The public have won back the right to wild camp on Dartmoor, after judges overturned a recent ban.
The Court of Appeal overturned a decision by the High Court in January, which had ruled in favour of local landowner Alexander Darwall. He had wanted wild camping to be excluded from the right to “open-air recreation” enshrined in the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985, claiming campers left litter and held raves.
The Court of Appeal has now overturned that ruling, following a challenge brought by the Dartmoor National Park Authority and the Open Spaces Society
