by Mike Parker
I am particularly indebted to the staff of the many public libraries who helped with my research, especially in Westport, Machynlleth, Uckfield, Kettering, Ystradgynlais, Crowland, Peterborough, Anstruther, Morecambe, Stockport and Lyme Regis. Dropping in on them unannounced, no question seemed too obtuse, no request too dull for these ever-patient and enthusiastic people. Local libraries are one of our greatest national resources; we let them wither and die at our peril. Thanks too to the staff of the British Library and the National Libraries of Wales and Scotland.
Heartfelt appreciation as well to Helena Nicholls and the crew at Collins, and to my agent Rebecca Winfield for all her sage advice and ability to massage the fragile ego of her clients just when it was needed most. A huge diolch yn fawr to friends and neighbours in Esgairgeiliog, a supremely happy home to me for the last ten years, and in particular to Preds for all his unflappable strength and support. Get the jug on, cariad.
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INDEX
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Access to Mountains (Scotland) Bill 57–62, 63, 65–6
Access to Mountains Act (1939) 66–75, 143
Adams, Vyvyan 69–70
Ainsworth, Richard 29–30, 31, 32
Ames, John 253, 254
Ashbrook, Kate 136–7, 138, 139–42, 156–7, 295
Ashcombe Estate 147–51
Attlee, Clement 75, 106
Ayrton Gould, Barbara 79
Bale, Conyers 25
Ballintober Abbey 207–11, 212
Band of Historical Hillwalkers 170–1
Barrow-in-Furness 177
Beamish, Major Tufton 78
Blacks 172–3
Blackstone Edge 122–3
Blair, Tony 82, 91, 107, 148, 177
Bleaklow 21–2, 37, 45
blogs and diaries 87–90
Blue John 53
BNP 19
Boheh Stone 215–17
Borth 305–6
Bottoms path, Flixton 20, 26–7, 28
Brown, Dr Roy 241
Brown, Gordon 80, 82, 107
Bryce, James 57, 58–61, 63, 66
Bryce, John Annan 63
Budleigh Salterton 250
Bush, George H. 82
Cameron, David 82, 109, 176, 294, 300
Camino el Rey, El 259–60
Camino of St James of Compostela 197–8
Camus, Albert 55
Canavan, Denis 81
Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer) 198
Capurro, Scott 110
Caravan Club 317–18
Carn Llidi 246
car-inaccessible places 307–11
Castle, Barbara 80, 90
Castleton 52–3
celebrities 151
chalk-and-flint 102–4
Chamberlain, Neville 67
Chequers 105–9
Childish, Billy 171
Chiltern Society 111–12
Chilterns 95, 96–8, 102–6, 109–12, 117, 256
Chomsky, Noam 55–6
Churchill, Winston 105, 108
Chuter-Ede, James 72, 74–5
city centres 125–6
Clare, John 157–67
Clarke, Colonel Sir Ralph 77–8
Clee Hills 5–6
Clegg, Nick 176
Cleveland Way 91, 240
Clifton Brown, Brigadier General Douglas 69
Clinton, Bill 82
Coast to Coast walk 87, 90, 174–86, 197, 240
Coleman, Joe 205–6
Concerned Ramblers 302–3
Conservatives (Tories) 19, 57, 59–60, 62, 68–70, 72, 74, 77–8, 79, 81, 109, 176, 177
Cook, Robin 81
Coombe Hill 95, 105
Coronation Street 53
corpse paths 222–34
Countryside Commission 87, 240, 288–9
Countryside and Rights of Way (CROW) Act (2000) 91, 99, 139, 141, 147–8, 150, 191, 285, 319
County Mayo 201–22
Cowley, Bill 235–7, 238, 239, 241, 242, 243
Cranborne Chase 150
Creech-Jones, Arthur 66–7
Croagh Patrick 196, 199–201, 206–7, 212, 218–222
Cumbria, inept tourism 178–80
cyclists 91, 100
Dalton, Hugh 80
Darwen access battle 34–7, 56
de Quincy, Thomas 192
Devereux, Paul 224, 227, 228–9, 230
Dewar, Arthur 72
Did
cot power station 114
disabled people 293–4
Donner, Sir Patrick 69
Drovers’ paths 126–7
Duckworth, Rev. William Arthur 35
DyfiJunction 307–8
Eccles, William 26–7, 28
Edale 41, 45, 49, 50, 52, 289
electronic pedestrian counters 288–9
Elie chain walk 259
Ellis, Tom 62–3
Ely–Walsingham pilgrimage 198–9
enclosures 56, 157–8, 160–2
ethnic minorities 292–3
Exeter, Marquis of 158
Fahey, Father Frank 212, 215, 216, 218
farmers 11–12, 146, 195, 256
Farquharson, Robert 61
Father Ted 206–7
Faxton 311–13
Flavell, Brigadier E. W. C. 79
Fletcher, Reginald 67 Fletcher-Vane, William 81
Flixton footpath battle 23, 25–8, 56
foot-and-mouth (2001) 3, 124, 189–91, 319
footpath-upkeep volunteers 17–19, 294
Forestry Commission 12–16
Framfield 9 path 133–4, 136–42, 156–7
Franklin, Tom 296, 300–1, 302, 303
Fraser, Sir Ian 78
Free Man on Sunday, A (Sampson) 42
French Lieutenant’s Woman, The (Fowles) 249, 251, 257
gates
around author’s patch 2, 10–11, 287
modern plethora 286–7
Gladstone, William 55
Godwin, Fay 295–6
golf courses 250–1
Goring 112–13
grouse shooting 21, 22, 30, 45, 68, 78, 85
Hadrian’s Wall National Trail 123–4
Hague, William 81
Haldane, Lord 106
Hamersley, Richard 239
Harding, Mike 33, 42, 43, 90
Hardy, Thomas 275–6
Hattersley, Roy 43
Haughey, Charles 204
Hayfield 43–4, 45–6
Heath, Ted 158, 297
Heilgers, Frank 68–9, 69–70
Hervey-Bathurst, James 155–6
Hicks, Bill 245
Highways Act (1815) 26
Holland 60
Hoogstraten, Nicholas van 133–6, 137–9, 140, 142
Horan, Monsignor James 202–4
Hughes, Emlyn 177
Hunt, Henry 27
Institute for Public Rights of Way (IPROW) 282–6
Cambridge conference 282–6, 289
Jefferies, Richard 120
jogging 82
John Paul II, Pope 204
Joyce, Mary 162–3
Keeling, Edward 77
Kenilworth Footpath Preservation Group (KFPG) 18–19
Kinder Scout protest 21–2, 29, 32, 33, 34, 37–48, 52, 56, 66
Knock Airport 201–6
Labour Party/New Labour 19, 42–3, 57, 65, 66–8, 69, 70, 72, 74, 75–6, 78–9, 80, 81, 91, 106–7, 131, 301
Lake District, shortcomings 186–7
Lake District National Park 49, 175, 181
land ownership and custodianship 152–6
Land Reform (Scotland) Act (2003) 91, 285–6
Lee, Lord 106, 108
Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems) 81–2, 131, 176 Liberal Party 19, 57, 59, 62, 63, 70, 72, 74, 106
Lich Way, Dartmoor 224–34
Limitation Act (1623) 71
Lloyd George, David 106, 108
Llŷn Peninsula 193–4
local authorities 76, 79–80, 83, 158, 281, 290
paths strategy 297–9
local path inventory, author’s 7–17
Lockley, R. M. 246
London walks 264–5
Long Distance paths (LDPs) 76, 80, 83, 84, 94, 101, 130, 240, 296–8, 319
Lyke Wake Walk 234–43
Lyme Regis 250–1, 252–4, 257–8
MacColl, Ewan 34
MacDonald, Ramsay 65, 106
Macrae, Murdo 58
Madison, James 56
Madonna 146–51
Mais, S. P. B. 194–5
Major, Norma 108
Mam Tor 50–1, 54
Manchester 27–8, 32, 34
Manchester Society for the Preservation of Ancient Footpaths 26–7
Mander, Sir Geoffrey 74
Manic Street Preachers 55–6
market paths 124–5
Marshall, Fred 67–8
Mary Barton (Gaskell) 29–30
Maud Heath’s Causeway 124–5
Mawsley Village 313–16
Middlewood station 308
Miliband, David 42–3
Millennium Dome 265–6
Millets 172, 173
Montgomery 188
Moore, George 209
Moorlands and Memories (Clarke) 32
Morecambe Bay crossing 260–2
Moritz, Pastor Karl Philipp 192
Morris, Adrian 295
Mountain Rivers and Pathways (Wales) bill 62–3
Murray, Andrew Graham 61–2
National Parks 49–50, 76, 79, 83
National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act (1949) 66, 76–81, 82–85, 91
National Trails 86, 90–1, 93–5, 101, 123, 246, 263, 288–9
National Trust 64, 65, 119, 129, 303, 317
New Mills Millennium Walkway 43
Nicolson, Harold 106
Noel-Baker, Philip 74
Norris, Mr 25, 26
North York Moors National Park 49, 50, 91, 241, 242
nouveau riche 142–5
Offa’s Dyke Path 91, 187–8
Open Spaces Society 75, 133, 136, 295
Ordnance Survey (OS) maps 83, 176, 229, 241, 246, 262
Ellis Martin covers 46
Explorer 7, 40, 114, 250, 258
Landranger 7, 129–30
nineteenth-century 10, 214, 313
