Exploring Heritage, Landscape and Nature
A more personal set of videos exploring England, it’s towns, villages and countryside.
Marq English and I are heading to Avebury, but on the way we stop at Marlborough, a fabulous medieval market town in Wiltshire. It has the second widest high street in the UK and a line of ancient buildings behind the shop fronts. Curiously there are two churches set either of the high street. The …
I am out in search of a World War Two Pill Box with Dave Ford, my guide. Thought to have been positioned in Heyshott Common, near Graffham in West Sussex to prevent glider landings , it is buried in woodland and perfectly preserved. Join Dave and I as we go in search of it across …
Blackdown is a Sussex Hill over 900ft above sea level. It is the highest point in the Southdowns National Park. Julia and I are joined by Ed Warren and Simon Arnold for an autumnal stroll around its loveliness to take in the stunning views. My videos are funded 100% by people like you. If you …
I have met up with my old mate, Matthew Holdsworth, to explore Box Hill Fort in Surrey. The Old Fort is one of 13 mobilisation centres (known collectively as the London Defence Positions) built in the 1890s to protect London from invasion from continental Europe.] The six acre site of the fort was originally purchased …
Today I am climbing the steep slope of Box Hill, a summit of the North Downs in Surrey, approximately 19 miles south-west of London. The hill takes its name from the ancient box woodland found on the steepest west-facing chalk slopes overlooking the River Mole. The western part of the hill is owned and managed …
The lovely Julia Hartley and myself are taking a stroll in Small Dole, near Henfield in West Sussex. The object, to get down to the river Adur. We don’t quite make that but we do discover some fabulous ponies on the way. Julia is in her element. My videos are funded 100% by people like …
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