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<title>British Landscape Club RSS</title><link>http://www.britishlandscape.org/index.htm</link><description>Landscape news.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>editor@britishlandscape.org</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2010 British Landscape Club</dc:rights><dc:date>2011-06-01T15:09:06+01:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:23:35 +0100</lastBuildDate><item><title>The Lie of the Land &#x3c;br /&#x3e;2011 Outdoor Book of the Year</title><dc:creator>editor@britishlandscape.org</dc:creator><category>Lie of the Land</category><dc:date>2011-06-01T15:09:06+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.britishlandscape.org/files/9210d160fd923c4a6510bcb605af6d87-95.htm#unique-entry-id-95</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.britishlandscape.org/files/9210d160fd923c4a6510bcb605af6d87-95.htm#unique-entry-id-95</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The National Trust and Hay Festival have announced their top &ldquo;Outdoors Books of the Year&rdquo; and we&rsquo;re very pleased and excited to tell you that Ian Vince&rsquo;s under-the-field guide to the British landscape, The Lie of the Land  - which we often casually refer to as the unofficial manual of the BLC - has emerged as one of the winners.


The endorsement, the result of a month-long poll to find the best recent writing about nature and the outdoors is shared with The Natural Navigator by Tristan Gooley, The Garden in the Clouds by Antony Woodward, Weeds by Richard Mabey and a number of other lovely books written from unique perspectives on the countryside.   Hundreds of votes were cast and the winners were revealed at the Hay Festival - Britain&rsquo;s most famous literary festival.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Comment is Free</title><dc:creator>editor@britishlandscape.org</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-05-27T11:02:25+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.britishlandscape.org/files/90e579e888a3d4a31e0e11341dd51706-94.htm#unique-entry-id-94</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.britishlandscape.org/files/90e579e888a3d4a31e0e11341dd51706-94.htm#unique-entry-id-94</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A warm welcome to the many people who have discovered the British Landscape Club from the Comment is Free section of the Guardian website.   We hope you enjoy the site after reading the piece on our glorious landscape&rsquo;s heritage penned by the BLC&rsquo;s Ian Vince yesterday.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Lie of the Land in paperback</title><dc:creator>editor@britishlandscape.org</dc:creator><category>Lie of the Land</category><dc:date>2011-05-24T13:57:44+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.britishlandscape.org/files/8b9da4961bf3598238e3f6329b598e8b-93.htm#unique-entry-id-93</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.britishlandscape.org/files/8b9da4961bf3598238e3f6329b598e8b-93.htm#unique-entry-id-93</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We&rsquo;re delighted to tell you that June 3rd has come early and that, as there seems to no such thing as a publisher&rsquo;s embargo these days, you can now get The Lie of the Land - the official BLC manual - in paperback.


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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Geology can be beautiful</title><dc:creator>editor@britishlandscape.org</dc:creator><category>Merely picturesque...</category><dc:date>2011-05-19T13:58:05+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.britishlandscape.org/files/geology-can-be-beautiful.htm#unique-entry-id-92</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.britishlandscape.org/files/geology-can-be-beautiful.htm#unique-entry-id-92</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We&rsquo;re straying from the British landscape for a moment to look at how beautiful geological maps can be.   I&rsquo;m indebted to the website of Pruned which has extracted these maps from enormous PDF archives of the original reports.


In 1944, Harold N Fisk prepared a report on his geological investigation of the lower Mississippi River valley.   The Mississippi - the fourth longest river in the world - ends as a delta, where it dumps amazing quantities of sediments into the Gulf of Mexico.   Before it gets there, however, it has a long and rather ornate meander along the border of the American state that bears its name.   Slow meandering rivers alter their flood plains perhaps more rapidly than any other alluvial process - and this can be seen in Fisk&rsquo;s rather rococo-looking maps. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Layby of the Week: Llyn Cwm Bychan</title><dc:creator>editor@britishlandscape.org</dc:creator><category>Landscapes</category><category>Views &#x26; Scenery</category><dc:date>2011-05-16T10:53:22+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.britishlandscape.org/files/31a3590410c692aa17a0390c3748c1d4-91.htm#unique-entry-id-91</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.britishlandscape.org/files/31a3590410c692aa17a0390c3748c1d4-91.htm#unique-entry-id-91</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ie=UTF8&amp;t=f&amp;ecpose=52.86803762,-4.00268715,1586.48,-121.018,44.945,0&amp;ll=52.861424,-4.020902&amp;spn=0.007773,0.024076&amp;z=15&amp;output=embed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/?  ie=UTF8&amp;t=f&amp;ecpose=52.86803762,-4.00268715,1586.48,-121.018,44.945,0&amp;ll=52.861424,-4.020902&amp;spn=0.007773,0.024076&amp;z=15&amp;source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small>


If your browser does not support Google Earth&rsquo;s plug-in, you&rsquo;re out of luck if you&rsquo;re waiting for the Google Street car to arrive - this spot is simply too remote. 

...At the head of a remote valley and at the heart of the Snowdonia National Park, this Welsh lake sits at the centre of an eroded away dome - the Harlech Dome - of buckled rock that once bridged Snowdon in the north to Cader Idris in the south. 


The lake is fed by the Afon Artro stream, the valley of which provides a mean transport corridor, enough for a hairy single track most of the way up from the village of Llanbedr on the coast road near Harlech.   There&rsquo;s a full account of its wonders in the Club manual, The Lie of the Land by Ian Vince, but all you need to know is that there&rsquo;s a car park, a portaloo and moments of unfettered wilderness and blissful peace around this amazing spot.
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