british countryside

Join the Countryfile presenters at this year's Countryfile in the Park

Countryfile TV Show

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Fox in snow

Best of the British countryside in December

Mackerel sky clouds

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

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

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