The Rock Houses of Staffordshire

Martha Kearney visits the unique cave dwellings at Kinver Edge that were lived in until the 1960s. Cosy cottages were built into the soft red sandstone with windows and doors and families lived in them for generations. Martha looks around a cottage which has been restored as it was when it was lived in and hears about the family that lived there. She also finds out about the heathland restoration project which is bringing rare wildlife back to this valuable sandscape. And she meets Brett Westwood to try and track some of it down. Producer Beth O'Dea

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The Rock Houses of Staffordshire is an episode from Open Country by BBC.

This episode is 23:40 long.

This episode was published on Mar 12, 2026.

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