Author name: David Toft

It focuses on the 1932 Mass Trespass in Hayfield but places it in the context of the much longer campaign for access beginning in ‘modern’ times with 1896 Winter Hill and 1897 Hayfield Snake Path events, continuing in the 20th century on both sides of the pennines – and stressing that the campaign still continues.

To these slopesHere on the sides of this great and ancient plateau’s edge,Where the curlew sings on a summer’s dayIts solitary, swooping noteLike a crystal drop of Kinder water –A song far sweeterThan any music humans ever made –The walkers cameTo claim for all who’d followThe right to hear that songTo breath that air with

70 YEARS ON from the Kinder Trespass – The Countryside Rights of Way Act A big step forward, but a long way still to go Last Saturday, 27th April (2002), saw the small Peak District village of Hayfield celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the mass trespass on Kinder Scout. In 1932, following a rallying speech

The Peak District National Park opened in 1951 and was the first of its kind in the UK. It is centred on the Kinder Scout massif, that beautiful, dark, brooding plateau of rugged moorland lying between the great industrial conurbations of Greater Manchester to the West and Sheffield to the East. It is through this