‘Ancient Roads and the Wroxton Fingerpost’ – Part 5, Long Walks & Anarcho-Primitivism

Ramblinactivist 2022/5, Imbolic 2022

There are events and periods of history that are not talked about; they raise difficult, political questions about that history. Viewing how the past has created the world as it is today, with all its perceived faults, can be a journey into that unspoken, ‘taboo history’.

The beauty of walking is that you can slowly meander through the countryside, and that slow speed enables you to see more of the world as you pass by. Not just the immediate sense of the place, but the visible clues to the world as it was, mapping how it evolved into the world as it is today.

Those patterns in the landscape are intimately tied to the history of the nation. Much of this history lies in plain sight; just waiting to be discovered if you look for it. Even seemingly innocuous anomalies, in most cases, have some deeper reason for their existence; and if you ask those difficult questions, you can discover a whole new perspective on the landscape around you.

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00:00 Introduction.
01:27 Looking deeper at the clues.
02:53 The Wroxton Fingerpost.
04:56 Medieval Trackways.
07:19 The Legacy of Land Inclosure.
09:32 The Turnpikes & the Centralisation of Power
11:03 Conclusion.