Wayfarers Walk with Nigel Clifford

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Clare Balding and the head of Ordnance Survey, Nigel Clifford walk along Wayfarers Walk from Coombe Gibbet to Highclere, on the Berkshire, Hampshire Border. In this series Clare talks to those involved in epic walks of many consecutive days and covering many hundreds of miles. Clare and Nigel talk about the joy of poring over maps while planning such adventures. They are accompanied by Clare's dog Archie, who particularly enjoys their lunch stop.

Producer: Lucy Lunt.

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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.
0:08.3	This is an unusual view. We're just sheltering down out of the wind a little bit and I'm staring up at the wooden post that marks the only double hangman's gibbet in the country. It's rather a gruesome story. I'll share it with you later. But also just to the
0:21.3	left, floating in the thermals of the wind, is a person in a hang glider looking like a giant
0:27.5	moth. And Nigel Clifford is with me, who is the man newly in charge of the ordinate survey.
0:32.7	We'll talk all about your job and all sorts of things, but isn't this an amazing view it is and you've got two red kites i think circling him they're as interested in him as he is in them i think do you think they
0:41.9	see something with an even bigger wingspan than they've got and think oh what's that they're treating
0:45.8	you with respect that's for sure the area we've come to is very much your neck of the woods but it's mine as well. We're at, um, just outside the village of Coombe, we are south-west of
0:55.7	Newbury, north of Andover, right on the border of Hampshire and Berkshire. And this is the famous
1:00.3	Coom-Jibbitt and the start, and actually just in half a mile, we're going to be on the start or
1:04.9	the end, depending on which way you look at the map, of the Wayfarer's Walk, that goes all the way down to... Emworth. Yeah, Emsworth, yeah.
1:12.0	Which is where I was born and brought up.
1:13.8	Oh!
1:14.0	So this is kind of a mapping connection of many different vectors.
1:18.6	Oh, brilliant.
1:19.1	Well, we've got Archie with us as well.
1:20.7	Say hello, Arch, good boy.
1:21.9	Well, actually don't say hello.
1:22.8	Be quiet because you're a dog.
1:24.8	And we are going to walk in the direction of High Clear,
1:27.6	finishing on the edge of the High Clear Estate.
1:29.2	So I think about, I think it's about seven miles.
1:31.5	Yeah, I think it's about that.
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