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OPEN TO ALL - Who really holds the power on Dartmoor?

Name: OPEN TO ALL - Who really holds the power on Dartmoor?
Start: 2025-05-24T09:15:00+01:00
Location: Ashburton Arts Centre

DARTMOOR A conversation with Kate Ashbrook, Matthew Kelly, Guy Shrubsole and Lewis Winks

Presented by: Ashburton Arts Centre

0	ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P	Saturday 24th May, 2025
N	9:15am

Event information

As a National Park, Dartmoor is supposed to be accessible to all, and until recently was the only place in the country you could wild camp freely. But a recent court case has thrown all that into doubt. Can we feel confident about being able to access Southern England’s biggest wilderness in future? Part of Dartmoor Tors Festival.

Kate Ashbrook is a campaigner for people’s rights to paths and access, who first fought Dartmoor battles 50 years ago; she is general secretary of the Open Spaces Society, vice-chair of the Campaign for National Parks and Dartmoor Preservation Association, and vice-president of Ramblers GB.

Matthew Kelly is a historian and author of Quartz and Feldspar, a social history of Dartmoor, and The Women who saved the English Countryside, which includes a portrait of Sylvia Sayer, who fought to protect Dartmoor in the twentieth century.

Guy Shrubsole is the best-selling author of Who Owns England and The Lost Rainforests of Britain. His latest book, The Lie of the Land, argues that landowners have failed in their duty to care for the countryside, and urges communities to fight back.

Lewis Winks is a social scientist, writer and campaigner. He co-founded The Stars Are For Everyone to defend the right to wild camp on Dartmoor, and works with Right to Roam to protect and extend public access to the countryside.

This is part of the first Dartmoor Tors Festival. Tickets for events at Asburton Arts Centre and Field System gallery are all at wegottickets.com/dartmoortorsfestival. All of the festival events are at dartmoortorsfestival.co.uk

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