Pioneer, activist, environmentalist, poet. Ethel Haythornthwaite is virtually unknown, even in her hometown of Sheffield. Yet, her tireless campaigning led to the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 and the creation of the Peak District National Park. In 1924, she went on to join the Council for the Preservation of Rural England (CPRE) and become its wartime director. This biography explores the life of this countryside revolutionary who helped save the British countryside at a time when simply to be a woman was challenge enough.
