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Apologies if this was posted here before and I missed it, but it may be of interest to people here

Legal aspects of wild-camping, right to roam etc in England&Wales. Sure nothing in it is shocking or revolutionary but it's a good clear summary from someone who actually know what they're talking about (not merely an opinion of a random idiot like me )

youtube.com/watch?v=4sHIrzWEZjA&

It's very well made, and will hit the right terms for a search result. But like his video on foraging law - he omits some important information and it will likely lead to false confidence (legally speaking).

 

There are only two 'laws' for wild camping in E&W:

1 - Don't leave a trace

2 - Don't get caught

Easy

In essence "if you were caught you weren't doing it properly", give or take that Peak landowner using drones with thermal imaging cameras.  Though TBH other than maybe some of the more isolated bits towards the Snake Pass to me most of the Peak isn't rural enough for it.

IOW if you put up your bright orange tent at Stanage at 3 in the afternoon you should expect to be caught and were doing it wrong.

Agree with crayefish!  I was taught the value of the 11th commandment (don't get caught) and believe don't leave a trace as part and parcel of that -- not only didn't you catch me, you didn't even know I was there and there's no evidence anyway

From an earlier epoch:

'Thou shalt not wreck the place'

3-Don't tell anyone where you're nice wee camping spot is, let them find it themselves ;p

Plenty of the Peak is rural enough for it, keeping in mind the aforementioned eleventh commandment. If no one stumbles upon your camp, and no one knows you were there, does it really matter if you camp up, for example, overlooking Edale? No harm caused, no trace left, no one any the wiser.

In contrast to the gentleman seen a few weeks ago striking his tent...next to the plantation next to the High Neb parking, at 10:00, in full view of every person in the vicinity.

I seem to actually recall a recent case involving people camping overlooking Edale. Because they were in sight of the village, someone saw their lights flashing and called mountain rescue.

A rubbish waste of MR time, but I'd argue that they've failed at:

Then you're obliged to kill them and eat the body  to keep the secret