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FOUND: Right to roam - What They Never Told You

Almost 75% of England’s riverbanks ‘off limits’ to public, figures show

Campaigners urge government to introduce right of access to water, particularly as heatwaves become more common

The Guardian - UK

Right to Roam campaigners call for access to walk along all England’s rivers

Activists will stage nine protests where they will trespass on to private land along rivers.

Evening Standard

‘Peaceful trespass’ planned at Dorset beauty spot after new owners shut path

Loss of access to lake and waterfall in Thomas Hardy country prompts action at Bridehead estate

The Guardian - UK

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An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England

This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Right to Roam campaigners gather on Dartmoor to celebrate winning legal battle for wild camping rights - and call for more widespread change

Speakers at the rally thanked the wealthy landowner who tried to end the practice for energising the movement, and demanded improved access rights across the whole country

Advnture

Calls for wider access to nature after Supreme Court ruling on Dartmoor camping

Five justices ruled unanimously on Wednesday that the public does have the right to wild camp in the national park in Devon.

The Independent UK

Victory at last! Right to wild camp on Dartmoor saved as Supreme Court rules against landowners in final decision

We hear from the campaigners who led the fight for the right to roam and sleep out on the moor, and find out where the campaign for better access goes from here

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Hiking the Pennine Way 60 years after its creation

The UK’s first national trail was established to help secure a right to roam. To mark its anniversary, our writer takes on a particularly wild section

The Guardian - UK

Campers to pitch up in "wild spaces where no one has been allowed to camp before" under new conservation scheme

People will be allowed to pay to camp in previously off-limit areas, but the move has its critics

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‘Get on my land’: the farmers who want strangers wandering their fields

A growing number of landholders are joining forces with right-to-roam campaigners to boost public access to the countryside

The Guardian - UK

Calls for new dog licences to better control unruly pets in England

Scottish-style right to roam deal should train owners and protect livestock and wildlife, say campaigners

The Guardian - UK

‘Stitching the threads’: UK book offers radical vision of a grassroots ecology

On the banks of the River Roding, authors explain how they are putting the concept of ‘wild service’ into practice

The Guardian - UK

Much of England’s ‘national landscapes’ out of bounds, say campaigners

Right to Roam finds areas of outstanding natural beauty have on average poorer footpath access than rest of England

The Guardian - UK

Protesters to hold mass trespass of Cirencester Park over charging plans

Right to roam campaigners organise demonstration amid anger at Bathurst Estate’s introduction of £4 fee to visit park

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Mass trespass on Dartmoor to highlight England’s ‘piecemeal’ right to roam laws

Campaigners say system often entails trespassing on private land to reach free-to-roam areas and call for Scotland-style rules

The Guardian - UK

‘Gates left open and crops destroyed’: the risks and benefits of right to roam

Some farmers are concerned campaigners do not fully understand how the countryside works

The Guardian - UK

Tories shelve pledge for everyone in England to live 15 minutes from a green space

Exclusive: freedom of information request reveals ministers rejected plan to make pledge legally binding

The National (Scotland)

Mass trespass staged near Border in call for England to adopt Scottish land reforms

Right to roam campaigners have staged a mass trespass near the England-Scotland border calling for the Westminster Government to adopt the same land…

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Ramblers unite at Scots Dyke to protest against England’s draconian right to roam laws

English and Scottish walkers meet in mass trespass to call for greater public access to land in England and Wales, like the more generous laws of Scotland

The National (Scotland)

Almost two-thirds of public back right to roam introduction in England

MORE than 60 per cent of people in Britain support following in Scotland's footsteps across the Border and introducing a right to roam in…

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How British riders would benefit from a Labour pledge to introduce a Scottish-style wild camping and bikepacking law

Shadow environment secretary Alex Sobel says a Labour government would seek to pass a right to roam law if elected in the next election

The Guardian - UK

Labour vows to introduce Scottish-style right to roam law in England

Party promises to enshrine in law equal access to benefits of green spaces if it wins next election

The Guardian - UK

92 constituencies in England allow no right to roam, data shows

Exclusive: Campaigners call for Scottish-style rights to reach nature, as figures show ‘hugely unequal’ distribution of access

The Guardian - UK

A staggering 92% of England is off limits to the public. I’ve decided to take a stand

Right to Roam believes people should respectfully explore the land on their doorstep: after all, we pay subsidies for a lot of it, says Right to Roam organiser Jon Moses

The Guardian - UK

‘What else can we do?’: trespassers demand right to roam minister’s 12,000-acre estate

Campaigners visit Berkshire estate belonging to Richard Benyon, minister in charge of access to nature

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