Sylvia Sayer
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Sylvia Rosalind Pleadwell Sayer, Lady Sayer, was a passionate conservationist and environmental campaigner on behalf of Dartmoor, an area of mostly granite moorland in Devon in the south-west of Engla
Sylvia Sayer in May 1983
St Raphael's Church at Huccaby which contains a memorial to Sayer's mother, Olive Munday
North Hessary Tor transmitting station and base of mast in 2010
The china clay tips on the edge of Shaugh Moor in 2007
Dartmoor Preservation Association is one of the oldest environmental or amenity bodies in the UK. It was founded in 1883. It concerns itself with Dartmoor, a National Park in Devon, south-west England
Sylvia Sayer
…and environmental campaigner on behalf of Dartmoor, an area of mostly granite moorland in Devon in the south-west of England. She was chairman of the Dartmoor Preservation Association from 1951 to 1973, and remained deeply involved with the organisation until her death. Sayer's grandfather was Robert Burnard (1848–1920), who with…
DPA logo 2023
Frontispiece of DPA book about Commons and Commoners' Rights, published 1890
DPA boundary stone at Sharpitor
Walkhampton Common pylons and power cables before undergrounding