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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Country diary: life at a snail's pace is perilous on this Birdcage Walk

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Sandy, Bedfordshire: Heavy-footed commuters and a purposeful thrush are among the dangers to gastropods on this path named after the London street

A fancy-sounding London street is said to have inspired our local worthies more than a century ago to drive the town into the country. They paved paradise past the mill, laying down a hard-standing path alongside the river, edging it with hooped iron railings, the latest in urban parkland chic.

The promenade they called Birdcage Walk then cut inland, stealing the border between copse and water meadow, before swinging back to cross the river again on a footbridge at the railway end of town.

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