This chapter investigates the significance of time and place in Hughes's poetic imagining of England and the English landscape, and examines whether it can be viewed as a form of gathering which not only extends into a past, re-collecting what Seamus Heaney, in his essay "Englands of the Mind", refers to as "communal ways' and confirming "an identity which is threatened", but also reaches into a future for which it collects and stores meaning. What is more, the paper also aims to examine this act of gathering as a vertical movement, which reaches into the deep that is also England, in the form of a place that is mythical, religious, and, as always for Hughes, acutely immanent.