Walking Tudor England - Season 1

Suzannah Lipscomb walks around the country on the trail of the Tudor dynasty. She begins in Hampshire, visiting Southsea Castle, where Henry VIII watched as the Mary Rose sank in the Solent, encounters the fortifications of Old Portsmouth, the home of Henry's revolutionary Tudor navy, and gets a lesson from a Tudor blacksmith.

Suzannah wanders the rich, rural lands of Tudor East Anglia on the trail of 'Bloody' Queen Mary. She unearths the extraordinary events that led Mary to the throne visiting the castle where she was crowned.

Suzannah walks through the heart of England, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire to Stamford in Lincolnshire to uncover the stories behind Elizabeth I's reign.

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As Suzannah visits The Weald, a quiet corner of Kent and East Sussex, where she spends time at Penshurst Place and Hever Castle where she discovers details about Henry VIII's life.

As Suzannah walks across the hills and dales of Yorkshire, she discovers the story of the Reformation at sites including St Mary's Abbey and Markenfield Hall.