


Countryfile
Watercress Line
Season 2025
Matt Baker and Margherita Taylor commemorate 200 years since the birth of the railway with a journey on the Watercress Line in Alresford, Hampshire. Margherita meets people keeping the heritage line alive, helps volunteers clear a disused railway line to create a new wildlife corridor. Plus, Tom Heap investigates how well the system designed to protect farmers selling to supermarkets is really working
Countryfile airs on BBC Two England at 6:50 AM, Sunday 6 April. (Subtitles, repeat.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
Nature ➝ Animals ➝ Environment
Rural ➝ Agricultural
Matt Baker
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Margherita Taylor
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Tom Heap
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