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Life & fun · February 3, 2016

Landmarks

On the importance of language and landscape

Landmarks launched on February 3, 2016 with 53 votes, #1,726 of 4,386 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

What it does

Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, nature and weather. Travelling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms, and exploring the

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