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Open Country: Postal Paths and Corpse Roads

Series 611, episode 3

Helen Mark is in Cumbria, finding out about the county's historic fell routes. She is joined by author Alan Cleaver, who is writing a book about these old paths. Helen also explores part of Shap's old Corpse Road, which linked Swindale Head with Mardale - a village that didn't have its own cemetery until the mid-18th century

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Helen Mark