In the AL, older parks and more natural grass made for a power-oriented, station to station game.

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Nowadays, the grass grows shin-high within the power station's security fence, the paintwork is peeling and the cement crumbling.

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"Of course, nobody wants a compressor station next door, " said Deborah Lain, who raises grass-fed cattle on a hilltop farm built by her forebears in 1785.

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