The wilding

WINDINGS NO STRAIGHT ROAD TAKES YOU THERE ...

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

Ancient rural skills in a modern world

From a distance, Almscliffe Crag in Wharfedale looks like a ruined citadel: a jagged spine of millstone grit rising between Leeds and Harrogate. Today it draws climbers and sightseers. But in the year

This is ridiculous,” said Lissa, as she ducked beneath the bough of a particularly vigorous monstera, the one that Abbie had taken to calling Moz. “You do understand that this is supposed to be a fron

“Cornwall’s ancient history seeps into the blood and bone of all of us raised down here,” says Jane Johnson. She lives in the far west of the county, from where she works as both a writer and a publis