England In Particular

Welcome to this web-site from Common Ground, the charity which encourages you to stand up for your place. Our localities need our constant attention, and our task here is to excite people - as locals or visitors - with ways of getting under the surface of places, offering a way of looking at the local, a kind of evolving celebration along with ideas for effecting change. This will develop, so please return often, but we have made a start, a few ways of navigating the great common wealth of nature, landscapes, buildings, settlements, histories, myths and stories, always on the move, which in their interweaving give us the rich and varied particularity of our surroundings.

October 2007 saw the launch of our new book THE APPLE SOURCE BOOK - particular uses for diverse apples. In 2006 ENGLAND IN PARTICULAR was published - a kind of encyclopaedia of LOCAL DISTINCTIVENESS, extensively championing the importance of variegation, with England as our example. Click here for the CAMPAIGN FOR LOCAL DISTINCTIVENESS. We are a small charity and rely on donations and project grants for our funding. Please find out how you can help, or ...

Read our latest PARTICULAR BULLETIN with news and ideas for the winter season ...

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