Mass trespass on Dartmoor to highlight England’s ‘piecemeal’ right to roam laws

Campaigners say system often entails trespassing on private land to reach free-to-roam areas and call for Scotland-style rules

Hundreds of people campaigning for the right to roam in England are to descend on Dartmoor in an effort to highlight the limitations of the country’s system.

More than 90 years since the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, which helped establish the principle of the right to roam in the UK, organisers say England’s partial right to roam is “ridiculous” and are calling for a system of access rights that echoes Scotland’s.