Author Archives: tpltravelled

The how and where you can and can’t commercially film in the Peak District National Park is clearly articulated on the PDNPA website. Look under FAQ’s.  If you’re pointing a camera at something or someone in order to sell, film or promote something for income then that is commercial activity. That includes ‘only on socialContinue reading “Pay Per View”

For the record it was Sunday 8th March when i saw my first of the season. Near Curbar Edge. In October last year, following a public consultation, the Derbyshire Dales Council voted in a Public Space Protection Order which was effective from 10 October 2025 It prohibited the following actions: In public spaces. The PSPOContinue reading “The First of the Season”

Books for Books Day In no particular order … One Thousand Days – SiriusA book about an extraordinary military patrol in Greenland which also happens to be best book ever written on selecting and training high performing teams Joss Naylor MBE Was Here – the best book ever written on human powered endeavour. How ToContinue reading “Books from Boxes”

A few from a great day yesterday at @north_lees_hall_farm (on Instagram) with Nick and Liz. They were sorting the in-lamb ewes ready for release on to the open moorland. I took quite a lot of photographs to give them plenty of content because somehow in their manically busy days they are hoping to use InstagramContinue reading “Storytelling”

Multi-agency presence for another day of engagement and enforcement activity as part of the launch of the Rural Crime Initiative from @southyorksmca and South Yorkshire Police. Really good opportunity for the @eastern_moors_partnership rangers to undertake networking and knowledge sharing particularly with our friends in the Off Road and Rural Crime Policing Team. ‘Slight’ sympathy forContinue reading “Teamwork”

Perhaps my favourite story of Springtime … There was a tradition amongst the Brown Edge quarrymen concerning the first bumblebee of the summer. When the first bee of the year was seen, the then owner of the quarry, Henry Hancock, put five shillings to the men’s two shillings and the youngest quarryman was detailed toContinue reading “Spring Has Sprung”

from the edge(s) and moor(s). More words in due course.

Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 2000, you must keep your dog on a lead no more than 2 metres long on open access land between 1 March and 31 July – to protect ground-nesting birds. And also in livestock areas. On Public Rights of Way (footpaths, bridleways etc indicated on an Ordnance Survey map)Continue reading “Legalese”

This is a story about 2 kittens that were dumped in their carry crates over a wall on to Ramsley Moor on the eastern edge of the Peak District. Watch this … Then watch this quite remarkable bit of thermal drone footage … In the military we used to talk about the ‘shock of capture’Continue reading “Ramsley”

Dear Owners, When you stopped in the lay-by in late January and dumped us in our carry-cases over the wall on the moors you probably thought that was the end of us. You could’ve just rang a cats shelter. Were we that bad ? We had been surviving on food out of a nearby binContinue reading “If Cats Could Write”