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Free Roaming - The Compleat Trespasser
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Free Roaming - The Compleat Trespasser

by John Bainbridge

John Bainbridge's 2025 survey of Britain's right-to-roam movement, an expanded update of his earlier The Compleat Trespasser, tracing the history of land access and the fight to reclaim it.

Dartmoor quiz

What is the earliest known source for the legend of Old Crockern?

Sabine Baring-Gould's Book of the West (1899). The earliest known source for Old Crockern is Sabine Baring-Gould's Book of the West (1899), which introduces him with no further explanation, as though the name needed none.

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Dartmoor Illustrated, page 138Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 138, 1900

“Away to the northward is seen the boggy land in the neighbourhood of Erme Head, with the distant tors peeping over the dark brown ridges.”

Also on Our DartmoorNewleycombe Cross — A medieval cross head 0.6 m high on a 1.3 m modern shaft in its original square socket stone, 40 m south of the old track between Buckfast and Tavistock abbeys.