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Country Tracks: Forest of Dean

27/02/2011

Forest of Dean

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Liz Bonnin travels along the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.

Liz Bonnin sails along the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal, in the company of Chris Witts, who skippered the last commercial grain barge to sail into Gloucester Docks.

Liz Bonnin goes on another Country Tracks journey. 

Liz starts her journey on the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal, in the company of Chris Witts, who skippered the last commercial grain barge to sail into Gloucester Docks. 

After venturing into the Forest of Dean, one of England's ancient woodlands, for a lesson in bushcraft survival, Liz heads for Chepstow. Here she does a stretch of the Wye Valley Walk in the company of historian Mark Horton. 

Liz ends her journey wild swimming in the River Wye.

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