{"id":442,"date":"2015-12-04T10:26:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T10:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?page_id=442"},"modified":"2015-12-04T10:26:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T10:26:45","slug":"right-to-roam-walk-for-palestine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?page_id=442","title":{"rendered":"Right to Roam Walk for Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-447\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sheffieldpsc\/albums\/72157653347831266\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-447 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/group-shot-on-tweed-way-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A group of walkers on Tweed Way 2015\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/group-shot-on-tweed-way-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/group-shot-on-tweed-way-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of walkers on Tweed Way 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In Britain, as in many countries, people have had to struggle for the\u00a0Right to Roam, the right to walk, to wander across the land.<\/p>\n<p>In order to raise funds for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?page_id=157\">Sheffield Palestine\u00a0women&#8217;s scholarship fund<\/a>,\u00a0we have planned to walk the length of Britain to remind us of how we have had to struggle for that right to roam and how this lies in a stark contrast to the\u00a0harsh restrictions of movement for all Palestinians and in particular for the\u00a0\u00a01.8m people within the narrow 26 mile of Gaza.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_450\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-450\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sheffieldpsc\/albums\/72157644337753550\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-450 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gaza-r2r-1024x574.jpg\" alt=\"Children demand the right to roam as we can \" width=\"474\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gaza-r2r-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gaza-r2r-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children demand the right to roam as we can<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The walk from 2013 &#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_448\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sheffieldpsc\/albums\/72157636468968185\/with\/10270500506\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-448\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/r2r-203-edale-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A rainy day at the start of the Penine Way\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/r2r-203-edale-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/r2r-203-edale-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rainy day at the start of the Penine Way<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We started\u00a0out on our Right to Roam Walk for Palestine in May 2013, following the\u00a0268 miles of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltrail.co.uk\/pennine-way\" target=\"_blank\">Pennine Way<\/a> from Edale, over Kinder Scout, the site\u00a0of historic Kinder Trespass, to Kirk Yetholm on the Scottish border.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0continued our walk the following year, walking 275 miles from Land\u2019s\u00a0End to Bristol, and then from Bristol, 285 miles to Edale, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sheffieldpsc\/albums\/72157647185484609\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-449\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ma-tor-flag-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Mam Tor flag\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ma-tor-flag-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ma-tor-flag.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>complete\u00a0the \u2018England\u2019 section of our walk.<\/p>\n<p>In Spring last year we walked 287\u00a0miles from Kirk Yetholm to Morvich, north of Fort William.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Plans for 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In May 2016 we will continue north to complete our End to End Walk for\u00a0Palestine, aiming to reach John-o-Groats on Saturday 21 May.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u00a0can, do join us along the route, but particularly for the final day or\u00a0two along the coast from Keiss to John-o-Groats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?page_id=459\" target=\"_blank\">Full details of the route here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Estimated mileage <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Morvich to John-o-Groats:\u00a0<\/em><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">209 miles<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Total mileage Land\u2019s End to John-o-Groats<strong>: <span style=\"color: #800000;\">1, 315 miles<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Britain, as in many countries, people have had to struggle for the\u00a0Right to Roam, the right to walk, to wander across the land. In order to raise funds for the Sheffield Palestine\u00a0women&#8217;s scholarship fund,\u00a0we have planned to walk the length of Britain to remind us of how we have had to struggle for that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?page_id=442\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Right to Roam Walk for Palestine<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":61,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-442","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442\/revisions\/466"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}