A PLAQUE may be installed to mark the heritage of the concrete fence at Bude Railway Station.

Bude-Stratton Town Council’s heritage and culture committee last Thursday heard the fence was not in a good state of repair.

Committee chairman Cllr Alan Biggs said: “I went and had a look at it this morning, and it is clearly in poor condition architecturally. It has little to recommend it.”

It has been suggested that a plaque would state the fence’s heritage to the town, and convey to the public that it is part of the station wall.

Town clerk Donna James said it would be pointless to lift the fence and move it somewhere else as it may get damaged further. The plaque would identify the fence’s importance to the town — it was originally erected to prevent headlights from passing cars dazzling drivers at the railway station.

But it was pointed out that the fence is not the council’s property. Miss James said: “If we were to commemorate the fence, in the future, people may think it is under our policy and we would then have to continue to look after it.”