Country& Garden: Alders, apples and wild brown trout Shropshire's beautiful landscape will be destroyed unless ancient skills such as hedgelaying and coppicing are revived. In an unprecedented move, the Heritage Lottery Fund is racing to the rescue.

From: The Independent - London | Date: November 10, 2001| Author: Chris Arnot | Copyright information

Itinerant clog-makers are as rare as horse-drawn ploughs in the rural England of the 21st century. Their heyday was before the First World War when they were particularly prevalent in the countryside fringed by AE Housman's "blue remembered hills". The poet's Shropshire lads would almost certainly have passed the time of day with cloggers as they roamed the Clun and Redlake valleys, pruning alder trees, shaping the timber and shipping it from Craven Arms station to the mill towns of Lancashir...

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