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Okay, it's time for a breathtaking landscape full of secrets.

Ludd's Church, I'm sure a lot of people know about this.

It's fairly well documented.

It's very well visited.

It's a tourist attraction.

It's a... What is it? It's a dark and slippery-sided wound, sliced, narrow and deep, fathoms deep, into a slab of millstone grit. Bedrock close by a village called Flash in Derbyshire, as I say.

The geologists are of the opinion that there was some sort of geological event, some sort of tectonic movement,

and a part of bedrock cracked away from

the rest, leaving a very narrow ravine in between these two massive parts of the bedrock.

And the passage, this narrow, narrow ravine, it's about 100 metres,

100 yards in length and 60 feet deep. But very narrow. You know, it's quite claustrophobic,

really. The sides, because of the absence of light, really, because it's effectively subterranean, really,

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