Tuesday, October 11, 2022

"A wealthy landowner is pressing ahead with legal moves that could threaten the right of backpackers and youth groups to wild camp on Dartmoor"

Guardian:

Dartmoor is the only place in England and Wales where it is legal to wild camp in designated areas, without a landowner’s permission. 

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People have also camped in these areas for at least 100 years, with bylaws brought in under the Dartmoor Commons Act in the mid-1980s enshrining it as a right.

Now a fund manager who purchased an estate in 2011 is trying to end the practice.