Last week the Ordnance Survey revealed that Edale in Derbyshire is the most popular place in Britain to start a hike – judging by the volume of walkers.
It’s not, perhaps, a huge surprise. After all, the Pennine Way starts there, and the village is easily accessible by rail from Manchester in the west and Sheffield in the east.
It also has the benefit of having some notable social history attached to it, being the site of the famous mass trespass of 1932 that presaged the opening up of the countryside to the public in the decades that followed. Indeed, by 1951 the Peak District had become the UK’s first designated National Park.
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