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CPRE Peak District and South Yorkshire also represents the Friends of the Peak District.

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We want to connect people to our beautiful countryside in the Peak District and South Yorkshire.

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Peak District boundary walk

To celebrate our beautiful national park, we’ve devised a 200-mile walking route around its boundary.

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What gets built and where

A family walking in the front door of their house

Sheffield Local Plan

We have welcomed the first instalment of Sheffield’s local plan

What gets built and where

Planning legislation changes could damage local democracy

Planning is NOT an obstacle to progress, nor to building the homes we need.

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Cleaner countryside

Peak District and South Yorkshire

Woodsetts – a brilliant result

Climate emergency

Peak District and South Yorkshire

Our response to the government’s statement on Protected Landscapes

Landscapes

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Can you help shape the future of the Peak District National Park ??

Cleaner countryside

Peak District and South Yorkshire

Want a full and open consultation on the A57 Link Roads?

Undergrounding

Peak District and South Yorkshire

Going underground in the Peak District

Local transport

Peak District and South Yorkshire

CPRE would like to know why a good bus service matters to your community

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Peak District and South Yorkshire

Peak District National Park 70th

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Loxley Valley Appeal – livestream

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; South Yorkshire Fire @SYFR

Here's a few 📸 from the on-going incident at Wharncliffe Woods, Oughtibridge.

We're still there this morning, having been called on Sunday. Any chance of some rain? 🌧️

Thankfully we have been able to scale things down a bit. Great work from our crews! 👍

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1/4 Come and share your Peak District Boundary memories with us at our friendly, informal event at the Longdendale Environmental Centre on Thu18th Aug 1 - 4pm.

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; Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service @DerbyshireFRS

You've seen the news, so please #PackAPicnic & prevent a fire.

We are in exceptional circumstances with the risk of fire extremely high, so please play your part.

Do not take disposable bbq's onto moorlands, or open spaces. #BeMoorAware @peakdistrict

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Something for the weekend 😎📖 ? Our latest e-newsletter featuring campaigning and events news from the last few months is now available to read on our website (Please RT @DoreVillageSoc @theoutdoorcity @CPRE @Campaign4Parks @cprepdsy @peak_northern ) https://www.cprepdsy.org.uk/news/e-newsletter-august-2022/

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; Buxton Advertiser @Buxton_News

Plans for a 24-hour McDonalds drive thru in #Buxton have been broadly welcomed by one town organisation, and residents have until later this month to have their say on the application too

https://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/business/plans-for-24-hour-mcdonalds-on-aldi-site-in-buxton-3804391

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; Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service @DerbyshireFRS

Found running from the fire this lizard was rescued by firefighters! This was his habitat - his home! Moorlands & countryside are home to all sorts of precious animals &flowers & yet we continue to see it destroyed by the irresponsible & careless use of portable BBQs #packapicnic

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; Andrew McCloy @peak_chair

Thank you ⁦@sainsburys⁩. No excuses for the others now. ⁦@jimdixonwriter⁩ ⁦@Campaign4Parks⁩ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62510098

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Lovely to see a picture of our President - Dame Fiona Reynolds - ( @fionacreynolds ) unveiling the Ethel plaque in the latest copy of the @CPRE magazine. ( great photo by 📷 by Gemma Thorpe )

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; rivelinvalley @rivelin_valley

Fancy helping with an archaeological dig to discover more about the Lodgemoor prisoner of war camp? See

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-archaeology-excavation-at-lodge-moor-pow-camp-tickets-396960117397

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Anyone that does a lot of sorting / collecting / filing need these storage frames and boxes in their life ? They’re 2m tall and each holds 45 x A4 size cardboard boxes. Used but functional. Will need collecting from Sheffield S2. Small donation required.

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The final instalment from our wonderful @HeritageFundUK Archive Project research volunteers. The importance of #townandcountryplanning #campaigning and getting involved. https://www.cprepdsy.org.uk/about-us/our-history/archive-project/stories-from-the-archive-5-shaping-post-war-planning-policy/

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Waiting for the wind …

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Shade. Any shade. 26c. Stanage.

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Those with whom we interact the most here on twitter c/o #chirpty 👋👋👋 can you see yourself ?

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; Chris Corker @ChrisCorker

Called in my local British Heart Foundation charity shop earlier this week. 'They might have something Sheffield related I don't have' I thought. 45 minutes, 29 books and pamphlets and a big donation later, this is what I walked away with!

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A thing called a ‘cool breeze’ was blowing across the gritstone edges this morning. Seems like months since we had one of them !! The iconic purple heather of the moors is in full flower too.

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; Chantal Lyons @CSLyons

Haven't got a pine marten on my trail cam yet but can I interest anyone in TINY BABY BOAR? (Srsly, they're so small, I reckon they're fresh out of the nest & this is their first time at the communal wallow)

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The list of @HCTGroupGB owned bus-services around Sheffield and S. Yorkshire that provide essential connectivity to urban and rural communities but will cease to run from Monday. What’s the replacement solution @SouthYorksMayor @SheffCouncil @CTPlusYorkshire ??? @CPRE

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; Visit #OurCowMolly 11am - 5pm Wed, Fri, Sat & Sun @OurCowMolly

@olivercoppard is it true bus 61 & 62 that bring people up to the farm will no longer run from Monday ?
Stopping people visiting the @theoutdoorcity by public transport doesn’t add up when @sheffhallamuni say the spend is £53 Million it would make it seem viable to run the bus.

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Friday in the archive. Doubtless this remarkable booklet will need updating soon with an account of the work of the charity from 1989 to 2024 - and thereby detailing a century of unbroken endeavour to protect the countryside of the Peak District and South Yorkshire.

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To date there have now been >17000 downloads of the ‘Ethels’ app which promotes hillwalking in the Peak District and is named after the founder of @cprepdsy. Thanks to Doug Colton for the idea and the energy. And if @clarebalding would like to know more about the app, or about the life and work of out founder - Ethel Haythornthwaite - *before* her @bbcradio4 programme about the app (3pm on 10 March) we’d be delighted to chat to her 🤞

Excited is an understatement !!! Huge thanks to #yorkshirefilmarchive for taking a delicate old reel of footage from our archive and working their magic. Ethel Gallimore (she didn’t marry Gerald Haythornthwaite until 1937) handing over the deeds of Surprise View to the @peakdistrictnt to ensure access for all forever. An incredible short film. Plans are afoot to do something rather special with it too 🤫. // @nationaltrust @easternmoors @cpre @campaign4parks #ethelhaythornthwaite #accessbars

Type ‘Ethels’ in to the BBC News today and you’ll read the story of this man - Dan Cunningham. Dan gave himself a kick up the bum and gained health and confidence by setting himself the challenge of completing the ‘Ethels Challenge’ of walking up 95 Peak District hills - the challenge - which is app based and was designed by Doug Colton, is named after Ethel Haythornthwaite who founded our charity. Some of these hills played a huge part in restoring her mental wellbeing when her husband died in WW1, and she then dedicated the rest of her life to protecting them and promoting access. We’ve chatted to Dan today, and we’ve linked him up with Doug so there may be more Ethels adventures and media to follow. A big ‘well done’ to anyone getting out and about in the countryside hereabouts regardless of your speed or fitness. Keep going 👏👏👏👏👏 (The app includes a button that links to more info on the charity and a ‘Support Us’ button where you can make a donation to help support our work).

A little bit of rainbow at the tail end of the intense shower this morning.

Blue and yellow. Colours in the sky that it feels like we haven’t seen for ages ….

Pedalling home and stopped for a pint (it had turned cold so i needed a warm by the fire 😉) … and i looked up and saw a picture of ‘Lizzie’ on the wall. Lizzie the elephant came to Sheffield as part of William Sedgwick’s menagerie, which took winter quarters in Sheffield during the Great War, stationed at the Wicker Arches. With war all but ending the shows and events that Lizzie was normally used for, she was leased, for the purposes of moving machinery around the City, by the scrap metal merchant Thomas Ward. Thomas and his wife Mary had five children, one of which was Ethel Mary Bassett Ward. Ethel founded our charity in 1924 (later taking the surname Haythornthwaite when she married her second husband Lt Col Gerald Haythornthwaite in 1937. I should look up from my pint more often !!!

Work trip !!! Tomo, Andy, and Les went (by bike) to the Winter Gardens to view and discuss the #citycentrevision @sheffieldcitycouncil exhibition on the future plans for the city centre.

Busy bees in the archive today !! We’re working with @gemma_thorpe (who is working with the @storytrailsproject) on some amazing digital story-telling ideas. More to follow …. 🤫🤫🤫

How many have you done ? // ‘The Ethels App’ was created by Doug Colton to provide the challenge of completing a list of Peak District hills (akin to, for example, the Wainwrights in the Lake District), whilst also introducing walkers to many new areas in and around the National Park. Run them all in one go 😳 or spend years plodding round them, you choose. // We’re very grateful to Doug for creating this app and naming the list after our founder. // Please Protect Respect and Enjoy the countryside. The app is available from Apple and Android app stores. The bottom right tab on the app (‘cpre’) will lead you to our website. 🥾🥾🥾

David Holmes (Trustee) and Wendy Higgins ( @theuniversityofsheffield Estates Team ) discussing ideal positioning of the blue heritage plaque on Endcliffe Vale Crescent that we hope to unveil this spring / summer to mark the lifelong environmental work of Ethel Haythornthwaite. The site of the house that Ethel was born in, and her marital home, are both within sight of the proposed location for the plaque. // Link in bio to the appeal to fund the plaque.

Quite the evening light show if you kept out of *that* wind

Research Officer at work! Exciting developments for our Lottery Funded Archive Project. Look out next week for some new volunteer opportunities.#peakinthearchive

The Wheel Stones and White Tor playing peek-a-boo behind an old dry stone wall near Redmires.

Nice comfy dry stone wall perch for a cold January evening. Possibly not advisable to be quite so prominent in August though.

We’ve got one of them linktr.ee accounts now like all the cool kids. Our (excellent) website, (important) news, a (superb little) video, and a (really good) book are on there now. Link in bio 👀👆…

Have your say on the future of Sheffield. The ‘Our City Centre’ survey from @sheffieldcitycouncil seeks both to share their vision but also hear your opinions and ideas. The survey runs until 13 Feb. There are 2 pop up info displays too (Moor Market until 31 Jan and then Winter Gardens until 13 Feb). Futher info the website: ourcitycentre-shf.com

Along with all of the other National Park Societies, and other organisations, we are attending a @campaign4parks zoom call with @defrauk today to discuss the recently released DEFRA Report on Protected Landscapes (their response to the ‘Glover’ Review). The Report (and Review) are on our website. A critically important Report around the future protection of National Parks and AONBs. Details of how you can take part in providing feedback on the Report are also on our website.

Romans, Chaps, Ostlers, Tollers, etc etc, the history of Houndkirk (a word derived from Han Kirk (Ankirk) – or Giant’s Church) is rich with stories of people working together (albeit often for a fee originally) in order to maximise the use of the ‘kirk. It was a very important turnpike from 1758 until about 1893 (when the Totley Tunnel opened)

Originally a Roman Road and now a BOAT (a Bridleway Open to All Traffic - shown as green crossed dashes on an OS map). The @ridesheffield ‘maxim’ of ‘Be Nice Say Hi’ has echoes of users centuries ago and is vitally important nowadays - playing nicely together matters.

Dog walkers, young families, mountain bikers, cattle, sheep, motor cyclists, fell runners, red deer, 4x4 vehicles, nature watchers, and horse riders (and many other hobbyists) *can* all enjoy this historic ‘kirk at the same time.

What might be round that corner ? A four year old stood still splashing in a puddle, a ton of beef or venison, or a snake of 17 walkers ?? Be Nice. Say Hi. …. @easternmoors

Quite the sunset / moonrise last night …

It was almost as if the ‘protected landscapes’ had a point to make today ….

@DefraGovUK have today published their response to the 2019 Review of Protected Landscapes (aka ‘The Glover Review’. You can read the review, the DEFRA response, and how we’re involved in this by going to ‘news’ on our website www.cprepdsy.org.uk

Many thanks to the many people that joined us for our online 2021 AGM last night, and particular thanks to our guest speaker Dame Fiona Reynolds. Thank you for your support.

If you have an interest in protecting the landscapes of South Yorkshire and the Peak District we would love to have you at our AGM to hear about our work. You don’t have to be a member to attend (but you could join on-line beforehand 😉). Dame Fiona Reynolds (previously of @cpre, @campaign4parks, DG of @nationaltrust, Master of @emmanuelcambridge, currently Chair of the National Audit Office, and part of the ‘Glover Report’ team), is our guest speaker. 7pm from the comfort of your own sofa. Details and (free) e-tickets via out website. See you all later ….

We have written to @SheffCouncil Councillors, Planning Staff, and local media, regarding the city’s Green Belt. The charity worked tirelessly for a vitally important Green Belt for the city, and succeeded in getting it established in 1938. We have worked to protect it ever since. Please visit our website to support us in our work.

Think of it like a Cadburys Creme Egg … you can nibble at it, or just consume it all in one go 😳😉. The revised version of our PDBW guidebook is NOW available from the (wonderfully helpful) @vertebrate_publishing - https://www.v-publishing.co.uk/books/walking/peak-district-boundary-walk/ 🥾🥾🥾🥾🥾🥾🥾🥾👍

Perusing pictures. A zoom call with the President of the charity, Dame Fiona Reynolds, to refine details of our AGM, at which she is the guest speaker, which is online this Thursday (details on our website under ‘news’ ). We quite like this picture of our founder Ethel Haythornthwaite, with her husband Gerald, surveying the proposed boundary of the Peak District National Park, which they were both instrumental in establishing. It’s now some 40 years since Dame Fiona first met Ethel and Gerald, and we remain exceptionally grateful for her guidance and support. We hope you can join us to hear her speak on Thursday (it might contain news on the much delayed response to the ‘Glover Report’ too 🤫).

Like the rest of us, some of the ‘Big Moor’ herd have roamed to places offering a bit more protection from the current cold weather. A good time of the year to see several pairs of eyes reflected in your torchlight when walking the quieter valleys, woodlands and copses at night …

We may be clutching at straws here, but a cool wet January day does put quite a nice sheen on the fallen oak leaves.

Brooding sky over Ughill Moors and Back Tor as we near the end of a day of dramatic winter weather on the wilder edge of @theoutdoorcity

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To date there have now been >17000 downloads of the ‘Ethels’ app which promotes hillwalking in the Peak District and is named after the founder of @cprepdsy. Thanks to Doug Colton for the idea and the energy. And if @clarebalding would like to know more about the app, or about the life and work of out founder - Ethel Haythornthwaite - *before* her @bbcradio4 programme about the app (3pm on 10 March) we’d be delighted to chat to her 🤞

Excited is an understatement !!! Huge thanks to #yorkshirefilmarchive for taking a delicate old reel of footage from our archive and working their magic. Ethel Gallimore (she didn’t marry Gerald Haythornthwaite until 1937) handing over the deeds of Surprise View to the @peakdistrictnt to ensure access for all forever. An incredible short film. Plans are afoot to do something rather special with it too 🤫. // @nationaltrust @easternmoors @cpre @campaign4parks #ethelhaythornthwaite #accessbars

Type ‘Ethels’ in to the BBC News today and you’ll read the story of this man - Dan Cunningham. Dan gave himself a kick up the bum and gained health and confidence by setting himself the challenge of completing the ‘Ethels Challenge’ of walking up 95 Peak District hills - the challenge - which is app based and was designed by Doug Colton, is named after Ethel Haythornthwaite who founded our charity. Some of these hills played a huge part in restoring her mental wellbeing when her husband died in WW1, and she then dedicated the rest of her life to protecting them and promoting access. We’ve chatted to Dan today, and we’ve linked him up with Doug so there may be more Ethels adventures and media to follow. A big ‘well done’ to anyone getting out and about in the countryside hereabouts regardless of your speed or fitness. Keep going 👏👏👏👏👏 (The app includes a button that links to more info on the charity and a ‘Support Us’ button where you can make a donation to help support our work).

A little bit of rainbow at the tail end of the intense shower this morning.

Blue and yellow. Colours in the sky that it feels like we haven’t seen for ages ….

Pedalling home and stopped for a pint (it had turned cold so i needed a warm by the fire 😉) … and i looked up and saw a picture of ‘Lizzie’ on the wall. Lizzie the elephant came to Sheffield as part of William Sedgwick’s menagerie, which took winter quarters in Sheffield during the Great War, stationed at the Wicker Arches. With war all but ending the shows and events that Lizzie was normally used for, she was leased, for the purposes of moving machinery around the City, by the scrap metal merchant Thomas Ward. Thomas and his wife Mary had five children, one of which was Ethel Mary Bassett Ward. Ethel founded our charity in 1924 (later taking the surname Haythornthwaite when she married her second husband Lt Col Gerald Haythornthwaite in 1937. I should look up from my pint more often !!!

Work trip !!! Tomo, Andy, and Les went (by bike) to the Winter Gardens to view and discuss the #citycentrevision @sheffieldcitycouncil exhibition on the future plans for the city centre.

Busy bees in the archive today !! We’re working with @gemma_thorpe (who is working with the @storytrailsproject) on some amazing digital story-telling ideas. More to follow …. 🤫🤫🤫

How many have you done ? // ‘The Ethels App’ was created by Doug Colton to provide the challenge of completing a list of Peak District hills (akin to, for example, the Wainwrights in the Lake District), whilst also introducing walkers to many new areas in and around the National Park. Run them all in one go 😳 or spend years plodding round them, you choose. // We’re very grateful to Doug for creating this app and naming the list after our founder. // Please Protect Respect and Enjoy the countryside. The app is available from Apple and Android app stores. The bottom right tab on the app (‘cpre’) will lead you to our website. 🥾🥾🥾

David Holmes (Trustee) and Wendy Higgins ( @theuniversityofsheffield Estates Team ) discussing ideal positioning of the blue heritage plaque on Endcliffe Vale Crescent that we hope to unveil this spring / summer to mark the lifelong environmental work of Ethel Haythornthwaite. The site of the house that Ethel was born in, and her marital home, are both within sight of the proposed location for the plaque. // Link in bio to the appeal to fund the plaque.

Quite the evening light show if you kept out of *that* wind

Research Officer at work! Exciting developments for our Lottery Funded Archive Project. Look out next week for some new volunteer opportunities.#peakinthearchive

The Wheel Stones and White Tor playing peek-a-boo behind an old dry stone wall near Redmires.

Nice comfy dry stone wall perch for a cold January evening. Possibly not advisable to be quite so prominent in August though.

We’ve got one of them linktr.ee accounts now like all the cool kids. Our (excellent) website, (important) news, a (superb little) video, and a (really good) book are on there now. Link in bio 👀👆…

Have your say on the future of Sheffield. The ‘Our City Centre’ survey from @sheffieldcitycouncil seeks both to share their vision but also hear your opinions and ideas. The survey runs until 13 Feb. There are 2 pop up info displays too (Moor Market until 31 Jan and then Winter Gardens until 13 Feb). Futher info the website: ourcitycentre-shf.com

Along with all of the other National Park Societies, and other organisations, we are attending a @campaign4parks zoom call with @defrauk today to discuss the recently released DEFRA Report on Protected Landscapes (their response to the ‘Glover’ Review). The Report (and Review) are on our website. A critically important Report around the future protection of National Parks and AONBs. Details of how you can take part in providing feedback on the Report are also on our website.

Romans, Chaps, Ostlers, Tollers, etc etc, the history of Houndkirk (a word derived from Han Kirk (Ankirk) – or Giant’s Church) is rich with stories of people working together (albeit often for a fee originally) in order to maximise the use of the ‘kirk. It was a very important turnpike from 1758 until about 1893 (when the Totley Tunnel opened)

Originally a Roman Road and now a BOAT (a Bridleway Open to All Traffic - shown as green crossed dashes on an OS map). The @ridesheffield ‘maxim’ of ‘Be Nice Say Hi’ has echoes of users centuries ago and is vitally important nowadays - playing nicely together matters.

Dog walkers, young families, mountain bikers, cattle, sheep, motor cyclists, fell runners, red deer, 4x4 vehicles, nature watchers, and horse riders (and many other hobbyists) *can* all enjoy this historic ‘kirk at the same time.

What might be round that corner ? A four year old stood still splashing in a puddle, a ton of beef or venison, or a snake of 17 walkers ?? Be Nice. Say Hi. …. @easternmoors

Quite the sunset / moonrise last night …

It was almost as if the ‘protected landscapes’ had a point to make today ….

@DefraGovUK have today published their response to the 2019 Review of Protected Landscapes (aka ‘The Glover Review’. You can read the review, the DEFRA response, and how we’re involved in this by going to ‘news’ on our website www.cprepdsy.org.uk

Many thanks to the many people that joined us for our online 2021 AGM last night, and particular thanks to our guest speaker Dame Fiona Reynolds. Thank you for your support.

If you have an interest in protecting the landscapes of South Yorkshire and the Peak District we would love to have you at our AGM to hear about our work. You don’t have to be a member to attend (but you could join on-line beforehand 😉). Dame Fiona Reynolds (previously of @cpre, @campaign4parks, DG of @nationaltrust, Master of @emmanuelcambridge, currently Chair of the National Audit Office, and part of the ‘Glover Report’ team), is our guest speaker. 7pm from the comfort of your own sofa. Details and (free) e-tickets via out website. See you all later ….

We have written to @SheffCouncil Councillors, Planning Staff, and local media, regarding the city’s Green Belt. The charity worked tirelessly for a vitally important Green Belt for the city, and succeeded in getting it established in 1938. We have worked to protect it ever since. Please visit our website to support us in our work.

Think of it like a Cadburys Creme Egg … you can nibble at it, or just consume it all in one go 😳😉. The revised version of our PDBW guidebook is NOW available from the (wonderfully helpful) @vertebrate_publishing - https://www.v-publishing.co.uk/books/walking/peak-district-boundary-walk/ 🥾🥾🥾🥾🥾🥾🥾🥾👍

Perusing pictures. A zoom call with the President of the charity, Dame Fiona Reynolds, to refine details of our AGM, at which she is the guest speaker, which is online this Thursday (details on our website under ‘news’ ). We quite like this picture of our founder Ethel Haythornthwaite, with her husband Gerald, surveying the proposed boundary of the Peak District National Park, which they were both instrumental in establishing. It’s now some 40 years since Dame Fiona first met Ethel and Gerald, and we remain exceptionally grateful for her guidance and support. We hope you can join us to hear her speak on Thursday (it might contain news on the much delayed response to the ‘Glover Report’ too 🤫).

Like the rest of us, some of the ‘Big Moor’ herd have roamed to places offering a bit more protection from the current cold weather. A good time of the year to see several pairs of eyes reflected in your torchlight when walking the quieter valleys, woodlands and copses at night …

We may be clutching at straws here, but a cool wet January day does put quite a nice sheen on the fallen oak leaves.

Brooding sky over Ughill Moors and Back Tor as we near the end of a day of dramatic winter weather on the wilder edge of @theoutdoorcity