The Ordnance Survey have turned down a request for Alice's Meadow to be marked on their maps.
Apparently it doesn't meet their current criteria, which are:
"recording something of national/historical importance only or a field that has been presented to a community for recreational use and may have a name such as ‘St Georges Recreational Ground’ bestowed upon it by the local council."
This seems a bit high handed as 1. It was a nationally significant campaign, and remains an important environmentalist victory; & 2. The name "Alice's Meadow" is used officially to describe the field by the local Parish Council when inviting bids for a grazing licence for the field.
It seems that the 3000+ plot holders in the field don't represent a "significant customer base" as far as the Ordnance Survey are concerned.
The good news is that the AA have agreed to include Alice's Meadow in their route planning system, at their next update.
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