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Sara Wheeler reflects on why place names matter.

Sara Wheeler explores the role of place names and their importance in linking us to the land.

"Landscape made us', writes Sara Wheeler, 'and now, in the dying phase of our divorce from our environment, we are unmaking the landscape'. 

Sara discusses the importance of place names in linking us to the land. 

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