Fires spread quickly across moorland vegetation and can be devastating to the landscape and wildlife, including ground nesting birds, reptiles, amphibians and small mammals. Uncontrolled fires also put livestock and members of the public at risk.

Read the book? Watched the film? It's now time to discover The Salt Path for yourself and experience some of the UK's most superb coastal walking along the Exmoor stretch of the iconic South West Coast Path. We've lots of information and ideas from short walks to multi-day adventures.

Our dark skies are some of the best in the UK. We have minimal light pollution and on a cloudless night you can see literally thousands of stars and astronomical sights such as the Milky Way with the naked eye. In 2011 Exmoor was designated as an International Dark Sky Reserve by the International Dark Sky Association. So why not take the time to visit Exmoor and look up?