A Moorland Notebook by Terry Howard

Born of a lifetime’s love of the high moors west of Sheffield, this “notebook” presents original research into moorland features and the losses caused by their enclosure, alongside poetry and suggestions for a number of “trespass rambles” across these lands. The 2025 edition adds new research and reflections on the changes brought by 2000’s Countryside and Rights of Way Act, plus new illustrations by artist Paul Evans.

Terry Howard was Born in Intake, Sheffield, in 1945, and grew up in Parson Cross. He led his first walk at the age of 15. In the decades since then, he has led countless expeditions through Sheffield, the Peak District, and beyond, for The Woodcraft Folk, The Ramblers, and others, inspiring several generations and giving many people their first taste of the Great Outdoors. He has also written An Inner City Round Walk of Sheffield, and has contributed to many other publications including Freedom of the Moors (1988), and Clarion Call: Sheffield’s Access Pioneers (2017) . In 2022 a documentary about Terry, Ramble On, premiered at Sheffield DocFest.

This is a paperback book of 138 pages.

CONTENTS:

• PREFACE to the 2025 Edition
• A Note on the Drawings     
• FOREWORD to the 1993 Edition   
• PREFACE to the 1993 Edition     
• INTRODUCTION     
• 1: Land Ownership & the Loss of Moorland     
• 2: The Moors Today & Access     
• 3: The Loss of the Right of Passage over Moorland     
• 4: The Loss of Roads & Paths for Public Use – Both “Private” & “Public”     
• 5: Moorland Use     
• 6: Moorland & Countryside Features     
• 7: Walks & Routes     
• 8: New Cross Walk     
• 9 : White Stones & Burbage Moor     
• 10 : Hallam Moors     
• 11: Moscar & Derwent Edge     
• 12: Howden & Derwent Edges     
• 13: Broomhead & Midhope Moors     
• 14: Brookhouse Bridge to Cutthroat Bridge     
• 15: Four Rivers Walk     
• 16: Across the Derbyshire & Yorkshire Moors to Penistone     
• 17: “The Best Moorland Footpath Walk Ever”     
• CONCLUSION     
• 2025 – Some recent observations     
• Moscar Cross to Bradfield Cross