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Hate camping? These 20 stunning sites will change your mind
Britain’s campsites reopen fully tomorrow, some with luxury improvements – but will they be enough to entice camping virgins and refuseniks?
16 May 2021 • 6:00am
Camping veteran Simon and lifelong tent refusenik Siân arrive at Fforest Farm in Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire, for her first ever night under canvas
Credit: Siân Parry-Lewis
Some time around 1980, my wife Siân woke up with her head in a cow pat and vowed never to go camping again. Her Brownies leader had taught her how to put up a tent, but not to avoid camping on a slope. She never did get that badge.
Photograph: Mark Reid
This 17th-century inn stands right beside the historic bridge across the Cover, near its confluence with the Ure in lower Wensleydale. There has been a river crossing here since perhaps Roman times. At one time, the main stagecoach route from London to Richmond, North Yorkshire came this way, as did drovers’ roads across the dales and hills. This traditional pub continues to thrive and oozes character, with an inglenook fireplace, beamed ceilings and wooden settles; it is famed for its ham and eggs, and generous portions. Outside, the attractive beer garden leads to the banks of the Cover, said to be the haunt of a “kelpie”: from the turbulent waters this horse-like creature from Celtic folklore lures the unwary into riding on its back, only to disappear beneath the waters with its victim.
It’s been dry for days. The breeze gently ruffling the tops of maroon-coloured heather and clumps of tall, pale grasses is neither too strong nor too weak. There is a pleasing squelch to the moss-covered peat below. These are the perfect conditions for burning. Three gamekeepers from the Bingley Moor grouse estate in West Yorkshire begin their final burn of the afternoon – on land the government’s nature protection agency, Natural England,.
âIt has become them and usâ: the battle to burn Englandâs moorlands
Gamekeeper Tom Adamson uses a batter to smother the flames during burning on Barden Moor in the Yorkshire Dales. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Guardian
Gamekeeper Tom Adamson uses a batter to smother the flames during burning on Barden Moor in the Yorkshire Dales. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Guardian
To grouse farmers, it is a vital act of preservation; to environmentalists, it is arson. Will a ban on peat burning add fuel to the fire?
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Itâs been dry for days. The breeze gently ruffling the tops of maroon-coloured heather and clumps of tall, pale grasses is neither too strong nor too weak. There is a pleasing squelch to the moss-covered peat below. These are the perfect conditions for burning.