Beautiful Britain

Wye Valley

FEW unprejudiced persons who have followed the course of the River Wye from Hereford to Chepstow will dispute the verdict that this is the most picturesque of all our English streams,’ opined a COUNTRY LIFE columnist). Writing for the magazine four decades later (), Sylvia Crowe described the Wye Valley as ‘a living museum of natural science and human history’ for the way in which the river has carved its path from the Welsh hills, uniting rugged gorges and limestone cliffs with tranquil pastures, in this ‘landscape of movement and surprise’.