Trespass Trail 7 - Bowden Bridge
7. The disused quarry at Bowden Bridge was chosen by the trespass leaders on the day in 1932 to rally the ramblers before setting off for Kinder Scout. The police had been trying to serve an injunction on Benny Rothman all the previous week, but they had not managed to locate him.
On the day of the trespass, every railway station en route from Manchester and Sheffield was teeming with police, but Benny and his friends avoided them by cycling to Hayfield. Benny rallied the hundreds of ramblers with an impassioned speech at the quarry, calling for the mass trespass to be the start of a campaign to finally win the right of access to mountains.
After Benny had scrambled off his impromptu pulpit, the whistle blew and the trespassers moved off towards Kinder, cheerfully singing ramblers’ songs.
From the quarry, continue down Kinder Road for about a mile down into Hayfield.
