THOUSANDS of people marched over the weekend in one of Britain’s largest ever countryside access protests in anger at a new High Court ruling than bans wild camping on Dartmoor.

Groups of people from across the country gathered on the moorland, owned partly by Tory donor and hedge fund manager Alexander Darwell, on Saturday.

Mr Darwell won a case overturning the right to freely camp on large parts of the estate earlier this month, arguing that the right had never existed.