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Brett Westwood returns with the location-based puzzle exploring the lines connecting people to places over the centuries. Each programme is researched with the help of local historians and residents, and with their help Brett sets the puzzle for the week's two landscape detectives. Out on location they read the clues in the landscape to uncover the stories, idiosyncrasies, and land lines of the area. It's a series full of surprises; with clues that range from the remains of a Stone Age cooking site to a space age neutrino detector, and land lines that connect industry, geology, literature, poetry, folklore, warfare, farming, and art.
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Programme 1: 26 January 2005
The Hoo Peninsula, N Kent
The world's first torpedo, a mediaeval duck trap and the inspiration for a Dickens novel.
Detectives: ecologist and geographer, Erica Towner, and poet, James Crowden.
Useful links:
- a place to get a feel for the marshes and their wildlife.
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Programme 2: 2 February 2005
The Stroud Valleys, Gloucestershire
Aztecs, Mohicans, snooker, and cider on the Cotswold Edge.
Detectives: ecologist and writer, Paul Evans, and poet, James Crowden.
Useful links:
- a source of information on all matters to do with the wool industry of the area.
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Programme 3: 9 February 2005
The Brecks, East Anglia
Inuit ice hills, disappearing lakes, and medieval fur trimmings on this ancient heath.
Detectives: landscape publisher, Richard Purslow, and writer, Paul Evans.
Useful links:
- owners of the Weeting Heath reserve where Stone Curlew nest in the spring.
General information on visting and exploring the Brecks from the .
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Programme 4: 16 February 2005
The Black Country
Glass blowing, iron smelting, and troglodytes in the West Midlands.
Detectives: geographer, Ian Mercer, and community artist, Steve Rowley.
Useful links:
Information on owned by the National Trust.
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Programme 5: 23 February 2005
Borrowdale
Monastic conflict, Viking names and pencils from the heart of the Lake District.
Detectives: ecologist, Paul Evans, and landscape publisher, Richard Purslow.
Useful links:
General Lake District info from the .
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for info on history of graphite and Pencils.
Details of the for info on Graphite and other mining in the area.
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Programme 6: 2 March 2005
Sherwood Forest
Our changing relationship with trees from the "home" of Robin Hood.
Detectives: folklorist, Jennifer Westwood, and writer, Paul Evans.
Useful links
History ecology and conservation of .
Information and access to Sherwood forest from the Notts County council - .
with its 2 mile double lime tree avenue.
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Land Lines was originally developed with the help of the charity - - which encourages the valuing and protection of local landscapes. Their web site is full of further interesting landscape connections.
If you think the landscape near you has the potential to make a Land Lines puzzle, please email details to landlines@bbc.co.uk Many thanks - Grant Sonnex, producer
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