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

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Ramblings: Villagers' Walks around Timsbury

Villagers' Walks around Timsbury

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Clare walks with a group who have created walks around North Somerset.

Timsbury sits in the middle of Bath, Bristol and Wells and is a former coal mining area.

Clare joins three walkers from the village of Timsbury in Somerset who have created several books detailing100 walks for local people to enjoy in the area. Peter Bradshaw,  Larry Cunningham and Sue Fraser stress the books are very much a community project with any proceeds going back into the village.  On an extremely wet and windy winter day they take Clare from the village centre around the valley to explore the area's little known coal mining history.  All the former mines are obviously closed and the slag heaps are now covered over rich green hillocks which make for safe and easy walking.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

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