The Chilterns are 500 square miles of beautiful countryside, only about one hour's drive from London. Kevin Fitzgerald looks beneath the thatch of the pretty cottages, the uniform roofs of the housing estates, and sees the countryside as a place for the benefit of people who live there. In the last two decades more than a million people have come to live in the Chilterns. How has the area absorbed them, and how many more can it absorb before the countryside that they have all moved away from London to enjoy, is destroyed by their own enthusiasm for it?