Kent - Octavia Hill Centenary Trail
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2012
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Clare Balding returns with a new series of Ramblings in which she joins people who have either been inspired, or have inspired others, to walk in the British countryside. In the first of the series Clare joins keen walker and Director General of the National Trust, Dame Fiona Reynolds, to walk a section of the new Octavia Hill Centenary Trail in Kent. Co-founder of the National Trust, Octavia Hill passionately believed that green space was essential for a healthy lifestyle and spent her life campaigning to save these disappearing open spaces from development. Beginning at Toys Hill in Kent, one of the places that Octavia managed to save, Clare and Fiona set off to walk part of the Trail which has been created to mark the centenary of Octavia's death. A keen walker herself, Fiona tells Clare why she finds Octavia Hill's legacy so inspirational and why walking and the British landscape is so important to her.
Presenter: Clare Balding Producer: Helen Chetwynd.
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| 0:56.6 | Today you can hear ramblings with Claire Balding. |
| 1:02.0 | The inspiration behind this is Octavia herself. |
| 1:05.6 | We wanted to create something new for getting people out into the countryside |
| 1:08.9 | and this was an opportunity to create two |
| 1:12.0 | brand new trails and the one we're doing today takes us across to crockham to the church and then back |
| 1:18.1 | around the back of chart well churchill's home welcome to a new series of ramblings and for the first |
| 1:23.9 | programme in the series i'm taking something of a risk because Archie's with me |
| 1:29.2 | and Archie is my black and white Tibetan Terrier. |
| 1:32.4 | He can be a Tibetan terror |
| 1:33.5 | on some occasions, I'm just hoping, fingers crossed |
| 1:35.4 | he doesn't disgrace himself today because I've come to Kent |
| 1:37.9 | and it's really trying to be a lovely day. |
| 1:41.4 | I think it may yet be, we may get fantastic sunshine |
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