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Simon Jenkins's notebook: Why a wind farm will never be as beautiful as a railway viaduct

Politicians wouldn't recognise a good view if it hit them. Everyone else, however, cares too much

12 October 2013

9:00 AM

12 October 2013

9:00 AM

Until I plotted a book on England’s best views I had not realised how much people cared. Ask them to nominate a favourite church or house or even town and they will casually suggest a few. Ask for a view and you delve deep. A view is personal, intimate. It is not a landscape but the experience of a landscape.

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