God is in the Details

if it was a new build the council would make you take down that high wall blocking your view of the road to an approved visibility splay!!!

 

 

I admit to scratching several corners of several cars on that.

 

The wall itself is probably 1850 or thereabouts and it's actually got a preservation order of sorts on it, as in a planning condition not to demolish when the big garden of an old house was redeveloped :-). My bit hasn't, though.

 

The hawthorn hedge behind the telegraph pole is actually a fragment of original field hedge, which is probably also Victorian or earlier. When I was young the area behind there used to be fields with skylarks,