Seven Natural Wonders

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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.

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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.