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Thus, if the mail bag weighed twenty pounds—no very great weight—Finlay had to pay �48, the cost of wayleave for his courier to travel from Albany to New York.

Five out of six farmers around Crosby Ravensworth have offered to forego wayleave charges and help dig trenches.

However, Ofcom's new regulations gave no reference to "wayleave", whereby BT is granted special permission by rural groups such as the National Farmers' Union and Countryside Landowners' Association to string cable on poles or in ducts, as part of its universal service obligation.