BBC Countryfile 85 May

Fall in love with Cornwall, and get your countryside fix for the month ahead, with the May issue of BBC Countryfile Magazine, on sale Friday 18 April.  

Get a sneak peek inside the magazine here.

Inside includes:

Love Cornwall: 50 reasons to fall for your favourite coastline

Be seduced by the south west’s coastal views, cliff-top walks, hidden coves and smugglers’ bays

A nightingale sings

Performing live in the UK – for a limited time only! The nightingale, nature’s most operatic bird, gives a virtuoso performance

Win a holiday!

Win £750 worth of holiday vouchers and plan a great escape to the countryside

Take great photos

The first part of our guide to taking competition-winning pictures with your point-and-shoot camera

A valley lost?

The protected medieval Chilterns landscape that lies in the path of HS2

The peasant poet

The rise and fall of John Clare – Britain’s forgotten pastoral laureate

Best wildflowers

Where to find the country’s most dazzling displays

PLUS, EXCLUSIVELY FOR MAY:

Must see

Don’t miss the spectacular sight of Cenarth Falls

Nature

How to spot the difference between a retreating rabbit and a hotfooting-it hare

People and places

Celebrate spring’s arrival

Country know-how

Adam Henson’s guide to modern farm machinery

At the market

Revel in the scent, sight and taste of elderflower

AND Your regular favourites: Books TV and radio, Great Days Out with Julia Bradbury, the best gear and kit, Your letters and photos and much more!