british countryside

Mackerel sky clouds

Does a return to ‘normal’ have to mean the loss of our peaceful soundscape?

People sat in woodland

Countryfile TV Show

Where is Countryfile visiting this week and what time is it on BBC1?

Hay bails and windmill at sunset

Best of the British countryside in September

Group of people having a picnic in the countryside

Britain’s best picnic spots

Couple resting on picturesque bridge in woodland

Britain’s best spring walks

Crested tit

Best of the British countryside in February

Waxwing, Bombycilla garrulus

Best of the British countryside in December

Castle on a hill in autumn

Best of the British countryside in October

Sunlit valley and hillwalker; English Lake District, U.K

Britain’s best poetry walks

Wast Water in the Lake District National Park

Explore Britain’s crowd-free countryside

A stone wall in the Peak District surrounded by heather and a hawthorn tree (Photo by: John Finney via Getty Images)

Sara Maitland: how stone shapes the British countryside

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Historical figures

Beatrix Potter: history of the children’s author, farmer and conservationist

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Rural hedgehog numbers fall by half since 2000

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Opinion: an optimistic vision for the British countryside post Brexit