Winter Hill mass trespass 1896
I’ve been working on the archives in Bolton relating to the Winter Hill mass trespass of 6 September 1896. More to follow but here are some links to work that has already been done on the event.
‘Will yo’ come o’ Sunday morning’,
For a walk o’er Winter Hill.
Ten thousand went last Sunday,
But there’s room for thousands still!”
“O the moors are rare and bonny,
And the heather’s sweet and fine,
And the road across this hill top,
Is the public’s – Yours and mine!”
The main account is by Paul Salveson, in his 1982 pamphlet,
‘Will Yo’ Come O’ Sunday Mornin? The Winter Hill Mass Trespass of 1896′
http://www.paulsalveson.org.uk/little-northern-books-2/
see also:
http://www.justusuk.com/2009/11/will-yo-come-o-sunday-morning.html
Douglas Hope, Thomas Arthur Leonard and the Co-operative Holidays Association (Cambridge Scholars, 2017):
Walking Histories, edited by Chad Bryant, Arthur Burns, Paul Readman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016):
4 responses to “Winter Hill mass trespass 1896”
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[…] trespass 1896 – a history of public space. [Online] Historyofpublicspace.uk. Available at: <https://historyofpublicspace.uk/2018/10/26/winter-hill-mass-trespass-1896/> [Accessed 13 March […]
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[…] Dr Katrina Navickas was the next speaker; she discussed the access movement — working class people having free access to the moors — and the ways in which the South and the West Pennine moors were seen as ‘industrial’ and already destroyed, and therefore, not protected. As industrialisation continued and the owners of the mills and industry became prosperous landowners, they closed off land to the proletariat. The further denial of access was exacerbated by water companies building reservoirs to feed the burgeoning towns below. Footpath preservation began in 1826 in Manchester, though this was hijacked by middle class groups from the south. There was tension between these disparate groups, direct action such as The Mass Winter Hill march began in the 1890s from the northern groups. Dr Navickas then discussed the various acts of parliament that have been laid down over the years, stating that the ‘right to roam is not a statutory right of way’. Dr Navickas has written a blog page about Winter Hill and the 1896 protests, here. […]
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[…] See my earlier blogpost: https://historyofpublicspace.uk/2018/10/26/winter-hill-mass-trespass-1896/ […]
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[…] trespass 1896 – a history of public space. [Online] Historyofpublicspace.uk. Available at: <https://historyofpublicspace.uk/2018/10/26/winter-hill-mass-trespass-1896/> [Accessed 13 March […]
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