Tony Robinson has quite a long walk ahead of him as it takes four days of vigorous hiking to get from Penshurst in the Weald to Lewes on the South Downs. He's visiting places with a connection to Henry VIII. Some are magnificent manor houses, but others are less wellknown sites where both the Tudor iron industry and beer brewing industry once flourished.

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