Words by Alden Carrow On copper, granite, and cider: why the prettiest views in Britain are really monuments to forgotten work — and what that teaches us about reinventing the places we love. Every Beautiful View Is Hiding Something British landscape history is never just scenery. How does a poet — or indeed any observer — handle a landscape that carries a working past beneath a pastoral present? This is the central tension of the British landscape. We often look at a beautif