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Kent - Octavia Hill Centenary Trail

Clare Balding 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.

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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23 minutes

Last on

Sat 11 Feb 2012 06:07

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  • Thu 9 Feb 2012 15:00
  • Sat 11 Feb 2012 06:07

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