A mini series about the park and how it plays a roles in our society, both today and in in the past. Julia and I are visiting a number of parks in West Sussex. Today we are at the Southwater Country Park. The park is located next to the Downs Link, a beautiful off-road trail […]
Like so many villages across the UK, the rural idyll of High Halden, a small village in Kent is under attack. Julia and I are there to investigate. We are joined by local farmer, Adrian Ligdet. We start at the church, which is remarkable itself and the head to the field at the rear. High […]
Matthew Holdsworth and I are continuing our exploration of the Deepdene Trail which crosses the Greensand Way. Deepdene was an estate and country house occupying the south-east of Dorking, Surrey, England, the aspects of it that remain being a large minority of its woodland garden, interwoven amidst Dorking Golf Course. The remains of the gardens […]
This is the last of the current videos in this mini series on the Peak District. There is so much to see, I will return. In this episode, Kevin Hall, Sue Blount and myself clambour up another hill and craggy rock face that makes up the famous area in Staffordshire called The Roaches. If you […]
As part of my exploration of the wonderful Peak District, Kevin Hall and Sue Blount have taken me to an area in Staffordshire called The Roaches. The Roaches (from the French les roches – the rocks) is a prominent rocky ridge above Leek and Tittesworth Reservoir in the Peak District of England. The ridge with […]
This is part two of a walk from Gradbach Mill to Lud’s Church in the Peak District. If you missed the first part, do go back and enjoy that. We have arrived at this remarkable feature in the Satffordshire landscape. ud’s Church (sometimes written as Ludchurch) is a deep chasm penetrating the Millstone Grit bedrock […]