Editing Sylvia Sayer (section)

==Legacy==

The DPA set up a Lady Sayer Land Purchase Fund after her retirement as chairman in 1973. It was used in 1984 to purchase 32 acres of land at Sharpitor, near [[Burrator Reservoir]], in celebration of the successful fight against the Swincombe reservoir.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dartmoorpreservation.com/about-the-dpa/land/285-the-sharpitor-story |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813165741/http://dartmoorpreservation.com/about-the-dpa/land/285-the-sharpitor-story |url-status=usurped |archive-date=13 August 2015 |title=The Sharpitor Story |last=Ashbrook|first=Kate |publisher=Dartmoor Preservation Association |date=July 2007|access-date=4 September 2015}}</ref> As of March 2013 the fund held about £29,400.<ref>DPA AGM Papers 2012 – 2013, p.9. in ''Dartmoor Matters''. No. 181, Spring 2013.</ref>

On the centenary of her birth in 2004 [[John Bainbridge (author)|John Bainbridge]], the then chief executive of the DPA, revealed plans to memorialise Sayer by organising annual walks to some part of Dartmoor that she had saved, and also by holding an annual Sylvia Sayer lecture given by a prominent speaker.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/3537795.stm |title=Life of Dartmoor champion marked |date=7 March 2004|publisher=BBC|access-date=3 September 2015}}</ref>

Writing in 2009 in ''Dartmoor – A Statement of its Time'', one of the [[New Naturalist]] series of books, Professor Ian Mercer (former Chief Officer of the Dartmoor National Park Authority), said of Sayer:<ref>{{cite book
|last=Mercer|first=Ian
|title=Dartmoor – A Statement of its Time
|publisher=Collins|location=London|year=2009
|series=The New Naturalist Library|volume=111
|page=22
|isbn=978-0-00-718499-6
}}</ref>
{{quote|She was the scourge of farmers, foresters, quarrymen, civil [...] engineers, of generals and even of the National Park Authority when its professed pragmatism appeared to her, in the sort of words that she would use, 'snivelling cowardice'. [...] No modern history of Dartmoor would be valid without reference to her, but quite naturally reactions to her actions and statements divided the world of Dartmoor stakeholders for 50 years.}}