What is the best way to clear bramble

[4Shoes]

You don't need to dig out the roots, only the stump.

Cut brambles to ground level to prevent spreading.

Use Mattock / Pick / Crocodile Fork to leaver out the stump. If this is done in the wet, more of the roots will be removed at same time.

Decide on how to cultivate dig/no dig

Best luck.

Grass has not needed cutting for a while now … and the brambles are now coming through so I told you a lie. They do regrow from root cuttings....

That said, very easy to just lift out the shoots with a mattock / fork so may still be less overall effort than digging them all out.

[ESBkevin]

Can you put a couple of pigs on the allotment for a season? Chop off the growth above ground and burn it in a pile. Fence in the pigs and they will dig the roots out for food and fun.

You get pork/bacon and a dug/fertilized allotment free of brambles after about 20 weeks, but you do need to feed the porkers in the meantime!

[bikermike]

can I just point out "very sturdily fence in" - big and determined animals are pigs... especially when food is involved...