WALKfree Audio Guides S.
3 total works
This guide combines a detailed tour of a superbly sited Roman Fort astride Hadrian's Wall in Cumbria and a country walk from the nearby market town of Brampton. The narrator is Tony Wilmott, Director of Excavations at Birdoswald, who gives a contemporary vision both of this historic site and the broader region. The tour of Birdoswald can be accomplished even if the visitor centre is closed, though the experience is enhanced by a precursory view of the exhibition. The two walks reveal in microcosm the range of landscape characteristics that compose the Roman frontier zone, and later Middle Marches of the Border Reivers. The tour of Birdoswald Roman Fort is one mile long and takes a leisurely paced one and a quarter hours; the Brampton and Lanercost walk is four and a half miles long and will take an estimated three hours.
Two circular country walks focusing on sections of the Cotswold Way in the south wolds above Bath: historic Dyrham, five miles - a leisurely paced two and a half hours; and Lansdown Hill, four miles - a two hour walk. The guide is narrated by Neil Stacy, an historian and actor who has actually lived at Dyrham Park for 23 years. The step-by-step commentary, underpinned by Stacy's scholarship, gives the visitor insight into these historic landscapes. The walks explore gentle terrain and feature two famous battlefields.
Two circular country walks starting from Bakewell at the heart of the Peak District National Park: Monsal Head and Ashford, five miles - a leisurely two and a half hours; and Chatsworth and Rowley, seven miles - a three and a half hour walk. Founded upon the Monsal Trail, these walks venture to reveal the two characteristic rock components of the Park, namely limestone and gritstone. In each case the setting is both charming and exhilarating, and the narrator Pete Hawkins explains the qualities of the countryside, while ensuring that the walker is always safely on course. The walks feature strolls beside the peat-darkened waters of the Derwent and the crystal waters of the Wye, together with elevated views over Monsal Head and Chatsworth Park.