No longer restricted to a single plough pulled by a horse, powerfull modern tractors can haul several ploughs (four in the picture) levelling the surface of the fields.

Harvesting using a combine harvester in August on the rolling Marlborough Downs at the northern edge of Salisbury Plain. The earliest Neolithic farmers settled on hilltops, avoiding the dense woodlands of the valleys and created the downland landscape.

The first farmers in the British Isles were the Neolithic (New Stone Age) people who migrated gradually across Europe from the Middle East to arrive in southern England about 5,000 BC. From this early start, farming remained the basis of the economy of the British Isles, shaping the landscape and employing most of the population, until the advent of the industrial revolution in the eighteenth century.

An ever increasing human population demands larger portions of the countryside and industries such as mining also make a considerable impact on it but farming still shapes much of the landscape of the British Isles.

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