Articles Archives - Sara Hudston

Hidden elm crouches in west country hedges

English elms: the trees that are all around us which we don’t see.

These saplings will help improve the landscape near the line of pylons that stalk across the Marshwood Vale

The spring 2019 issue is a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry and artwork that responds to living in the ‘age of fire’.

Golden Cap, Dorset: This rare species is now re-colonising the south coast of England after an absence of more than a century.

Looking inside an abandoned wasps’ nest found in an outbuilding in late winter. A piece written for the Guardian Country Diary.

This piece for the Guardian Country Diary was inspired by a night walk in the woods near Wytherston with members[…]

The River Tone at Taunton flows brown beside shopfronts, cafes and the Brewhouse theatre, sliding smoothly under footbridges, easing by[…]

Ten o’clock on a hot, still evening with the dew falling like nectar on parched ground. As the dusk gathers,[…]

Who was St Wite? Nobody knows. She is a mystery, and that is part of her power. There are no[…]

The sound of chiff-chaffs shouting in the woods falls away as I follow the South Dorset Ridgeway upwards to the[…]