Guy Shrubsole

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.[1]

Life

Shrubsole was born in Newbury, Berkshire[2] and attended St Bartholomew's School.[3]

Work

He spent years researching who owns the land in England.[4] In August 2020, Shrubsole and Nick Hayes launched a campaign on freedom to roam in England, called Right to Roam.[5] In July 2021 he and Hayes collaborated with Landscapes of Freedom and David Bangs to organise a mass trespass on the Sussex Downs to raise awareness of the failings of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, which Shrubsole claims still only gives the public access to 8% of land and 3% of rivers in England.[6][7]

He used to work as Policy and Campaigns Coordinator at Rewilding Britain.[8]

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.[9]

Publications
  • Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back. William Collins, 2019. ISBN 978-0008321673.[10][11]

See also

References
  1. Lucas, Edward. "Who Owns England? by Guy Shrubsole review — a £72 million question". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  2. "Who Owns England? by Guy Shrubsole review – why this land isn't your land". The Guardian. 28 April 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  3. "Key Stage 5 Awards Evening". St Bartholomew's School. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  4. "Who Owns England? by Guy Shrubsole review – our darkest secret". The Guardian. 10 May 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  5. "Keep On Roaming". The Ramblers. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  6. "Hundreds attend mass trespass for the right to roam". The Argus (Brighton). Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  7. "How the trespass movement is battling for a kinder, more inclusive Britain". New Statesman. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  8. "Our team". Rewilding Britain. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  9. Shrubsole, Guy (29 April 2021). "Life finds a way: in search of England's lost, forgotten rainforests". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  10. "Who owns England? History of England's land ownership and how much is privately owned today". Countryfile magazine. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  11. "So Who Does Own England?". The Land Magazine. Retrieved 7 April 2021.


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