Hi thank you for the film. A good overview. My grandad (Bob Brown) was either the last or one of the last survivors of the Trespass. He died in 2012 at the age of 98. He, too was a member of the Communist Party and the way you describe that period resonates well with how he used to speak of it. He was a life long rambler and has a commemorative plaque on a finger post half way up the footpath between Edale and Hollins Cross mentioning his involvement. A lovely guy who came through some tough times.
Fascinating video Stephen. As a Scot who's lived in NI for near 20 years, Im always frustrated by the total lack of access to land here. So... Ive got a project underway to quietly stealth camp in every grid square of the OS map of NI (10x10km, 179 squares in total). There are a lot of beautiful corners to the countryside here, most of which are totally off bounds without some creative access. If ever you want to go hammocking on a roundabout, give me a shout!
1:35 seconds in and I'm totally hooked. That's how you sell a story! I was going to listen to this in the background, dam you. Now I have to save it for later when I'm not in work and watch properly!
Kinder Scout! My closest mountain and an absolutely lovely landscape (especially the woolpacks). Incredibly glad the land is now properly walkable without the worry of gamekeepers/farmers. It's amazing (and dicey) when it snows!
Another very informative and interesting video, Stephen. We really appreciate the time and effort you put into these, they are head and shoulders above a lot of UA-cam content. I only started watching your videos a few weeks ago and I have watched more than half already!
Great to see such a detailed account of the kinder trespass Stephen. I grew up in Glossop so this story is very close to my heart. I have a video on my channel of my 85 year old aunty who was one of those early visitors to the Peak District National Park along with my dad and grandparents. She still leads hikes to this day !
I’ve really been enjoying your history episodes. It’s a great mix of outdoors and the remarkable tales that have brought us to where we are today. Cheers!
Hi Stephen, I've been waiting on this video with great anticipation since you mentioned it on the Paul Messner meet-up weekend whilst you were here in the Peak District, and you did not disappoint 😊 Yet another great in in-depth, well-researched video packed full of information. I love these “look back through history” videos you're doing, they’re a nice spin on why we all enjoy the outdoors so much, and how much we owe and be thankful for, for those who blazed the trail before us. It was great to meet you in person that weekend, you’re a great guy in person as you are on screen 😊 Keep up the great work. PS. Yes of course I’ve trespassed lol 😃
Up another level that mate 👏 Really interesting from start to finish and it was refreshing to hear the passage of events from a different perspective. Just off to watch @hiketowildcampuk now. 👍🏻
Thanks for another informative and entertaining video. I reside in Northern Ireland and would find any videos you produce in the future regarding our lack of entitlement to roam particularly interesting. It’s difficult to find new walking trails here because there are so few of them. I have found that many that are listed on websites are little more than “dog walking paths” that can be completed in an hour, or less.
Very frustrating here. I know people who work for the council so I have some insights into the situation and it’s not an easy one. Land owner can stop access to parts of recognised trails any time they want. Often because of sheep worrying, which is a legitimate concern.
Captivating information allied to the bedrock of outdoor activity - then presented in a manner that the story captures the audience. Subscribed. Definitely need to redo the videos of my German Shepherd Dog's tracking abilities, she's ace, my videos not so much. Thanks Stephen.
It's a shame that more isn't taught, particularly in schools to the younger generations, about land ownership and feudalism of the British Isles and beyond 😔 Particularly how the means to such ownership was gained 😭 Amazing video, love the history of our countryside. You are a really good story teller. Hope you made your ferry!
Myself and my partner have a habit of getting hilariously lost on hikes. While trying to get to the hellfire club from Tallaght (it's a fair way) we got lostish several times. We were never far from the right trail, but being on the wrong side of a river makes the short distance feel much larger. After several detours we managed to get to a point where we realised the route we'd seen on the map was a farmers land... And the right way around was going to add a couple of hours to the hike and we were already suffering.... So we cut through the farmers land. It was mostly old sheds and a cow field, but there was a pen we had to get through that was about shin deep in cow pat. Then up the side of the hill to a line of brambles, we heard a quad in the area so hid from view for a bit, eventually found a break in the brambles where we could get over the barb wire fence, shocked a young couple trying to have some alone time and made it to our destination. Having not learned our lesson from any of this we took another shortcut down the hill and ended up (without crossing any boundaries) in another farmers field. Before eventually getting a bus home. I ended up with pretty bad heat stroke as we ran low on water and I didn't have anything on my head and it was proper hot. But it was bloody great!
Hi Stephen, I'm currently watching your UA-cam video on Lough Neagh and think you'd be a great champion for raising awareness of another issue - Greenways. The Ballymoney to Ballycastle Greenway has been stopped which is disappointing. Thought I'd let you know just because I thought it would make interesting content for your UA-cam channel.
The right of public access here in Sweden is so valuable in so many ways. Thanks for a really interesting video and insight into some of the history of peoples right to experience nature. In my opinion way more interesting than wars and kings!
This probably isn't good for your "street cred" but you're like a cool history/geography teacher. Brilliant vid matey. Abandon the Paramo and embrace those brown corduroy trousers... See you in the staff room for tea and biscuits! 👍
Fascinating story, I sure wish seriously we had some kind of right-to-roam here in the US, but people would have to truly appreciate and respect it for that to work anywhere.
I accidentally trespassed, years ago. I went on a hike in the middle of the Brecon Beacons, on what was apparently a date. (I didn't know it was a date, either. I was a clueless teenager). We got lost, and were completely unprepared, not even a torch or a water bottle between us, and less than an hour from sunset. I worked out the right way back to the car, and climbed over barbed wire to keep going in that direction. It wasn't until we got back to my car, just as the sun was setting, that I realised we'd crossed a farm and also that I was being asked to go for a drink later....
I was there in 2022 when visiting Wales and the Peak District. Even before I encountered the channels of Stephen and Paul. Didn't know it was such a special place.
Cheers for the informative, creative, thoughtful, well-researched (and amusing) video. The book "The Battle for Kinder Scout" is also worth a read with first-hand material from all sides including contemporary newspaper reports, Benny Rothman's own account, the gamekeepers', excerpts from court proceedings, etc. etc... I love that hill! Therefore respect to the campaigners and for the creation of the national parks. Spent almost an unjustifiable number of weekends up there! Worth mentioning that the plateau has transformed so much in the last 20-25 years. It used to be a big peat bog where you really could sink to the knees/waist in rainy weather. Since they stopped sheep from grazing on the top (they may still graze on the flanks) it has transformed incredibly. Grasses, wildflowers, mosses abound now. And the eroding bare peat used to emit huge amounts of CO2. Although I must say, a part of me will always miss the old bog-hopping days when you were never quite sure how deep it would be in the case you fell in... Keep up the interesting work!
I’ve got that book on the way. I used various web sources, podcasts and then that one book I mentioned. I ended up with only 10days before I left on the trip to research and write the script so was limited to one book in that time.
Interesting to hear about the changes up there. It’s funny how there’s a rush to preserve bog land when in many cases it’s actually artificial in a way as it’s often caused by the historical removal of trees
I used to live halfway up Dartmoor about a decade ago, absolutely gorgeous place, in Wrangaton, South Brent. I think about the westcountry often, it's a place I'll keep close to my heart. I had the best time, and it's just stunning, lovely people as well. I only stayed for two years, but the accent rubbed off 🥰
@@StephenJReid Yeah I suppose so! It's a little far down on my list anyways so plenty of stuff to be getting on with before I tackle Kinder Scout again (last video I did there I made while recovering from a broken leg and that wasn't my smartest move).
Cool video Stephen! Cool shots (and tricks) :-) Not exactly sure, but how does this tie in with the right-to-roam in the UK? If I'm not mistaken there were actions for that too, or am I mistaken? BTW: I got a lot of (pretty long) ads during this video, which I did let play for your benefit ;-)
Well it's part of the overall story. A lot happened between then and eventually in 2000 the Countryside and Rights of Way Act was passed in England & Wales giving people access on foot to mountains, moors, heath, down or common land. I had that in the script originally , but cut it in the end as it didn't fit neatly. A lot of other campaigning happened since. The trespass wouldn't have achieved anything if people hadn't kept fighting for access after it.
Absolutely brilliant video as always, I've seen other UA-camrs talk about the trespass before but never in this detail. Superb pal, never knew about the Communist connection Thank you
24:53 Plus 4 hours of kindly responding to all the commentors... Brilliant vid, again. Love the documentary form, whether it is about history or outdoor related topics. The storytelling does look as your natural style. Love the humour. Take care, beware of burnout!
Wow Stephen what an entertaining and interesting video. Its such a privilege to be able to enjoy the country side and this access definitely need to be protected and respected. Well done on this great video
Watched it early and me knowing that area very well i realise the miles you put in filming it, but, your research was excellent and your presentation was awesome, but not forgetting the epic editing 👏 👍 👌
Echoing Mr Pelletier's comment on the lake algae video, you seem to have found your stride with these videos. Good to watch and informative. Also made me want to go see the rock formations.
Good effort with the video very impressive lots of knowledge and some miles completed. Well done. As a Peak District based landscape photographer I also wild Camp sometimes and kinder is the obvious place to get away with it without being moved on. However, I do agree responsibly I believe it would be great to wild Camp everywhere in the UK and with technology these days I don’t understand why there’s not an app for example where you could sign up to the wild camping app register your location and confirm that you took all your rubbish away with you Because that’s part of the problem. I also understand why it’s difficult because people ruin the countryside by leaving their rubbish such as tents fires and just not being respectful so it’s a difficult one, but hopefully one that can be resolved soon for everyone.
Whilst we don't have any "Rights of way", in Northern Ireland, I believe we don't have a law of Tresspass in Northern Ireland either. So if you see "Tresspassers Prosecuted" signs here, they carry no weight and you can't be prosecuted. However, if you do damage whilst on the property, (or by getting onto said property) you can be prosecuted for "wilful damage". The land owner can ask you to leave, but he can't force you to do so by threatening you with the law. Great video by the way. I was really disapointed that you didn't show how you did the trick photography at the end like you did in one of your other videos. Can we have a wee one about it please?
Yeah still trying to wrap my head around how that works. I see a lot of trespassers prosecuted signs in various places. I did ignore a private properly sign recently in a remote location and accidental found myself in someones private rifle range 🤣 The tricks in this were just with layers. I shot the scene without me in it and then layered a piece of that footage over the top to hide one side of the post.
@@StephenJReid I had a similar experience on the Moyola river. We were canoeing down through the Moyola estate when we were challenged by the land owner Lady Chichester-Clarke. She explained that they shot clay pigeons and pheasants across the water we had just paddled down, and that we had a lucky escape. To be fair, after I'd done it once, it wasn't worth going back anyway. But it made me wary of paddling the Maine from Randalstown to the lough for the same reasons. There could easily be people out shooting and they wouldn't expect canoeists on "their river". But I've never been challenged about tresspassing on any of the rivers I've paddled over here.
@@StephenJReid Hi Stephen, Fantastic video as ever. To echo others, loving the format. Sooo while we’re on the subject of effects and tricks (and I know you can’t give all your tricks away 😁), but in one of your videos you once dropped the tent bag on the floor and made the tent grow and appear fully setup. Was that also using layers/masks, and maybe key frames and resizing? I’ve been meaning to give that a go in CapCut 😁👍🏼👍🏼 Cheers, Gary B
Thank you for highlighting Dartmoor 🙏 He can’t turn his estate into a shooting venue if people are walking through it now can he 🤬 Don’t give up your rights to those who wish to covert all the beauty for the privileged few.
@@StephenJReid I was watching this thinking 'ooh - a follow-up on Wild Camping and what's going on with Dartmoor would be interesting' and then you snuck it in in the end! Its definitely an interesting topic on what the Dartmoor Commons Act lets you do and how it can be interpreted which pretty much boils down to does 'Access to the public on foot for recreational activities' include sleeping or not?
Thank you so much for another brilliant episode. I’m a walker but enjoy all your videos especially these ones that include a little history lesson too, brilliant as always. X
Yet another good video, your cinematics and story telling are second to none. Hopefully ill get my videos tobthis point at some stage. Keep up the good work.
Very well done Stephen 👍 The haves, and the have nots is a story that will never go away...in no small part because the have nots don't work together to demand/force change. Access to nature should be a basic, fundamental human right, when done respectfully. On a side note, that weird boulder field might be a clue as to why the area was so restricted, and it also relates to the restrictions in Northern Ireland...the haves are hiding something 🤫
Brilliant video, your filming of the rock formations was the best. I love the Kinder mass tresspass. I took my son up on Kinder when he was 16 looking for the summit and probably got teared up. 😊 Ps. I tresspass often but more on the golf course by our house as a kid.
@StephenJReid the golf course was between our back garden and the park so we used to sneak across ducking and hiding from the enemy, the golfers. They would shout at us, I still hate golfers to this day lol.
Very interesting Stephen. Love it up there, bit of a nightmare when the viz is down, but stunning in decent weather. Hayfield is a nice wee place as well. No shortage of plane wrecks up there too, due to its proximity to Manchester, not that easy to locate as you could be 10 meters from the wreckage and still not see it. I've had the pleasure of being up there on my own in a blizzard, with a bubble in my compass!
I got a nice new prime lens that I used for the shots with the shallow depth of field. It's a hassle but I really like how it looks. Can't use for every video but nice for some
Just reading a book on the Kinder trespass, about the same time 10000 people protested in nearby Winnats Pass the largest protest by ramblers ever. Great vid as always
@@StephenJReid I think you'd be surprised how many of us would watch an hour of video if it's as interesting, well presented (bar that proper tea gag... [actually enjoyed that one]) and produced as this. I may be wrong, it does happen occasionally, but I think people are starting to rediscover the benefits of a longer-form presentation.
Some people definitely would, but I've noticed from the stats that my videos perform badly when they are over 30mins. the majority of people sadly won't watch those longer vids. At any rate 25min videos I think are ideal for me to make and also long enough to be as long as a TV episode
Hi Steven, great story telling, your recent videos have gone up another level and they were already very good. I’d love to see you or one of the other well known u tubers collaborate with the right to roam campaign. It would be great to raise their profile and to hear from them directly.
Great video. Very informative. I suppose that here in Scotland we are lucky to have a progressive government that introduced the "Right to Roam" legislation that allows walkers, horse riders and pedal cyclists pretty much unrestricted access to all of our countryside, including to wild camp. It's sad that you still need to fight for this in England, Wales and N.Ireland as well.
Great interpretation of this historic event Stephen. Probably a lot more factual than any I have seen or read in the past. I learnt about the mass trespass when I was at college (many many many years ago lol) but an awful lot of the detail was omitted. I do live in hope that one day the whole, or at least the majority of these open spaces in ALL of the UK will be accessible to all.
One of your best Stephen thoroughly enjoyed it, loved the photography and the narration (Nearly as good as Paul Messener’s rendition of the same subject 😂) ATB
I live in the English countryside with a very active dog and no “right to roam” here so trespassing is a weekly occurrence! But keep your dog under control around livestock, leave no trace and do no harm and in my years of countryside walking/living have never once been booted off land or caused any trouble!
By the way, regarding the communists and socialists in the early 20th century, we owe them a lot of the rights we have nowadays. They didn't know Stalin's crimes for a long time. As you said, many deserted the CPGB once his crimes came to light and became the backbone of the movement that created the welfare state and NHS. We need their likes again.
Fantastic video, really informative, interesting and something I knew nothing about. I wonder if the trail is officially marked for others to follow in their footsteps. I did have my own adventure a while ago, where I am pretty sure I tresspassed...although I did this without a map so I plead innocence on this one 🤫 I had for many, many years (over 30) wondered where my ancestors home was, since it had long since gone from maps..if it was ever there in the first place. The christening record called it 'Back '0' World' near inverkip in Ayrshire, Scotland. It later changed its name ro 'Ferry de Keith' also not on the maps. With the advent of the internet, and progression within that improved by the day, I eventually found a very old map a few years ago, that had this name finally marked marked. On Google maps I hunted, lining up markers such as a river and a gorge, and found an interesting structure that looked to be the remains of an old building. I had to go and see. Following just my point google maps, and the river that flowed almost to the area, I trudged off in the vague direction. Part way I rescued a sheep with his head and horns stuck in a square of the wire fence (he'd been there for a while judging by the amount of wool around the fence edging by his neck), climbed a wall, and some other fencing. I knew where I was on google, but it was very likely a farmers private land I fear. Eventually I found it. It was a house, and I could just make out a bigger homestead, and I suspect there were at least two families there farming this piece of land. 200 years apart, and here I was sitting in my ancestors house. It was quite an emotive moment wondering how they lived and worked in this beautiful but isolated area. To get back, I dropped down the nearby gorge to the river again, crossed it (thank goodness it had been a long hot dry summer!) and up over another fence, through what was clearly a fir tree plantation, to the main road on the other side. What a fantastic day to have finally found where my ancestors had lived - apologies to the landowners, but I did save your sheep - so hope I am forgiven.
@@StephenJReid I just wish it had been a little more accessible so I could re visit without so many roiling emotions from 30 years of hunting... I'd love to go back
Well it does look that way but after seeing several of your impressive productions i figured they'd be a cunning twist to it. People, especially younger folks are probably unaware of the role CPGB played in opposing Moseley's very real Union of British Fascists, supporting the democratically elected authorities in Spain during the anti fascist civil war (They lost and Spain got Franco), The hunger marches of the 1930s, they pushed the Labour party to implement welfare state and encouraged labour solidarity in the face of cuts to wages and conditions in the inter war. years. Where I came from (Wales/Cymru) to be or to gave been a communist is something to be proud of. The average working person should not be conned by the propaganda of the elites. You have nothing much to gain from taking their side. Now I see all the teenies heading off to retort something about Ukraine 😅😂.
Younger folks are more tuned in to history than you’d think. It’s something I’ve noticed. I think possibly it’s the rise of the TikTok historians that gets them interested. Although often those kinds of “historians” come with quite a bit of bias
StephenJReid Hi. and Thanks for the videos👍🏼 Extreme bias isn't confined to the history channels. I think there's a feedback loop between mainstream media and the (pseudo) historians. One of those self-amplifying circuits. Seems to me from a browsing of English language sites that a lot of content producers are just re-telling well told stories - recycling other people's stuff. Chinese Whispers and all that. The output in many cases is more bar room waffle than serious history. Much careful discrimination needed. 😊
@StephenJReid I knew the story of the mass trespass and where it was, I'm not too far away from Kinder so I've spent a lot of time up there. I didn't know of the communist links though.
I grew up on Dartmoor and lived there for 30 years it is such a shame that the right to wildcamp might be taken away. It was such an important part of my life camping and exploring Dartmoor it should be preserved for all.
How do you find the subjects for your videos? Actually wait, I don't want to know :D Fascinating subject, I love history! :) Still getting Partridge vibes (the backwards walking) Love it! Great video man :)
It varies. often I go places, look around, sometimes see information boards, or I meet local people, or I google the history of a place and find a story. But nearly always when I have a good story, it's somewhere I've already spent time exploring.
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One of the reasons land access is as bad as it is on ireland, is public liability insurance. Not the only reasons but a factor why landowners won't allow people ramble on their land.
The kinder mass trespass wasn't the 1st. You should read about the Winter Hill mass trespass on the lever estate on the moors above Bolton. It was on 1896, with over 10,000 people from Bolton, marched on the moors to gain access for the people, for exercise and clean, fresh air. It's a more impressive story, and without the Bolton mass trespass, the kinder trespass would never have happened.
Just to be clear. This video is not a defence of Communism. A few people have made assumptions already along those lines. It’s the telling of something that happened in history from the perspective of the time and its legacy today. Communism was largely later rejected by many of the same people who became followers in the 1920s & 30 because of the horrific legacy of the communist states of the 20th century. Russian, China, Cambodia, North Korea. Many of those horrors still continue today.
I was gunna ask why you changed the video title... now I don't have to That's the world we live in, folks! Everyone is so ready to be triggered by nothing Thanks for the video, Ste!
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Nor it should be. There are differences between the variants and a sports organization hardly is the worst end of the spectrum. This is a nice story, albeit a little violent to my taste.
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Hi thank you for the film. A good overview. My grandad (Bob Brown) was either the last or one of the last survivors of the Trespass. He died in 2012 at the age of 98. He, too was a member of the Communist Party and the way you describe that period resonates well with how he used to speak of it. He was a life long rambler and has a commemorative plaque on a finger post half way up the footpath between Edale and Hollins Cross mentioning his involvement. A lovely guy who came through some tough times.
This is quickly becoming my favorite channel on UA-cam
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Totally agree, I'm going to run out of videos to watch at the rate I'm going 👍
Fascinating video Stephen. As a Scot who's lived in NI for near 20 years, Im always frustrated by the total lack of access to land here. So... Ive got a project underway to quietly stealth camp in every grid square of the OS map of NI (10x10km, 179 squares in total). There are a lot of beautiful corners to the countryside here, most of which are totally off bounds without some creative access. If ever you want to go hammocking on a roundabout, give me a shout!
1:35 seconds in and I'm totally hooked. That's how you sell a story! I was going to listen to this in the background, dam you. Now I have to save it for later when I'm not in work and watch properly!
thank you! Trying to spend more time crafting my intros
@@StephenJReid Its working.
Kinder Scout! My closest mountain and an absolutely lovely landscape (especially the woolpacks). Incredibly glad the land is now properly walkable without the worry of gamekeepers/farmers. It's amazing (and dicey) when it snows!
Love these historical accounts showing the countryside. You have a gift, brother!
Another very informative and interesting video, Stephen. We really appreciate the time and effort you put into these, they are head and shoulders above a lot of UA-cam content. I only started watching your videos a few weeks ago and I have watched more than half already!
Wow thanks Robert! There’s quite the mix of topics and styles on here
Great to see such a detailed account of the kinder trespass Stephen. I grew up in Glossop so this story is very close to my heart. I have a video on my channel of my 85 year old aunty who was one of those early visitors to the Peak District National Park along with my dad and grandparents. She still leads hikes to this day !
Your aunty sounds like a legend. I stayed in Glossop for 2 nights when I was making this, nice town.
Another great video. You have a knack for structuring videos and talking in a way that makes them stay interesting and engaging throughout. Keep it up
Thanks
Brilliant Stephen one of the best vlogger around,
Thanks David 🙂
Very insightful-these are areas we often take for granted now, not realising that they haven't always been this way. Thank you
and could change in future too! thanks for watching
Stephen, that was probably my favourite of your videos yet...you did a phenomenal job writing and editing that. Fantastic 🤓
thanks! 🙂
I’ve really been enjoying your history episodes. It’s a great mix of outdoors and the remarkable tales that have brought us to where we are today.
Cheers!
Hi Stephen,
I've been waiting on this video with great anticipation since you mentioned it on the Paul Messner meet-up weekend whilst you were here in the Peak District, and you did not disappoint 😊 Yet another great in in-depth, well-researched video packed full of information. I love these “look back through history” videos you're doing, they’re a nice spin on why we all enjoy the outdoors so much, and how much we owe and be thankful for, for those who blazed the trail before us. It was great to meet you in person that weekend, you’re a great guy in person as you are on screen 😊 Keep up the great work.
PS. Yes of course I’ve trespassed lol 😃
Was good to meet you Paul! Glad we all survived that day up there 😂
Up another level that mate 👏 Really interesting from start to finish and it was refreshing to hear the passage of events from a different perspective. Just off to watch @hiketowildcampuk now. 👍🏻
Thanks Paul! There’s so many different ways to look at this story. Careful I hear that guy is better than you 😜
@ I’ve watched his last video. Knocks the spots of some of my stuff.
Class video. I spend mamy Saturdays in the peaks and didn't know much of this story 👏👏
Glad you enjoyed it Ciara 🙂
Excellent historical story and yes. We should never take wild spaces for granted. Even here in Canada! 🇨🇦
Fantastic video yet again, I find these history based videos super interesting, it was also great to meet you and my first wild camp went brilliant
Oh Hi Mark! Was great to meet you too and glad the camp went well!
Thanks for another informative and entertaining video. I reside in Northern Ireland and would find any videos you produce in the future regarding our lack of entitlement to roam particularly interesting. It’s difficult to find new walking trails here because there are so few of them. I have found that many that are listed on websites are little more than “dog walking paths” that can be completed in an hour, or less.
Very frustrating here. I know people who work for the council so I have some insights into the situation and it’s not an easy one. Land owner can stop access to parts of recognised trails any time they want. Often because of sheep worrying, which is a legitimate concern.
Another great video Stephen; interesting story, beautiful scenery
Really great presentation as usual Stephen. The two greatest rules of hiking/wildcamping are “leave no trace” and “don’t get caught” 😊
😂 thanks Paul
Great story! Thx for all the research!
Thank you so much for this. And for highlighting the situation on dartmoor! #savedartmoor
Its sad you have had such a negative response. I thought it was one of the best videos I've ever seen from this channel
Great video Stephen, you did a great job telling that story. Compelling from start to finish.
Captivating information allied to the bedrock of outdoor activity - then presented in a manner that the story captures the audience. Subscribed. Definitely need to redo the videos of my German Shepherd Dog's tracking abilities, she's ace, my videos not so much. Thanks Stephen.
Thanks Peter
Great Video Stephen. Love your presentation. I appreciate the amount of effort you put into them. Look forward to the next one! 👍
thanks 🙂
Yet another brilliant video. Thank you for bringing the story to life in such an interesting way.
thanks. for watching! 🙂
It's a shame that more isn't taught, particularly in schools to the younger generations, about land ownership and feudalism of the British Isles and beyond 😔
Particularly how the means to such ownership was gained 😭
Amazing video, love the history of our countryside. You are a really good story teller.
Hope you made your ferry!
I just about made it to the Ferry thanks! Ended up taking a detour to Dovedale and staying until sunset
Myself and my partner have a habit of getting hilariously lost on hikes. While trying to get to the hellfire club from Tallaght (it's a fair way) we got lostish several times. We were never far from the right trail, but being on the wrong side of a river makes the short distance feel much larger. After several detours we managed to get to a point where we realised the route we'd seen on the map was a farmers land... And the right way around was going to add a couple of hours to the hike and we were already suffering.... So we cut through the farmers land. It was mostly old sheds and a cow field, but there was a pen we had to get through that was about shin deep in cow pat. Then up the side of the hill to a line of brambles, we heard a quad in the area so hid from view for a bit, eventually found a break in the brambles where we could get over the barb wire fence, shocked a young couple trying to have some alone time and made it to our destination.
Having not learned our lesson from any of this we took another shortcut down the hill and ended up (without crossing any boundaries) in another farmers field. Before eventually getting a bus home. I ended up with pretty bad heat stroke as we ran low on water and I didn't have anything on my head and it was proper hot.
But it was bloody great!
Quite the adventure 😂
Hi Stephen, I'm currently watching your UA-cam video on Lough Neagh and think you'd be a great champion for raising awareness of another issue - Greenways. The Ballymoney to Ballycastle Greenway has been stopped which is disappointing. Thought I'd let you know just because I thought it would make interesting content for your UA-cam channel.
Great story telling, a piece of history. Love watching ❤❤
thanks Alan
I absolutely love your videos. The production and content are amazing and informative. Thank you.
Thank you for watching 🙂
The right of public access here in Sweden is so valuable in so many ways. Thanks for a really interesting video and insight into some of the history of peoples right to experience nature. In my opinion way more interesting than wars and kings!
This probably isn't good for your "street cred" but you're like a cool history/geography teacher. Brilliant vid matey. Abandon the Paramo and embrace those brown corduroy trousers... See you in the staff room for tea and biscuits! 👍
😂 Oh captain my captain
Gotta feeling we may have to fight this fight again in the not too distant future.
Brilliant Stephen, loving this new documentary content, you can tell a lot of effort when on behind the scenes!
i truly love your content, i wish you luck with all my heart.
Fascinating story, I sure wish seriously we had some kind of right-to-roam here in the US, but people would have to truly appreciate and respect it for that to work anywhere.
Brilliant Stephen
I accidentally trespassed, years ago. I went on a hike in the middle of the Brecon Beacons, on what was apparently a date. (I didn't know it was a date, either. I was a clueless teenager). We got lost, and were completely unprepared, not even a torch or a water bottle between us, and less than an hour from sunset. I worked out the right way back to the car, and climbed over barbed wire to keep going in that direction. It wasn't until we got back to my car, just as the sun was setting, that I realised we'd crossed a farm and also that I was being asked to go for a drink later....
Accidentally trespassing on an accidental date.🤣
So what if you "trespassed"? You make it sound like it was a big deal that you walked across a piece of land.
@@Tom_Quixote Because in the video he asked to comment if you've ever trespassed? Why so grumpy
I was there in 2022 when visiting Wales and the Peak District. Even before I encountered the channels of Stephen and Paul. Didn't know it was such a special place.
Cheers for the informative, creative, thoughtful, well-researched (and amusing) video. The book "The Battle for Kinder Scout" is also worth a read with first-hand material from all sides including contemporary newspaper reports, Benny Rothman's own account, the gamekeepers', excerpts from court proceedings, etc. etc...
I love that hill! Therefore respect to the campaigners and for the creation of the national parks. Spent almost an unjustifiable number of weekends up there!
Worth mentioning that the plateau has transformed so much in the last 20-25 years. It used to be a big peat bog where you really could sink to the knees/waist in rainy weather. Since they stopped sheep from grazing on the top (they may still graze on the flanks) it has transformed incredibly. Grasses, wildflowers, mosses abound now. And the eroding bare peat used to emit huge amounts of CO2. Although I must say, a part of me will always miss the old bog-hopping days when you were never quite sure how deep it would be in the case you fell in...
Keep up the interesting work!
I’ve got that book on the way. I used various web sources, podcasts and then that one book I mentioned.
I ended up with only 10days before I left on the trip to research and write the script so was limited to one book in that time.
Interesting to hear about the changes up there. It’s funny how there’s a rush to preserve bog land when in many cases it’s actually artificial in a way as it’s often caused by the historical removal of trees
I used to live halfway up Dartmoor about a decade ago, absolutely gorgeous place, in Wrangaton, South Brent. I think about the westcountry often, it's a place I'll keep close to my heart. I had the best time, and it's just stunning, lovely people as well. I only stayed for two years, but the accent rubbed off 🥰
Ahh bugger you beat me to this topic mate 🤣 Great video though as always, Stephen!
It’s been covered by quite a few channels. There’s always new angles to tell a story from so never been afraid to tell your own version 🙂
@@StephenJReid Yeah I suppose so! It's a little far down on my list anyways so plenty of stuff to be getting on with before I tackle Kinder Scout again (last video I did there I made while recovering from a broken leg and that wasn't my smartest move).
Brilliant video Stephen . Could see you on countryfile yet ! Good work
Cool video Stephen! Cool shots (and tricks) :-)
Not exactly sure, but how does this tie in with the right-to-roam in the UK? If I'm not mistaken there were actions for that too, or am I mistaken?
BTW: I got a lot of (pretty long) ads during this video, which I did let play for your benefit ;-)
Well it's part of the overall story. A lot happened between then and eventually in 2000 the Countryside and Rights of Way Act was passed in England & Wales giving people access on foot to mountains, moors, heath, down or common land.
I had that in the script originally , but cut it in the end as it didn't fit neatly. A lot of other campaigning happened since. The trespass wouldn't have achieved anything if people hadn't kept fighting for access after it.
Absolutely brilliant video as always, I've seen other UA-camrs talk about the trespass before but never in this detail. Superb pal, never knew about the Communist connection
Thank you
Thanks! Yeah I found the communist connection fascinating.
Well done again!!!... I do enjoy your informative videos, and your camping ones....Take care out there.
24:53 Plus 4 hours of kindly responding to all the commentors...
Brilliant vid, again. Love the documentary form, whether it is about history or outdoor related topics. The storytelling does look as your natural style. Love the humour. Take care, beware of burnout!
Thanks! I've started only replying to comments for the first day of a new video and then after that only a handful.
Stephen as per your usual very high and unbiased explanation of events.Definitely worth the effort. 👍👍
Thanks Norman. Always tricky staying neutral in these videos someone always thinks your taking a stance
Wow Stephen what an entertaining and interesting video. Its such a privilege to be able to enjoy the country side and this access definitely need to be protected and respected. Well done on this great video
Thanks for watching 🙂
Watched it early and me knowing that area very well i realise the miles you put in filming it, but, your research was excellent and your presentation was awesome, but not forgetting the epic editing 👏 👍 👌
Thanks! Think I walked about 15miles the first day of filming it.
Echoing Mr Pelletier's comment on the lake algae video, you seem to have found your stride with these videos. Good to watch and informative. Also made me want to go see the rock formations.
Great video as always Stephen - appreciate all of your hard work putting these topical documentaries together. Keep up the great work 😊👍🏼
Thanks for the video Stephen. It’s a beautiful walk up there, good for clearing out the brain cobwebs 😊
Good effort with the video very impressive lots of knowledge and some miles completed. Well done.
As a Peak District based landscape photographer I also wild Camp sometimes and kinder is the obvious place to get away with it without being moved on. However, I do agree responsibly I believe it would be great to wild Camp everywhere in the UK and with technology these days I don’t understand why there’s not an app for example where you could sign up to the wild camping app register your location and confirm that you took all your rubbish away with you Because that’s part of the problem. I also understand why it’s difficult because people ruin the countryside by leaving their rubbish such as tents fires and just not being respectful so it’s a difficult one, but hopefully one that can be resolved soon for everyone.
Whilst we don't have any "Rights of way", in Northern Ireland, I believe we don't have a law of Tresspass in Northern Ireland either. So if you see "Tresspassers Prosecuted" signs here, they carry no weight and you can't be prosecuted. However, if you do damage whilst on the property, (or by getting onto said property) you can be prosecuted for "wilful damage". The land owner can ask you to leave, but he can't force you to do so by threatening you with the law.
Great video by the way. I was really disapointed that you didn't show how you did the trick photography at the end like you did in one of your other videos. Can we have a wee one about it please?
Yeah still trying to wrap my head around how that works. I see a lot of trespassers prosecuted signs in various places. I did ignore a private properly sign recently in a remote location and accidental found myself in someones private rifle range 🤣
The tricks in this were just with layers. I shot the scene without me in it and then layered a piece of that footage over the top to hide one side of the post.
@@StephenJReid I had a similar experience on the Moyola river. We were canoeing down through the Moyola estate when we were challenged by the land owner Lady Chichester-Clarke. She explained that they shot clay pigeons and pheasants across the water we had just paddled down, and that we had a lucky escape. To be fair, after I'd done it once, it wasn't worth going back anyway. But it made me wary of paddling the Maine from Randalstown to the lough for the same reasons. There could easily be people out shooting and they wouldn't expect canoeists on "their river". But I've never been challenged about tresspassing on any of the rivers I've paddled over here.
I have no idea what the rules are here. I rely on the widespread apathy of those who are supposed to stop me and on going out midweek
@@StephenJReid
Hi Stephen, Fantastic video as ever. To echo others, loving the format.
Sooo while we’re on the subject of effects and tricks (and I know you can’t give all your tricks away 😁), but in one of your videos you once dropped the tent bag on the floor and made the tent grow and appear fully setup.
Was that also using layers/masks, and maybe key frames and resizing? I’ve been meaning to give that a go in CapCut 😁👍🏼👍🏼
Cheers,
Gary B
@@GaryB_OutandAbout yup animated mask, Really simple to do, takes 5min
Thank you for highlighting Dartmoor 🙏
He can’t turn his estate into a shooting venue if people are walking through it now can he 🤬
Don’t give up your rights to those who wish to covert all the beauty for the privileged few.
I hope to get down and make a video in Dartmoor some time
@@StephenJReid I was watching this thinking 'ooh - a follow-up on Wild Camping and what's going on with Dartmoor would be interesting' and then you snuck it in in the end! Its definitely an interesting topic on what the Dartmoor Commons Act lets you do and how it can be interpreted which pretty much boils down to does 'Access to the public on foot for recreational activities' include sleeping or not?
Thank you so much for another brilliant episode. I’m a walker but enjoy all your videos especially these ones that include a little history lesson too, brilliant as always. X
thanks for watching!
tremendous video on an area I have hiked through, blissfully unaware of any such details.
Literally had stop the video and think about the Earl Grey joke, lol. Great stuff, Stephen!
May have stolen it
I really enjoyed this video, learning a bit of history along the way, keep up the great work 👍
Great video Stephen, loving the content
Yet another good video, your cinematics and story telling are second to none. Hopefully ill get my videos tobthis point at some stage. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! I'm enjoying making these mini documentaries in with the regular content, although they are a ton of work!
@StephenJReid yea they do look it mate
Very well done Stephen 👍 The haves, and the have nots is a story that will never go away...in no small part because the have nots don't work together to demand/force change.
Access to nature should be a basic, fundamental human right, when done respectfully.
On a side note, that weird boulder field might be a clue as to why the area was so restricted, and it also relates to the restrictions in Northern Ireland...the haves are hiding something 🤫
hiding big rocks?
@StephenJReid Big subject, and discussing it here will get my comments deleted.
Brilliant video, your filming of the rock formations was the best. I love the Kinder mass tresspass. I took my son up on Kinder when he was 16 looking for the summit and probably got teared up. 😊
Ps. I tresspass often but more on the golf course by our house as a kid.
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂 A golf course eh, looking for lost balls?
@StephenJReid the golf course was between our back garden and the park so we used to sneak across ducking and hiding from the enemy, the golfers. They would shout at us, I still hate golfers to this day lol.
Very interesting Stephen. Love it up there, bit of a nightmare when the viz is down, but stunning in decent weather. Hayfield is a nice wee place as well. No shortage of plane wrecks up there too, due to its proximity to Manchester, not that easy to locate as you could be 10 meters from the wreckage and still not see it. I've had the pleasure of being up there on my own in a blizzard, with a bubble in my compass!
Based on the shots: beautiful landscapes, but barren! Hardly any trees. It must be the sheep
Have you upgraded your camera? Love the image quality.
I got a nice new prime lens that I used for the shots with the shallow depth of field. It's a hassle but I really like how it looks. Can't use for every video but nice for some
@ you can tell looks lovely. What lens did you get?
sigma 30mm f1.4, for my APSC camera
I’ve been up Kinder lots of times in all weathers I love it. Thanks for a very informative video 🤙🏻👊🏼
Thanks for watching Pete
Thanks! Another great and informative video. Love your content!
Thanks so much! 🙂 glad you enjoy it
Brilliant video. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thanks Simon!
Just reading a book on the Kinder trespass, about the same time 10000 people protested in nearby Winnats Pass the largest protest by ramblers ever. Great vid as always
thanks. yeah lots of other things happening at the same time as this. I could easily have made an hour long video. but no one would have watched it.
@@StephenJReid Of course we would!! 👍🏻
@@StephenJReid I think you'd be surprised how many of us would watch an hour of video if it's as interesting, well presented (bar that proper tea gag... [actually enjoyed that one]) and produced as this. I may be wrong, it does happen occasionally, but I think people are starting to rediscover the benefits of a longer-form presentation.
Some people definitely would, but I've noticed from the stats that my videos perform badly when they are over 30mins. the majority of people sadly won't watch those longer vids. At any rate 25min videos I think are ideal for me to make and also long enough to be as long as a TV episode
@@StephenJReid OK, so I was wrong again... 😢🤣 Still, I enjoy your stuff whatever the length.
Hi Steven, great story telling, your recent videos have gone up another level and they were already very good. I’d love to see you or one of the other well known u tubers collaborate with the right to roam campaign. It would be great to raise their profile and to hear from them directly.
Thanks Stewart
Great video. Very informative. I suppose that here in Scotland we are lucky to have a progressive government that introduced the "Right to Roam" legislation that allows walkers, horse riders and pedal cyclists pretty much unrestricted access to all of our countryside, including to wild camp. It's sad that you still need to fight for this in England, Wales and N.Ireland as well.
Great interpretation of this historic event Stephen.
Probably a lot more factual than any I have seen or read in the past.
I learnt about the mass trespass when I was at college (many many many years ago lol) but an awful lot of the detail was omitted.
I do live in hope that one day the whole, or at least the majority of these open spaces in ALL of the UK will be accessible to all.
Thanks! Anything details in particular that you hadn’t heard before that surprised you?
@@StephenJReid The communist aspect I hadn't heard of before
yeah I think it complicates the story especially with the history of communism since then so it gets left out to keep things simple.
@@StephenJReid You explained it perfectly 👍
One of your best Stephen thoroughly enjoyed it, loved the photography and the narration
(Nearly as good as Paul Messener’s rendition of the same subject 😂)
ATB
Thanks Roger! Was surprised when I found out Paul was making a video on the exact same topic, totally not planned!
Love the history stuff mate, keep it up. Thanks
Thanks Colin!
I live in the English countryside with a very active dog and no “right to roam” here so trespassing is a weekly occurrence! But keep your dog under control around livestock, leave no trace and do no harm and in my years of countryside walking/living have never once been booted off land or caused any trouble!
By the way, regarding the communists and socialists in the early 20th century, we owe them a lot of the rights we have nowadays. They didn't know Stalin's crimes for a long time. As you said, many deserted the CPGB once his crimes came to light and became the backbone of the movement that created the welfare state and NHS. We need their likes again.
Fantastic video, really informative, interesting and something I knew nothing about. I wonder if the trail is officially marked for others to follow in their footsteps.
I did have my own adventure a while ago, where I am pretty sure I tresspassed...although I did this without a map so I plead innocence on this one 🤫
I had for many, many years (over 30) wondered where my ancestors home was, since it had long since gone from maps..if it was ever there in the first place. The christening record called it 'Back '0' World' near inverkip in Ayrshire, Scotland. It later changed its name ro 'Ferry de Keith' also not on the maps. With the advent of the internet, and progression within that improved by the day, I eventually found a very old map a few years ago, that had this name finally marked marked. On Google maps I hunted, lining up markers such as a river and a gorge, and found an interesting structure that looked to be the remains of an old building. I had to go and see.
Following just my point google maps, and the river that flowed almost to the area, I trudged off in the vague direction.
Part way I rescued a sheep with his head and horns stuck in a square of the wire fence (he'd been there for a while judging by the amount of wool around the fence edging by his neck), climbed a wall, and some other fencing. I knew where I was on google, but it was very likely a farmers private land I fear. Eventually I found it. It was a house, and I could just make out a bigger homestead, and I suspect there were at least two families there farming this piece of land. 200 years apart, and here I was sitting in my ancestors house. It was quite an emotive moment wondering how they lived and worked in this beautiful but isolated area.
To get back, I dropped down the nearby gorge to the river again, crossed it (thank goodness it had been a long hot dry summer!) and up over another fence, through what was clearly a fir tree plantation, to the main road on the other side.
What a fantastic day to have finally found where my ancestors had lived - apologies to the landowners, but I did save your sheep - so hope I am forgiven.
That's a cool story, amazing how one spot can mean so much so so many different people over time.
@@StephenJReid I just wish it had been a little more accessible so I could re visit without so many roiling emotions from 30 years of hunting... I'd love to go back
Still can't believe that title isn't clickbait.
Well it does look that way but after seeing several of your impressive productions i figured they'd be a cunning twist to it.
People, especially younger folks are probably unaware of the role CPGB played in opposing Moseley's very real Union of British Fascists, supporting the democratically elected authorities in Spain during the anti fascist civil war (They lost and Spain got Franco), The hunger marches of the 1930s, they pushed the Labour party to implement welfare state and encouraged labour solidarity in the face of cuts to wages and conditions in the inter war. years.
Where I came from (Wales/Cymru) to be or to gave been a communist is something to be proud of. The average working person should not be conned by the propaganda of the elites. You have nothing much to gain from taking their side.
Now I see all the teenies heading off to retort something about Ukraine 😅😂.
Younger folks are more tuned in to history than you’d think. It’s something I’ve noticed. I think possibly it’s the rise of the TikTok historians that gets them interested.
Although often those kinds of “historians” come with quite a bit of bias
StephenJReid Hi. and Thanks for the videos👍🏼 Extreme bias isn't confined to the history channels.
I think there's a feedback loop between mainstream media and the (pseudo) historians. One of those self-amplifying circuits. Seems to me from a browsing of English language sites that a lot of content producers are just re-telling well told stories - recycling other people's stuff. Chinese Whispers and all that. The output in many cases is more bar room waffle than serious history. Much careful discrimination needed. 😊
You claim to own this video (a.k.a. property), therefore you are guilty of theft! 😅
Yes Woolpacks is one of the best places in the peak district !
Brilliant video. Very informative.
Thanks Ian, had you heard the story before?
@StephenJReid I knew the story of the mass trespass and where it was, I'm not too far away from Kinder so I've spent a lot of time up there. I didn't know of the communist links though.
I grew up on Dartmoor and lived there for 30 years it is such a shame that the right to wildcamp might be taken away. It was such an important part of my life camping and exploring Dartmoor it should be preserved for all.
Superb video, sharing with my good friend and UA-camr extraordinaire Paul Whitewick
thanks! I've seen a couple of his videos 🙂
Great video Stephen, enjoyed that Atb.
thanks Callum
How do you find the subjects for your videos? Actually wait, I don't want to know :D Fascinating subject, I love history! :) Still getting Partridge vibes (the backwards walking) Love it! Great video man :)
It varies. often I go places, look around, sometimes see information boards, or I meet local people, or I google the history of a place and find a story. But nearly always when I have a good story, it's somewhere I've already spent time exploring.
@@StephenJReid Thats awesome, it shows in your videos how much effort you've put in to research :)
Great video as usual. Can you tell me what model is that jacket?
ua-cam.com/video/j1B5uCozFK4/v-deo.htmlsi=JEpUkbAoHoLLJCz_ Even made a video about it. Paramo Velez Evolution hybrid smock. Bit of a marmite jacket. Expensive, but it’ll last a lifetime
Thank you. It is 380 now, that really hurts
I see it as a long term investment. I bought a soft-shell from Rab that cost nearly £200 and it fell apart after 3 years
Glad you’re liking it up on my favourite place
Thanks! 🙂
One of the reasons land access is as bad as it is on ireland, is public liability insurance. Not the only reasons but a factor why landowners won't allow people ramble on their land.
Thanks for sharing this story! I can neither confirm nor deny if I have ever trespassed ✋😉
😂 I’m saying nothing
Another good one.
thanks for watching
Great video . Thanks so much Stephen! You should come to Australia and wander around. Just watch out for the snakes.....
🐍 😱
Hayfield is such a sleepy little village, it’s so funny to think of them catching wind of that MEN headline
Apparently it caused quite the stir. 😱
The kinder mass trespass wasn't the 1st. You should read about the Winter Hill mass trespass on the lever estate on the moors above Bolton.
It was on 1896, with over 10,000 people from Bolton, marched on the moors to gain access for the people, for exercise and clean, fresh air.
It's a more impressive story, and without the Bolton mass trespass, the kinder trespass would never have happened.
Just to be clear. This video is not a defence of Communism. A few people have made assumptions already along those lines.
It’s the telling of something that happened in history from the perspective of the time and its legacy today.
Communism was largely later rejected by many of the same people who became followers in the 1920s & 30 because of the horrific legacy of the communist states of the 20th century. Russian, China, Cambodia, North Korea. Many of those horrors still continue today.
Folk are weird. Good joke
I think you put things across perfectly.... non biased and very factual 👍
You'll always get some people who make assumptions, or simply like to argue and troll, its the Internet lol
I was gunna ask why you changed the video title... now I don't have to
That's the world we live in, folks! Everyone is so ready to be triggered by nothing
Thanks for the video, Ste!
Nor it should be. There are differences between the variants and a sports organization hardly is the worst end of the spectrum. This is a nice story, albeit a little violent to my taste.
I love the name gamekeepers, bouncers more like , I reckon. Well done Stephen, you’ve done it again. Keep going.
Bracken Bouncers
Great video very interesting atvb Jimmy 😎😎👍👍