A NORTH Yorkshire-based writer has been filming with the BBC in connection with his latest book.

David Winpenny’s latest book - Up to a Point; in search of pyramids in Britain and Ireland - was published last year.

It is the only work to cover the more than 200 pyramids to be found in the British Isles.

The BBC’s regional Inside Out programmes have invited David to talk about some of the pyramids he features and e spent a day filming at Leckhampton, south of Cheltenham, where there is a rough stone pyramid dedicated to a horse.

Mr Winpenny, who loves in Ripon, told the story of its construction, and spoke about the idea behind his book and all the travelling its research has involved.

In February a two-day film shoot will take him to pyramids at Cobham in Kent and to Bexhill, Brightling and St Leonards-on-Sea in Sussex.

"My pyramids book seems to have captured the imagination of some of the regional BBC producers, and they have been keen to have me in front of the cameras," he said.

"The stories behind the pyramids are fascinating and full of human interest – eccentrics, lovers, feuding families and aspiring aristocrats – and the pyramids themselves are very photogenic."

Mr Winpenny, who lives in North Yorkshire, has written articles, guidebooks and books of walks. He lectures on subjects, including architecture, follies and landscape gardening, and was a BBC Mastermind finalist in 1999.

*Up to a Point, which has photographs of all the pyramids on its 400 pages, is published by Sessions of York at £24.95, and is available, postage and packing free, from the website uptoapoint.co.uk