Susan Merlyn Clifford MBE (born 16 April 1944) co-founded Common Ground, a British organisation which campaigns to link nature with culture and the positive investment people can make in their own localities, with Angela King in 1983. She has worked as a

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and as a

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, latterly at

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. With King, she has written and edited a variety of books to help people be more expressive about and be more active within their own locality. She is co-author of ''England in Particular'' ‘a celebration of the commonplace, the local, the vernacular and the distinctive’. Sue debated the future of the

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countryside with

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, Richard Girling and

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at CPRE's 2007 Volunteers' Conference.

Books

* Trees Rivers and Fields (2001) * England in Particular (2006) * The Apple Source Book (2007) * Community Orchards Handbook (2011)

References

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