don’t go wild camping until you’ve watched this video so wild camping is illegal in England Wales and Northern Ireland and it’s important that you know these rules before heading out so it is illegal but it’s only a civil law meaning you won’t get prosecuted and if for Warden a ranger or a landowner Asher to move on it’s very important to pack up and get out of the area as quickly as possible as if you stay and refuse to leave this quickly turns into trespassing and you will get prosecuted for this don’t have fires don’t litter and leave no Trace cuz all of these things can land you in the world of trouble L is very different in Scotland as there’s a free to roam meaning you can camp anywhere for free as long as you’re a certain distance away from schools businesses and places of work but being honest guys if you want to get into wild camping you’ve got absolutely nothing to worry about I’ve wild camped over 70 times in the last 5 years and I’ve only been moved on twice so as long as you’re not an idiot and you tidy up after yourself you’ve got nothing to worry about
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What about Ireland, someone knows?
Discretion is key issue. I have camped..with motorcycle..right in people's back yards. (in the USA).
In the evening just when inside lights come on, still light outside enough to see, roll in, no lights, no sound. Crack of dawn roll out and go.
Done this in the U.S, Spain, France, Germany, Mexico, and right in London.
Wildcamp? You mean CAMPING?!
Only in Europe you find the dumbest of laws. Germany was the same.
Guess we know who are the superior folks in them British isles 😂
Wild camping is not illegal in England but nearly all the ‘wild’ areas are privately owned.The landowners generally forbid camping apart from on specifically designated campsites.If you choose to camp elsewhere it is a civil matter .They need to go to court to get an order to move you on and possibly sue you for any damage you have caused .Only if you cause significant damage or camp on a protected site ( like Stonehenge ) can you be actually charged with criminal trespass. Having said that this was good advice , take only memories , leave only footprints and if asked to move on the wise thing to do is just quietly pack up and move on because some landowner heavies are not averse to dishing out their own brand of justice !
This is what I needed to hear. I've been wanting to go wild camping here in Wales for years now, but I'd always interpreted the law as something far more serious!
Re Scotland also a certain distance from homes, don’t wild camp in someone else’s garden!
This land is your land this land is my land
Massive UK L
Makes on appreciate the hundreds of millions of acres accessible in the US without those restrictions.
You won't get prosecuted for tresspass ING, that can only happen where another law is broken and tresspassing becomes a secondary issue
Don’t get caught in google translate
The thing is you have to not draw attention to yourself and this gets frustrating when someone turns up next to you and starts a bonfire at tea time.
Like use your brain people.
I have been "wild camping" for HALF A CENTURY. Here are the basics:
1) NO CARS, NO VEHICLES, EVER. Arrive at sundown, break camp at sunrise
2) If you cannot carry it in and out, over 25km in a day, with 1,000m of ascent and descent, you are not fit to carry it at all, so don't take it.
3) If a military survival instructor can find you without night vision or a drone, you are not hidden
4) If anybody but a dog can ever tell you were there, you should not be there at all.
5) If you need electronic entertainment, stay in the city
6) If you cannot start a fire with nothing but a knife in less than 60 minutes, in any conditions and leave no trace of your fire in less than 6 minutes, you should practice at home until you can.
7) If you can treat any injury yourself, in the field and get out alive and feed yourself in a wilderness without help, you have an adequate level of self sufficiency.
If you read this far, go and do a course, do it for real, and happy trails
Watching this while wild cowboy camping. Good tips.
It's legal on Dartmoor national Park. They won against a rich land owner in the supreme Court recently.
Its allowed in Australia.There are plenty of areas that have never been seen , or,explored by white people.
No its not
Unbelievable that in 2025 man is told he can't sleep on the land or make a fire and they just read it on their screen and play along. If nature is that rare and vulnerable, it's only because the same people let it happen.
This made me so very, very grateful my ancestors decided to cross the pond.
I thought trespassing was also a civil law.
Trespassing on who? You're in the fucking woods. Bigfoot? He don't live out there.
Of course, wild camping is illegal , the uk is a shithole country with an authoritarian state. I would NEVER expect uk citizens to have that kind of right 😂
I wild camp where I live in America.
God, England is so cringe.
Bro come albania like there
It's not illegal on Dartmoor
Illegal if youre a donut sheep brain fool 😂
There are restricted areas in Scotland! Mostly in the trossachs near Loch Lomond, but you’re free to roam pretty much anywhere else!
Why would you want to wild camp without a fire 😂
No one owns earth
Scotland 🙌
When was the last SUCCESSFUL case of Trespassing bought in England?
And what was the penalty given ?
The trouble is ..that GROUPS of people – who either are – OR EVEN simply claim to be- Gypsies, go on both Public and Private Land , sometimes in a Big Way … and damage that area, AND leave mess- including HUMAN WASTE (poo, etc ) – for others to Clean Up. 😢
That hood ❤
There are now sites that charge a couple of quid and they have a list of places you can go have a fire and camp I think they actually coin it as wild camping.
England….where freedom is slowly becoming a thing of the past
Don't get caught, leave no trace.
Fk the rules
Id like to go camping in England. Im from america, but after I got out of school I started studying English history and became fascinated by it. I mean all of our American history basically starts with the Pilgrims and Roanoke and the Spaniards were actually here in the 1500s, but thats about it. We're babies compared to the rest of the world (I know natives were here for thousands of years, but they didnt preserve their history very well and most of the history they have is kept within their tribes and are more like oral history). I did a dna test and all of my ancestors are from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Scandinavian countries. Id like to see the place my ancestors came from at least once before I die. Haha.
Can you camp on land you own? Like if you buy a bit of forest?
I guess I’m fucking moving to Scotland… at least for a while