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BBC4 Britain by Bike
Posted by Karen Thorne on 28/07/2010 14:36:37
If you missed Britain by Bike on BBC4 last night ( July 27th ). It's worth watching it again on iPlayer, especially if you're planning a visit to our part of Shropshire or just want to find out more about the area.
Clare Balding is following bicycle rides written about by compulsive cyclist and author Harold Briercliffe whose evocative guide books of the late 1940s lovingly describe by-passed Britain.
In last nights episode she started at Aston on Clun and learned of the tree dressing ceremony that still takes place every year on Arbor Day. Then took a detour ( within a mile of Hopton House as it happens ) to visit the house where Bruce Chatwin wrote On a Black Hill. The Black Hill in question being the one you walk over if you walk from Hopton Heath to Clun.
She then cycled to the beautiful village of Clun itself, visiting the Almshouses and then on across the Kerry Ridgeway to Newton. If you like fabulous views you can't get much better than the one as you walk along the Kerry Ridgeway itself.
The link to the programme is here ---->>> Britain by Bike on iPlayer
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