They said that the rural landscape and history had strong appeal, but still referred to a 'backward' lifestyle, suspecting no modern technology such as computers existed in the home.

With no commentary or captions, it layers together images of farming, folk traditions, the rural landscape and people at play with clips from old feature films and more recent discoveries.

They're a familiar part of the rural landscape, but no one knows what to do with them, other than use them as a cover for straw.

The species include core fixtures of both the rural landscape and our cultural heritage such as skylarks, lapwings and curlews.

There's a potential blot on the bucolic rural landscape in the form of future housing, with developers eyeing up two sites on the edge of town.