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S01E03 - "Yorkshire: The Northern Abbeys"
Aired on Aug 18, 2010, 9:00 PM
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Historian Dan Snow puts his walking boots on and sets off to see what the great British landscape can teach us about our Norman predecessors. Shown earlier this year on BBC4, anyone with a passing interest in British history (or landscape for that matter) will be gripped by this entertaining and educational series. Dan Snow separates myth from fact as he explores the legacy of the 11th-century Norman invasion of the British isles.
Episodes (1 Season · 3 Episodes)
E1
Sussex: The Invasion Walk
Dan Snow finds out what the British landscape tells us about our Norman predecessors, beginning on the cliffs where William the Conqueror first arrived.
Aug 4, 2010
30 min
E2
Herefordshire and Monmouthshire: The March of Wales
Dan Snow's walk around the Monnow river system is dominated by the motte and bailey castles that sprang up in the Norman era.
Aug 11, 2010
30 min
E3
Yorkshire: The Northern Abbeys
Dan Snow's walk takes him north to lands devastated by the Normans after the Invasion, but which became the setting for their abbeys and monasteries.
Aug 18, 2010
30 min
