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The Peak District & Northern Counties Footpaths Preservation Society was established on 16 August 1894 in the Young Men's Christian Association Hall, Peter Street, Manchester (now St George's House). It had evolved from The Manchester Association for the Preservation of Ancient Public Footpaths, which was founded in 1826. [2]
The Peak & Northern Footpaths Society (PNFS) was formed in 1894 to monitor, protect, and improve the footpath network of the Peak District and surrounding areas. The organisation is the oldest existing regional footpath society in the UK. [116] Saddleworth Moor and Wessenden, above Meltham, gained notoriety after the Moors murders in the 1960s ...
Peak District Boundary Walk plaque at King's Head pub, Buxton. The route is waymarked with green markers and uses existing footpaths, tracks, quiet lanes, disused railway lines and a canal towpath. The start and finish is at the King's Head pub on Buxton Market Place, where a plaque has been installed by the Peak & Northern Footpaths Society ...
The name "Kinder" was first recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086 as Chendre, [12] and is of obscure meaning. [13] It is believed to be pre-English in origin. [13] " Scout" is an old word for a high, overhanging rock (derived from the Norse skúte), [14] and refers to the cliffs on the western side of the plateau.
The North Cheshire Way is a 71-mile (114 km) long-distance footpath in Cheshire, England. It runs approximately eastwards from Hooton railway station on the Wirral peninsula to Disley railway station on the edge of the Peak District, [2] where it connects with the Gritstone Trail. There is a 6-mile (9.7 km) spur from Chester to Croughton.
The path continues along the wooded Dane Valley through the hamlets of Gradbach, Danebridge and Wincle. It leaves the Peak District and goes on through Eaton, Congleton, Swettenham, Brereton Heath Nature Reserve, Holmes Chapel and Middlewich, where the River Dane joins the River Wheelock. The second half of the route includes considerable ...
Pages in category "Peak District" The following 116 pages are in this category, out of 116 total. ... Peak & Northern Footpaths Society; Peak District Boundary Walk;
The mass trespass of Kinder Scout was a trespass protest at Kinder Scout in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England, on 24 April 1932.The protest sought to highlight that walkers were denied access to areas of open countryside which had been fenced off by wealthy landowners who forbade public access. [1]