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A Discovering Britain walk exploring Liverpool's docks and maritime past
The wild moorland of Bodmin might appear bleak and inhospitable but look more closely to discover over five thousand years of human occupation.
A Discovering Britain walk exploring Victorian Manchester
A Discovering Britain walk exploring Bristol's links with slavery
As you walk around the village, notice that most of the cottages are built from granite extracted ...
A Discovering Britain walk across Saddleworth Moor in the South Pennines
A Discovering Britain walk along the Stourbridge Canal
A Discovering Britain walk exploring the Teifi Valley in the Cambrian Mountains
A Discovering Britain walk exploring Lancashire's dairy fields
A Discovering Britain walk following the River Dee from Flint to Bagillt
A walk inspired by the 17th century East Anglian witch trials
A Discovering Britain walk exploring the Borrowdale Valley by Derwent Water in the Lake District
A Discovering Britain walk exploring the spectacular Sennybridge mountain plateau
In the short distance from the car park, you have got a sense of the openness and barrenness of the ...
Look to your left and right and you can see a distinctive meandering line of small humps that cut ...
There is a plentiful supply of easily available stone lying on the moor used by humans since ...
By 1830, a railway linking London with Liverpool was under construction.
Local folklore might insist that the Cheesewring was the result of a giants’ rock-throwing contest, ...
This barbed-wire fence protects us from falling into the mineshaft of one of Cornwall’s great mines.
As demand for both copper ore and granite grew, the mine and quarry companies faced increasing ...
We are now inside a circle of standing stones called The Hurlers.
This is Daniel Gumb’s cave.
All across the moor you’ve probably spotted derelict stone buildings with chimneys.
This particularly large example of a ‘barrow’ (a manmade burial mound) is the biggest in Cornwall.
From this vantage point we look out across east Cornwall and west Devon.
A Discovering Britain trail exploring the tidal islands of Hilbre.
A Discovering Britain walk exploring one of the UK's most radical and attractive garden villages
A Discovering Britain walk along the River Thames at Marlow
A Discovering Britain walk exploring Liverpool's diverse immigrant communities
A Discovering Britain walk around the historic towns of Rye and Winchelsea
A Discovering Britain walk exploring Stratford and the Olympic Park
A Discovering Britain walk exploring the Uffington White Horse
A Discovering Britain walk exploring Salisbury Plain
A Discovering Britain trail exploring Kent's Hoo Peninsula.
A short Discovering Britain walk exploring Strata Florida Abbey
A Discovering Britain walk exploring Grimspound, Dartmoor
Discover why the city of Chester was once at the heart of Roman Britain
From here look up the hillside to the hedgerow line leading to the saddle between Kelston Round Hill ...
This is the A4, a road that runs all the way from Trafalgar Square in London to Avonmouth via ...
For the men who worked up here on the moor, it was a long journey from their homes to the quarry.
There’s a third change of use here on the riverbank too.
We’ve now reached the stone-built engine house that has been a constant visual reference point ...
Just as the function of the old railway line was transformed from commerce to leisure, so too has ...
Just a few hundred metres from the Great Western Railway is another railway line.
We’ve already heard that granite is formed from solidified magma from deep inside the earth.
A Discovering Britain walk along the South West coastal path from Babbacombe in Devon.
A Discovering Britain riverside walk to Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales
A Discovering Britain trail exploring the canals around Stroud, Gloucestershire
A Discovering Britain walk exploring the Gower AONB at Rhossili and Worm's Head
A Discovering Britain walk exploring 7000 years of enterprise in the southern Cotswolds
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