Editing Sylvia Sayer (section)

===The military===
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|quote  = ...determined and articulate, Sylvia was single-minded in her pursuit of the things she believed in. Never a compromiser, she was unimpressed by the size and power of her adversaries, whom she would fight to a standstill when the occasion demanded. Many respected her as a foe...
|source = Address by Geoffrey Sayer, her son, at the thanksgiving service for her life, 10 February 2000.<ref name=D7>DPA News (2000), p.7.</ref>
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From 1955 onwards Sayer kept up a correspondence about the military roads that lead across the northern moor from [[Okehampton#Military presence|Okehampton Camp]].<ref>{{cite hansard |jurisdiction= |title=VOTE A. NUMBER OF LAND FORCES |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1963/mar/14/vote-a-number-of-land-forces#S5CV0673P0_19630314_HOC_475 |house=House of Commons |date=14 March 1963 |column_start=1670 |column_end=1672 |speaker=[[Frank Hayman]] |position=MP for Falmouth and Camborne}}</ref>

In 1966 she and her husband deliberately interrupted [[live fire exercise|live-firing exercises]] on Dartmoor's Royal Marines firing range to inspect and photograph any damage done to a prehistoric [[stone row]].<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times
|title=Firing stops for Lady Sayer|date=16 September 1966 |page=10 |issue=56738}}</ref> In February 1967 she disrupted a large-scale mock battle at Ringmoor Down that involved low-flying helicopters. She told the press that she did this to exercise her rights and to ensure that no damage was caused to [[ancient monument]]s, pointing out that the public could not be excluded from the area involved because it was not a firing area, and that sheep and ponies had been frightened away as the helicopters converged – "it could have been pony trekkers and hikers and might have resulted in a serious accident", she said.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times
|title=Woman on the warpath at Dartmoor
|date=22 February 1967 |page=1 |issue=56872
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|title=Woman who defied an army – Dartmoor's champion has no time to ride there
|date=23 February 1967 |page=2 |issue=56873}}</ref>