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Country diary: Many layers of history in one spot

Newbrough, Northumberland: Beneath the monuments to landowning families is a fortlet that predates Hadrian’s Wall by decades

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Country diary: A remote church in a long-lost borough

Llanfihangel Cefnllys, Powys: The bracken hillsides are aflame with light as I follow the lane to the spire

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Country diary: Clean water brings the dippers

Wolsingham, Weardale: The cock bird, an operatic tenor in immaculate evening dress, delivered a avian aria that I could hear above the tumult of the river

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Country diary: The holy fountain that’s neither holy nor a fountain

Agnes’ Fountain, Allerford, Somerset: Drip becomes puddle becomes zigzag becomes river. It’s gentle and thriving, but there’s nothing sacred about it

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Country diary: The sweet pre-spring scent of optimism

Otley, West Yorkshire: These rich woods, which I grew up next to, have been bought out by local groups who know the true value of nature

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Country diary: English thatchers are having to take to the woods

Start Bay, Devon: I’m on the hunt for straight hazel for a roof, and supple hazel for a fiddly porch. Normally I wouldn’t be doing this

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Country diary: It’s started – the blue tits are house-hunting

Langstone, Hampshire: They’ve been popping in and out of the nest box we put up, but there’s no guarantee that they’ll sign on the dotted line

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Country diary: These woods, this hill, are now out of reach

Sandy, Bedfordshire: The town fireworks were held in Cox’s Hill every year, but no longer

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Country diary: A coastal walk looking over Plymouth Sound

Rame Peninsula, Cornwall: We take the path from a popular country park to Cawsand Bay, via woodland of old and fallen sweet chestnut

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Country diary: The earth is still moving under our feet

Cowms Moor, Derbyshire: Sudden landslips, cracks that become crevices – this landscape isn’t as settled as you might think

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Country diary: New discoveries on my childhood patch

Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire: I know this woodland and canal so well. What a thrill to find species have moved in since I moved out

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Country diary: The only movement is a party of rooks

Tre’r-ddôl, Ceredigion: A soft and still day is robbed of its early promise

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Country diary: All that remains of a vast local industry

Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire: I’m drawn to this mysterious relic of working lives interrupted. But what was its purpose?

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Country diary: Slowly bringing tech into these hills

Tebay, Cumbria: I’m a traditional farmer, but I can see the worth in trying electronic collars for our cattle

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Country diary: The changing course of our local rivers

Bossington, Somerset: Whether by human or nature’s hand, the riparian landscape here is being reshaped

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Country diary: There’s a peacock butterfly presenting the news

Crook, County Durham: After the delight of finding this magnificent butterfly overwintering in our house comes the dilemma

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Country diary: Honeysuckle twines its way towards the light

Allendale, Northumberland: It brings promise every winter at around this time, twisting around branches and becoming just as fat

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Country diary: A floating ghost town with a soaring view of the world

The Marches, Shropshire: At the iron age hillfort of Old Oswestry, time hangs heavy in the air here

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Country diary: The linnets have brought out the merlins – and the twitchers

Broom, Bedfordshire: These exhilarating finches are quite something to watch, with their whirring wings and showboating glides

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Country diary: The briefest, luckiest glimpse of a harvest mouse

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: It’s the time of year for surveying the UK’s smallest mouse, so I’m taking to the fields with notepad and stick

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Country diary: Dripping trees and a swollen Tamar

Gunnislake, Tamar Valley: On a dim winter day, lurid moss shrouds the tree trunks, the fallen limbs and sprawling roots

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Country diary: Much to be found in the two inch-tall rainforest

Egglestone, Teesdale: Crouch down at this time of year and you’ll see the irrepressible energy of new foliage, fresh shoots and spring’s promise

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Country diary: The alder trees here are suffering

Wolfehopelee, Scottish Borders: A walk in a familiar fragment of woodland is pleasant enough before we see the first dead crowns

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Country diary: No weeds, no tree sparrows – only a few are hanging on

Poyll Vaaish, Isle of Man: One field on the island is a throwback to the heyday of mixed farming, full of veg and weeds. The resulting biodiversity is astonishing

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Country diary: The joy of growing something from nothing

Wellington, Somerset: Our local Transition Town group is turning a scrubby field into a forest garden – and the word is spreading

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