Came across this in the woods while out walking near Keswick. It’s behind a wire fence, with what looks like vertical tubes (maybe metal or plastic?) attached to a wooden frame. There are also more posts around it — not sure if it’s an enclosure, a trap, or something else entirely?

Any ideas? Wondering if it’s related to wildlife monitoring or forest management.

by tealeafxo

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  4. It’s a market town in the Lake District, but that’s not important right now.

  5. Looks like a exclusion gate, animals can go one way only.

  6. I was there this weekend too and wondered the same thing! Did you go up Cat Bells?

  7. Welcome to Keswick! (I now live outside of Keswick in another village out of the park cos no one who works there can buy a house but that’s for another reddit) That’s an exclusion gate – to keep large creatures in but let smaller ones, foxes, badgers etc out. Or the other way around, usually to keep deer out of an area. Deer munch freshly planted native trees in rewilding projects which is blimin expensive to replace.

  8. Perhaps something to limit the size of animals that can pass through it. Small animals can pass through it, but something larger would be blocked.

  10. A fence. To keep the riff raff out….. Or maybe in🤔

  11. Are there deer, rabbits or other animals that will eat newly planted trees?

  19. It’s a pheasant pen for rearing pheasants from poults. The gate stops larger predators from getting in but allows them to walk in and out. They know it’s safe and there will likely be feeders in the pen.

  21. Its pens for raising baby pheasants, poults. Estates buy in eggs (and incubate them) or young poults, raise them, and then release them for the shooting season.

  25. It’s a hold for werewolves so they can transform safely on full moon nights and not hurt other humans.

  27. Is the fence about 2m high? If so, it’s a deer fence with an access point for smaller animals.

  29. I saw this (at Lingholm?) and wondered the same thing.

  30. Is this on the Lingholm estate? Looks familiar.

  31. It’s a deer gate IIRC. There are loads in the woods around Lingholm. I assume you’re on the track leading towards Catbells (though I may be wrong 😳 ).

  32. This is a pheasant pen. For rearing young pheasants. Those doors allow for the birds to slowly leave rather than opening a big gate and let them all out at once. Keeps the birds where they need to be for the local shoot

  36. Looks like a fence. There’s some sort of object beyond it but I don’t know what that is.

  37. It’s so weird knowing I’ve been there in the exact same place around the time you posted this, maybe 1-2 hours before that. I’ve also wondered what that was and it feels so weird to see it a few hours later on Reddit.

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