A detail of the large landscape

Is there a better evocation of the English landscape

"There are certain sheets of the one-inch Ordinance Survey maps which one can sit down and read like a book for an hour on end, with growing pleasure and imaginative excitement. One dwells upon the infinite variety of the place names, the delicate nerve-like complexity of roads and lanes, the siting of the villages and hamlets, the romantic moated farmsteads in deep country, the churches standing alone in the fields, the patterns made by the contours or by the way the parish boundaries fit into one another.."
 W.G. Hoskins "The Making of the English Landscape" 1955 Hodder and Stoughton re-published 2013 by Little Toller Books

On paths and marks in the landscape

"Old paths rarely vanish, unless the sea eats them or Tarmac covers them. They survive as subtle landmarks, evident to those who know how to look..." from The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane published by Penguin books