The Wild Rover: A Blistering Journey Along Britain’s Footpaths

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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.

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  Automobile Association, Walking in Britain

  Bate, Jonathan, John Clare: A Biography

  Belsey, Valerie, Discovering Green Lanes

  Bonser, K. J., The Drovers

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  Fowles, John, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

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  Grigson, Geoffrey, The Shell Country Alphabet

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  Hardy, Thomas, The Woodlanders

  Hawkes, Jacquetta and Christopher, Prehistoric Britain

  Hill, Howard, Freedom to Roam

  Hindle, Brain Paul, Roads, Tracks and Their Interpretation

  Hippisley Cox, R., The Green Roads of England

  Horan, James, Memoirs 1911–1986

  Jennett, Seán, The Ridgeway Path

  Jones, Roger, The Walkers’ Companion and Rambling on . . .

  Kynaston, David, A World to Build: Austerity Britain 1945–48

  Laws, Bill, Byways, Boots & Blisters – A History of Walkers and Walking

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  Leete, J. A., A Wiltshire Miscellany

  Looker, S. J. and Porteous, C., Richard Jefferies, Man of the Fields

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  Salveson, Paul, Will Yo’ Come O’ Sunday Mornin’?

  Sampson, Fay, A Free Man on Sunday

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  Williams, Raymond, Culture and Society

  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

 

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