Summary
Clare Balding walks to Eyam this week - the Derbyshire village best known for its heroic approach to the bubonic plague in the 17th century. She rambles along the brand-new Peak Pilgrimage long distance footpath, devised to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the plague, during which Eyam famously put itself into quarantine to stop the disease spreading further.
Producer: Karen Gregor.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a BBC Radio 4 download. You're listening to me, Claire Balding, with another edition of Ramblings. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm hugely excited about today's walk. I've come to Derbyshire in the heart of the Peak District to walk a section of a new pilgrimage that has been partly designed, or maybe wholly designed by Bob Jackson, who's alongside me now. |
| 0:22.0 | Now tell me Bob where we're headed. |
| 0:24.5 | Well we're headed on the last seven miles |
| 0:27.2 | of this pilgrimage route we've set up. |
| 0:29.7 | And the first few miles are along |
| 0:33.9 | Carver Edge and Frobert Edge. |
| 0:37.2 | And we'll drop down to a village called grindleford walk down the |
| 0:40.5 | Durmont valley and then up the other side uh into the village of eam where we live and that's the |
| 0:47.5 | destination of the walk today and we've got a group with us of committed walkers. And I see friends and fellow residents of Eam. |
| 0:56.6 | Yes, they're all friends and church. |
| 0:58.9 | We've put the pilgrimage together. |
| 1:01.3 | We've worked as a team. |
| 1:03.2 | So we've got all the talents in front of us. |
| 1:05.9 | I write. |
| 1:07.8 | Christine there, she's the photographer. |
| 1:10.0 | She's taking all the photos Alan there the |
| 1:12.5 | tall chap on the right he he runs website so he's done the website to a good |
| 1:18.1 | professional standard Mike the rector there is hopping about he's helped put the |
| 1:24.6 | whole thing together so it's been a team effort yes and we all like walking as well obviously that's part of the whole thing together. So it's been a team effort. |
| 1:28.3 | Yes. |
| 1:28.8 | And we all like walking as well, obviously. |
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