[1] Its first ramble was in the Peak District around Edale on Sunday, 2 September 1900 with fourteen people from Sheffield.
"[6] The handbooks were used to espouse much of the culture and meaning that the Clarion Ramblers attributed to their rambling - for example, one section in the 1934 handbook talked of how "Rambling is also a culture and a craft... (it is) an intense love for one's own country, the innermost and the most remote parts of it, the sweetest as well as the wildest, a love for the wind and the rain, the snow and the frost, the hill and the vale, the widest open spaces, and the choicest pastoral and arboreal retreats.
"[9]The Clarion Ramblers were highly involved with a multitude of local campaigns to gain rights of access over footpaths and commons around the Peak District as well as being involved in the nationwide campaign for an access to mountains billFreedom to roam#United Kingdom.
From 1921 the Clarion Ramblers held campaigned for the re-opening of the moorland route known locally as Doctor's Gate on the grounds it was historically a right of way.
[10] From 1926 until the start of World War II the Clarion Ramblers, in conjunction with other groups, held an annual rally at Winnats Pass where they called for an Access to Mountains Bill to give a right to roam uncultivated upland.