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If you adhere to the unwritten rules of wild camping of pitch at dusk, be gone by dawn and leave no trace you would probably be OK.
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Unfortunately it was being used like a massive free camping ground last year. Saw quite a few family groups with massive tents pitched up for the weekend, around the frogmore quarry part of Dartmoor. The little car was full of beer boxes and BBQs.
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Apparently land owners in the Peaks were sending rangers out after dark to check on unlawful camping over the last few years so I wouldn't count on it.
Frankly the whole English right to roam/camp needs legislation similar to the Scottish position.
CanonAxe
Grumpy_Git
Dogshit: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/13/dartmoor-estate-landowner-alexander-darwall-court-case-right-to-camp
Not sure if it’s even enforceable really, but still bad news. I assume the judge was in a tricky position because the right was never enshrined in law, but it felt like decades of people doing it might be enough for it to continue to happen (legally).
Especially frustrating as the guy purchased the land recently, knowing full well it was a place people wild camped.