Full Description
Beautiful wildernesses; tiny budgets and environmentally-friendly... What's not to like?
It's all accessible right here, without the need for a flight or a big budget. From getting back to nature with a tent, some snacks and a few litres of bottled water, to enjoying a pub dinner and camping out in the garden afterwards, this book shows how to get stuck into wild camping in all its forms.
There's an idea that wild camping is illegal in Britain, but it isn't - you just need to know the rules and where to go. This guide opens up this amazing experience for all, covering:
- what is wild camping and why bother?
- different types (bivvying, tenting, hammocking, on the water)
- what the law says (Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Ireland, EU, waterways)
- how many of the largest landowners in the UK are actively encouraging wild camping
- getting started (vital equipment, where to go, when to go, safety)
- drinking water and foraging for food
Updated throughout for this new edition, the bulk of the book features the best places to wild camp in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, and includes a chapter on the England Coast Path, and the impact of the Dartmoor legal battle. With a Foreword by Ed Stafford, Wild Camping arms readers with the knowledge and inspiration to escape the noise, clutter and stress of day to day life and go wild.
Contents
Foreword
Author's note on this third edition
How to use this book
Independence day
PART ONE
The five Ws in wild camping
Questions and answers
Prologue
The Normans
The Law
Public Land
Private Land
The England Coast Path
The Four Bedzones
PART TWO
SCOTLAND
1. Glencoe
2. Jura
3. Great Glen
4. Galloway Forest
5. Sutherland
6. Minch Moor
HOW TO WILD: WALK, CYCLE, CANOE
7. Loch Lomond and the Trossachs
8. Loch Morar
9. Summer Isles
10. River Spey
SOUTHERN ENGLAND
11. River Avon
12. Beaulieu
13. Poole Harbour
HOW TO WILD: THE CAR
14. River Tamar
15. River Medway
16. South Devon Rias
17. Helford River
18. Land of the Jutes
19. Scilly Isles
20. Chichester Harbour
21. Hartland
22. White Cliffs
23. Dartmoor - East and South
24. Dartmoor - North-West
25. Exmoor
26. Bodmin
27. Quantock Hills
28. South Downs
29. Kennet and Avon Canal
EASTERN ENGLAND
30. The Wash
31. Walton Backwaters
32. The Broads
33. Dengie Peninsula
HOW TO WILD: MAPS
34. Thames Estuary
35. Orford Ness
36. River Stour
37. River Orwell
38. Lincolnshire Wolds
39. Essex Way
40. Peddars Way
41. Chelmer Valley
CENTRAL ENGLAND
42. Grand Union Canal
43. Trent and Mersey Canal
HOW TO WILD: SURVIVAL
44. River Thames
45. The Ridgeway
46. Malvern Hills
47. Leeds and Liverpool Canal
48. River Soar
49. Cotswold Hills
50. Oxford Canal
51. River Trent
52. Black Hill
53. Long Mynd
54. Dark Peak
55. White Peak
56. River Severn
IRELAND
57. Munster Blackwater
58. River Shannon
59. River Blackwater
60. River Bann
HOW TO WILD: GEAR
61. Grand Canal
62. Black Stacks
63. Mourne Mountains
64. Sperrin Mountains
65. Slieve Bloom Mountains
66. The Three Sisters
67. River Barrow
68. Salt Island
WALES
69. Cadair Idris
70. Brecon Beacons
71. North Snowdonia
72. The Rhinogs
73. Offa's Dyke
74. Berwyn Mountains
75. Preseli Mountains
76. Pembrokeshire Coast
77. Anglesey
HOW TO WILD: FOOD AND WATER.
78. Mawddach
79. Lleyn Peninsula
80. GlyndWr's Way
81. Llangollen Canal
NORTHERN ENGLAND
82. Valley of Ennerdale
83. Helvellyn
84. Buttermere
85. Urra Moor
86. Derwentwater
87. Coniston
88. Forest of Bowland
89. Pendle Forest
HOW TO WILD: HOME
90. The Cheviots
91. Kielder Forest
92. North Pennines
93. Forest of Trawden
94. Yorkshire Dales
95. The Wirral
96. Goswick Sands
97. Hadrian's Wall
98. Yorkshire Wolds
99. Lancaster Canal
100. River Eden
Index
Acknowledgements and photo credits
