The Wyoming Conspiracy
(JFGI)
Actually, I don't think the Cotswolds is/are a large military installation designed to control the population. I believe that facility lies further south.
However. When I were a wee lad, one of the oil companies (I believe Shell) ran a pipeline across Charlton Abbotts Estate. I think it runs over the top from the direction of Guiting Power, down past Spoonley and Waterhatch Farms, up the other side of the valley towards Goldwell and Middle Barn and exits C-A land at the bottom end of the West Down. I grew up seeing the patches of new fencing with a pipe-marker (grey plastic-coated pole per roadsigns with a red pitched roof) spread across the place, but never bothered to sit down with the relevant OS maps to mark down where they lay.
I don't recall anything like the fuss that happened when they put the gas pipe in the other year, which I am tolerably sure crosses the oil line somewhere on the brow of the hill above Roel Gate. If only because the silly buggers having a protest at the terrible scar wrought across the land hadn't actually been there when the last alleged terrible scar was created because they were a bunch of tiresome townie fucks. And since the previous terrible scar has vanished under the landscape and hasn't affected their house prices, the bastards don't give a monkey's.
At least I think it happened. The pipework that I'm fairly sure I remember isn't marked on the OS maps or the Googles. There are large scale maps of the UK pipeline network which sort-of-look as if something might run across the Cotswolds, but that's probably swamp gas, Venus or a training flight.
Actually, I don't think the Cotswolds is/are a large military installation designed to control the population. I believe that facility lies further south.
However. When I were a wee lad, one of the oil companies (I believe Shell) ran a pipeline across Charlton Abbotts Estate. I think it runs over the top from the direction of Guiting Power, down past Spoonley and Waterhatch Farms, up the other side of the valley towards Goldwell and Middle Barn and exits C-A land at the bottom end of the West Down. I grew up seeing the patches of new fencing with a pipe-marker (grey plastic-coated pole per roadsigns with a red pitched roof) spread across the place, but never bothered to sit down with the relevant OS maps to mark down where they lay.
I don't recall anything like the fuss that happened when they put the gas pipe in the other year, which I am tolerably sure crosses the oil line somewhere on the brow of the hill above Roel Gate. If only because the silly buggers having a protest at the terrible scar wrought across the land hadn't actually been there when the last alleged terrible scar was created because they were a bunch of tiresome townie fucks. And since the previous terrible scar has vanished under the landscape and hasn't affected their house prices, the bastards don't give a monkey's.
At least I think it happened. The pipework that I'm fairly sure I remember isn't marked on the OS maps or the Googles. There are large scale maps of the UK pipeline network which sort-of-look as if something might run across the Cotswolds, but that's probably swamp gas, Venus or a training flight.