Documentary makers seek to start ‘informed conversation’ in country where public is allowed on just 8% of land
Anger and momentum are building for Scottish style rights of access to mountains, meadows, rivers and woodlands in England where the public is allowed on just 8% of land, a new documentary suggests.
Our Land, a film whose title is a nod to the protest song by Woody Guthrie, explores the rise of the right to roam movement in England.
The movement, which began five years ago, uses tactics learned from early 20th-century campaigners, whose mass trespass on Kinder Scout in the Peak District in 1932 was seen as a catalyst for change, marking a shift in public opinion.
The documentary, directed by Orban Wallace, follows campaigners as they take members of the public on smaller mass trespasses on private land in England, and interviews landowners from Devon to Scotland.
