The countryside that surrounds our towns and cities appears timeless. For those not involved in its preservation you could be forgiven in thinking that this is the way it always has been and always will be for generations to come.
But to maintain the beauty of areas such as the Peak District – the country’s first National Park – decades of campaigning, educating, fundraising and purchasing has had to take place to either stop or shape developments that would take away from its splendour and dent the enjoyment of the millions of people who find happiness and sanctuary in its wide open spaces.
“But also, crucially, for people beyond the Peak District who might not know its power, why she cared so much about the landscape and what it meant for her as a writer and environmental campaigner. Her poetry about the Peak District is beautiful.” Ethel married her first husband Henry Gallimore in 1916. However tragedy was only weeks away as he died in the First World War.
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