The Latest Breaking News from Dartmoor

Dartmoor is once again open for bikepacking and wild camping after wealthy landowners' lawyers arguments are thrown out by High Court judges

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.

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…

Tory MPs call for ministers, not watchdog, to make decisions on sites of special scientific interest