MORE THAN ITS APPEARANCE, it is the sounds which first mark the Knepp Estate as different to the neighbouring countryside.
As the morning sun casts a shadow play of meadow grasses upon the diffuse green canopy of my tent, I awake to an orchestral crescendo of birdsong. The familiar trills and warbles of a rural dawn chorus take on a palpable expression in a landscape that has been reclaimed by nature over the past 20 years, with rare turtle doves and nightingales adding their voices to
