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Yet for the past three years, we outdoor lovers have been battling more than unpredictable British weather. Since the Dartmoor Commons Act was legislated in 1985, parts of England’s National Park ...

Wild camping - pitching your tent in a quiet place and leaving no trace - has long been a much-loved part of outdoor adventure. But across most of England and Wales, it remains off-limits, unclear, or ...

A councillor said they already received regular complaints about the number of camper vans 'parked all over the place' in ...

A visitor levy “risks” increasing the number of wild campers near beaches, lakes and lay-bys, a Cyngor Gwynedd committee has been told .

Freeloading wild campers are using parking spaces at a country park to stay overnight - leaving a disgusting mess in the woods. Ty Mawr Country Park is by the Grade II Listed Cefn railway viaduct ...

As a queer woman in my early thirties, I’m not a stereotypical wild camper: neither a solo man nor half of an outdoorsy heterosexual couple. I never camped as a child on family holidays and the first ...

Until recently, the most dramatic news coming from Dartmoor National Park, the 368-mile windswept jumble of jagged tors in south Devon, revolved around sporadic sightings of the ‘enormous, coal-black ...

Wild campers have been fined for cutting down trees and lighting a large fire in a wooded area. Cumberland Council said the group had caused "significant" and "unnecessary" damage to the area when ...

Wild camping on Dartmoor is completely free of charge and allows people to reconnect with nature I HAVE wild camped on Dartmoor more times than I can count and the fact that this right was even ...