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Although my new plot is on an allotment site within a few minutes walk of nearby houses, it is actually located in the middle of a triangle of railway lines. You can only get to it over a footbridge, whose access is controlled by two locked 8 feet tall galvanised metal gates. Only about 19 of the 60 or so plots are actually cultivated and much of the rest is covered in brambles. Once you are on site, it is often hard to know whether anyone else is. It is a remote place and I never like going there unless I have a mobile phone with me and I hate mobile phones! The remoteness means there is a lot of wildlife, including rabbits, some foxes and lots of birds. However, altho theoretically within easy access of the nearby houses, in reality you are miles from anyone. Somebody was once found dead inside their shed on site, too!
How remotes is your plot?

Morning Barry

Interesting location for your plot. It sounds from your description as though you will be spared the problems of two-legged intruders so many forum members suffer from. Until seven years ago I had plots on a large site which was surrounded by roads and houses. When many of the plotholders lived in the houses around there was rarely a problem. When the houses were almost all sold for student flats, that's when the trouble started.



Enjoy your peace and solitude, and keep you hand on the hated mobile phone

Alan

Our plot a hundred yards or so from a house but we have a disused railway/nature reserve down one side, fields down the second and a rugby field down the third (triangular site) so when you're on your own up there it does feel pretty isolated.

I always take my mobile and have always called for help when the nutters turn up; one wierdo who hung around a lot last year and one guy standing taking photos of me (really scary).

I prefer the isolation as it can be so quiet and peaceful but I do prefer the isolation with at least one other person

As you can see we are pretty quiet where we are situated

we are in the centre of the village
there are houses opposite, church behind and pub to the left-always handy on a hot day
yours does sound remote-but lovely! enjoy it
i try to work on mine but constantly have people chatting over the wall, or popping over-for gossip its great!

We're in the niddle of park, housing estate and a University science park (who claim they own the land, a long battle). We've got a dual carriage way right on one border. And Nugget's nursery is in the Science park across the road, dead handy for me.

but because we're on a hill and my plot is in the centre and looks out onto the local hills, it feels like I'm very remote. Until I listen for the road and the local football games.

Weed is that you hiding in the bushes on your photo.

Chantal i can't imagine for a minute that the photo's of you looked really scary, or have i got the wrong end of the stick.

If I'd had hold of any end of a stick I think I'd have whacked this guy with it. He was hanging around for about 30 minutes with a camera pointing right at me from the other side of our fence. I ended up lying on ground behind my Rasberry canes so he couldn't see me whilst I phoned for someone to come to save me. It was horrible. I'm growing beans this year as usual but am planting them where they afford me cover from nutters!

Oh my goodness OH.... do you mean near the hedge on the left? Its a good job I have my back turned

The Leicester Racecourse runs just behind my shed and on race days I can hear the horses (and cursing jockys) before I actually see 'em

Weed, i have now got this vision in my head of you out on the racecourse, bucket in one hand, shovel in the other, putting chase after the jocky's and horses, to collect the horse droppings.

Dear Chantal, just a little apology for being a little thoughtless about those strange blokes hanging around your allotment.
Being a man i just don't realize how scary it would be.
I could always pop up and sought them out for you.

Old Herbaceous is my name trouble's my game.

Our plot is one of eight, though only six are really properly used, at the edge of a Yorkshire Dales village. We are surrounded by pasture land (one field is also used as the village football field). Access is just a footpath past the cricket field and down a steep slope, no vehicular access at all.
Working there is a lonely existence, it is very rare that anybody is there at the same time. Although I have never been "stalked" by a weirdo, I was trapped in the shed for about an hour once when a rather nasty young bull in the field took a dislike to me and started ramming the dry stone wall to get into the allotment. I hid in the shed (realising that, if he did not see me, he might lose interest). Eventually, he wandered off to a different part of the field and I hoofed it off home as fast as my little legs would carry me.

We are overlooked by the motorway on one side, the canal runs on the opposite side, huge big warehouses, one end, and a club and big car park on the other end which fronts on to a busy road,we come in by. It is fenced off alround by a high railing, but that doesn't stop being broken into. this week we had intruders again,cut the lock, climbed on to the seed shed roof and stole the the security camera, which was pointed towards the gate, broke into some of the sheds not sure how much was stolen.

Bren

Mine is bounded by;
North.
Fence, ditch, 25 yards of public park (a strip park running out to open country), twelve foot of trees, fence, ten yards of lawn, blocks of low rise flats.
East.
Fence, ten foot of grass, cycleway, on the northern half rough scrub public park, in the middle a footpath and to the southern half my neighbour five up's back garden. All continuing to the end of the park 1/4 to 1/2 mile away.
West.
Fence, six foot rising bank of rough grass, concrete path, drainage sump area, forming part of the park as it continues west.
South.
Fence, public footpath, then :
Western 2/3rds fence, primary school grounds (Tree'd area, playing field, playground and buildings) sloping up as they go south.
Eastern third, end lot of houses in my road, varying from back garden, through house side wall to loackup garages and hardstanding.

So really remote..... NOT.

Peter

Your plot sounds the ideal meeting place for some of our feral young people

OH
Sadly my bucket and spade days are reserved for the beaches of England with the Grandchildren

Anyway I can't run fast enough to keep up with the young fillies..two legs or four

Weed wrote:Peter
Your plot sounds the ideal meeting place for some of our feral young people......

Sadly Weed the park has been.

Including the time I walked out from behind a shed and got hit on the head by a rough lump of concrete fired from a catapult.

The imposition of an "Area ASBO", cutting down some trees they used to lurk behind and regular police patrols moved the problem elsewhere.