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Open Country: Watership Down

12/04/2012

Watership Down

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Helen Mark retraces the journey of  Watership Down 40 years on.

Helen Mark retraces the journey of  Watership Down 40 years on and looks at the site at Sandleford where a housing development is proposed.

Helen Mark visits  the Berkshire site made famous by author Richard Adams in Watership Down . Development is now planned in Sandleford  near Newbury .
A planning application to build 2,000 homes has met with opposition from the local community. However West Berkshire Council says it needs to build more due to a housing shortage.   
To explore the issues and mark the 40th anniversary of the book’s publication Helen retraces the  landscape that follows the Berkshire/Hampshire border.

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