"We feel we cannot any longer submit to being deprived of the beauties of the countryside for the convenience of the landowners. Wherever we claim we have a just right to go we shall trespass en masse”
— The Great Outdoors (@TGOMagazine) April 24, 2022
- Benny Rothman, organiser of the 1932 Kinder Scout Mass Trespass pic.twitter.com/kqUcUNrcWO
Today marks the 90th anniversary of the Kinder Trespass. I've walked the route the trespassers took quite a few times over the years.
#OnThisDay 90 years ago, Benny Rothman leads a mass trespass on #KinderScout
— Country Walking (@countrywalking) April 24, 2022
Around 500 young ramblers converge on the Peak District's highest ground to demand access rights to Britain's uplands. The trespass was immortalised in Ewan MacColl's folk song 'The Manchester Rambler'. pic.twitter.com/6XGLu4TaOy
This has been written about by many.
A recent book exploring this is Nick Hayes' 'The Book of Trespass' which also has a recenly published 'Trespassers' Companion' guide.
Guy Shrubsole's book on 'who owns the country' is also worth a look.
Worth checking out the Kinder in Colour website.
As the site says:
Despite making up 13% of the UK population, Black People and People of Colour (BPOC) make up only 1% of visitors to national parks. Just 39% of people from BPOC backgrounds live within a five-minute walk to green spaces compared to 58% of white people (Thomas Reuters Foundation). Additionally more than two-fifths (42%) of people from ethnic minorities live in England’s most green space-deprived neighbourhoods, compared with just one in five white people (The Guardian).
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