Words from the Hedge: A Hedgelayer’s View of the Countryside this wonderful book deserves a

this wonderful book deserves a place on your bedside table for years to come

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Words from the Hedge: A Hedgelayer’s View of the Countryside this wonderful book deserves aWords from the Hedge is a passionate evocation of the history, beauty and importance of our hedgerows by a craftsman who has been laying hedges for almost three decades and has the scars to prove it. Hedges are as old as civilisation and as emblematic of the British countryside as chalk streams, hay meadows and oak trees. But unlike woodland and rivers, farmland hedges remain on the periphery of the public consciousness, often going unnoticed and