Ninebarrow in Dorset

Ramblings

BBC

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Clare walks with Jon Whitley and James (Jay) La Bouchardiere, two childhood friends born and bred in Dorset who moved back there after university and began playing folk music. Jon’s father had run a folk club so it was in his blood so to speak as is the Dorset countryside. When they started writing songs it was a natural process to incorporate the landscape and folklore of the county and this eventually led to them producing a book of the walks that they have enjoyed and written songs about. They perform as a duo called Ninebarrow, a hill near Corfe Castle. They’re walking one of their favourite and oldest walks of coastline, a circular walk beginning and ending in Worth Matravers. OS Ref SY 974 777

Producer: Maggie Ayre

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0:47.9	of ramblings. I've been really looking forward to today. It's been a date in my diary.
0:53.9	It's been ages since I walked in Dorses on the Isle of Perbeck
0:56.7	and I'm not far from Corfe Castle,
0:58.9	starting in the village of Werthma Travers,
1:01.5	pausing by the village pond.
1:03.3	There is a big slab of Purbeck stone,
1:05.9	forming a bench on the far side of it,
1:07.9	through the trees and with to the left,
1:09.9	the tufted hair of the
1:11.7	downland bank, I can see the sea. And there's a bit of a breeze today. There's cloud
1:18.6	overhead. It's very chilly. Suddenly the temperature has dropped and it feels as if autumn is,
1:24.1	there was no autumn. It just went from the end of summer, straight into winter. But I want to try and do justice to this village
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