The fight for Winter Hill
How the people of Bolton asserted their right to roam the moors
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By Paul Salveson
The Winter Hill rights of way battle in 1896 was Britain’s biggest “mass trespass”. Over three successive weekends, thousands of Bolton people marched over Winter Hill to reclaim a right of way they claimed had been illegally blocked by the landowner. Whilst the 1932 Kinder Scout Trespass is better known and is rightly celebrated, the ev…