Andrew Bibby
@andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social
I'm a writer and journalist based in the South Pennines, writing on landscapes and the outdoors, and with an interest as well in the co-operative movement. www.andrewbibby.com.
Hebden Bridge Town Hall getting ready for our Freedom to Roam conf on Sat week. 25 years since the last access legislation, time for a new Act! @righttoroam.bsky.social @ramblers.org.uk @openspacessociety.bsky.social @philbrickellmp.bsky.social @andymacnaemp.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Hebden Bridge Town Hall getting ready for our Freedom to Roam conf on Sat week. 25 years since the last access legislation, time for a new Act! @righttoroam.bsky.social @ramblers.org.uk @openspacessociety.bsky.social @philbrickellmp.bsky.social @andymacnaemp.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social
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A post on private land ownership and access to nature. Some of the best nature in Sussex is in SSSIs were access is not permitted by owners, often related to making money out of pheasant shooting. @guyshrubsole.bsky.social excellent on this! See: whoownsengland.org @righttoroam.bsky.social
Nature you can’t see. Private land, trespassing in an ancient wood and the right to roam.
I took these photos to bring your attention to some marvellous things in nature, in Sussex, that are hidden from the public. I will not name the Sussex wood I trespassed in to take these photos. If…
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November 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
A post on private land ownership and access to nature. Some of the best nature in Sussex is in SSSIs were access is not permitted by owners, often related to making money out of pheasant shooting. @guyshrubsole.bsky.social excellent on this! See: whoownsengland.org @righttoroam.bsky.social
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It might look like we’re at bible class, but in fact we’re celebrating the 60th anniv of the #Pennineway by reading from our books to a packed audience as part of the Todmorden Book Festival. Great to share a platform with @anitasethi.bsky.social @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social & chair Pam Warhurst.
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It might look like we’re at bible class, but in fact we’re celebrating the 60th anniv of the #Pennineway by reading from our books to a packed audience as part of the Todmorden Book Festival. Great to share a platform with @anitasethi.bsky.social @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social & chair Pam Warhurst.
All set for our session on the Pennine Way! @anitasethi.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
All set for our session on the Pennine Way! @anitasethi.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social
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Looking forward to this later today!
Excited to be speaking at Todmorden Book Festival in November celebrating 60 years of the Pennine Way. 👣🍃⛰️
November 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Looking forward to this later today!
I'm off this afternoon to celebrate the story of the Pennine Way at #Todmorden Book Fest, with two other authors @anitasethi.bsky.social and @andrewmccloy.bsky.social. Ah, those northern hills! Should be a good session!
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I'm off this afternoon to celebrate the story of the Pennine Way at #Todmorden Book Fest, with two other authors @anitasethi.bsky.social and @andrewmccloy.bsky.social. Ah, those northern hills! Should be a good session!
Not long to go now to this event, marking 25 years of access legislation in E&W and campaigning for further access rights. @ramblers.org.uk @righttoroam.bsky.social @openspacessociety.bsky.social @philbrickellmp.bsky.social @andymacnaemp.bsky.social See you there!
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Not long to go now to this event, marking 25 years of access legislation in E&W and campaigning for further access rights. @ramblers.org.uk @righttoroam.bsky.social @openspacessociety.bsky.social @philbrickellmp.bsky.social @andymacnaemp.bsky.social See you there!
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Highly commended award for excellence, from the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild, for Gritstone author (and founder) @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social : The Borders, The Lands We Share. Buy your copy here: gritstonecoop.co.uk/product/bord...
October 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Highly commended award for excellence, from the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild, for Gritstone author (and founder) @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social : The Borders, The Lands We Share. Buy your copy here: gritstonecoop.co.uk/product/bord...
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🥾 Celebrate 60 years of the Pennine Way by joining @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social, @anitasethi.bsky.social & myself at Todmorden Book Festival on 9th November. We’ll be discussing what this remarkable trail means to use & reading extracts from our books. todmordenbookfestival.co.uk/whats-on/
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
🥾 Celebrate 60 years of the Pennine Way by joining @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social, @anitasethi.bsky.social & myself at Todmorden Book Festival on 9th November. We’ll be discussing what this remarkable trail means to use & reading extracts from our books. todmordenbookfestival.co.uk/whats-on/
Well OK I will blow my own trumpet just a little and mention the accolade my book The Borders: The Lands We Share has just received. Runner-up in the Outdoor Book of the Year awards @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Well OK I will blow my own trumpet just a little and mention the accolade my book The Borders: The Lands We Share has just received. Runner-up in the Outdoor Book of the Year awards @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social
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Our books are distributed by Cordee if bookshops are struggling to find our stock. But you can also order direct from us, with free p&p, and we have a fantastic range of outdoors titles gritstonecoop.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Our books are distributed by Cordee if bookshops are struggling to find our stock. But you can also order direct from us, with free p&p, and we have a fantastic range of outdoors titles gritstonecoop.co.uk
A walk today in surprisingly ok weather to the independent hostel at the back of Skiddaw, Skiddaw House. The occasion? The annual get-together of authors and photographers in the Outdoor Writers & Photographers Guild.
October 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A walk today in surprisingly ok weather to the independent hostel at the back of Skiddaw, Skiddaw House. The occasion? The annual get-together of authors and photographers in the Outdoor Writers & Photographers Guild.
Tony Harrison's obit in the papers today. V sadly no longer one of our greatest living poets. His sonnet National Trust is on my mind. In it he reflects (no, not on the NT) but on language, concepts of nationhood, power and class. All in 14 lines. It's online, here I think:https://poetryarchive.org
September 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Tony Harrison's obit in the papers today. V sadly no longer one of our greatest living poets. His sonnet National Trust is on my mind. In it he reflects (no, not on the NT) but on language, concepts of nationhood, power and class. All in 14 lines. It's online, here I think:https://poetryarchive.org
A good news story from #HebdenBridge. The heritage #signal box, empty and unloved for 8 years, has been saved for the community by Calder Valley Community Land Trust. In due course it'll become a heritage centre and quirky holiday accomm.
September 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A good news story from #HebdenBridge. The heritage #signal box, empty and unloved for 8 years, has been saved for the community by Calder Valley Community Land Trust. In due course it'll become a heritage centre and quirky holiday accomm.
Not great weather today but I took myself off to the old quarries at Penistone Park near #Haworth to see Steve Messam's contribution to #bradford #2025 yr of culture. Definitely worth the visit.https://www.stevemessam.co.uk/towerbradford?itemId=bx886d6c6mggg1lrc7zecyvsb439xen
Tower Bradford — Steve Messam
www.stevemessam.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The excellent #Todmorden Book Festival has just published its 2025 programme. Pleased to be there sharing the stage with @gritstonebooks.bsky.social colleague @andrewmccloy.bsky.social and @anitasethi.bsky.social. We'll be celebrating the 60th birthday of the Pennine Way.
September 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The excellent #Todmorden Book Festival has just published its 2025 programme. Pleased to be there sharing the stage with @gritstonebooks.bsky.social colleague @andrewmccloy.bsky.social and @anitasethi.bsky.social. We'll be celebrating the 60th birthday of the Pennine Way.
Authors should _never_ look in bookshops for their titles. That way lies despair. But my eye was nevertheless caught in @waterstones.bsky.social in #York by my latest book peeping out at me. Books by my @gritstonebooks.bsky.social colleagues also on the shelves. Nil desperandum.
September 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Authors should _never_ look in bookshops for their titles. That way lies despair. But my eye was nevertheless caught in @waterstones.bsky.social in #York by my latest book peeping out at me. Books by my @gritstonebooks.bsky.social colleagues also on the shelves. Nil desperandum.
Just leaving #Leeds and an event I really wish hadn't had to happen. The local branch of my union @nujofficial.bsky.social were marking the deaths of so many #journalists and media workers trying to report what is happening in #Gaza. A sombre occasion.
September 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Just leaving #Leeds and an event I really wish hadn't had to happen. The local branch of my union @nujofficial.bsky.social were marking the deaths of so many #journalists and media workers trying to report what is happening in #Gaza. A sombre occasion.
Nice to see this piece in @theguardian.com on an organisation dear to my heart. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Like Jeremy Corbyn and Sophie Ellis-Bextor, I grew up in Woodcraft Folk. Here’s how it changes children’s lives | Phineas Harper
The leftwing alternative to Scouts turns 100 this year. If Keir Starmer wants to empower Britain’s young people, it has much to teach him, says writer and curator Phineas Harper
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August 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Nice to see this piece in @theguardian.com on an organisation dear to my heart. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The eight members of @gritstonebooks.bsky.social, so far Britain's only author-led publisher, pose here at #Beverley Bookshop, a fine indy #bookshop, before heading off for our Awayday #coop meeting. @cumbriapr.bsky.social @windhovering.bsky.social @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The eight members of @gritstonebooks.bsky.social, so far Britain's only author-led publisher, pose here at #Beverley Bookshop, a fine indy #bookshop, before heading off for our Awayday #coop meeting. @cumbriapr.bsky.social @windhovering.bsky.social @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social
On my way to Beverley, along with the seven other members of @gritstonebooks.bsky.social UK's first author-run #coop publisher. It's our Awayday, to discuss our strategy to 2030. @cumbriapr.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social @windhovering.bsky.social @coopnews.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
On my way to Beverley, along with the seven other members of @gritstonebooks.bsky.social UK's first author-run #coop publisher. It's our Awayday, to discuss our strategy to 2030. @cumbriapr.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social @windhovering.bsky.social @coopnews.bsky.social
Nice to see my new book The Borders- The Lands We Share on the shelves in @samreadbookseller.bsky.social in Grasmere. Support #indybookshops! @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Nice to see my new book The Borders- The Lands We Share on the shelves in @samreadbookseller.bsky.social in Grasmere. Support #indybookshops! @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social
#coop day at @foxandgoose.org coop pub in #hebdenbridge. And @gritstonebooks.bsky.social is here too. Britain's first author run coop. @coopnews.bsky.social @coopsmark.bsky.social @cooperativesuk.bsky.social @coopstudiesjournal.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
#coop day at @foxandgoose.org coop pub in #hebdenbridge. And @gritstonebooks.bsky.social is here too. Britain's first author run coop. @coopnews.bsky.social @coopsmark.bsky.social @cooperativesuk.bsky.social @coopstudiesjournal.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social
Remembering Jesse Gray, #coop pioneer & co-host of first ever ICA conf. #iyc @cooperativesuk.bsky.social @coopsmark.bsky.social @coopstudiesjournal.bsky.social @coopfutures.bsky.social His grave in #Hebdenbridge @coopnews.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Remembering Jesse Gray, #coop pioneer & co-host of first ever ICA conf. #iyc @cooperativesuk.bsky.social @coopsmark.bsky.social @coopstudiesjournal.bsky.social @coopfutures.bsky.social His grave in #Hebdenbridge @coopnews.bsky.social
A great walk yesterday in the sunshine on once forbidden moorland near Boulsworth Hill on the Lancs/Yorkshire border. A recce for the No-Longer-Trespass walk to be held on Sat Nov 29 in #hebdenbridge as part of national conf on right to roam. @righttoroam.bsky.social . 25th anniv of CRoW Act.
May 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A great walk yesterday in the sunshine on once forbidden moorland near Boulsworth Hill on the Lancs/Yorkshire border. A recce for the No-Longer-Trespass walk to be held on Sat Nov 29 in #hebdenbridge as part of national conf on right to roam. @righttoroam.bsky.social . 25th anniv of CRoW Act.