Early writing still available: Rowe, 1848; Crossing, 1901 et seq. (but new editions 1960s onwards by David and Charles, Devon Books and others); Hawkings, 1987; HMSO (Acts of Parliament and Circulars), 1949, 1972, 1976, 1995, 2006; Hemery, 1983; Hamilton-Leggett, 1992; Harvey & St Leger Gordon, 1953; DNPA, 2005; Beeson & Greeves, 1993.
Gill (ed.), 1970; Brenchley & Rawson (eds), 2006; Dearman, 1964; Dineley, 1986; JNCC, 1993; Edwards & Scrivener, 1999; Sutcliffe, 1986; Durrance & Laming, 1982; Brunsden, 1963, 1968; Waters, 1954, 1957, 1964, 1965.
Simmons, 1964, 2003; Amesbury et al., 2008; Blackford et al., 2006; Fyfe et al., 2008; Fleming, 1978, 2008; Beckett, 1981; Gerrard, 1997; Griffith, 1998; Butler, 1991-7; Clayden, 1964; Mackney, 1983.
Vancouver, 1807; Harvey & St Leger Gordon, 1953; DNPA, 2001, 2008; Ward et al., 1972; JNCC, 2004; Denman et al., 1967; Simmons, 1965; Baldock & Walters, 2008; Streeter, 2009; Rackham, 2004; Preston et al., 2002; Gilbert, 2000; Benfield, 2001; Proctor et al., 1980; DNPA, 1997, 2001.
Harvey & St Leger Gordon, 1974; DNPA, 1997, 2001; Baldock & Walters, 2008; Smaldon, 2005; Sitters (ed.), 1988; Stanbury et al., 2006; Chinery, 1993; Bristow et al., 1984; Baines, 2000.
Harvey & St Leger Gordon, 1953: Crowden, 2008; Simmons, 2003; Environment Agency (data sets), annual; Hawkings, 1987; Hemery, 1991; Smaldon, 2005; Chinery, 1993; Croft, 1986; Baldock & Walters, 2008; Devon County Council, 2005.
Linehan, 1962; Thorn (ed. Morris), 1985; Greeves, 1981, 1986, 2003; Newman, 1998; Gill (ed.), 1970; Thurlow, 1997; Gerrard, 1997; Crossing, 1986; Woods, 1988; Gill (ed.), 1987; Colepresse, 1667; Stoyle, 1994; Vancouver, 1807.
Crossing, 1903 (1966); Aune Head Arts, 2007; HMSO, 1985; Turner et al., 2002; Martin, 1965; Yarwood, 2006; Denman et al., 1967.
Dower, 1945; Hobhouse, 1947; HMSO, 1949, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1977, 1995, 2006; DNPA, 1977, 1997, 2001; Duchy of Cornwall, 1983; Edwards & Scrivener, 1999; DCC, 2002; Defence Estates, 2007; Smout (ed.), 2000.
DNPA, 1987, 2005, 2007; Simmons, 2003; Hemery, 1991; DCC, 2002, 2005; HMSO, 2006; RSPB, 2007; Harvey & St Leger Gordon, 1953; Greeves, 2005.
National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act (1949)
Countryside Act (1968)
Local Government Act (1972)
Nature Conservancy Council Act (1973)
Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981)
Dartmoor Commons Act (1985)
Environment Act (1990)
Environment Act (1995)
Countryside and Rights of Way Act (2000)
Commons Act (2006)
Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act (2006)
4/76 – ‘Report of the National Parks Review Committee’
Cmd 6837 – ‘Statement on the Non-statutory Inquiry by Baroness Sharp (v.i)
12/96 – ‘Environment Act (1995) Part III. National Parks
National Parks in England and Wales (1945), John Dower.
National Parks Committee (1947), Sir Arthur Hobhouse.
Conservation of Nature in England and Wales (1947), Dr J. S. Huxley.
National Parks Review Committee (1974), Lord Sandford.
Dartmoor (1977) – of a public Inquiry into the use of it for Military Training, Lady Sharp.
Fit for the Future (National Parks Review Panel), Prof Ron Edwards.