The aim of this paper is to investigate the legacy of E.M. Forster’s queer rurality – the writer’s famous “greenwood” – in Mike Parker’s On the Red Hill, a 2019 memoir which brings together the political and aesthetic concerns of queer anti-urbanism and new nature writing. While analysing Forsterian “inheritance” and its impact onto Parker’s book, as well as the lives of its four auto/biographical characters, the essay explores the conjunction between queer sexualities (male nonheteronormativity in particular) and rurality in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as the shift that has occurred with regard to the perception (and valorisation) of the non-metropolitan queer life.