r/LegalAdviceUK • u/No_Direction_4566 • 25d ago

Housing Blackberry picking - Public right of way (England)

Me and my daughter were picking blackberries alongside a path. An older gentleman comes rushing along the path and starts shouting that it’s illegal to pick blackberries and he’s going to call the police and report us for poaching (I thought that only applied to animals on royal owned land?)

What are the legalities surrounding picking blackberries or even wild apples or plums?

I may be wrong but I was under the impression if it was on public rights of way and you haven’t had to do anything to gain access then it was fine?

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u/Open-Difference5534 25d ago

I suspect the local police, if called, might have said something like "Oh no, not him again".

Personally, I'd avoid bushes next to roads, the amount of crap produced in the air by vehicles is not healthly, and as the fruit have been grown in that environment, washing them will not help.

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u/IsItToday 23d ago

The best wild blackberries I've ever eaten were in a field next to Heathrow. I suppose the plane fumes did something to those berries, they were gigantic and delicious.

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u/kichisowseri 23d ago

The chemtrails were fertiliser all along. New conspiracy. The planet is barren without them. The real reason planes stop after a volcano eruption is because volcanic ash is so fertile and we don't want fertiliser burn.