1972: TRAVERSING the PENNINES | The Pennine Way | Science and Nature | BBC Archive

Bob Langley took a long wander along Britain's longest public footpath over the Pennines and got to thinking about the various methods that had been used to cross "nature's iron curtain" between Lancashire and Yorkshire over the years.

At the time of recording, the latest means of traversing the mountain chain was the recently opened M62, but before it there was the means of the railway, the canal through the Standedge Tunnel, a trusty steed and a mysterious mountain 'road' that has been puzzling historians for hundreds of years.

Clip taken from The Pennine Way, originally broadcast on BBC One, Sunday 6 August, 1972.




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