when speaking to these people.
Hicap phill
Well-Known Member
Inform the council the trees have overgrown and is impeding horses. They will them cut back and annoy the woman.
Alway be polite and smile. You never know when your been filmed (or doing the filming)
Indeed it would have been, I'll get round to buying one sometime.
jamesDiscoTD5
Active Member
She's been a pain for years and years and the council will do nothing about it.
Everyone I know avoids Standon ford. It's not worth the hassle. Plenty of other fords in the area, even if they are shorter.
I have spoken the woman and Standon, she was very nice . She doesn't mind the vehicles coming down to the ford, she minds those that drive through it flat out and play there, which seems reasonable enough.
300bhp/ton
Well-Known Member
I suppose. Although I bet the Ford has been there longer than her. Maybe living next to an attraction that people might want to visit and play there isn’t such a sensible idea when all said and done. Like buying a house near a race track then moaning about the noise from said track.
Nothing like that at all. She has every right to complain about the idiots who **** about and in general be a pain in the arse. She has every right to live there in peace and we have every right to drive it in a sensible many.
300bhp/ton
Well-Known Member
You are missing the point....
Of course she has right to live there. But there is no right that it has to be in peace nor is the right to drive it one that has to be sensible. It just has to be legal.
Like all the moneyed up pr@tts who complain from Castle Combe.
We used to do charity track days at Castle Combe on behalf of under 16 drivers club, the charity being The teenage Cancer Trust. The big "I am" Marshall banned my son from the track for being to loud in my Mustang. Organiser was falling over himself to apologise and gave us his car to drive, Fiesta ST!
I did point out that for some reason our exact same car had been just fine for the previous three years.
No I'm not.
When we used to do track days there with the kit car club, having to fit "silencers" to the ends of the exhausts was a right pain.
In the end we bought our own noise meter and a tape to ensure the marshall type bloke did the test propahly.
But the race track isn't the road. The ford is the road. And that's why she's narked.
300bhp/ton
Well-Known Member
I highly doubt anyone uses the ford as a race track though.... but a group of people turning up and driving through it a few times, parking up, chatting and maybe some kids running about on a hot day is all quite reasonable and should be within expectations.
You brought up the race track. She objects to people travelling through the ford as if it was part of a race track, which is fair enough and completely understandable. Kids running about on a hot day and chatting is not what she is complaining about. She was very chatty herself.
