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Benny Rothman, a key leader of the 1932 Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout and tireless campaigner for greater access to the countryside, was honored yesterday with the unveiling of a new blue plaque on his former home in Cheshire…

After a successful ‘opening weekend’, the Inner London Ramblers’ Films on Foot Festival continues all this week and next weekend with talks themed around Hitchcock, the City, gangsters and the estates of East London…

The Twelve Quays Campaign was founded by Wirral resident Graham Handley. Over a period of 12 years campaigners fought to get the historic section of embankment re-opened…

Around me lies a typical South Pennines scene; ahead Herder’s Common’s high escarpment tumbles prettily away into a tiny wooded valley; drystone walls spool out to the left and right like triceratops spines, dividing up the countryside into tiny fields filled with sheepies.

“I’ll prose it here, I’ll verse it there/ And picturesque it everywhere”

From the South West Coast Path to the Pennine Way, National Trails are our most popular and successful walking routes. But the Government wants to change how they’re managed. David Foster examines the proposals and hears the concerns of several parties who’ll be most closely affected by them…

When 25 people turned up for a family walk laid on by East Staffordshire Ramblers in May, they might not have expected the leader to be just seven years old…

The former Ramblers chief executive Tom Franklin sat on the Independent Panel on the future of England’s forests from the outset. He explains how its recent report came together and why it’s such a boon for walkers…

The future of England’s most prestigious walking routes remains uncertain after the Government announced plans to change how 2,500 miles of National Trails are managed from 2013…

Every day, Ramblers volunteers and staff are involved in legal battles to protect and extend our precious network of footpaths and public access to the countryside. Andrew McCloy uncovers the extraordinary work they do and a few of their greatest legal victories…