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Series 1: East Midlands
The story of Cromford. A picturesque Derbyshire village at the heart of famous industrialist Sir Richard Arkwright's mechanised cotton mills and a textile revolution. Presenter and archaeologist Ben Robinson discovers it wasn't just an industrial revolution. Cromford became a new kind of village, built to service the enterprise of this powerful man.
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Most popular episodes of Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village
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Series 1: North East
Archaeologist Ben Robinson unlocks the ancient roots of the Northumberland village of Warkworth. With the help of locals, he discovers clues that point back almost 1,000 years t ...
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BBC 1
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Series 1: London
Archaeologist Ben Robinson explores London - the ultimate 'city of villages'. Despite many rural settlements like Hornsey and Dagenham being swallowed up by the expanding capita ...
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BBC 1
Pubs, Ponds And Power: The Story Of The Village
Series 1: East Midlands
The story of Cromford. A picturesque Derbyshire village at the heart of famous industrialist Sir Richard Arkwright's mechanised cotton mills and a textile revolution. Presenter ...
05-04-2022
BBC 1
Pubs, Ponds And Power: The Story Of The Village
Series 1: South West
Archaeologist Ben Robinson explores the Cornish fishing village of Port Isaac. Behind the quaint facade lies something far more gritty - a place where people exploited a range o ...
05-11-2022
BBC 1
Pubs, Ponds And Power: The Story Of The Village
Series 1: South
The village of Milton Abbas in Dorset perfectly captures our romantic notion of what the idyllic English village should look like. But as archaeologist Ben Robinson reveals, beh ...
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