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Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Longshaw Estate

The meaning of ‘moor’

Longshaw over the centuries

Roads

The enclosure of the commons and wastes

The right to roam and the sale of the Longshaw Estate

Chapter 2: The Early History of the Moors

The Stone Age

The Bronze Age

The Iron Age

Romans, Angles and Vikings

Chapter 3: The Middle Ages

Forests, chases and lordships

The Royal Forest of the Peak

Other forests

Hallamshire

Wharncliffe Chase

The northern moors

Monastic granges

Townships and hamlets

Saltways

Moorland industries

Chapter 4: ‘A waste and houling wilderness’ 1550–1750

The nature of the moors

Moorland farms

Rights and stints

Peat

Early enclosure of the commons

Greens and small commons

Woods

Industries

Communications

The growing economy

Chapter 5: Improvement and Enclosure

Turnpike roads

Canals and railways

Farming before enclosure

Boundaries before enclosure

Parliamentary enclosure

Victorian moorland halls, farmsteads and new settlements

Reservoirs

Chapter 6: Grouse Moors

The early history of grouse-shooting

Managed moors

Stanage moors

Shooting only

The Harpur-Crewe moors

Modern times

Chapter 7: The Right to Roam

The first rambling clubs

The Peak District and Northern Counties Footpaths Preservation Society

G.H.B. Ward and the Sheffield Clarion Ramblers

Kinder Scout and the legend of the mass trespass

The continued struggle for access

The Second World War and its aftermath

Chapter 8: Conclusion: Present Times

Bibliography

Index

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