Features Ed Blog: The Glorious Peak District - The People's Friend
Features Ed Blog: The Glorious Peak District By It’s incredible to think how limited the public’s access to land was a hundred years ago. Landowners possessed large parcels of the countryside, offering no welcome to those seeking escape from the growing urban areas of our country. If you wanted a break from the hubbub, you couldn’t simply go for a walk. Many of the high and wild areas were reserved as shooting estates for the well-to-do. It was an event in the Peak District back in 1932 which helped the push for access rights. Protestors arranged a “mass trespass” on Kinder Scout, ...
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