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Seven Natural Wonders is a television programme that aired on BBC Two from 3 May to 20 June 2005. The programme took a specific area of England each week and, from votes by the people living in that area, showed the 'seven natural wonders' of that area in a programme, although it is questionable how 'natural' some of the wonders were.
The programmes were:
| Rank |
Area |
Date |
Presenter |
Seven wonders covered |
| 1 |
South West |
May 3 |
Samantha Smith |
Dartmoor, Jurassic Coast, St Michael's Mount, Exmoor, Isles of Scilly, The Lizard, Newquay Coast |
| 2 |
Yorkshire & Lincolnshire |
May 9 |
Paul Hudson |
Malham Cove, the Three Peaks, Flamborough Head, Hornsea Mere, The Wash, Thorne and Hatfield Moors, Spurn Head |
| 3 |
London |
May 16 |
Bill Oddie |
Islands in the River Thames, the London Plane, City Gardens, Hampstead Heath, London Wetland Centre, Epping Forest, Chislehurst Caves. |
| 4 |
The North |
May 23 |
Chris Jackson |
Lake District, River Wear, Whin Sill, Aysgarth Falls, River Tees, Holy Island, Morecambe Bay |
| 5 |
The South |
May 30 |
Aubrey Manning |
The Needles, Lulworth Cove, Devil's Punch Bowl, The Ridgeway, Stokenchurch Gap, Finchampstead Ridges, Cuckmere Haven |
| 6 |
The Midlands |
June 6 |
Dominic Heale |
Kinder Scout, Dovedale, Blue John Cavern, Creswell Crags, Sherwood Forest, Beacon Hill, Wenlock Edge |
| 7 |
The West Country |
June 17 |
Amanda Parr |
Avebury, Symonds Yat, Cheddar Gorge, Bath Hot Springs, River Severn, Glastonbury Tor, Exmoor |
| 8 |
South East |
June 22 |
Kaddy Lee-Preston |
White Cliffs of Dover, Seven Sisters, North Downs, Dungeness, Romney Marsh, Ecclesbourne Glen, Pegwell Bay |
The series covered eight regions of England, as it originated as a 'local' television project.
There was also a series, looking at a similar selection of 'man-made' wonders for each of eleven regions of England.
[edit] External links
N.B.: The sites here are BBC website addresses. There appears to be some confusion, within the BBC website, since the production of the 'man-made' series, in that pages appear to overlap.
