Vixen Tor: The Dartmoor Landmark You Still Can't Visit

When a landowner fenced off Vixen Tor in 2003, it triggered years of legal wrangling over whether the public had any right to clamber over this particular pile of Dartmoor granite. A public inquiry eventually concluded they didn't. Two decades later, the tor remains behind barriers—a peculiar footnote in the ongoing story of who gets to walk where on Britain's open moorland.