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Andrew Bibby

@andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social
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I'm a writer and journalist based in the South Pennines, writing on landscapes and the outdoors, and with an interest as well in the co-operative movement. www.andrewbibby.com.

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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A meeting of the UK's author-run publisher @gritstonebooks.bsky.social today and guess who arrived at the window as we were finishing. Well, we do publisher books on nature and the countryside. @cumbriapr.bsky.social @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social @windhovering.bsky.social @ipgbook.bsky.social
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
In #Halifax amazing @thepiecehall.bsky.social for 10th birthday of @gritstonebooks.bsky.social. @cumbriapr.bsky.social @windhovering.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
A lovely piece from @hannahalothman.bsky.social in @theguardian.com on the #Halifax Urban Trail race coming up on Monday. We have filled all 500 places and had to turn people away. #running @thepiecehall.bsky.social @calderdale.bsky.social
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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Running the town: the urban trail race taking entrants inside Halifax’s historic buildings
Easter Monday race will lead runners through minster, town hall and Piece Hall in what is thought to be first UK event of its kind
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Joint birthday party in #HebdenBridge tonight to celebrate 40 years of #indybookshop The Bookcase and the ever excellent indy publisher @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social. Congrats to both. @thebookseller.com
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
A beautiful Spring day in #Halifax showing @theguardian.com journalist @hannahalothman.bsky.social where she'll be running in the inaugural Halifax Urban Trail halifaxurbantrail.org.uk on Easter Monday. 500 runners running through @thepiecehall.bsky.social, Hx Minster, Hx Town Hall, Dean Clough...
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Halifax Urban Trail - Easter Monday 2026
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Well done @societyofauthors.bsky.social . Plenty of us authors whereabouts.
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
What a good idea! Calder Valley Community Land Trust is raising investment funds from within its community to ensure a house in Heptonstall village is rented to young people and doesn't end as a Airbnb. And there's music in the local pub tonight to get the share issue over the line!
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Co-op News @coopnews.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
UK writer-owned publishing co-op Gritstone plans new releases to mark 10th anniversary #coops @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social
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UK writers' co-op Gritstone to celebrate 10th anniversary
Gritstone Publishing, still the only author-run co-operative publisher in Britain, is turning 10 years old in 2026
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Apparently Xmas is coming. I'm out today with the xmas bookstall from @gritstone publ co-op, UK's only author-run publisher. @windhovering.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social
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Kate Ashbrook @campaignerkate.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Lovely to return to Hebden Bridge, memories of access-campaigns and Walkers are Welcome events, this time to celebrate 25th anniversary of Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000. Wet walk to Mere Stones, formerly forbidden land, then conference where all pledged to press government to act for access
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
My piece for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk now live yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/right...
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Right to roam: taking the next step for access to the countryside
An event in Hebden Bridge celebrating 25 years of the CRoW Act spurs on the movement for further land access rights in England and Wales
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Doug Wept @thiefoftime.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Some homework this week will be to read this summer's report from the APPG on outdoor recreation and access to nature, and its recommendations to a #Labour government that pledged to increase access in its manifesto outdoors.inparliament.uk/outdoors-all... 2/2
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Outdoors For All Report
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Glad you enjoyed the conference, Doug. Yes, a big challenge but one I think we can meet!
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
A stimulating day at the Right to Roam conference at Hebden Bridge discussing how to extend access to the countryside & tackle the govt’s unfinished business! @philbrickellmp.bsky.social @andymacnaemp.bsky.social @campaignerkate.bsky.social @amyjanebeer.bsky.social @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Breaking now for workshops. How can we get Parliament to move on this?
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
We're under way! Conf on Freedom to Roam 25 years on from CRoW access legislation. Here's Amy-Jane Beer from @righttoroam.bsky.social speaking. @ramblers.org.uk @campaignerkate.bsky.social @campaign4parks.bsky.social @britishmountainwmn.bsky.social @openspacessociety.bsky.social
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Kate Ashbrook @campaignerkate.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
‘Step up for access’: call to government on landmark law’s 25th anniversary | OSS | November 2025 share.google/GEaKXEeLoiW7...
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‘Step up for access’: call to government on landmark law’s 25th anniversary | OSS | November 2025
Read the latest news from the Open Spaces Society. We protect the places you love.
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Coming up tomorrow, our Freedom to Roam conference celebrating 25 years of countryside access legislation in E&W and discussing what new rights we need. @campaignerkate.bsky.social @campaign4parks.bsky.social @ramblers.org.uk @righttoroam.bsky.social @andymacnaemp.bsky.social
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Hebden Bridge Town Hall getting ready for our Freedom to Roam conf on Sat week. 25 years since the last access legislation, time for a new Act! @righttoroam.bsky.social @ramblers.org.uk @openspacessociety.bsky.social @philbrickellmp.bsky.social @andymacnaemp.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social
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Sim Elliott @sim-elliott.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
A post on private land ownership and access to nature. Some of the best nature in Sussex is in SSSIs were access is not permitted by owners, often related to making money out of pheasant shooting. @guyshrubsole.bsky.social excellent on this! See: whoownsengland.org @righttoroam.bsky.social
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Nature you can’t see. Private land, trespassing in an ancient wood and the right to roam.
I took these photos to bring your attention to some marvellous things in nature, in Sussex, that are hidden from the public. I will not name the Sussex wood I trespassed in to take these photos. If…
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
It might look like we’re at bible class, but in fact we’re celebrating the 60th anniv of the #Pennineway by reading from our books to a packed audience as part of the Todmorden Book Festival. Great to share a platform with @anitasethi.bsky.social @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social & chair Pam Warhurst.
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
All set for our session on the Pennine Way! @anitasethi.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social
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ovendenlaura.bsky.social @ovendenlaura.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Looking forward to this later today!
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I'm off this afternoon to celebrate the story of the Pennine Way at #Todmorden Book Fest, with two other authors @anitasethi.bsky.social and @andrewmccloy.bsky.social. Ah, those northern hills! Should be a good session!
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Not long to go now to this event, marking 25 years of access legislation in E&W and campaigning for further access rights. @ramblers.org.uk @righttoroam.bsky.social @openspacessociety.bsky.social @philbrickellmp.bsky.social @andymacnaemp.bsky.social See you there!
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Gritstone Publishing @gritstonebooks.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Highly commended award for excellence, from the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild, for Gritstone author (and founder) @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social : The Borders, The Lands We Share. Buy your copy here: gritstonecoop.co.uk/product/bord...
An author, Andrew Bibby, holds a copy of his book, The Borders:The Lands We Share, and his certificate of excellence awarded by the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
🥾 Celebrate 60 years of the Pennine Way by joining @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social, @anitasethi.bsky.social & myself at Todmorden Book Festival on 9th November. We’ll be discussing what this remarkable trail means to use & reading extracts from our books. todmordenbookfestival.co.uk/whats-on/
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Well OK I will blow my own trumpet just a little and mention the accolade my book The Borders: The Lands We Share has just received. Runner-up in the Outdoor Book of the Year awards @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social
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Gritstone Publishing @gritstonebooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Our books are distributed by Cordee if bookshops are struggling to find our stock. But you can also order direct from us, with free p&p, and we have a fantastic range of outdoors titles gritstonecoop.co.uk
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
A walk today in surprisingly ok weather to the independent hostel at the back of Skiddaw, Skiddaw House. The occasion? The annual get-together of authors and photographers in the Outdoor Writers & Photographers Guild.
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Tony Harrison's obit in the papers today. V sadly no longer one of our greatest living poets. His sonnet National Trust is on my mind. In it he reflects (no, not on the NT) but on language, concepts of nationhood, power and class. All in 14 lines. It's online, here I think:https://poetryarchive.org
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
A good news story from #HebdenBridge. The heritage #signal box, empty and unloved for 8 years, has been saved for the community by Calder Valley Community Land Trust. In due course it'll become a heritage centre and quirky holiday accomm.
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Not great weather today but I took myself off to the old quarries at Penistone Park near #Haworth to see Steve Messam's contribution to #bradford #2025 yr of culture. Definitely worth the visit.https://www.stevemessam.co.uk/towerbradford?itemId=bx886d6c6mggg1lrc7zecyvsb439xen
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Tower Bradford — Steve Messam
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The excellent #Todmorden Book Festival has just published its 2025 programme. Pleased to be there sharing the stage with @gritstonebooks.bsky.social colleague @andrewmccloy.bsky.social and @anitasethi.bsky.social. We'll be celebrating the 60th birthday of the Pennine Way.
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Authors should _never_ look in bookshops for their titles. That way lies despair. But my eye was nevertheless caught in @waterstones.bsky.social in #York by my latest book peeping out at me. Books by my @gritstonebooks.bsky.social colleagues also on the shelves. Nil desperandum.
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Just leaving #Leeds and an event I really wish hadn't had to happen. The local branch of my union @nujofficial.bsky.social were marking the deaths of so many #journalists and media workers trying to report what is happening in #Gaza. A sombre occasion.
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Nice to see this piece in @theguardian.com on an organisation dear to my heart. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Like Jeremy Corbyn and Sophie Ellis-Bextor, I grew up in Woodcraft Folk. Here’s how it changes children’s lives | Phineas Harper
The leftwing alternative to Scouts turns 100 this year. If Keir Starmer wants to empower Britain’s young people, it has much to teach him, says writer and curator Phineas Harper
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
The eight members of @gritstonebooks.bsky.social, so far Britain's only author-led publisher, pose here at #Beverley Bookshop, a fine indy #bookshop, before heading off for our Awayday #coop meeting. @cumbriapr.bsky.social @windhovering.bsky.social @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
On my way to Beverley, along with the seven other members of @gritstonebooks.bsky.social UK's first author-run #coop publisher. It's our Awayday, to discuss our strategy to 2030. @cumbriapr.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social @windhovering.bsky.social @coopnews.bsky.social
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Nice to see my new book The Borders- The Lands We Share on the shelves in @samreadbookseller.bsky.social in Grasmere. Support #indybookshops! @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
#coop day at @foxandgoose.org coop pub in #hebdenbridge. And @gritstonebooks.bsky.social is here too. Britain's first author run coop. @coopnews.bsky.social @coopsmark.bsky.social @cooperativesuk.bsky.social @coopstudiesjournal.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Remembering Jesse Gray, #coop pioneer & co-host of first ever ICA conf. #iyc @cooperativesuk.bsky.social @coopsmark.bsky.social @coopstudiesjournal.bsky.social @coopfutures.bsky.social His grave in #Hebdenbridge @coopnews.bsky.social
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A great walk yesterday in the sunshine on once forbidden moorland near Boulsworth Hill on the Lancs/Yorkshire border. A recce for the No-Longer-Trespass walk to be held on Sat Nov 29 in #hebdenbridge as part of national conf on right to roam. @righttoroam.bsky.social . 25th anniv of CRoW Act.
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The reviews are coming in now for my new book The Borders: The Lands We Share. Here's a nice one from Viewpoint mag @campaign4parks.bsky.social . "A compelling read" - ah, cockles of this author's heart warmed. @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Thank you, Mark, v kind review.
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The excellent Northern Soul online mag has a piece up about my new book The Borders: The Lands We Share. Find it at www.northernsoul.me.uk/borders-land.... @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social @righttoroam.bsky.social @ramblersscotland.bsky.social
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Landscapes, land, and the need for a political debate on how we use our countryside
Landscapes, land, and the need for a political debate on how we use our countryside: author Andrew Bibby writes about the lands we share.
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Ah, it's enough to make any author well chuffed! Here's my new book in the window of The Reading Room, the #indybookshop in #Melrose in #scottishborders. A lovely well curated bookshop. @gritstonebooks.bsky.social
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Lovely review of my new book The Borders: The Lands We Share just up on @northeastbylines.co.uk. Thank you to journalist Peter Sagar. northeastbylines.co.uk/news. @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social #northumbria #northumberland
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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A particular thank you to @thisjanscott.bsky.social for her help
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