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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 9 | History Defined

Country diary: This ancient site is a place of natural departures and returns

Seahenge, Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk: The soundscape of today would have been familiar to those working 4,000 years ago to erect this monument

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Country diary: A hand lens reveals mosses’ micro-engineering

Wolsingham, County Durham: In 1665, Robert Hooke’s Micrographia opened up a world that is still as captivating to me now as it was in my childhood

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Country diary: A heathery summit and a bumper apple harvest

Kit Hill/Tamar Valley: So heavy is this year’s crop that branches have split and broken from Improved Keswick, Belle de Boskoop and Hambling’s Seedling

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Country diary: A meat-eater among the moss

Blackdown Hills, Somerset-Devon border: We’re slurping through the bog, in search of a jewelled carnivore with a sunny name

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Country diary: September means a new start for young adults – and new dangers

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: Like our own fledglings, young barn owls are striking out on their own, with mixed success

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Country diary: Pity the urban birder in late summer

West Norwood, London: In between the swifts leaving and the redwings arriving are the doldrums, when a single coal tit can save the day

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Country diary: The land is scarred from a summer of wildfires

Sandy, Bedfordshire: All I can see is dry grass and kindling. Where is the rain to wash us into autumn?

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Country diary: Water is scarce, and getting scarcer, on the farm

Tebay, Cumbria: We are increasingly struggling to get enough water for ourselves and the animals, so drastic action is needed

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Country diary: From out of a ditch rises this stunning rarity

West Dartmoor, Devon: Only a handful of sites in southern England and Wales are home to the exquisite southern damselfly, and this is one

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Country diary: Who would live in a keyhole like this?

Allendale, Northumberland: I had found neat semi-circles on the epimedium leaves in my garden, now I know who’s been busy

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Country diary: Humans are nature just as much as the falling tree

Monkton Wyld, Dorset, and Welburn, North Yorkshire: Some environmentalists wish us to shrink ourselves from the world and other species. This cannot be so

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Country diary: The kingfisher allows me to get astoundingly close

Otley, West Yorkshire: I am expecting this hunter to get spooked, but I can easily make out the finest details of its plumage

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Country diary: A calm coastal scene, but the heat is taking its toll here

Boscastle, Cornwall: A few daredevils cool off in the sea, while some of the vegetation is losing its colour

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Country diary: A stony desert in the heart of the Peaks – and it’s thriving

Longstone Edge, Derbyshire: A lot of work has gone into making this a place of infertile land yet abundant wildlife. And pride of place goes to the rare spined mason bee

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Country diary: The black guillemots are well cared-for here

Bangor Marina, County Down: The local community has really fallen for these enchanting birds, and I can see why

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Country diary: They’re on the move – the first beaver kits here for 400 years

West Dorset: Since 2021, the pair of adults have transformed the landscape here. Now they have added to their number

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Country diary: The unloved field scabious gives so much, for so long

Sandy, Bedfordshire: These bounteous pompoms are lumbered with an unfortunate name, but the insects don’t care

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Country diary: In the steaming hot woods I realise: we’re not the ones in charge here

Welburn, North Yorkshire: I’m trying to escape the heat, thwarted at every turn by the impenetrable vegetation

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Country diary: A late red grouse chick makes a dash for its mother’s wing

Pikestone Fell, Weardale: The year’s first great pulse of moorland energy, the upland bird breeding season, is all but over

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Country diary: Thank you to Norwich Cathedral for delivering this local specialist

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: The hoary mullein may not be a beauty, but its roots in this area go deep

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Country diary: Every day the collared doves top and tail our waking hours

Sandy, Bedfordshire: They and their wood pigeon cousins chat incessantly, yet somehow almost never overlap

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Country diary: We should open our eyes to the wonder of wasps

Bosherston, Pembrokeshire: They cause consternation wherever they go, including this well-known cafe garden, but I’m convinced of their magnificence

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Country diary: A profusion of poppies on Chesil Beach

Cogden Beach, Dorset: It’s not easy to survive in this pea-size gravel, but some species are in their summer best

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Country diary: A crepuscular date with a dancing silhouette

Thursley Common, Surrey: I’ve entered a shadowy half-world in the hope of hearing the strange churr and clap of a nightjar

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Chaotic gardens are a delight to behold

Letter: Gordon Hetherington says his life was changed by Amy-Jane Beer’s Country Diary column about her overflowing garden

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