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Clare Balding joins notable and interesting people for a walk through the countryside

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Ramblings: Ninebarrow in Dorset

Ninebarrow in Dorset

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Clare Balding walks with folk duo Ninebarrow in Dorset.

Clare joins friends Jon and Jay, who perform as folk duo Ninebarrow, on one of their favourite walks in Dorset.

Clare walks with Jon Whitley  and James (Jay) La Bouchardiere, two childhood friends born and bred in Dorset who moved back there after university and began playing folk music.   Jon’s father had run a folk club so it was in his blood so to speak as is the Dorset countryside.
When they started writing songs it was a natural process to incorporate the landscape and folklore of the county and this eventually led to them producing a book of the walks that they have enjoyed and written songs about.  They perform as a duo called Ninebarrow, a hill near Corfe Castle.
They’re walking one of their favourite and oldest walks of coastline, a circular walk beginning and ending in Worth Matravers. OS Ref SY 974 777

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