Scottish style trail access in the Peak – can it work?

A few years ago, there was almost palpable excitement at the prospect that Wales might be getting the same sort of trail access as Scotland – which is seen as a surprisingly level-headed and sensible way of doing things, free from the parochial and historic pointlessness which blights access rights in the rest of the UK. But, perhaps inevitably, it didn’t happen.

However, to commemorate the Kinder Trespass in 1932, and 50 years of the Pennine Way, the Spirit of Kender event will include a meeting to look at the access model in Scotland, and whether it could be attributed to anywhere else in the UK – more specifically the Peak.

The meeting is on Saturday 25th April at Edale Village Hall, at 2pm – so you could pop along, and then head out for a ride!

For more details click here

Source: Keeper of the Peak

Barney Marsh

Barney Marsh takes the word ‘career’ literally, veering wildly across the road of his life, as thoroughly in control as a goldfish on the dashboard of a motorhome. He’s been, with varying degrees of success, a scientist, teacher, shop assistant, binman and, for one memorable day, a hospital laundry worker. These days, he’s a dad, husband, guitarist, and writer, also with varying degrees of success. He sometimes takes photographs. Some of them are acceptable. Occasionally he rides bikes to cast the rest of his life into sharp relief. Or just to ride through puddles. Sometimes he writes about them. Bikes, not puddles. He is a writer of rongs, a stealer of souls and a polisher of turds. He isn’t nearly as clever or as funny as he thinks he is.

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