England's traditional landscapes are changing, a new report says. A switch in agricultural methods away from animals towards crops, the intrusion of motorways and roads and creeping urban sprawl all ...

I once described my dream house to a friend. A big pile in the depths of the English countryside, I said. No neighbours for miles, no traffic, nothing but the trees and the birds, the hedgerows and ...

The English countryside is back in fashion. By "English" I don't mean British, but a very specific image of rural England: a patchwork quilt of green fields bordered by hedgerows; a landscape where ...