Wild Camping: Exploring and Sleeping in the Wilds of the UK and Ireland

Wild Camping: Exploring and Sleeping in the Wilds of the UK and Ireland

Wild Camping: Exploring and Sleeping in the Wilds of the UK and Ireland

Wild Camping: Exploring and Sleeping in the Wilds of the UK and Ireland

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Overview

A revolutionary guide to the world of wild camping and foraging, showing how anyone can camp, sleep and wake in the UK's most secluded and beautiful places.

Wild Camping features the best places to camp in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, along with stories, tips, helpful maps and inspiring photos. The new edition also includes a completely new chapter introducing the exciting new English Coastal Path, opening in 2020. Other topics include:

- What is wild camping and why bother?
- Different types of wild camping, including bivvying, tenting, and hammocking.
- What the laws are in Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Ireland, EU, and on waterways.
- Getting started (vital equipment, where to go, when to go, safety).
- Drinking water and foraging for food.

This fully updated guide will give readers the knowledge and the inspiration to escape the noise, clutter and stress of day to day life and go wild. From getting back to nature with a tent, some matches and a few litres of bottled water, to enjoying a takeout dinner and camping out in the garden afterwards, this book shows how to fall in love with wild camping in all its many forms.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781844865727
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 06/02/2020
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.46(w) x 9.32(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Stephen Neale is a journalist and writer, and author of Camping by the Waterside and The England Coast Path. He is also the author of several books about Essex (where he lives), and spends most of his time outdoors navigating rivers, setting up camp in the wilderness, and writing about how amazing our country is on his popular website wildessex.com

Table of Contents

Foreword 10

How to Use This Book 13

Part 1

The 5 Ws in Wild Camping 16

Questions and Answers 20

Prologue 22

The Normans 32

The Law 36

Public Land 42

Private Land 56

The England Coast Path 60

The Four Bedzones 65

Part 2

Scotland 70

1 Glencoe 72

2 Jura 73

3 Great Glen 74

4 Galloway Forest 76

5 Sutherland 77

6 Minch Moor 78

How to Wild: Walk, cycle, canoe 80

7 Loch Lomond and the Trossachs 82

8 Loch Morar 84

9 Summed Isles 85

10 River Spey 86

Southern England 88

11 River Avon 90

12 Beaulieu 91

13 Poole Harbour 93

How to Wild: the Car 94

14 River Tamar 96

15 River Medway 97

16 South Devon Rias 98

17 Helford River 102

18 Land of the Jutes 104

19 Scilly Isles 105

20 Chichester Harbour 107

21 Hartland 108

22 White Cliffs 110

23 Dartmoor - East and South 111

24 North-West Dartmoor 114

25 Exmoor 115

26 Bodmin 117

27 Quantock Hills 121

28 South Downs 123

29 Kennet and Avon Canal 124

Eastern England 126

30 The Wash 128

31 Walton Backwaters 130

32 The Broads 131

33 Dengie Peninsula 134

How to Wild: 136

34 Thames Estuary 138

35 Orford Ness 139

36 River Stour 141

37 River Orwell 142

38 Lincolnshire Wolds 144

39 Essex Way 146

40 Pepdars Way 147

41 Chelmer Valley 148

Central England 150

42 Grand Union Canal 152

43 Trent and Mersey Canal 153

How to Wild: Survival 155

44 River Thames 156

45 The Ridgway 157

46 Malvern Hills 159

47 Leeds and Liverpool Canal 160

48 River Soar 161

49 Cotswold Hills 163

50 Oxford Canal 164

51 River Trent 165

52 Black Hill 167

53 Long Mynd 170

54 Dark Peak 171

55 White Peak 173

56 River Severn 174

Ireland 176

57 Munster Blackwater 178

58 River Shannon 179

59 River Blackwater 181

60 River Bann 182

How to Wild: 184

61 Grand Canal 188

62 Black Stacks 189

63 Mourne Mountains 190

64 Sperrin Mountains 191

65 Slieve Bloom Mountains 192

66 The Three Sisters 193

67 River Barrow 194

68 Salt Island 197

Wales 198

69 Cadair Idris 200

70 Brecon Beacons 201

71 North Snowdonia 202

72 The Rhinogs 204

73 Off A's Dyke 204

74 Berwyn Mountains 206

75 Preseli Mountains 207

76 Pembrokeshire Coast 208

77 Anglesey 210

How to Wild: Food and Water 212

78 Mawddach 214

79 Lleyn Peninsula 215

80 Glyndwr's Way 216

81 Llangollen Canal 217

Northern England 218

82 Valley of Ennerdale 220

83 Helvellyn 222

84 Buttermere 223

85 Urra Moor 224

86 Derwentwater 225

87 Coniston 226

88 Forest of Bowland 227

89 Pendle Forest 229

How to Wild: Home 230

90 The Chevoits 232

91 Kielder Forest 233

92 North Pennines 234

93 Forest of Trawden 237

94 Yorkshire Dales 238

95 The Wirral 240

96 Goswick Sands 241

97 Hadrian's Wall 242

98 Yorkshire Wolds 244

99 Lancaster Canal 246

100 River Eden 247

Index 251

Acknowledgements 256

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