Of all the many Downland villages, Alfriston must be one of the favourites. A remote place, bypassed by modern development, it carries the old fashioned charm we love. Tourists flock here for a taste of old England.
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As autumn arrives in historic Ludlow, Shropshire, the Norman Castle shines in the autumn sunlight. Those blue remembered hills in the distance wait beckoning us.
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A few of my own rough sketches of Sussex-by-the-Sea with its glorious downs and sea coast, loved by Rudyard Kipling. His Sussex writing reveals a picture of a ‘much storied’ England of the past.
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This is the story of our local Angmering Park estate, here on the South Downs, coming back to life – still very much farmland, but with a rapid increase in wildlife and biodiversity. And the wild grey partridges that in 2002 had dwindled to 5 pairs are beginning to return again along with much of the farm’s traditional wildlife.
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A Listening Heart 