Landowner blocks entry to ‘hot spot’ lake after getting fed up with visitors ‘trashing’ the place


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What many people did not seem to know is that the Blue Lake is located on private land. It belongs to sheep farmer Allan Titley, 70, who bought his 500-acre farm in the 1980s. By that point, the lake was already a locally known attraction, so even though it was now part of his land, he gave visitors access to it.

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The problem started when the Blue Lake’s fame spread outside that small circle, and hoards of visitors were coming every weekend. The real issue, though, was not the number of people, but the amount of trash they were producing and failing to get rid of. Over the past three years, the situation got so bad, the farmer ultimately made an extreme decision.

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