The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #34513   Message #466244
Posted By: Gervase
19-May-01 - 11:35 AM
Thread Name: BS: UK footpaths, a modest proposal
Subject: RE: BS: UK footpaths, a modest proposal
Bugger! The first blicky above was meant to link to the Manchester Rambler, Ewan MacColl's song written to celebrate the mass trespass from Hayfield onto Kinder in April 1932 which resulted in imprisonment of 5 walkers and led eventually to the National Parks Act of 1949 which enabled the Ramblers' Association to negotiate with landowners to establish the freedom to walk over open countryside.
For more on the original trespass and its remarkable leader, see this.