8 foot wide caravans
Morning, anyone visiting Merrose Farm site near to St Mawes with an eight foot wide caravan or motor home take care on final approach to site in the traffic light controlled section of the road as the roadside vegetation is in need of a cut back or club insurance claims will be increasing.
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I guess you have bluebells, wild garlic, red campion and so on...all in full flower along the lane. Enjoy them all . Those of us who live here resist tourists who urge us to strim them all away in order to achieve tidiness. Have a good day.
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And we tend to shake our heads in amazement at those who choose behemoths and then complain that our lanes weren't constructed to cater for them.🤷♂️
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Mmm, and the granite boulders are only 3" each side as well😂😂
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There is actually no problem. The brewery lorry is more than 8 feet wide.
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I will admit I am a gardening ignoramus but will roadside vegetation, especially if it's as ET says, cause damage to an outfit?
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There is an infinitely better site just along the road at Tretham Mill, just look on Google street at the approach to that! No problem with an 8’0”” t/a when driven with care. Love to see the wild flower hedgrows whether here in Yorkshire or Cornwall. If you can’t cope with such roads then stay away and leave them for those whose nerves ate not so fragile.
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You won't be going to this site will you though?
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Ok but it was a club site so I assume you wouldn't be using it anyway?
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Nah, it's much as M said, impatient drivers who don't drive appropriately on rural roads and don't know the width of their vehicles.
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If the road is obviously not wide enough for two vehicles to pass then it needs a place of sufficient width and length for them to achieve this.
Are you suggesting that people collide because they cannot see it is impossible to pass or are driving too quickly to avoid a collision?
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This is where reversing skills are essential and, in answer to your questions, yes to both scenarios. It’s obvious to any regular user of narrow roads.
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Always?! I’d not expect you to say anything other than that but the difference is that locals know the roads and their vehicles so can drive with confidence at a speed suitable for that road which is different from the person who still believes he can drive at the max speed limit and has no grasp of how inappropriate that may be, and that too applies everywhere as you no doubt know from your own local experience.
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At the moment the worst perpetrators of narrow road/lanes excess speed are Delivery drivers, who don't care and also have strict time limits placed upon them by their employers.
We drove down some "wide" single track roads today and the only problem we encountered was from 2 separate FedEx vans, hurtling around blind bends. Fortunately I saw the roofs of said vans over the hedges approaching and took evasive action but as MikeyA said, it happens everywhere.
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I suspect what is being forgotten here is that we are all locals somewhere.
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Exactly. I don't dry fast at the best of times, never have done.
When I am on a very narrow road that I have never been on before, I will always drive in the expectation that I will meet someone whether that is car, cycle or pedestrian. Locals always seem to work on the basis that "I didn't meet anyone last time so it is unlikely I will this time"
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"…I don't dry fast at the best of times…"
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