At Elias, a completed Chevron operation, the only sound to disturb the replanted clover meadow is a faint whooshing as gas passes to an underground pipe network.

ECONOMIST: Fracking

On half a hectare of sloping clover meadow rises a surreal construction of dozens of red towers, conical as beehives, some of them four or five stories high.

CNN: Art on the Edges

On the high point of the first, Edburton Hill, are the earthworks of a motte-and-bailey castle, which in spring and early summer are a knee-high wildflower meadow: agrimony, wild mignonette, red clover, yellow rattle, marjoram, scabious, knapweed and the odd tall bolt of fireweed, through all of which wander string-like stems of bindweed.

BBC: England��s ghostly South Downs Way