Author: HILL, HOWARD
Title: Freedom to Roam : The Struggle for Access to Britain's Moors and Mountains
Description: Ashbourne, Derbyshire, Moorland Publishing Co Ltd. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 090348577X) Hard Cover, 8.5 x 6.25 inches. Name to title page and opposite page. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards, slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with light indenting and with sunning to front spine edge. 139pp. An account of the restrictions on access to land in Britain for walkers and climbers and the various attempts to change that which saw its most determined effort in the 1930s in the Peak District when five men were jailed for trespassing. This contrasts markedly with the Alps which have always been free to walk on. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Walking, Mountains, Hills, Mass Trespass Walking / Rambling / Cycling 090348577x


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