Landmarks Evoking an apparently common past and a common culture and mutually shared landscapes or landmarks is one of the ways in which a sense of national identity is promoted.In the discussion of Englishness--the sense of togetherness that binds all the people living in England,an idealized rural landscape depicted as a pastoral Eden is a recurring trope.For many writers in the beginning of the 20th century,"England"is virtually synonymous with "rural England":an England of patchwork fields,distant spires,village greens,warm beer and inter-class solidarity,Sunday roast-beef lunch and revitalizing teas. fppt.comLandmarks • Evoking an apparently common past and a common culture and mutually shared landscapes or landmarks is one of the ways in which a sense of national identity is promoted. In the discussion of Englishness--the sense of togetherness that binds all the people living in England, an idealized rural landscape depicted as a pastoral Eden is a recurring trope. For many writers in the beginning of the 20th century, "England" is virtually synonymous with “rural England": an England of patchwork fields, distant spires, village greens, warm beer and inter-class solidarity, Sunday roast-beef lunch and revitalizing teas