More Dartmoor land restored as common

The Open Spaces Society campaigns to protect common land, village greens, open spaces and public paths, and people's right to enjoy them

Another chunk of land in Dartmoor National Park has been registered as common land.

The land, which forms part of Ditsworthy Warren, is grazed and uncultivated, according to the Open Spaces Society (OSS).

It was provisionally registered as common land in 1968 but in 1982 a commons commissioner refused the registration of part of Ditsworthy Common because there were "no rights of common", the society said.

Historian Frances Kerner, from the OSS, said it was "particularly rewarding" to see another piece of land on Dartmoor restored as common land.

Isolated building

It comes as part of a campaign by the OSS to get more common land registered.

Planning Inspector Nigel Farthing granted the society's application to re-register the land, which is about 82.25 hectares (204 acres).

The society said its application showed the land is "waste land of a manor" which meant it could be registered as common land.

Ditsworthy Warren is host to Ditsworthy Warren House, a Grade II-listed building near Sheepstor.

The isolated building was used in 2010 as a filming location for the Steven Spielberg film War Horse.