On 24 April, 1932, a large group of protestors deliberately trespassed onto Kinder Scout, a plateau which rises to the height of a mountain in the Peak District of England, as an act of protest against the fact that mountains could be privately owned and access denied to anyone else. It was an important event in the long process which led to the land access rights currently enjoyed in England and Wales [Scotland has a long tradition of wide-ranging rights of public access to land, while rights in Northern Ireland are quite restricted. ] .
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