Guy Shrubsole is a British researcher, writer and campaigner. He wrote ''Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back''.
Life
Shrubsole was born in
Newbury, Berkshire and attended
St Bartholomew's School.
Work
He spent years researching who owns the land in England. In August 2020, Shrubsole and
Nick Hayes launched a campaign on
freedom to roam
The freedom to roam, or "everyman's right", is the general public's right to access certain public or privately owned land, lakes, and rivers for recreation and exercise. The right is sometimes called the right of public access to the wilderness ...
in England, called Right to Roam. In July 2021 he and Hayes collaborated with Landscapes of Freedom and
David Bangs
David Bangs is a field naturalist, social historian, public artist, author and conservationist. He has written extensively on the countryside management, both historically and present day in the English county of Sussex.
Biography
Bangs wor ...
to organise a mass trespass on the Sussex Downs to raise awareness of the failings of the
Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000
The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37), known informally as the CRoW Act or "Right to Roam" Act is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament affecting England and Wales which came into force on 30 November 2000.
Right to roam
The Act imp ...
, which Shrubsole claims still only gives the public access to 8% of land and 3% of rivers in England.
He used to work as Policy and Campaigns Coordinator at
Rewilding Britain
Rewilding Britain is an organisation founded in 2015 that aims to promote the rewilding of Great Britain. It is a registered charity in England and Wales, and also in Scotland.
History
One of the people involved in setting up the charity was Guar ...
.
Shrubsole's ''Lost Rainforests of Britain'' campaign attempts to find, map, photograph, and restore the
Atlantic Oakwood forests, woodlands variously referred to in Britain as Upland Oakwoods, Atlantic Oakwoods, Western Oakwoods, Temperate Rainforest, Caledonian forest, and colloquially as ''Celtic Rainforests''.
Publications
*''Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back''.
William Collins, 2019. .
See also
*
Land ownership in the United Kingdom
References
External links
Who Owns England? Shrubsole and Anna Powell-Smith's blog
21st-century British writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Newbury, Berkshire
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