About Wild Places
Descent and us
Wild Places Publishing specialises in caving-related publications and was formed with book publication in mind. Its growth has, however, been closely linked with perhaps the best known of its publications,
Descent magazine.
Descent was launched as a small-format magazine in January 1969, price 2/6 (12.5p). Its first editor and publisher was Bruce Bedford – you can read the story of those early years in
Descent (210) – under various publishing names: Descent Publications, The Mendip Press and eventually Mendip Publishing. The magazine gained its ISSN of 0046-0036 with issue (35) in 1977 and moved to an A4 format with issue (40) in 1979.
Caving and CRoW
The CRoW debate
UPDATE
ON 24 July 2014 Wild Places Publishing was asked to host an Opinion prepared by a QC which considered aspects of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (CRoW), which came into force in 2005, and its interpretation relating to caving. The document was placed online at the same time as the following Introduction with its links to background information and other resources. On 31 July another request was made, this time to host a An Alternative View discussing points raised in the QC s Opinion. It should be noted that neither of these documents represent BCA policy; a BCA meeting was held on 16 August 2014 and work towards a formal policy is reported to be proceeding.
Privacy policy
Privacy and cookies policy
Wild Places Publishing is registered with the Information Commissioner s Office under the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 and takes matters of privacy seriously. The following document details how we may collect and use your information, and explains why we ask for that data.
This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which Wild Places Publishing collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a User ) of the descentmagazine.co.uk website ( Site ). This Privacy Policy applies to the Site and all products and services offered by Wild Places Publishing.
When you register with the Site, as well as your address we ask for your phone number and e-mail address. As well as using these details to enable delivery of goods, we may use them to make contact in case of a problem such as requiring clarification of an order or subscription.