Markway

Markway enclosure was one of the last phase of enclosures, having been created in 1959 in order to provide quick turn around timber, primarily for the construction trade I imagine. Now 60 years later, matured to fruition, it is being removed, opening up the heathland views and releasing ferny Knap enclosure. The removal has been ongoing for a few years now, with the early clearances regaining their natural heathland looks; the more recent sections look more like a battlefields; stumps, detritus and today as machines remodelled the land surface, smolding heaps the stumps and wood remains piled into large pyres to cash cropping. The smoke drifted through the remaining Pines, a sign to them of their impending fate.