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For more info -
or to support us,
please get in touch:
prowl@manx.net
PROWL, 1 Castle Street,
Castletown, IM9 1LF
Or call Ian on:
01624 837 059
a garden of remembrance
Tony Brown, Speaker of House of Keys
"I like many am disappointed that the new owner... [has restricted] access to the public... access that has been enjoyed for many many decades... I do hope a way forward will be found."
Peter Karran, MHK
"I am quite shocked at the way the Government seems to be handling this situation. Obviously I want the law to be applied equally and fairly across the board, without fear or favour..."
Selected
messages from PROWL's supporters:
(All messages in this section appear by kind permission)
I have been prompted to visit langness, because of the flyers that you sent out. I needed to see for myself what was going on, would like to support your protest at the way that our country side has been annexed. Having been brought up in Castletown before moving to Ballasalla I walked and played around the lighthouse as a boy and man. We must preserve the right to walk our coastal paths. It is our right and we should make sure that it is enforced
Jim Edge, Ballasalla, (Jim has walked the circular path for 34 years)
My Dad died in January and had requested that we scatter him at Langness and put a bench there for him. Under the present circumstances, we don't want to do this. I have walked there for over twenty years and so have my parents. I spent many happy afternoons when my children were small with them jumping off the little pier into the sea and then "Doing the loop" on the way home! I've watched seal families from the area which is now fenced off, I doubt I'll get so close to the seals again if the fences remain. That is tragic!
Privacy protected. Castletown
I can stress the circular aspect of the path is important to me in that it offered variety for flora and fauna and, when the sun was not so kindly for use of binocular one side, it would be fine (generally) on the other.
Ron Couch, Port Erin
I would like to add my support to your campaign to have the right of way for walkers around the sides and far end of the lighthouse reinstated. I attended King Williams College for 8 years starting in 1952 and we had to walk or run regularly out to and around the lighthouse with the herring tower and the haunted house being shorter options when the weather was more inclement.
Anon. Ballakillowie
I have walked around Langness for more than sixty years. My father and grandfathers, all Castletown men, walked Langness during their lifetimes. My father, J.J. Corteen, took part in a protest in his youth when an attempt was made to prevent access to Langness as again it happened in 1975. I wish my name to be recorded as a protestor against the action taken.
Elin Callister, Ballasalla
I am visiting the Island after living abroad for 3 years and was suprised and shocked to find that the peninsular at Langness was no longer accessible when I took a much loved walk there last month.
Glynda Farmer, Castletown (Glynda has walked the circular path for 40 years)
Without any doubt our favourite walk is the Langness coastal path. We visit this area at least once every week sometimes more.
Derek & Claire from Colby have walked the circular path for 25 years)
Speaking as a resident of Castletown for 55 years, I whole heartedly agree with everything you say about Langness. No matter how many times I walk round there I never cease to be in awe of its beauty.
I can certainly say that I have enjoyed Langness from a very early age. We played out there as children (fabulous memories), now I cycle or walk as often as I can out around the lighthouse. When we have visitors staying, the first place I take them for a walk is Langness, It is, to me, a perfect example of the beauty of the Manx coastline.
Margaret Reilly, Castletown
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(All messages in this section appear by kind permission)
I have been prompted to visit langness, because of the flyers that you sent out. I needed to see for myself what was going on, would like to support your protest at the way that our country side has been annexed. Having been brought up in Castletown before moving to Ballasalla I walked and played around the lighthouse as a boy and man. We must preserve the right to walk our coastal paths. It is our right and we should make sure that it is enforced
Jim Edge, Ballasalla, (Jim has walked the circular path for 34 years)
My Dad died in January and had requested that we scatter him at Langness and put a bench there for him. Under the present circumstances, we don't want to do this. I have walked there for over twenty years and so have my parents. I spent many happy afternoons when my children were small with them jumping off the little pier into the sea and then "Doing the loop" on the way home! I've watched seal families from the area which is now fenced off, I doubt I'll get so close to the seals again if the fences remain. That is tragic!
Privacy protected. Castletown
I can stress the circular aspect of the path is important to me in that it offered variety for flora and fauna and, when the sun was not so kindly for use of binocular one side, it would be fine (generally) on the other.
Ron Couch, Port Erin
I would like to add my support to your campaign to have the right of way for walkers around the sides and far end of the lighthouse reinstated. I attended King Williams College for 8 years starting in 1952 and we had to walk or run regularly out to and around the lighthouse with the herring tower and the haunted house being shorter options when the weather was more inclement.
Anon. Ballakillowie
I have walked around Langness for more than sixty years. My father and grandfathers, all Castletown men, walked Langness during their lifetimes. My father, J.J. Corteen, took part in a protest in his youth when an attempt was made to prevent access to Langness as again it happened in 1975. I wish my name to be recorded as a protestor against the action taken.
Elin Callister, Ballasalla
I am visiting the Island after living abroad for 3 years and was suprised and shocked to find that the peninsular at Langness was no longer accessible when I took a much loved walk there last month.
Glynda Farmer, Castletown (Glynda has walked the circular path for 40 years)
Without any doubt our favourite walk is the Langness coastal path. We visit this area at least once every week sometimes more.
Derek & Claire from Colby have walked the circular path for 25 years)
Speaking as a resident of Castletown for 55 years, I whole heartedly agree with everything you say about Langness. No matter how many times I walk round there I never cease to be in awe of its beauty.
I can certainly say that I have enjoyed Langness from a very early age. We played out there as children (fabulous memories), now I cycle or walk as often as I can out around the lighthouse. When we have visitors staying, the first place I take them for a walk is Langness, It is, to me, a perfect example of the beauty of the Manx coastline.
Margaret Reilly, Castletown
Want to support the PROWL campaign? Please click here
Want to find out more about what's happening at Langness? Please click here
Access around the lighthouse, for generations
T.E.Brown and his Guide to Walks of 1877:
"Keep west to Derbyhaven; walk round and out to Fort Island, then along the " back of Langness" - commonly called the "back o'Langlish" - to Langness point. The gullies are good. Off the point, notice the Skerranes and the strong tide. Creep out on the point as far as ever you can; in again, and follow coast of Castletown bay - exquisite bathing creeks; water gloriously clear. At the N.E. corner you come on to the Racecourse, a sweet bit of turfy sandbank - smells like a rose."
Ward Lock’s Illustrated Guide to the Isle of Man 9th Edition 1950:
"Langness Promontory, upon which are excellent Golf Links (18 holes), laid out under the direction of Tom Morris, and about 3 miles in extent. In addition to golfing, there is excellent bathing, boating and fishing in the locality, with the advantage of absolute quiet. The Golf Links Hotel is on the west side.
To the Lighthouse (white light, flashing every five seconds, visible 14 miles) at the end of Langness is a breezy walk of about six miles from Derbyhaven and back. Take the east side one way, and the west the other. Though the cliffs rarely exceed 30 feet in height, the contorted rocks and natural arches are very interesting. On the eastern side the action of the sea, when at a much higher relative level than now, dashing against the beds of the old red conglomerate, has carved out a series of grottoes, romantic arches, and grotesque pillars. The erosion has been much greater upon some of the conglomerate beds than upon others; hence the strange variety of outline. Uncouth faces, outvying the gargoyles of mediaeval architecture, seem to grin from every nook and cranny. Gigantic noses and gaping mouths, fashioned out of the boulders and white quartz pebbles which protrude from the red mass of conglomerate, topped with rude wings of hoary lichen, moss and saxifrage, startle one on every side: In fact, there is hardly an animal or figure which is not caricatured among these romantic rocks."
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Working to
preserve access around Langness
for our children and grandchildren
for our children and grandchildren