Garden Wall Volunteers Hit Impressive Milestone

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It looks like the sort of work you'd be made to do in a Third World prison chain-gang, but hacking stone from a quarry face and lugging it up hills to build endless walls is nothing but a joy to a group of Westcountry volunteers. They've spent the past 15 years helping to reinstate the old dry-stone walls that surround beautiful Hestercombe Gardens near Taunton - and this week they celebrated what could literally be described as an impressive milestone.

Altogether the resolute and cheerful chain-gangers of Hestercombe have reinstated six kilometres of wall. No one knows how many tons of stone they've so far hacked from the estate's own quarry - nor does anyone know how many more kilometres there are to go.

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Garden Wall Volunteers Hit Impressive Milestone

"It's endless," sighs Hestercombe's landscape supervisor Ben Knight. "All I can say is that at the moment there are a lot more ...

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