I have been thinking a lot about access to land, commoners rights, access to wild spaces, rights of way and pathways.
Robert MacFarlane talks about words for path in his book ‘the old ways’, I very much like the words and the feelings they evoke; nostalgia, intrigue, something lost.
The Forest of Dean has an interesting history in relation to commoners rights and the enclosures. Commoners rights are still used in the Forest and access to the common land is very important to local people. I have been looking at maps of the forest and rivers surrounding it, looking at rights of way and drawing.
