Madonna won her bid Friday to stop walkers from traipsing over large parts of her $16 million country estate.

The singer's lawyers had argued before a public inquiry that a demand from the Countryside Agency to let ramblers onto areas regarded as open countryside would bring strangers close to her home at Ashcombe House, compromising her privacy and security.

The inquiry ruled Friday that the public has no right of access to 15 of 17 contested segments of land on the 1,354-acre estate.