{"id":538924,"date":"2026-04-19T05:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538924\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:54:08","slug":"rude-names-railways-and-a-mass-trespass-how-the-peak-district-became-a-tourist-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538924\/","title":{"rendered":"Rude names, railways and a mass trespass &#8211; how the Peak District became a tourist attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, people did not suddenly have the right to roam wherever they liked, as is sometimes assumed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The 1949 act didn&#8217;t actually open up any land,&#8221; says Kate Conto, policy and public affairs manager at the Ramblers, formerly known as the Ramblers&#8217; Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It gave a mechanism for the national parks to try and get agreements with landowners to open up land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And the Peak District National Park tried that and they got a small amount, but the 1949 act didn&#8217;t really do what the people who introduced it had hoped.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 1949 act did, however, create the &#8220;definitive map&#8221; of the public rights of way network in England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These are the footpaths, bridleways and byways that people are legally entitled to use, even if it means wandering across a farmer&#8217;s field or other private land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The map made it clearer for people to understand where they were legally allowed to walk in the Peak District, and other national parks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, people did not suddenly have the right to roam wherever they liked, as is sometimes assumed. &#8220;The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-538924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}