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This work offers an analysis of the changes in attitude and activities in rural Britain, as well as in the pattern of countryside development and the policies behind it. It looks at the social, economic and regulatory forces at work and where they are going.

Mention of the British countryside commonly evokes visions of pastoral contentment; but the nature of rural Britain has changed dramatically since 1945. The declining importance of farming as a source of income and employment in the course of this century has undermined the simple identity of the rural economy with the agricultural sector. The social composition of many villages has been transformed by incomers who commute to nearby towns and cities for their work. And EU policy is playing an increasingly important role in both the regulation of the countryside and the promotion of...