The Kinder Mass Trespass
Hayfield
1932
AS I TRUDGE THROUGH THE PEAT AT A PACE SO SLOW
THERE IS TIME TO REMEMBER THE DEBT WE OWE
TO THE "KINDER TRESPASS" AND THE RIGHTS THEY DID SEEK
ALLOWING US FREELY TO RAMBLE THE DARK PEAK
Poem by Derek Ward.
This poem is one of fifty installed to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the setting up of the Peak Park Ranger Service in 2003. A competition open to the public and school children was run and the best fifty were carved onto benches and installed at appropriate places. This is from the one in Bowden Bridge car-park Kinder Rd Hayfield, a site which featured in the Mass Trespass.
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Background image shows one panel of a Triptych by local Artist Clare Parker interpreting a photograph showing the members of the Mass Trespass on the Hayfield Recreation ground Parish Church of St Matthew's can be seen in background as can the whitewashed walls of the Cricket field.