WALKING IN ESSEX | HOCKLEY WOODS | HULLBRIDGE | RIVER CROUCH
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- This was an 8 mile circular day walk starting and finishing in Hockley Woods and visiting the Roman Plumberow Mount, the riverside village of Hullbridge and a stretch of the River Crouch, along with several ancient woodlands.
Thanks for watching and your continued support. Stay safe everyone. Tom.
Lovely walks through Hockley and Hullbridge, we use to live in Hockley near the woods, and by the river in Hullbridge really enjoyed walking in these areas, thanks for filming these great memories.
What a lovely clip and a beautifull part of Hockley.I used to live in Rochford near Ashingdon,if you walk up to the church the view is fantastic.If you walk down rectory road towards the rugby club alongside the railway you can eventually end up in Hawkwell near the sports centre,another nice walk.
Thanks for the info mate, if I'm that way again I'll have a look.
One of the better video's out during the lockdown
Thanks
Wow, thanks! sadly it's gonna be hard for me to even go out for a local walk mate, i live with my mum and she is threatening to kick me out if i go for a walk that is over an hour long which is most walks! Apparently she has read somewhere that your'e only allowed out for an hour at a time (ridiculous I know, don't know where she has got this from, personally i think it's made up).
Fun fact: That house at 4:40 has a lady living in it that HATES the pub next door lol
This was filmed just over 6 months after I moved a way from this area.
Hahaha I take it that's a joke lol. Lovely area and I'd never been there prior to that.
@@TOM_OUTDOORS No, it's not a joke, the owner of the pub knew us and told us.
Enjoyed your video. Some great views and being local we enjoyed seeing them.
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice wLk. What great weather.
Cheers mate, i saw your latest, that walk looked lovely too by the river. can't beat a river or coastal walk.
So nice to see the sun at last...Stay safe mate...
it was such a relief to get outside and go for a walk, i can't begin to tell you how much it lifted my mood, it was like being high lol. cheers you too pal.
@@TOM_OUTDOORS Yeah I'm out tomorrow been stuck in for days, doing a couple of miles over the marshes where I live may take my cameras too...ATB
sounds good mate, have fun.
Great channel and videos, Tom👍 Now subscribed to you.
Thanks for subbing mate. Much appreciated. Hope you enjoy the channel. Once this lock down is over I'll be out doing proper camps etc.
You're very welcome! Looking forward to more videos👍
thankyou for sharing your lovely walk with us tom stay safe and will see you on the next one x
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for taking us along - that was just what we needed - please stay safe and well sending love and regards to both of you 👏❤️😁xx
Thank you! Will do!
Another great great memory jogging walk Tom.
Learned to sail on the Crouch
Did a dinghy camping trip years ago from Battlesbridge down and out the mouth around past the Chapel where you've camped and into the Blackwater to Noresea island .
Sun shone every day a great trip.
Cheers mate better times to come🖖
that sounds like an awesome trip mate, would love to walk the length of the Crouch and camp along the way. its such a forgotten river, no on talks much about it. lovely part of the world. cheer mate.
@@TOM_OUTDOORSPlenty of sites to pitch on the bank which is what we did. TOM
Although Shoeberry firing range woke us up one morning as it's rocket motor testing site is near the river mouth
Beautiful vid mate !
cheers pal, its lovely round that way. stay safe.
Be safe and continue to have fun.
Thanks mate.
A walk around where I grew up, drinking cider (next time try Devon Mist) from where I live now; the best of both worlds!
We will Tom! Thanks for sharing, I hope you enjoyed is as much as I did, and stay safe mate ;-)
it was so nice to finally get out and it be sunny, really lifted my mood, cheers pal.
enjoy your videos mate - im just a roofer from coventry.
Thanks mate. People need roofs.
It’s nice to see you out Tom great walk buddy,atvb
Thanks 👍
Memories. My Grandparents used to live at Hockley. I used to kayak from Hullbridge up the river to the antiques centre at Battlesbridge. Happy days !! Tfs, take care mate, atb............Pete M 👍🏻🛶🌈
I've passed through Battlesbridge a couple of times, never stopped though, looks lovely there, lots of history. It's strange cos it seems so far inland and then suddenly you go over the bridge and see a small quay with boats and the tide lines in the mud and the river!
Lovely calming walk really enjoyable to watch X
Glad you enjoyed
Nice tom
Thanks
Cheers Tom :)
Thanks mate.
Hockley Woods and the River Crouch aww, I know them well. The Crouch has a connecting river just before leading out into the North Sea, the River Roach where I once had my boat moored. Nice place in the summer but pretty bleak in the winter. I was once told an RAF Spitfire came down into the river roach during the war, and was still there under water and deep in the Essex mud, not sure though if it's true or not. Just wondering if you have heard stories of this ?.
i know the area and the roach and crouch well, i did the roach valley way a few years ago. i love the bleakness and remote feel in that part of Essex, its really underrated. i'll do a bit of digging on the spitfire mate cheers.
@@TOM_OUTDOORS Thank you, my source about the Spitfire was from an old fisherman.... also were my boat was moored at Paglesham Marina on the roach, the famous ship HMS Beagle ended it's days here after taking Charles Darwin on his adventures of discovery, and I know exactly were she now lays. This may interest you Tom, please take a look. www.wessexarch.co.uk/news/hunt-hms-beagle-rochford-district?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrL6Hou_j6AIVmKztCh0vkQyhEAAYASAAEgIcjvD_BwE
yeah i know about the beagle, i did a day walk there years ago too and saw the site where she was unceremoniously dumped. sad to think that it wasnt preserved, its probably one of the most important ships in history.
@@TOM_OUTDOORS Well, local rumour has it that the archaeologist's were looking in the wrong place and found some old newer wooden boat. If you were looking towards the pontoon, to your right is a large wooden boat house painted black...locals say the Beagle lays under this large shed !. And I agree, this boat is of huge historical importance. Local knowledge handed down is very powerful information, where as archaeologist's from a University some where many miles away don't often listen to folklore and only see something and put a name to it.
I was walking over that way today for my permitted exercise
Lovely place.
🔱 stay safe Tom. 🍺
cheers you too mate.
Stay safe m8