On one hot August day W. H. Hudson stood here on the top of Kingston Hill in a special moment of elation feeling the peace of these timeless South Down hills.
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The RHS’s Showpiece Wisley Garden
The Royal Horticultural Society’s Wisley Garden offers everything for a garden lover’s ideal day out, full of take-away ideas for our own gardens. Gertrude Jekyll would have loved this place.
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This is the view from the top of Birdlip Hill on the Cotswold escarpment looking over the Vale of Severn towards Gloucester. It must be one of the grandest in England.
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Re-wilding at Knepp has brought back the sounds of old England. The magic of a dawn chorus with echoes of Eden remind us of yesteryear.
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A Listening Heart 