The Story Of The Latrigg Trespass Of 1887

‘We are not asking for money or for political power; but for a continuation of one of the simple rights of our forefathers to enjoy one of the natural rights of man, a communion occasionally in the midst of our toil with the spirit of nature and all that is great and beautiful.’ – Henry Irwin Jenkinson

On the 1st October 1887 an estimated 2500 people walked to the top of Latrigg fell as an act of mass trespass. The court case that followed resulted in a ruling that acknowledged the right of the generality to access this uncultivated mountain top in perpetuity – a significant win for the defenders of the right to roam movement.