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Chairman of the Dartmoor Preservation Association from 1951 to 1973, and its most formidable conservation campaigner, fighting off a TV mast, military exercises, reservoirs and china clay expansion across the moor.
“The only signs of life are the furry inhabitants of the warren, and, perchance, a herd of Dartmoor ponies, wild as the country over which they roam, and a few sheep or cattle grazing on the slopes.”
Who wrote this?
Environmental writer and campaigner behind the Who Owns England? project, mapping land ownership across the country including a detailed study of who owns Dartmoor.
English author, countryside access campaigner and former CEO of the Dartmoor Preservation Association, with around thirty books on British topography.
Campaign group formed to defend and restore Dartmoor's wild camping rights — a landmark access battle.
Plate from A Book of Dartmoor, page 300, 1900“I never cross her, vor I knaw I should be wuss off. I let her do as her minds to, and doan't never meddle wi' nothin' in the ouze.”
Also on Our DartmoorLeeden Tor hut circle settlement and fields — Thirty-one hut circles in an irregular field system with a length of the Walkhampton Common reave, an enclosure with two more huts, and a military shelter, on Leeden Tor's south-east slope.
