Ben Woodier

Ben Woodier Searching for Norfolk’s illusive peaks.

16/04/2026

Since the dawn of ambition, humanity has pursued elevation.
Climbing higher. Building taller. Reaching further.

This is not that.

Britain’s Flattest Peaks explores a place where height was abandoned and the horizon was standardised.

Full documentary now on YouTube. Link in bio.

16/04/2026

Britain’s Flattest Peaks is a high-stakes, low-altitude investigation into a county that refused to be interesting.

Featuring questionable navigation, dubious geography, and a Honda Civic with unrealistic expectations.

Featuring the extremely profound and accomplished musings of

Watch the full video on YouTube. Link in bio.

16/04/2026

They say the greatest peaks define a landscape.

This county doesn’t have any.

A documentary about Britain’s least ambitious terrain.

Full video on YouTube. Link in bio.

19/12/2025

🐄 The Cowell Stone.

A single boulder dropped here by glaciers 450,000 years ago.

Later, thought to be used as a waypoint, Roman mile stone, boundary marker, and Ordnance Survey benchmark.

It sits where prehistoric trackways, Roman roads, and parish borders collide.

Just a rock that’s basically been doing the same job for a very long time.

04/12/2025

🍎Vinegar Hill. The site of a medieval roadside crime syndicate run by a nun.

Abbess Barbara Mason, who then nursed the victims back to health so they’d donate to the abbey.

Now she supposedly haunts the hill every November.

27/11/2025

🏹 In Norfolk there’s a prehistoric mound called Robyn Hoodes Butte.

No one knows why.

Robin Hood probably never came within 100 miles.

It might be a Bronze Age burial.

Or a rabbit farm.

Either way, someone put it on a 17th-century map gave it a funny name.

20/11/2025

👻 The White Lady of Worstead.

Once deadly, now doing part-time healing miracles.

A Victorian man saw her once and died.

Diane saw her and felt better.

I saw nothing.

13/11/2025

🪾Seahenge - The Bronze Age Fence That Upset Everyone

Holme-next-the-Sea.

1998.

Sombody discovered an upside-down tree from 2049 BC, despite locals being aware of its existence for decades.

Archeologists are unsure of its original purpose.

But are certain it’s not a henge.

They dug it up, waxed it, and stuffed it in a museum.

Then built two replicas.

Meanwhile Seahenge 2, found at the same time, just 100m away, was politely ignored.

It remains there.

For now.

07/11/2025

North Elmham Chapel ⛪️

Once the seat of the bishops of East Anglia, now mostly the seat of moss.

A Saxon cathedral, then a Norman chapel, then a bishop’s panic bunker.

It’s been demoted more times than I’ve been ignored by the algorithm.

Now just a flint-based identity crisis.

31/10/2025

🏰 Castle Acre. Norfolk’s Finest Piles of Dirt (with a wall)

Built around 1070 by William de Warenne, one of William the Conqueror’s mates, Castle Acre is one of Norfolk’s best-preserved Norman castles.

Once a motte-and-bailey, later upgraded with stone walls and a priory, it’s now an English Heritage site where you can admire almost 1,000 years of erosion.

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