Supreme Court rules wild camping on Dartmoor is legal
Dartmoor was the last place in England where the public had a right to camp on common land but Alexander Darwall and his wife, Diana, had appealed to the UK's highest court to end this.
Darwall, a City fund manager who became Dartmoor's sixth-largest landowner when he bought the 4,000-acre Blachford Estate in 2011, argued it was 'vital that land managers have the power to ask irresponsible and anti-social campers to move'.
The legal wrangling centered on Section 10(1) of the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985, which said: 'The public shall have a right of access to the commons on foot and on horseback
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