A CAMPAIGN to restore ?lost tors? to full public access has this week been launched by a Dartmoor pressure group. The Dartmoor Preservation Association, at its recent annual meeting, overwhelmingly backed a resolution by new vice president John Bainbridge to urge the national park authority to start negotiations with landowners to secure unrestricted access to closed tors. Mr Bainbridge said: ?There is now an implicit denial of our traditional, customary access to a number of Dartmoor Tors. Two of the worst examples are Vixen Tor and Gidleigh Tor, where new owners are denying the public access that has existed for decades. ?But there are a couple of dozen other tors on Dartmoor where access has either been denied or might be in the future.? Mr Bainbridge said when he first started walking on Dartmoor 30 years ago, there was ?no difficulty? in visiting many, now closed, tors ? but in recent years, a ?culture of anti-access? to tors had crept in, which should be curbed. ?We must win back these lost tors for the public,? said Mr Bainbridge. ?We welcome Dartmoor National Park Authority?s commitment to restore public access, either by voluntary agreement or the use of other powers, to the splendid Vixen Tor and we hope it will be willing to extend its efforts to the other tors we have identified,? he said, adding that tors situated in private gardens would not be targeted in the campaign. Kate Ashbrook, DPA president, said: ?We thought the new Countryside and Rights of Way Act would give access to these tors but sadly, many have not been mapped as open country and are therefore not access land. ?We therefore have to revert to the provisions of the 1949 National Parks and Access to Countryside Act ? this authorises the national park authority to negotiate with landowners for access agreements and failing that, make access orders to restore public access there.? Some of the other tors the DPA claim are ?lost? to the public include Baggator, north east of Peter Tavy; Brimhill Tor, east of Mary Tavy; Coombe Tor, south west of Chagford; Fox Tor, south east of Mary Tavy, High Tor, Kent?s Tor and Long Timber Tor in the Tavy valley; Longash near Sampford Spiney, Nat Tor east of Sheepstor and Was Tor, south west of Lydford.