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Scotland Outdoors

A History of Outdoor Access in Scotland with Tim Simons of Scotways

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen meets Tim Simons of the Scottish Rights of Way and Access Society

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0:35.6

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:44.8

Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this.

0:47.5

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:48.7

Now, as you probably know, Scotland's got a really extensive route of ancient paths, rights away, many of them dating

0:55.9

back hundreds, if not thousands of years. The Scottish rights of way and access society,

1:01.9

they're now known as Scotways, have been protecting and promoting these paths since 1845.

1:07.5

Recently, they published the sixth edition of a book that came out first in 1924

1:13.1

which is called Scottish Hiltrax now I spoke to the editor of that new edition Tim Simons

1:20.3

what's the history behind it

1:22.2

Scottways is a charitable organization

1:32.3

was founded 179 years ago

1:36.3

in 1845 by Adam Black

1:40.3

who was the Lord Provost of Edinburgh

1:43.3

and he was concerned at the time that ordinary folk were being prevented from accessing the countryside.

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