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Ramblings

Discovering Kent from Chilham to Wye

Ramblings

BBC

Nature, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Science

4.5768 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2011

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In the fourth in a series of listener suggestions for Ramblings, Clare Balding walks part of the ancient track of the Pilgrim's Way in Kent. Often thought of as a 'corridor', the county that travellers pass through en route to somewhere else, the Kent countryside has much to offer, as Clare discovers .

Clare joins a group of friend who, since retiring, meet regularly to walk some of the 4,000 miles of footpaths that Kent has to offer. To date, the group have walked around half of these and today they follow the ancient Pilgrim's Way over the North Downs from Chilham to Wye. The Pilgrim's Way is the historic route supposed to have been taken by pilgrims from Winchester in Hampshire, to the shrine of Thomas Becket at Canterbury in Kent. Visited by tourists worldwide, Chilham is located in the valley of the Great Stour river. It is well known for its beauty and has been the location of choice for several film locations and tv dramas. The walk then goes on to Kings Wood, home in spring to the 'best bluebells in Kent' and also the location in the past for the HQ of England's secret underground army, the auxiliary units before ending at the historic village of Wye.

Transcript

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0:12.9

All are big enough to kill you.

0:14.3

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0:17.3

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0:19.2

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0:23.1

somebody pay to go to a place called the death zone on vacation? Extreme, peak danger. With me,

0:29.9

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0:36.0

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0:38.7

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0:43.5

Forward slash Radio 4.

0:45.9

Today you can hear ramblings with Claire Balding.

0:50.6

We're going to walk up there.

0:51.9

You can see out the hills in the distance.

0:54.1

They're about, what, 500 feet at that point, aren't they?

0:57.3

That's the north down's way.

0:59.1

And you can see the woods on the crest there.

1:02.5

Come on.

1:06.3

We're standing on the platform at Y.

1:09.1

Yeah.

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