BBC Countryfile Magazine

Nicola Chester

A new movement for the ancient right to roam across parts of the English countryside is gaining momentum and support – just as the very idea of it is reviving old fears and division.

This summer, my husband led 16 Scouts along a busy, unpavemented road between woods, when a safe field margin, routinely denied to them, was just the

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