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  New Zealand couple shuns developers to give 900 hectares of land to nation

  

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  Dick and Jillian Jardine said it was ‘the right thing’ to hand beautiful plot in Remarkables to national trust for conservationA New Zealand farming family has gifted 900 hectares of pristine land by the edge of Lake Wakatipu to the crown, saying it is “the right thing to do”.The stretch of land at the foot of the Remarkables range will become open to everyone in 2022, after being handed over to the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust for “the benefit and enjoyment of all New Zealanders”. Continue reading...

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  Freedom to Roam

  

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  A right of public access to land or bodies of water Kinder Downfall, Derbyshire, England. Kinder...

  A right of public access to land or bodies of water Kinder Downfall, Derbyshire, England. Kinder Scout was the site of a mass trespass in 1932. 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. Th...

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  National Trust buys romantic landscape of Lorna Doone novel

  

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  Nine acres in Exmoor includes buildings, rivers and moorland linked to 19th-century taleIt is a place...

  Nine acres in Exmoor includes buildings, rivers and moorland linked to 19th-century taleIt is a place of wooded valleys, tumbling rivers and rugged moorland that was immortalised in the 19th-century novel Lorna Doone, a twisty tale of romance, murder and outlaws by RD Blackmore.The National Trust announced on Tuesday it had bought nine acres of land in Doone country, including farmhouses and cottages, and...

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