Countryside Survey is a unique study or "audit" of the natural resources of the UK's countryside. The Survey has been carried out at regular intervals since 1978. The countryside is sampled and studied using rigorous scientific methods, allowing us to compare results from later surveys with those from previous surveys. In this way, we can detect the gradual and subtle changes that occur in the countryside over time. A series of reports have been published outlining the main findings for UK and individual countries, most recently in 2007. This collection belongs to a new phase of Countryside Survey which has adopted a rolling program of monitoring as of 2019 (as the UKCEH Countryside Survey/UKCEH-CS). The second cycle of the programme started in 2024. This research was supported by NERC, through the UKCEH National Capability for UK Challenges Programme NE/Y006208/1.
