Supporters call it “wild camping”; opponents call it “fly-camping”. Most of the coverage of the boom in wild camping has been negative. What might be deemed amusing at the Glastonbury festival has not gone down well on Dartmoor, one of the few places in England where wild camping had previously been explicitly permitted. Creating a nation of trespassers is probably not the answer, but a country better disposed to considerate wild camping might be. No UK river has been given bathing water status, which would stop water companies using waterways as open sewers.

Source: The Guardian August 16, 2020 17:15 UTC