Apples, bandstands, beach huts, black dogs, breweries, bricks, cakes, causeways, chalk horses, cheese rolling, cider, cooling towers, curbstones, dances, dialect, dry stone walls, fens, fire festivals, foxes, gargoyles, geology, ghosts, heaths, heronries, ice houses, jet, lagoons, maypoles, mazes, moats, nightingales, peat, pies, primrose banks, quicks&, rhubarb, sheep, spoil heaps, terraced houses, topiary, weather, windmills, zawns... England is a land of extraordinary variety, rich in buildings, landscapes, peoples & wildlife. But this diversity is under siege. Mass production, fashion, increased mobility & the forceful promotion of corporate identity have brought with them standardised shop fronts, farm buildings, factories, forests & front doors, while intensive farming has created a bl&, empty countryside. ENGLAND IN PARTICULAR is a counterblast against loss & uniformity, & a celebration of just some of the distinctive details that cumulatively make Engl&. It is the culmination of more than twenty years` work by Sue Clifford & Angela King, who founded Common Ground with Roger Deakin.ENGLAND IN PARTICULAR is a ground-breaking work, destined to become a classic.