The Latest Breaking News from Dartmoor

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

The former Brecon Beacons has acknowledged it is facing an onslaught of environmental threats – with the UK’s national parks from Dartmoor to the Cairngorms facing similar pressures

Farmers Alexander and Diana Darwall brought the successful legal challenge against the DNPA, claiming some campers cause problems to livestock.

Dartmoor National Park Authority is preparing to appeal against court decision to overturn right to wild camp

In January, a judge concluded that a nearly 40-year-old piece of legislation did not provide a right to wild camp on Dartmoor.

Authority given permission to challenge high court ruling in favour of landowner

Move to stop overgrazing harming bird habitats would ‘destroy ancient tradition’ and harm business, say MPs

West Dartmoor, Devon: They’re my harbingers of spring – a pair of mallards that arrive in the garden to nibble on the grain beneath the bird feeders

A poem in response to the ban on wild camping in Dartmoor – a quiet, tender appeal against the belief that ‘powerful landscapes are only for the wealthy’

Letters: It seems we have no right to be on this planet without the permission of landowners, writes Peter Reilly; plus letters from Linda Gresham and Paul Dobbs