High Weald is the true 'Spirit of the South'

The High Weald is thought to be one of the best surviving medieval landscapes in Northern Europe, with its rolling hills, ancient woodlands and sandstone rocks.

That is why nearly 600 square miles of countryside are designated as an area of outstanding beauty - and protected - in the national interest. It stretches across Sussex, into Surrey, and into Kent.

And it's a landscape that has captured the heart of our reporter, Abigail Bracken.