A Long Held Myth Put To Rest

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How do we know that their explanation is the real one? Perhaps theirs is the myth.
£30,000,000/mile? The onus is on the myth pedlars to prove it.

And a recalcitrant farmer demanding so much money it was worthy of diverting the motorway. There would be a shedload of docs supporting that.
 

classic33

Leg End Member
How do we know that their explanation is the real one? Perhaps theirs is the myth.
You could always try walking around the area. Look at it, M62, on a map and you'll see it splits a second time, for the same reason.
 

classic33

Leg End Member
£30,000,000/mile? The onus is on the myth pedlars to prove it.

And a recalcitrant farmer demanding so much money it was worthy of diverting the motorway. There would be a shedload of docs supporting that.
The story I heard involved the farmer taking the MOT to court because they wanted to build a motorway through his living room. When the case went before a judge the farmer produced his trump card: a Royal Warrant granting some baron-or-other right and title to that land for services rendered in perpetuity. The services rendered took place in July 1298 at the Battle of Falkirk. Without a legal leg to stand on the MOT agreed to divert the eastbound carriageway the way it is now. Can anyone else confirm this or is it another tall engineer's tale?

Tony Mullen, Manchester UK

https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-2193,00.html
 

classic33

Leg End Member
I reckon it's something to do with ley lines.
Goodness me what nonsense! The farmhouse and out buildings were deposited by aliens only AFTER the motorway was built by navvies on LSD. The road was never ever meant to go across the Pennines. Somehow the government managed to spin it around and as usual everybody believed it.

Trevor Barker, Wednesbury, England
 
Fecking Yorkshire nobbers
 

Randomnerd

Bimbleur
Location
North Yorkshire

Levo-Lon

Guru
Used to pass that farm many times as a kid when visiting family.
My dad told me the myth..i always believed it.

So yesterday's news ' first time ive ever heard differently ' was intresting.
The real reason made perfect sense, Knowing a little about construction of roads myself.
 

Sandra6

Veteran
Location
Cumbria
The story I was told was that he just refused to sell, so they went round him.
I never knew there was a whole "myth and legend" scenario.
Even if they couldn't build up over the hilly bit, surely they'd have just paid him off and bulldozed it anyway then left an island in the middle? They had to put in an underpass and access roads for him, seems a lot of effort to go to if there wasn't anything in it for him.
 
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