373. Britain is weird! We head for the strangest corners of the countryside with Dave Hamilton
Adventurer Dave Hamilton has travelled widely across the UK to find some of its weirdest sites. This week, he joins Plodcast host Fergus Collins in the ex-industrial heartlands of South Wales to walk on one of the largest and strangest earth sculptures in Europe: Sultan the Pit Pony. It is a moving memorial to the thousands of ponies that worked in pitch black deep in the mines during the great 19th-century coal rush.Dave Hamiton's new book Weird Guide: 300 Curious Corners, Wild Wonders and Sublime Structures in published by Wild Things PublishingGet in touch on Facebook! Search "BBC…
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