Right to Roam
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The Right to Wander
The right in Britain to walk through private land is known colloquially as the right to roam. The movement to win this right was started in the 1930s by a rebellious group of young people dressed in army surplus shorts and hiking boots. They called themselves Ramblers. This is Roulley Smith, a Ramblers slash journalist who says his rambling forefathers and mothers were toiling away in the factories of 1930s Manchester.
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