Cattle Grid on Higher Hyde Heath
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Image: © Nigel Mykura Taken: 1 Feb 2013
Many of the small roads on the heathland have cattle grids to reduce the movement of stock although none of the gates on any of the grids I went through were actually closed so they are actually used very little.