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I am looking for books on the mass trespass on kinder scout. Do you have any or can you give me list? Many thanks, Gill Ormond
Re Gill’s comment – I’d also be interested in finding a good book on that! Countryfile did a piece on it a few years ago, which is where I first heard about it. Fascinating piece of working class history – the precursor to the Countryside Right Of Wat (CROW) Act
This one is pretty good – Tom Stephenson, Forbidden Land: the Struggle for Access to Mountain and Moorland (Manchester Univ. Press, 1989). Not sure if it’s still in print though, but you can see extracts on:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SBkNAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA45&dq=kinder%20scout%20trespass&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
I have book I bought 30 odd years ago printed by WILLOW PUBLISHINGS of Timperley, I suggest you look up BENNY ROTHMAN one the men who lead the trespass . A man I met during the miners strike of 1984, a man I’d say only 4′ 10” tall but a colossal man in history(of course not given any recognition today ) Good luck.