Land Barriers is an ongoing photographic series capturing public signs proclaiming an area, road, track, grounds are private.
The series takes its title from a 1959 article written by Ethel M. Edmunds for The Essex Countryside where Ethel explains all the physical barriers they overcome when traversing the Essex countryside, from red flags, notices, cattle, flooded roads, rivers, lack of transport and private land.
In 2022 as part of an Instagram Live for The Old Waterworks, I shared PLOT related research, recited Ethals text and shared some land barrier photos. You can watch the insta live here

Ulverston (3) - 2025

Ulverston (2) - 2025

Ulverston - 2025

Liskeard, Duloe - 2025

Great Wakering - 2024

Barling Magna (2) - 2024

Barling Magna (1) - 2024

Saffron Walden, Wicken Bonhunt (2) - 2024

Saffron Walden, Wicken Bonhunt (1) - 2024

Saffron Walden, Rickling (2) - 2024

Saffron Walden, Rickling (1) - 2024

Saffron Walden, Clavering (2) - 2024

Saffron Walden, Clavering (1) - 2024

West Okement River - 2024

Westcliff on Sea (2) - 2024

Bristol (6), 2023

Bristol (5), 2023

Bristol (4), 2023

Bristol (3), 2023

Bristol (2), 2023

Bristol, 2023

Westcliff on Sea (2), 2023

Colchester (2), 2023

Rayleigh (2), 2023

Rayleigh, 2023

Thorndon Country Park (3), 2023

Westcliff-on-Sea, 2023

Southend on Sea (3), 2023

Rayleigh, Thundersley (2), 2023

Rayleigh, Thundersley, 2023

Southend on Sea (2), 2023

Herongate, 2023

Ingrave, 2023

Thorndon Country Park (2), 2023

Thorndon Country Park, 2023

Shoeburyness (3), 2023

Shoeburyness (2), 2023

Langdon Hills, (3) 2023

Langdon Hills (2), 2023

Laindon, 2023

Hullbridge (3), 2023

Hullbridge, (2) 2023

Hullbridge, 2023



Colchester, 2022
Paglesham, 2022
Paglesham (2), 2022
Paglesham (3), 2022
Brompton, 2022

Hockley, 2022

Hockley (2), 2022

Hawkwell, 2022

Shoeburyness, 2022

Hyde Park, 2022