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April 5, 2021 36 mins

In this episode Christopher visits the only mainland community in Britain to be cut off by the daily tides, in Lancashire, a lakeland castle where all is yellow, the Georgian port in Cumberland that inspired New York, the home of one of England’s great heroines in Northumberland and the oldest railway bridge in the world in County Durham.



Places to visit:

Lowther Castle  https://lowthercastle.org

Whitehaven  https://www.visitcumbria.com/wc/whitehaven/

Bamburgh  https://www.bamburgh.org.uk

Causey Arch https://www.thisisdurham.com/things-to-do/causey-arch-and-picnic-area-p21641


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