Peak District National Park plans Covid-safe 70th anniversary celebration with online activities

The area was officially designated as the UK’s first national park on April 17, 1951, under Clement Atlee’s Labour Government, 20 years after a group of pioneering ramblers made the case for public access to the countryside with the mass trespass of Kinder Scout.

A programme of events to mark the occasion this year has inevitably been shaped by the pandemic, but the park authority is determined to celebrate and involve the public by focusing on its role in the ‘green recovery’.