Not-so-SuperInjunctions

 Just read this article on the Guardian website, about Superinjunctions and worse.

Some of these Superinjunctions have an element of sense, as Ian Hislop said on HIGNFY, that the Government(s) should have sorted privacy legislation years ago.

We don't really care whether Mr x has had an affair with Mrs A, and the arguments for presenting us with printed gossip and hearsay are often not even arguments, they have no sense to them.

Funny thing is that if a head of a company was to act in that way, it wouldn't be reported, if someone that appears on the telly does, it does.
Yet surely the head of a company that we buy from, or that we pay for through taxes (such as a major contractor) is of more relevance?
To be honest, I still wouldn't care, unless it involved something serious, lets not forget that where there are serious negligence cases, even including where a worker has been killed, we don't get to hear of it, and nobody is really held accountable, yet a couple of actors find other activities to keep themselves busy and we do.

 However, it is sickeningly worrying that Councils are able to spend huge amounts of money ensuring their constituents cant talk to their MP, and that this has happened, whether or not the MP was successful or not, councils have successfully put in place the gag in the first place.
And when you consider threats of having Children taken from parents, and secretive toxic waste dumping, as well as preventative measures against anyone without money, where lawyers must be paid prior to investigation.
This is like Japanese Knotweed, if you let it, it will take over and strangle anything beneath it.

A Walk in South Somerset - South Cadbury to Corton Denham circuit

Walk in South Somerset - Montacute to Tintinhull and return

An easy 5 mile (2 hours) circuit walk from Montacute to Tintinhull in South Somerset, UK.

Level ground, although some parts through fields and crossing stiles.

 

Starting at The Square, facing the Phelips Arms, turn left and follow the road around and along Middle Street, towards the Kings Arms, then turn right along Wash lane, follow to the end where it merges with Bishopston.(You can continue along Middle Street, which goes past the Church, and Montacute Working Mens club, before meeting the end of Wash Lane)

Turn Right and follow road, passing the front gates of Montacute House

 

Ahead you'll see a line of red brick 'Council Houses'.

Turn right onto Station Road at the first house

Follow road until you reach a right hand bend with an island junction on the left, take the lane to the left

This lane was once the road to Montacute station, the Railway line came under the 'Beeching Axe' and is now the busy A3088 Cartgate to Yeovil Link Road, follow the path which leads onto the busy road.

Crossing over you you'll see the dilapidated kissing gate which was once part of the Station

Walk around the old gate following the edge of the field, alongside the old Station house, then the hedgerow,  part way along, cross to the next field through the gate

 

follow the hedgerow to the old 'Icicle Barn', (the barn is situated on fields once know as Issakell fields) one of a few Somerset barns not made into a house.

emerging onto the unclassified Montacute to Tintinhull road, follow the road straight ahead (with Icicle Barn on your left) until Stoneshells Farm, on the right is a stile

Cross the stile and keep left, following the edge of the field and passing by the gate / entrance

(this path follows the line of the road, but the road is narrow along here, with a poor zone of vision in places)

At the end follow the field around to the right, where you'll eventually come to an opening to another field, where the path runs alongside a house.

This leads onto Yeovil Road in Tintinhull, cross here and turn left, then a short distance turn right (or just keep on the same path around the bend) into Vicarage Street, follow road past Tintinhull Working Mens Club (this part of Somerset had a good deal of working men and women, from Glove making to Manufacturing, hence 2 working Mens clubs in adjacent villages) and the village green, and follow path into Farm Street, around to the right (Signposted to Tintinhull House)

passing a Petters water pump (before they made the first internal combustion engined car in the UK)

and a traditional Somerset Hamstone stile

The Crown & Victoria Inn and ...

...not forgetting the beautiful Tintinhull house, which is noted for it's Arts and Crafts Gardens

passing Tintinhull house the road becomes a lane, and opposite a modern house on the left is the footpath on the right, follow the path, through the gate at the end, where you can turn left (incidentally, along Vicarage street there is another path, which joins here, it is shorter, but you would miss so much!)

Follow the path, where you will see two gates

Take the metal gate to the left, and continue through two fields (admiring the view to Ilchester) and then through a gate / bridge / gate on your right.

You will emerge in an L shaped field, the footpath continues as if the hedge (where the gate is) was to continue (which it doesn't) crossing the centre of the field. From here you can't see the next gate and bridge until you're over the rise.

After crossing the little bridge, you will be on a hillock, with a few trees dotted around.

The path isn't always clear here, so walk about 10 degrees to your left, crossing the hillock. Notice a large oak in the hedgerow ahead, keep left of that and you'll find a large kissing gate.

go through, and bear right onto Sock Lane, which forms part of the Leland Trail AND Monarchs Way (that alone is some serious British history...)

emerging onto Yeovil road, just outside of Chilthorne Domer

Simply cross over and into Kissmedown lane to the right (great name, but use caution if Googling)

Follow the footpath (this was the muddiest part so far, after cattle had been moved along the lane, but this was early spring, hopefully it will improve - also be careful of the barbed wire fence, this was laying, partially covered, on the ground along the path but still connected to trees higher up)

the lane becomes a track then road, now called Windmill Lane, passing Windmill Farm, continue straight ahead down the hill crossing the road at the bottom, take the stile in front of you, this lane has deep ruts in places, being lower than the adjacent fields the water run-off has caused some damage to this ancient by-way.

 

At the end of the lane take the path to the left which emerges onto the busy A3088, (notice the old railway fence posts)

  

crossing over, take the path opposite that leads down into Mill copse, part of Montacute Park; part of the National Trust Montacute House estate, you can see the ancient by-way, with adjacent wall very clearly along here, this emerges into an area filled with Wild Garlic, and a stream, part of a Mill, of which very little survives.

Follow the path (after you've soaked in the atmosphere of this place) off to the right and into Montacute Park, bear left past the sign and over the hillock you'll see a stile and gate, cross here and walk diagonally up the next hillock with the trees just on your right

 

There are 3 stiles, which all stand alone without fence, if you aim yourself correctly you should be near them each time.

At the first stile head down to the marvellous avenue of trees, which lead up to Montacute House then head slightly to the right, crossing a spring stream (unless its dried up), in the distance you will see some houses and a large tree in the corner,

walk along the path, and emerge into a small street, turn right and follow the road around to the left. 

At the junction turn right, and head back to Montacute Square

And as the say in Film Noir

Fin