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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Helen Pidd North of England editor

The right to swim: mass trespass of Kinder reservoir planned

Kinder reservoir below Kinder Scout near Hayfield in the Derbyshire Peak District
Kinder reservoir below Kinder Scout near Hayfield in the Derbyshire Peak District, the site of Sunday’s mass ‘swimpass’. Photograph: Steve Taylor ARPS/Alamy

At 2pm on 24 April 1932, hundreds of rebellious ramblers descended on Kinder Scout, Derbyshire’s highest point, to “take action to open up the fine country at present denied us”.

Six people were arrested at what became known as the Kinder mass trespass, which established the principle of open access land and laid the foundations for the UK’s first national park, the Peak District.

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