Free Roaming - The Compleat Trespasser

By: John Bainbridge

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Free Roamer and Trespasser John Bainbridge looks at why the British were - and still are - denied responsible access to much of their own land.

It shows how events through history led to the countryside being the preserve of the few rather than the many.
Here are the landscapes to which access is still denied, the vast stretches of moorland and downland, mountains and woodlands. The book sees how landowners only recently tried to restrict access and lawful camping on Dartmoor, leading to the largest people’s land rights protest for over a century.

On a vagabonding tour through Britain’s most delightful countryside and forbidden tracts, John Bainbridge charts the history of access and assesses the present state of the law, which gives access on foot to only 8% of our land.

Redolent of country air, with nature and archaeology dealt with in graphic style, the book urges the people of this country to become Free Roamers, to take back our ancient freedoms and explore all our countryside.

Free Roaming – The Compleat Trespasser is an expanded version of John Bainbridge’s earlier trespassing book, The Compleat Trespasser – bringing the story of the Right to Roam up to date, and re-examining issues dealt with in the previous edition.