OT Remotest Dorset ?

I think the place you seek is...

Salisbury Plain

;-)

Si

Sailsbury Plain on a "open day"? It's funny, but I lived for years in Bratton, Withshire (on the edge of Sailsbury Plain) and thought of the area as being very rural. I had cause to visit Bratton a few months ago and it felt almost urban - all those places that seemed so far apart seem right next door to each other now! I'd imagine the Plain still seems pretty desolate though (except for Imber, it used to be like Brighton on an "open day").

Richard

I get the feeling that you're not actually looking for off-roading opportunities, just a remote rural area, perhaps to live in? Is that right? So far replies have been about off-roading, I'm not sure if that's appropriate, so it might be worth your while clarifying a little.

Spot on Ian, the more remote the better. I don't want to commute just get lost away from London. Used to live in Africa and it would be nice to be a little more rural. Similar to the the moors above Pately Bridge / Wath

John H

ere! I wans't on about off-roading - there quite a few miles of tramac on Sailsbury Plain - you're just not allowed to drive on it most of the time.

Richard

Dartmoor or Bodmin Moor then? Maybe the New Forrest. West Wales is the traditional hiding place for ex City types, though you'd keeping tripping over "Good Life" hippies these days it seems.

Richard

No but you also weren't on about living on salisbury plain, that would be quite interesting ;-)

As for tarmac on Salisbury Plain, last time I went up there I saw little else! The area around Salisbury Plain is more interesting for off-roading.

Oh I don't know. Austin isn't a bit like Richard Briers.

(Oh bugrit, got Felicity Kendal in my mind now...)

I bet it's only because she had a series 3 Land Rover in that hard hitting, gritty and true to life docudrama, Rosemary & Thyme.

Damn! Me too.

What was that series she did post Good Life where she was some divorced or widowed man-eater who liked a bit of this and that? Certainly not the goody-two-shoes Barbara Good image.

Steve

Solo?

Either works for me.

Wouldn't climb over her to get to you - as they say.

/coat ...

I wasn't condemning either image

If you did, I would delicately and diplomatically inform you that I was not of that persuasion.

Steve

In message , Mother writes

Consider the wild and woolly hills of Mid Wales too. Powys is the most sparsely populated county south of the north of Scotland. I'm in the middle of it. Not exactly in commuting distance from London but I've managed many a round trip in a single day. Lots of interesting bumpy bits too. For the price of two bedroom flat in Islington you can get a veritable hacienda.

Solo - I'm ashamed to admit I remember the title.....I thought it was awful.

Richard

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Hirsty's wrote, On 17/08/2006 09:07:

Salisbury Plain is OK, but you could go east a bit to escape those West Country folk. I grew up in North Essex and still enjoy going back. The area made up of North Essex, North Hertfordshire, South Cambridgeshire is nice rural and mainly farming. You have the M11 and Stansted Airport if you need to escape. The greenlaning is pretty good as well.

DavidM

Dartmoor NP at 368 sq miles is less than half of the area that I live in, "Englands Last Wilderness", the North Pennines ANOB 766 sq miles. Not south though, just below the Scottish Border. Towns of decent size, ie those with any of the normal high street stores (Co-op's excepted) are all more than 20 miles away.

Fair few orginal, and now ageing, hippies up here. Our remoteness, isolation and weather make the living too hard for "good life" townies.