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British worker as well as a rise in real wages and a decreasing cost of travel. In the early 1930s, a rise in unemployment led to more leisure time, leading to a surge in walking known as a "hiking craze". There was also a high level of media coverage which, according to Ann Holt, was comparable to modern media hype. Frank Trentmann has suggested that the surge in walkers made it "the numerically strongest part of the new romanticism in interwar Britain".
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to encourage the taste of visiting the lakes by furnishing the traveller with a Guide; and for that purpose, the writer has here collected and laid before him, all the select stations and points of view, noticed by those authors who have last made the tour of the lakes, verified by his own repeated
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activities, and most guidebooks advise carrying a rope, especially on harder scrambles, which may be used for security on exposed sections, to assist less confident members of the party, or to facilitate retreat in case of difficulty. Scramblers need to know their limits and to turn back before
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643:) the land surrounding it is also excluded in order to provide reasonable measures of privacy. The issue of how much land surrounding a building is required to provide "reasonable measures of privacy" has been the main issue on which the courts have been asked to intervene. In
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England, people began to migrate to the cities where living standards were often cramped and unsanitary. They would escape the confines of the city by rambling about in the countryside. However, the land in England, particularly around the urban areas of
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is a charity "dedicated to making London one of the world's best cities for walking and enjoying streets and public spaces—a city that is genuinely inclusive of all its residents, workers and visitors and not just designed for car users". It has created
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across some private land, were periodically presented to
Parliament from 1884 to 1932 without success. Mass rallies and trespasses were held in support of this cause, including an annual access to mountains demonstration at
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have been sown access rights are restricted to the margins of those fields. Access rights do not apply to land on which there is a building, plant or machinery. Where that building is a house or other dwelling (e.g. a
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the courts allowed about 5.3 hectares (13 acres) to be excluded, but refused permission for a wider area to be excluded and required the landowner to keep the driveway unlocked to allow access.
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1930:"Summary of Scottish access and liability court cases"
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National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949
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of 1778. In the introduction he wrote that he aimed
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1449:List of mountains of the British Isles by height
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1151:The Regent's Canal near St Mark's Regents' Park
1106:Hillwalkers on Catbells, Lake District, England
962:However, many hillwalkers become proficient in
1807:"Ramblers Association: Basics of Footpath Law"
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1821:"Naturenet: Rights of Way Definitive Maps"
1536:The Norton Anthology of English Literature
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2041:Mountain Leader Training Northern Ireland
2037:"Mountaineering Ireland (Previously MCI)"
1054:provides more information on this topic.
702:across whose land the Waymarked Ways and
470:Learn how and when to remove this message
268:in France with a donkey, recorded in his
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1879:"About the Scottish Outdoor Access Code"
1773:"Kinder Trespass. A history of rambling"
740:The paved surface of the Pennine Way on
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1935:. Cairngorms Local Outdoor Access Forum
1796:. New York: Penguin Books, 2000, p.104.
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2157:Directory of Rambling Clubs in the UK
1283:in Gloucestershire and ending at the
1098:List of UK hill-walking guide writers
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1579:. Lake District UK. Archived from
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1954:Carrell, Severin (14 June 2007).
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1981:"Access - Useful Info - Walk NI"
1794:Wanderlust: A History of Walking
1549:Wanderlust: A History of Walking
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189:Claife Station, built at one of
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818:Mountains and hills of Scotland
633:Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003
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2016:British Mountaineering Council
1901:"Scottish Outdoor Access Code"
1397:British Mountaineering Council
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2173:Open Paths and Trails website
1454:Lists of mountains in Ireland
1378:Countryside Council for Wales
1327:, Yorkshire, which is on the
594:mass trespass of Kinder Scout
207:Mass trespass of Kinder Scout
2178:Ramblers Association website
1421:Mountain Bothies Association
1131:Scottish Mountaineering Club
623:Scottish Outdoor Access Code
205:Commemorative plaque of the
2012:"BMC – Safety & Skills"
1881:. Scottish Natural Heritage
1494:"Enjoy Scotland's Outdoors"
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1246:London Outer Orbital Path
672:Rights of way in Scotland
647:Perth and Kinross Council
493:Rights of way in Scotland
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1649:Stephenson, Tom (1989).
1362:British Heart Foundation
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223:(1850). His famous poem
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36:Backpacking (wilderness)
1839:"Inner London Ramblers"
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790:long-distance footpaths
770:Scotland's Great Trails
726:Long-distance footpaths
549:Rights of way in London
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