Photo from SWNS.
David Burgess, 63, has created a beachfront hut from the tumbledown remains of a 17th Century bark drying house, with whatever has washed up on the isolated stretch of coastline at Embelle Wood near Porlock, Somerset.
The woodland site is almost an hour's walk from the nearest road down a treacherous path and only a handful of people know of his existence. He sleeps on a mattress made of dried leaves.
Photo from SWNS.
But bosses at Exmoor National Park claim they own the site and have ordered him to leave. Mr Burgess says he has no intention of giving up his Robinson Crusoe existence and has vowed to stay.
There's a news video here.
7 comments:
Bosses at Exmoor National Park need to be bitch slapped.
Step 1: Create a license granting the right to live on the property. Stipulations include things only this man can fulfill, like having his exact DNA.
Step 2: Issue the license to this man.
Step 3: Send a ranger to check up on him and make sure he's doing alright from time to time. Or, you know, leave him alone.
Wow, i spent a week living in the woods near rthere, had no idea i wasnt the only resident!
after 25 yrs, surely he's earnt the right to stay there.
There was a time when big country estates used to pay people to be hermits on their land
Have just read the article, and i looks like they are considering letting him stay
It says they're happy to discuss some arrangement whereby he could continue to enjoy the area, Annemarie.
Even though they continue: "What we deplored was that he was seeking ownership," that still doesn't sound particularly positive to me.
I hope he can stay.
Geez, he's in his 60's. He seems happy. Leave him be.
Yeah, I can see how there's an issue if he really was "claiming ownership" as they allege. But now that he's not, it seems they should be able to come to a compromise. I say, lease the property to him for $1 a year, for life.
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