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It’s the busiest time of year for Britain’s beautiful places. Yet as these locations prove, you can find silence, sensational scenery and space to breathe.

A crack-of-dawn start is one way to avoid the crowds. But there’s another option that doesn’t need an alarm clock.

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Documentary photographer Richard Cross rises above the shortbread tin romanticism that colours so much of our outdoor heritage, with the perspective provided by drone photography applied to land use issues of our day

Among the great expanses of land opened up by the CRoW Act there are these notable gems…

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