The Latest Breaking News from Dartmoor

A ruling that members of the public have the right to wild-camp in Dartmoor National Park has been welcomed by “right-to-roam” activists who claim that swathes of England’s countryside are unfairly off limits.

Campaigners win court appeal that banned right to camp in English National Park

A bitter dispute between a millionaire hedge fund manager and campers he tried to ban from pitching up on his land may have come to an end, Matt Mathers reports

We want to hear from people who plan to camp on Dartmoor following the court appeal victory

Judges rule unanimously to overturn decision removing rare right to wild camp without landowner’s permission

Dartmoor National Park Authority had appealed against January high court ruling that outlawed practice

Court told wild camping is not open-air recreation as park authority appeals against recent ban

A judge previously ruled that people do not have the right to camp overnight on Dartmoor Commons with landowners’ permission.

Duchy hopes to at least double size of Wistman’s Wood, a 3 hectare fragment of ancient woodland, by 2040

More than £13m of subsidies mainly paid to tenants of Duchy of Cornwall have done little to restore nature in national park

Originally opened in 1930 by Great Western Railways as a hotel and golf resort, Bovey Castle – or Bovey Castle Hotel and Spa to give its full name – is a genuinely impressive site. Those railway people knew what they were doing frankly as, it must be said, do current…