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Walking, writing and the outdoors, Campaign for National Parks, YHA, Ramblers

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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Empowering young people to become tomorrow’s leaders is vital for the future of national parks. Read my thoughts here: www.cnp.org.uk/blog/nationa...
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National parks and young people: Shaping the future
Andrew McCloy, Chair of Trustees at Campaign for National Parks reflects on last week’s uplifting Radical Futures event.
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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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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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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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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This is what the jewels in our lanndscape crown have been forced intio… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Peak District National Park staff asked to consider redundancy
The authority employs about 280 staff, who have been asked to submit expressions of interest.
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Turnstile from the Bavarian Alps today, just for you @lakesstiles.bsky.social Hope your watch is feeling better 😄
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
A stimulating day out with the Gritstone team!
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
@lakesstiles.bsky.social Awesome wavy cloudage stuff. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Rare cloud formation spotted during Storm Floris
Keen weather watcher Adrian Webster said it was
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
@lakesstiles.bsky.social Rustic
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Ben Avison @benavison.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
It was good to chat to BBC York with Dad about our song, Making Memories on the Pennine Way www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Daytimes on BBC Radio York - Father and son Jon and Ben Avison create song to celebrate 60 years of the Pennine Way - BBC Sounds
Dad Jon is a former ranger in the Yorkshire Dales National Park
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The Pennine Way is 60 years old & we celebrated this iconic & ground-breaking trail at a special event in the Yorkshire Dales today - in words, music & art. Still an inspiration after all these years! @yorkshiredales.org.uk @nationaltrailsuk.bsky.social @ramblers.org.uk @campaignerkate.bsky.social
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Beautiful Sunday in April and I had Long Dale (pictured) and Minninglow to myself, just Red Admirals & skylarks for company.
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Very good news, well done Guy!
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Great new book from @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social launched this evening to a full house in Hebden Bridge. ‘The Borders: The Lands We Share’ explores landscape & life both sides of the Scotland/England divide - available from gritstonecoop.co.uk @gritstonebooks.bsky.social
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Gritstone Publishing @gritstonebooks.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Always exciting to see a new title. The launch in Hebden Bridge of @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social new book: The Borders, The Lands We Share gritstonecoop.co.uk/product/bord...
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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'TikTok craze behind beauty spot parking issues'
High Peak MP Jon Pearce calls for Peak District authorities to take
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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Federal land management stewards have been there for us. Now, let's come together to be there for them! Join us tonight at 6pm Pacific for a special #ParkChat during which we'll suggest 5 concrete ways we can support our #publiclands and their protectors. Art by National Park Posters
A WPA style poster with a female-presenting National Park Service ranger standing between to mountain peaks. Across the top of the poster it says "Worth Protecting" in bold black letters. At the bottom it says "America's National Parks, US Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
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Helen Warlow @hippychick.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
John Rogers Cox. Powerful painting That sky!
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Lots of thought-provoking discussion at today’s excellent @campaign4parks.bsky.social Council meeting. Thanks to @maryannochota.bsky.social and @guyshrubsole.bsky.social for their stimulating contributions. @roseoneill.bsky.social
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Campaign for National Parks @campaign4parks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Our council has been coming together to share voices from across the country since 1936 🤝 Today we’re collaborating to bring about wilder & more diverse National Parks 🏞️ Thanks to @guyshrubsole.bsky.social & @maryannochota.bsky.social for speaking
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Good to see you all again - an ‘anthology of authors’ indeed!
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
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Peak District roads shut by police due to 'selfish' parking
Some cars will be towed away by Derbyshire Police while other drivers face fines.
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
#FingerPostFriday from Dunedin, New Zealand (it’s not as steep as you might imagine, btw!).
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Ruth Tingay @ruthtingay.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This is a fascinating account of PR tactics against progressive environmental campaigns, written by @kat-jones.bsky.social So many similarities with the tactics deployed against those of us campaigning against raptor persecution/grouse moor management... aprs.scot/news/environ...
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Environmental campaigning in the age of misinformation - Action to Protect Rural Scotland
As people in Galloway, and further afield, are being asked to contribute their views on a new National Park to the official consultation, our Director, Kat Jones, contemplates the campaign that is bei...
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Apparently they like flopping out on warm tarmac (and who doesn’t?). It makes you a bit more alert as a driver, though.
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Really pleased & proud to be part of the UK’s only author-run publishing co-operative.
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
If you thought the Highland midge was bad then try the Milford Track sandfly. Irritating, persistent & everywhere, the two must be related! @christownsend.bsky.social @dannyoutdoors.bsky.social
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Great news and richly deserved
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
One for you @cumbriapr.bsky.social Wife & daughter just completed Te Anau parkrun in New Zealand. Cool location! 😄🏃‍♀️
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
There are some seriously good bike trails on New Zealand’s South Island, imaginative & well promoted and making a significant economic impact, such as here on the 55km Lake Dunstan Trail. Just don’t fall off half way round and break your elbow. 😢 centralotagonz.com/tracks-and-t...
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
‘Unstable icebergs’ is not your everyday National Park hazard, encountered today in Aoraki Mount Cook NP, NZ. (I returned unscathed.) @roseoneill.bsky.social @campaignerkate.bsky.social @lakesstiles.bsky.social
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
What a fab afternoon celebrating grass roots action in @campaign4parks.bsky.social Park Protector Awards 2024. Nature rich national parks for everyone are still achievable with these kind of extraordinary people! See list of finalists here www.cnp.org.uk/news/2024-na...
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
75 years ago legislation to create Britain’s National Parks was passed - and now government needs to show the same vision & commitment so our protected areas can realise their true potential. @campaign4parks.bsky.social @ramblersgb.bsky.social @jayneyb.bsky.social @campaignerkate.bsky.social
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National treasures
Explore the past, present and future of Britain’s national parks
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Some dreamy cirrus (alto cirrus? cirrostratus?) from this morning’s Derbyshire skies for you @lakesstiles.bsky.social
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
#PubSignThursday The Quiet Woman at Earl Sterndale, Derbyshire, sadly now closed and up for sale at the moment.
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A chilly afternoon but super panorama from the top of Win Hill in the @peakdistrict.bsky.social
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Robin Hood’s Bay on the Coast to Coast Walk and Cleveland Way National Trail. The North Yorkshire coast remains one of my favourite places to walk in the UK. 💚🥾
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Excellent piece by YHA’s James Blake on the importance of making the outdoors both accessible and affordable for young people.
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John Dower’s legacy: a call to action on access | LiveMoreYHA
Read all about the celebration at YHA Malham of the legacy of John Dower - a well known name of the countryside access movement...
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Too many choices! 😁
Signpost at a path junction near Castleton in the Peak District.
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Big shout out to the Peak & Northern Footpaths Society, who since 1894 (yes, really!) have been helping walkers navigate the Peak District & South Pennines with their beautiful green signs. www.peakandnorthern.org.uk
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It’s quite simple, if we want inclusive and nature-rich protected landscapes we have to resource them properly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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England’s national parks facing financial peril due to budget cuts, say CEOs
Leaders warn cost savings will lead to mass redundancies and that spaces could become ‘paper parks’
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Delighted to be at Malham Youth Hostel today for the unveiling of a plaque to John Dower, architect of the 1949 National Parks Act (and who designed the YH!). @yorkshiredalesnp.bsky.social @campaign4parks.bsky.social @campaignerkate.bsky.social @roseoneill.bsky.social @ramblersgb.bsky.social
At Malham Youth Hostel unveiling a blue plaque commemorating John Dower, architect of the 1949 National Parks Act (and this youth hostel!). Pictured with Baroness Sue Hayman are Ross Maloney (Ramblers), James Blake (YHA), Kate Ashbrook (Open Spaces Society), CPRE, Andrew McCloy (Campaign for National Parks).
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