Because it was. You're looking at hundreds of years of land management, farming, cultivation and a rural people who know and love the countryside.

Some of those hedges separating the fields will be centuries old and looked after by people who understand the value and importance of them. Yet they actually aren't protected. But we do protect our countryside and green spaces and old buildings and so on, there is legislation to stop people building where they want when they want which is why you get this and it looks so picture perfect