Kinder Scout; not just a peat bog and grit-stone plateau!

[SteveD]

The Kinder Scout... Kinder plateau is a large expanse of peat bog and grit-stone, rising up, between Edale to the south and the Snake Pass to the north. A notable Mooreland plateau and mountain; at 636 m (2,088 ft) above sea level, located in the Dark Peak of the Peak District national park (Derbyshire, England). Part of this Mooreland plateau is the highest point in Derbyshire and the Peak District; it is directly accessible from the villages of Hayfield and Edale.

Monday 25 April 1932; saw four or five hundred ramblers from Sheffield & Manchester, trespass en masse, on Kinder Scout. The majority, from Manchester, ascended from the Town of Hayfield, in the west, and although the ramblers came across resistance by landowners agents (estate keepers) the ramblers managed to continue on to thier objective of Kinder Scout. During a brief fight, between keepers and ramblers, both ramblers and keepers were injured (one keeper was knocked unconscious) but no-one was seriously hurt. Later, after descending five ramblers, having been identified by a keeper, were arrested, by the police and detained.

It was this mass trespass action that blazed a trail for the right to roam and national parks.

So, Kinder; although arguably not the most inspiring landscape and contentious when referred to as a mountain, since it doesn’t have an identifiable peak/summit; played a momentous part in our ability to roam and gain access to land when walking, hiking or trekking.

Trig point - SK 07904 87059 - Kinder low.