But if you're thinking bumpkin, as per your username OP, then we will be able to smell it on you with our magical country ways. First stage commenting on your purple gilet , next stage sticking pins in to an effigy of you and pinning it on your door, as in Agatha Raisin, as mentioned by a pp. Did you say whether you are in a village with plenty of other incomers or not - have I missed that? One problem in National Parks in particular is the steep rise in house prices and shortage of housing for local people especially on middle and lower incomes, caused by the influx of wealthier relocators, commuters, retirees and holiday home buyers. Some villages have come to resemble dormitories or ghost villages in the week and out of season. It can cause understandable ill feeling when the balance is wrong.
You need to become a Village Lady OP. Tweed, boots, gun dog, WI, jam making, Jerusalem and the church flowers. You could always pose for the village charity calendar, naked but for your gilet.
School gate, church, pub, dog walking, horse riding, doctors surgery, WI and especially the village shop, gossip does happen but it's usually just natural human interest in other people, just friendly chat. As pps have said, it can even result in much-needed help being offered and actually given. IME it's rarely nasty gossip - and you unfortunately get the nasty type everywhere, not just in villages. You learn to avoid the peddlers of bile, and either tell them nothing or feed them falsehoods for fun.
Read or watch the Agathas - Christie and Raisin - and Midsomer Murders, and start plotting a few imaginary ones of your own. It will give you something to smile about and, you never know, they might start to smile back.
Must go - time to join the throng howling at the moon around the village duckpond.