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FACTFILE
| The British countryside is essentially man-made - over hundreds of years generations of farmers have carved and created the landscape we know today. | | Bounded by hedges, walls, ditches and banks, fields they have been a feature of the British landscape since civilisation began. | | Devon has some of the earliest. On Dartmoor, high above the county's rolling countryside, there is still evidence of fields laid out in Bronze Age times. | | Grazed by farm animals, cut for hay or ploughed and sown with arable crops, fields often provide only a temporary place for wildlife to thrive. | | An ancient meadow, rich in grasses and flowers, teems with animal life. Some creatures like deer, owls and kestrels just visit grasslands to forage or hunt. For others, like the short tailed field vole, it is their whole world. | | Read our feature article to find out more about Wildlink >>> |
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