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John Craven

At the height of the Second World War, a group of remarkable experts came together for the first time. Their brief – an optimistic one – was to plan for a better future; to propose how the wilder areas of our countryside should be protected once the conflict was over.

Among these was architect and civil servant John Dower,

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