Landscape Mysteries
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- Episode
- The Abandoned Marsh
- Broadcast Info
- 2003 (29 mins)
- Description
- Professor Aubrey Manning traces the history of Romney Marsh in Kent, reclaimed from the sea in the 12th Century and now a landscape of abandoned buildings and tales of towns lost at sea. What happened to its communities and why is it so deserted? Romney Marsh Kent ruined churches lost towns populations archaeological dig Lydd medieval period drainage channels sea incursions storm damage disease malaria
- Genre
- History; Geology; Natural History
How to cite this record
The Open University, "Landscape Mysteries". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/6751 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)