Bird's Eye View - Green and Pleasant Land
The 'Bird's Eye View' helicopter takes a trip up the Pennine Way to explore the demands made upon the English countryside by encroaching development. The programme also examines the adage that the passion of the English for the countryside is equalled only by their skill at destroying it.
The Pennine Way, often referred to as the 'backbone of England', is some 268 miles long and runs from the Peak District over Hadrian's Wall to the Cheviot Hills in the Scottish Borders. Created in 1965 as Britain's first national trail, the Pennine Way crosses the famous Kinder Scout, scene of the mass trespass in 1932 that paved the way for the 'right to roam' in open countryside.
