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Ramblers, walkers and countryside campaigners are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of a key law which paved the way for greater access to the great outdoors…

The Ramblers has warned that the Government’s largest public spending cuts for a generation could see a return to the ‘Forbidden Britain’ of the 1960s, claiming hundreds of footpaths are at risk of falling into disrepair and disuse…

The policy director of the Soil Association, formerly a Labour minister and president of the Ramblers, talks to Susan Gray about his lifelong political activism, resigning from the Greenpeace board and his hopes for an all-England coastal path…

John Bainbridge has been a volunteer with the Ramblers in Devon for nearly 40 years. He tells walk about a lifetime of access campaigning, being shot by gamekeepers and belatedly discovering the joys of blogging…

In the first in a series of articles to celebrate Ramblers 75th Anniversary, we present a brief history of the charity and take a fond look back at some of the visual materials produced over the years…

Britain’s first official long-distance path, the Pennine Way, was the dream of walkers’ campaigner and first full-time secretary of the Ramblers, Tom Stephenson. Andrew McCloy investigates…

The 1932 mass trespass of Kinder Scout was a seminal event in the history of access and walking, and a catalyst for the formation of the Ramblers…

Find out which candidates have signed up to the Ramblers Walking Manifesto

The long-running row over public access to a Dartmoor crag is destined to go to a public inquiry, after its owner appealed against a council order to create two rights of way on the land…

Ramblers and residents of Withyham, East Sussex are celebrating after a blocked footpath across the 11th Earl de la Warr’s Buckhurst Estate was yesterday declared a public right of way following a ten year dispute…