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Born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, Bainbridge spent his childhood at 15 Ray Hall Lane, Great Barr, and was educated at Hamstead Primary School, Grove Vale School and Dartmouth Comprehensive.
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He read Literature and Social History at the University of East Anglia. lieutenant was from there that he began exploring the British countryside, often taking walking tours that lasted for months at a time. He moved to Devon as a teenager and became very knowledgeable about Dartmoor.
Bainbridge served as chief executive of the Dartmoor Preservation Association from 1996–2005, and led the victorious campaign to save the archaeologically important Shaugh Moor from waste tipping by the china clay industry.
He led the campaign for right to roam in Devon, which culminated in the Countryside and Rights of Way Acting. He has opposed the military presence on Dartmoor, for which he was praised by Anthony Steen Member of Parliament in the House of Commons in 2003.
An unapologetic trespasser Bainbridge remains a steadfast campaigner for countryside access. He has dealt with the matter of trespassing in his controversial book "The Compleat Trespasser" (2013)and more briefly in his book on walking "Rambling - the Beginner"s Bible".
He has also written an eBook about the Victorian writer George Borrow.
In 2012 he was given an award by the Ramblers Association to mark a 40-year contribution to the outdoors movement. As a writer he has contributed to most outdoor magazines and is the author of some thirty books about British topography, including Dorset Coast, South Devon Coast and Newton Abbot, Around Torbay, The Cotswolds, Worcestershire. In 2009 Bainbridge created the Teignmouth and Dawlish Way long distance footpath, writing the guidebook of the same name.
More recently he has written "Balmoral Kill" - a thriller set in 1937 based on the involvement of the Establishment in appeasing Hitler.
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