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Venville was the right of farmers in the parishes around the old Forest of Dartmoor to graze the central moor by day, in return for a small payment to the Duchy of Cornwall.
A 2024 baseline survey of dung beetle diversity on Dartmoor commons, steered by entomologist Clive Turner for the Our Upland Commons project, which found one of the richest dung beetle populations in northern Europe.
Environmental writer and campaigner behind the Who Owns England? project, mapping land ownership across the country including a detailed study of who owns Dartmoor.
A research report investigating how ungrazed Purple Moor Grass (Molinia) on Dartmoor's Commons could be managed to return more land to grazing and benefit wildlife.
