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If shooting is going on deer fences are generally in place to corral the prey. They are most often used these days, though, to keep animals out of new woodland plantations (all the rage these days due to balancing-the-books carbon calculations ), as deer and a few other smaller creatures have a tendency to eat all the short saplings. These fences mark out 'exclosures', a very snazzy reverse name - or antonym to be proper -for 'enclosures'.
Considering that even the most basic groundworks for the probable upcoming woodland haven't started yet this particular fence takes on an even more annoying personality than most! Although there is open entry from this plateau called Little Yarlside, the gates along it are a ridiculous distance apart, particularly considering this is statutory open access land. Walkers, by and large, like to follow best practice and only jump these fences at the official gates, but often don't due to the enormous distances between them. If land is meant to be open access it would surely be a good idea for funding to be provided to landowners in order for them to provide more regular crossing points.
The most curious thing about this fence is that the only plantation near here - a fairly well-established sitka spruce one just South of the quarry on the A6 - doesn't even bother with one and just has a bog-standard wire fence topped with barbed wire. And even worse, some of the smaller deer that were startled by my sudden appearance near that wood were able to wriggle through a gap between the bars on a metal gate to join a group of seven or eight who were already at large on the sitka plantation and munching away.