The Essex Way - Epping to Ongar (4K)
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2019
- A walk along the Essex Way from Epping to Ongar taking in Toot Hill and Greensted.
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Tupelo Train by Chris Haugen
Nevada City by Huma-Huma
Fresh Fallen Snow by Chris Haugen
Meeting Again by Emily A. Sprague
Little Drunk, Quiet Floats by Puddle of Infinity
A lovely late summer walk through glorious English countryside just two breaths away from London - very uplifting
I’m an exiled Essex boy living in Devon. I do miss those flat landscapes, big skies willow trees and weatherboarded buildings . Would be good to see the rest of the trail if you could.
Another great video - wonderful to see the unique Essex countryside. I often cycled around the Ongar area with friends when I was at school in Hornchurch. I remember the incongruity of seeing a tube train waiting at the station. Great that you visited the church (also unique!) at Greensted - on one of our cycle trips there I took a photo from which my dad did a drawing - it's beside me on the wall as I write. Back in the mid 60's there were 2 yew trees in the churchyard - the last time I visited, about 10 years ago, there was only one. Thanks again for another lovely walk!
Always a good day when a new John Rogers video goes up 👍🏻👍🏻excellent as always
many thanks Pootle
Always nice to spend an afternoon with you John, and I never managed to get to the wooden church at Ongar in my London days (daze) so cheers mate!
What a lovely, peaceful walk - thank you, John. I am really looking forward to seeing the Borough of Culture Walks. Wish I could experience them in person - but no taxi or bus back to Cape Town, alas!
Thanks Mariana- we did the Dagenham Brook Walk on Sunday, hope I can capture that experience on the video
Great walk thanks
To misquote John Lydon, "Ongar is an energy." I'm going to show a few minutes of this video to my English 120 class tomorrow. It's a course on the Pastoral tradition in English Literature and your comments around 3:30 to 6:00 are very relevant to our discussion of Shakespeare's "As You Like It"!
That’s brilliant Weldon - I’m deeply flattered
when i was youger me and a friend walked along the railway line when it was closed for winter, i remember having to duck into a bush when we saw a train in the distance haha took us by surprise
I grew up in a village outside Ongar, the high st looks nicer through your lens, l guess we dont appreciate whats under our nose.
Chipping Ongar means market on a wooded slope. There is a Mott & Baily Castle behind the car park thats next to the Cock Tavern, it never had any stone work & just the remains of some small Victorian brick structure remains on top of the Mott.
Hi, I wanted to make you aware that Londoners are claiming they want to ‘take over’ the county and ethnically cleanse it of white people
Glad your back John you've Been missed x
thanks Norma - I've been really keen to get something finished and online
Lovely walk John. Gurning bushes - what a great name. The last field of the walk often has cows in it. A few years ago they chased me for about 100 yards, terrifying!
Ha that's an experience you don't forget easily Tim
Nice walk. the only part of that place along that walk i have done was the Greenstead Church and that was with my parents back in 1970s.
Hi Jon lovely walk and music I drove the 201 from Ongar to Loughton years ago and that lovely little church been there a few times when living in Essex great area thanks again all the best clive...
Thanks for that Clive - such a great area
Great walk, I did this walk a few weeks ago in the other direction.
Coopersale woods that once linked Epping Forrest to Ongar Park so much history there.
Thank You John for another lovely walk, always makes my day. Take care.
Brilliant - thanks Darrell
Glad I'm not the only person who keeps on planning for a Really Big Walk that for various reasons never seems to happen.
Thanks for the video John, good to see you back on here, I missed you. Take care.
just found the lovely video of the Essex Way Walk...what a great day fior a walk...that was my husband who was locking up the church...the church certainly looked very beautiful...
Superb walk and video as usual have walked little bits of the such Gernon bushes and dud many years ago gi by central line to ongar and wslked most of the way home to woodford with a bit of help from bus and tube.
Been to Greenstead msny times on Foot Cycle and motorcycle two nice pubs now gone the Drill House Toot Hill and recently closed the Mole Trap Tawney Common which was first Pub i went to when i got a Lambretta scooter in 1971 aged 17...
Happy Days beer 2 bob a pint and petrol 4s6p a gallon or something like that... but very open and sparsely populated due to lack of public transport and big employers.
Have you the walk to St Peters on the wall at Bradwell....?
Great to see you back. That’s a fantastic walk, I’ve done it a few times myself.
thanks Ken - great to be back, plenty more videos waiting to be edited
I love watching your walks John, please keep uploading, not just for the walk, or the chats you have with us, that make us feel we are with you, but also because of the encouragement to get out, walk about, to feel close to the earth again, to be cognisant of the rhythms and times of the earth, the motions of the sun, and the seasons. As you rightly say in your videos, it helps our mental state no end.
I organised a walk with two friends in mid Spring three years ago, 2016, only, we started in Ongar and walked to Epping, then caught the old bus and old train back. An excellent walk, lovely countryside, and the history of Greenstead Church was amazing.
I took my family to Greenstead Church couple years back too, to see it, and this summer, had a short walk from Ongar across the fields to help my wife with some movement (leg) issues, and visited St Martins Church, and looked at the motte and bailey castle site.
I feel it is imperitive, my duty, to pass this love of walking throught the countryside to my daughters, and I feel so pleased they love walking, and connecting to more basic primal yet extremenly deep feelings and thoughts of the nature of our existence.
All the best!
Thanks for that Charlie - wonderful that you’re passing on the love of walking to your daughters
Always very relaxing watching these videos, nice walk indeed. Ongar is a lovely little village, you can rent out an ex pub to stay in on the high street which I do sometimes. Great place to spend a few days with a beer or two.
Thanks for the tip I’ll look into it
@@JohnRogersWalks It has a bar, pool table, lounge with huge TV, 5 bedrooms etc so good for a group.
We have intersected our paths again. I was on the M11 bridge this summer and the church, which by the way is the oldest wood church in Uk. I follow you since 2016 and my explorations led me so many times on places you've been or going to be. I will love to share a walk with you.
I used to travel the single track from the Central Line from Epping to Ongar years ago John when it still ran.
We always stopped for a pint and food in that pub on the right of the video before walking through Ongar to Greenstead up to thar Wonderful Church before carrying on.
Did you walk around to the back of it as they still have the openings for the Leper’s to look through to watch the service as they wasn’t allowed to go into it.
Every 2 years they have a little Herb Festival in the Garden Of The Church, worth visiting I think. 😊
Thanks for another wonderful relaxing video. ❤️
Thanks John,
My pleasure Dave
Lovely walk John, will you be doing the rest of the Essex Way to Harwich sometime in the future? you could make it into a mini-series
Thanks Craig - yes I think I will do the rest of the walk, I was saving it to do in one long walk but think I'll do it in parts over the winter
Looking forward to the Waltham forest walk videos. Keep em coming. Thanks.
Thanks Gordon
Beautiful relaxing walk John, hope you are feeling refreshed after your holiday in Southwold, I left you a link on that walks comments about Lovecraft and Dunwich via Arthur Machin, hope you found it, any sign of the New River and Hackney Brook yet, hope the talks and tours you gave in Waltham Forest went well,all the best I remember Ongar as a tube terminus, Foot is a reference to Celtic Sun God, sacred place , great place, beautiful day, see you again soon.....
Great walk fashioned into a great film. If you manage a multi-day wander next year does it have to be on a designated long distance path?. Why not do it as a sort of off the cuff, random journey? I'm sure it would make a mesmerising film & hopefully be memorable for yourself. Whatever, keep 'em coming.
Looks great John! Shame I won't have time to watch it until later in the week!
each step forward your going deeper into the books of history itself
Thank you for doing what you do. If you ever get the chance, please interview James Meek. You two would have a lot to talk about.
This land was made for you and me 🤝
Thanks very much, and I’ll take a look at James
That church was worth the walk alone! Fantastic countryside. , Still watching John, you are a true inspiration,😎👍
Thanks so much Jag
Long awaited but didn't dissappoint. Looking forward to a "plethora" of videos soon. Have you ever considered coming over to do a few walks in Dublin?
Thanks Tomas - that's an interesting idea - I haven't been over to Dublin for a while
Let me know if I can help
Just finished your book and thoroughly enjoyed it. Highly recommended to anyone.
Thanks Darren
Hi John. So it was you......I was driving through Ongar (I live there) and saw you by the town sign. Turned around to say hello but you had vanished. Shame. Lovely walk and seeing the area in your video makes you realise how lucky we are to have such countryside on our doorstep. Best wishes, Richard
Ah thanks Richard - I seem to have been spotted a few times last Sunday - wonderful area
Good seasonally-appropriate video releases. Thank you : D
thanks for watching Arthur
Thanks for the walk today, loved the stories and the shots of the wooden church were magical, indeed.
The Theydon Oak is well worth a visit, just to admire the sheer amount of shiny stuff they have fixed to the walls! Beyond that, its a very nice country pub, does good food and is a favourite haunt of Rod the Mod, who you might bump into in there.
Got to enjoy the walk while crossing the Atlantic through the magic of inflight WiFi. Excited to go to pole hill next week. It is the return of the Boston super fans!
Brilliant image Kathleen- looking forward to seeing you next weekend
Greensted Church is one of my favourite places to go, though sadly I don't get there often. What an atmosphere! Thanks for including it here
Wonderful walk John...it was just lovely! 😊 It's always a brighter & better day when a John Rogers' video is out! Thank you...can't wait for the next walk! ...take care!
Thanks so much k - up late editing last night as well
Great walk thanks john
Thanks John! This is my regular fortnightly winter walk from Epping to Ongar.I take a slightly different route in the beginning,through Coopersale,but i think i`ll try this way next time.
It's a real gem Stef, I need to head back out to Coopersale this winter, it's been a couple of years now
I would love to see you do part of the saffron trail in Essex and the millennium walk
Ah, the second person to mention the Saffron Trail - will add it to the list - thanks for the tip
It's great to get these little insights -- Ongar is a place you think you know but probably don't so thanks for that John.
This was a great walk
The tree trunk and bark seen at 5:07 is a "Common Hornbeam" - Carpinus betulus. The pollarded trees viewed are "Common Hornbeam"; the practice of pollarding trees at height was done for firewood and fuel for bakers ovens in London and was a form of woodland management that passed into history with the advent of gas fired ovens. Cutting the limbs off at height prevented deer from eating the fresh soft re-growth in the spring, which is a problem when such native trees are "coppiced" or cut close to ground level. The term for the swelling where the limbs arise is the "pollard head" or "knuckle". The practice of pollarding hornbeam and other native trees has the effect of vastly increasing the age of trees compared to "maiden" or un-cut trees. When re-pollarding trees, the trunk should not be cut below the "pollard head" but some of the younger branches should be left cut short (50cm) like a stubby shaving brush to encourage re-growth. Trees that have not been pollarded for many years may be difficult to bring them back into a pollard regime without incurring losses. In towns it is common to see various species of lime trees (Tilia) managed by pollarding every few years to maintain them at a height and breadth compatible to their surroundings.
I've just discovered your channel John, and I think the way you film and present these walks is really inspirational. I live near here and I'm going to do this walk. Cheers!
Wonderful...
That looked like a fantastic walk to do! May have to give it a try sometime. I'm only used to doing circular walks, so will have to look in to how to get back to the car.
It was indeed - I reckon the circular walk would start at Ongar. I reckon there’ll be routes online
Welcome back John! Such a great walk. Really surprised to see it so sunny and warm this time of year. From a distance you might think you were in the south of France or even somewhere in Italy. Whenever I find an excuse to fly across the pond again, I’d definitely love to book one of your London tours.
Hi Ross it was such a gorgeous today - this weekend the rain has returned and autumn is well and truly here now
Like , very good video . Stay connected. Than you
Thanks very much Tomas
John, this is delightful. My friends and I are going to attempt this. Fingers crossed we'll get some beautiful photos. Meditation and a picnic. Really looking forward to it. Schools out so we're 'out out' xx
Hope you have a great time!
End to end an enjoyable walk John. I remember them days in the bush. Good adventures albeit a bit blurry. Well, glad you been out guiding. Sounds like fun. All the best. Mark
cheers Mark
@@JohnRogersWalks That's OK!
Great video John, that’s now on my to do list 😀. Roughly how long was this walk? Looking forward to your next videos. Regards steve.
Great video's John. Hope one day you will come to Elsenham. Bishops Stortford
that sounds really intriguing G.T, I've walked the Stort Navigation so will add this to the list
@@JohnRogersWalks all so Henham is nice. Stansted Mount Fitchet. I'm in Elsenham. If you passing I'll do you a nice cup of tea. Regards Graham lol
I missed the right turn to green man. I wound up at the water tower. Easily done!
The new video !
Me and my friend are attempting the Essex way again... all of it... in 24 hours
😂
Great video! Certainly a lot better than the previous videos on UA-cam of a guy walking the Essex way!
Best of luck Elliot that’s quite some challenge
@@JohnRogersWalks Well... that hurt! But we did it! 23 hours 39 mins, non stop walking. We had support vans seeing us around every 3 hours, couldn't have done it without them!
I was hoping you would visit the medieval remains of Ongar Castle, but looks like you couldn't get out of Ongar fast enough lol
Brilliant video! Could you do a go fund me page to pay for your multi day walk? That way you wouldn't have to worry about missing any work? I'd chip in for the feature length John Rogers film!
That’s very kind of you Jonny - I suppose it would also mean I’d have to do it then as well
@@JohnRogersWalks Well, I've read a few books about long walks and it seems that the books make the walk commercially viable. You have to pay the bills at the end of the day right?
Ongar is a short 'A', not a long one. So more Onger than Ongarrrr. Pronunciation is a part of history.
Thanks for the note
Epping Forest, once the haunt of Highwaymen.
Dick Turpin. He was Britain's most famous Highwayman Criminal.
it's heavy on the light aircraft it seems. Not far from me the walk.
Hatfield Forest Essex.
21st Century Essex.
21st Century Lifetime.
love this church used to get my dads honey from here
you sir look stressed you need to sit down and war game .... you had me at 7:30 ..
Oh yes pouring the horror and the pain the worst technique of pruning trees ever pruning for control freaks there’s a cat stand to see something growing and behaving the way it should the way it was meant to the first all the proper bro blooming to a prune trees for a living in the states Maine to be exact and I had to stay in this method of pruning seems to keep creeping across To Britain from the continent
What happens when you are out walking and you want to do a shit and you need to wipe your arse, do you scoot along the floor like a dog? xx