I believe there's been some trouble on Pendle with folk from the towns coming out, ill-equipped and getting lost with Mountain Rescue and Police Helicopter involved.
So it looks like Pendle is now on lock-down.
If they just stopped parking, then it would be left to the locals of Barley, Sabden….
That being said, this from Derbyshire Police seems quite sinister.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/vi...lockdown-video
Curbar Edge is hardly remote and if I lived in Baslow or Carver I reckon I could be up there in 10-20 minutes quite legitimately and it would be a good option to go for a walk or run without breaking any guidelines.
I would even go as far as to suggest the cars might be there for valid reasons. My own daughter has been driving 5 minutes from home, just to get away from the local houses and roads, so she can get straight on to rural, open ground and have a walk.
She is a PHD student working from home at the moment, doing lectures at a laptop screen and study work. When I mentioned that she shouldn't drive now to have a walk, she was perplexed. She felt a 5 minute drive to avoid others was responsible and allowed her to get somewhere she wasn't on edge.
So for someone from Chesterfield to head to Curnar Edge I'd say no.
But for someone from Baslow to chuck their dog in the back of the car and drive 5 minutes to commence a walk would seem reasonable to me.
I would certainly expect the police to have something better to do than shame and threaten the people in this video and come up with a better way of discouraging people from driving an unreasonable distance to exercise.