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Dan Snow's Norman Walks

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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

logo for Dan Snow's Norman Walks - Herefordshire and Monmouthshire - the March of Wales
Dan Snow's Norman Walks - 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.

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logo for Dan Snow's Norman Walks - Sussex - the Invasion Walk
Dan Snow's Norman Walks - 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.

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Dan Snow's Norman Walks - 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.

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