Looks wonderful, but it isn't what you think.

This is the place in Herefordshire that has made it into the list of the 'seven unnatural wonders' of the Midlands.

We've all heard of the seven natural wonders of the world, but the National Trust have revealed the top landscapes in the region that you wouldn't know are actually man-made.

The idea is to highlight just how much work goes into restoring and maintaining the carefully crafted designs from eras gone by, created specifically for onlooker’s viewing pleasure.

Fishpool Valley at Croft Castle is a site guarded by an Iron Age hill fort. The landscape has been occupied for more than 2000 years.

Below these ramparts, the medieval landscape of fish pools, quarries and woodland, was changed when it was re-designed as a pleasure park in the late 1700s and early 1800s as the ‘Picturesque’ movement - determined to create dramatic views - influenced the tastes of Herefordshire’s aristocracy.

At Fishpool Valley the owners took advantage of the stream that was dammed to form a chain of artificial pools, and the valley sides were thickly planted with a mixture of oak, ash, willow, poplar and evergreen species to create the illusion that the landscape had formed naturally.

A key project for 2019, work is currently underway to revive the 18th century look of the Fishpool Valley to its former Picturesque style.

The other properties on the list are:

Croome, Worcestershire

Attingham Park, Shropshire

Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire

Lyveden, Northamptonshire

Clumber, Nottinghamshire

Kedleston, Derbyshire

David Bailey, General Manager at Croft Castle, said: “People often assume the environments in our care look after themselves, but in fact a lot of work goes on behind the scenes to restore and preserve these manmade designs to appear exactly as they were intended.

“We’re excited to complete the restoration of Fishpool Valley to enjoy it as people in the 19th century would have.”

For more information, visit https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/croft-castle-and-parkland/lists/our-work-in-fishpool-valley.