Hi folks just wanted to bring to your attention that the farmers have been having some problems with walls being knocked over on the walk in to conies.
We went there yesterday to avoid the crowds and as we were walking along the crag side of the wall a young farm lad hurled abuse at us under the mistaken impression that we had crossed a wall without using a stile. I managed to calm him down ask what the problems had been and he replied using many vulgarities that people 'Like us' (I assume he meant people carrying pads) have been crossing the walls and knocking them over.
He explained that it's ok to cross the first field using the stile which is half way up the wall on the far side, then through the fence at the top of the hill in the second field before crossing at a stile which is in the bottom right hand corner of the third field as you approach it before walking along into the little valley.
He was very very upset by our presence as apparently they have had a lot of sheep escaping through these walls onto the crag side which they don't own.