My monthly Countryfile magazine column, Reading the Landscape, now has a dedicated blog on this site. You will be able to find it, grouped with this blog, on the Home menu or save your mouse a trip to the top left-hand corner by clicking here: Reading the Landscape.

Reading the Landscape is a layperson’s guide to identifying the curious lumps and bumps, odd hummocks, ditches, landforms and buildings that can be found in the British countryside. It appears every month in the Month in the Country section of BBC Countryfile magazine and each instalment will appear here the month after. I may also add the odd extra thing I turn up in my travels around the British landscape.