A village that was once capital of an ancient kingdom
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Hello! Eh Up and how ya Diddlin! This week we’re looking in and around the south Derbyshire village of Repton. A village that was once capital of an ancient kingdom! Yes, that’s right, it was the capital of Mercia at some point! A truly wonderful little place it is as well, with some great architecture, especially its school and church! We also find some incredible structures in a medieval deer park close by, these structures being from maybe the 17th century.
I hope you enjoy the video!
Cheers, Steve ❤️
Could be a thousand years old, but I don't know, maybe a hundred, I'm sure, but I don't know, amazing, absolutely incredible, I Imagine.
Its like watching the Fast Show, thanks for cheering me up.
Cheers mate! The fast show lol, I ain’t seen that for a long time! Thanks for watching
Fast Show haha, thanks for cheering ME up.
Great stuff. Love the history of Mercia. Loads of battles around here.
Offa's dyke is a great walk too.
Cheers mate. Yeah, so much more I could’ve banged on about here lol! I forgot to mention the Viking army that wintered there after attacking the place back in the day. As for Offas dyke, I’d love to walk some of that, I love earth works.
Walked about 14 miles of it on my own a couple of years back. I saw one other couple in the first ten minutes and then nothing but wild horses for miles. @@LeiceExplore
Great nosey lads.
Just imagine, in 200 years time a bloke on a hover board will float down that path thinking 'I'm going down the same path as that Picker bloke, all them years ago!'
Cheers me ode lad! I knew you’d like this one! When I make these vids now, I’m always looking at stuff thinking, I’ll bet me last imaginary quid that The Don of Donisthorpe would love this lol
I like that moniker 😂
@@firemon2217 that’s settled then, I knight thee Sir Don of Donisthorpe lol
Hi Steve, well done mate we really enjoyed this. Driven throw Repton a few times and always felt it was like stepping back in time. 👏👏👏👏👏👌
Thank you very much Graham, I’m very pleased that you, and by how you said we, others you watched it with enjoyed it buddy.
@@LeiceExplore hi Steve, Wendy and me love your channel mate, it’s great because you and the lads are local, so we get it. So much local history that we might never know about 👏👏👏👏👏👍
@@grahamgetsabout2672 bless the pair of ya!
Great video and explore Steve,
Repton is a lovely little place with plenty of history going for it...🙂👍🏻
Cheers Eddie! I’m very pleased you enjoyed it buddy.
Eh up lads, another really great noseh! Fascinating stuff Steve! 🤗👍🏻
Thank you very much our Max!
I love Repton. I’ve performed many a time In the school theatre!
Thank you very much. Wouldn’t be a bad gig that lol
Brilliant video. Your sheer enthusiasm is infectious. It's almost as though I'm walking around with you all.
Thank you very much! Whilst editing these videos, I often feel like I’m OTT, but, it’s just the way I am, I love it. Thanks for watching.
Steve, great film of Repton. Recently read The River Kings by Dr Cat Jarman on the discovery of a Carnelian bead (semi-precious stone) in a Viking grave in Repton and traces its origins thousands of miles to the east in Gujarat. Well worth a read.
Thank you Simon. I forgot to mention that the Vikings attacked then wintered at Repton. Thanks for watching.
Love your dialogue and descriptions.
Thank you very much
Great video again steve really enjoyed it can’t believe there’s so much history in repton 😮😮
Cheers buddy! There is so much I haven’t mentioned mate, the history is fantastic, really is. I forgot to mention that the vikings took an army up the Trent, attacked the place, and camped there over winter.
I thought you would have explored the Great Heathen Army (Viking) camp at Repton which was a fortification in a D shape from the river around the church.
It may well feature in another video in the future. Because, although I knew of it, I didn’t know where it was, until after I’d made this video.
Awesome boys …love this ….there’s lots of missing villages and castles in Leicestershire
Thank you mathew! The good news in that case for you is, that there is going to be a video about lost villages in the next few weeks.
Great work guys and good to see the gang back together again after Christmas.
Thank you Mark, I know, it’s been a long time since we were all sticking our beaks in together!
great video Steve, well done fellas --- I really liked the overgrown ornate building --love to know more about it.
Thank you very much Stevio! Unbelievable that place buddy, can’t believe it was there.
Fantastic day and a fantastic video
It certainly was, it was very surprising
grew up not far from there, had a few pub crawls round the few pubs there! Worth checking out Anchor Church not far from there too, really interesting place!
Eh up Paul! Yes buddy, I made a video at Anchor church probably over 2 years ago now.
Great Video Steve. I have ridden my mountainbike many times through Repton Shrubs but never knew all that history of that area. Well done for documenting it so well. On the subject of crypts have you ever been down into the crypt of Holy Trinity church, Rothwell, south of Market Harborough, very interesting and haunting.
Thank you Chris! I will be looking into this church when I find myself over that way buddy.
Love this, thanks for sharing
Thank you Anna!
Glad people like yourselves are doing this stuff. Hope you save it incase UA-cam disappears.
Thank you very much. I do it because I love it, it’s always nice to hear that others enjoy it to. I have thought this before about UA-cam going up the spout!
Awesome video man. Beautiful places
Cheers Dan, much appreciated buddy.
Wotcha Steve and gang, flippin awsome explore guys. I'd love to know what the structure with the vaulted ceilings was. The old stable was a cracking find aswell. Proper architectural explore was this one. Well done lads.
Thank you me ode beauteh! I’m very pleased you enjoyed it mate!
Of-yesteryears. Grift streamed Forth.
I've liked it already and not even watched it yet! That's how confident I am. Certainly was a capital under Aethelbald, I've strong ideas where the earlier Mercian kings ruled from, but I`ll chew your ears off during some run about that. Nice to see DD also, get them bath bombs into production!
Bath bombs a go go lol…there is sooooo much to talk about here mate, I just couldn’t fit it all in with it being an exploration video. I think I read that your mate Penda was down here at some point, I hear he had a mercian trail running group here lol
Nice one Steve, Those stables were part of a big house further up if you read up on the history of calke Abbey,it explains everything, the remains of the house you found was demolished out of spite, some sort of family feud 😢
Cheers mate. I did read, that what are thought to be stables, at some point were a summer house, and possibly a deer lader. In truth, I don’t think there are fully sure to be honest. Very interesting about the latter ruin I show. I didn’t know that’s what had happened to it.
The crypt in St. Wystan's was built as a baptistry during the reign of King Aethelbald in the first half of the 8th. century (716 - 757). It was later converted into a mausoleum to hold the bodies of the Saxon Kings, Aethelbald and Wiglaf. It was then made into a place of pilgrimage. Please visit the church of St. Mary & St Hardulph, Breedon on the Hill, and do a video on the Saxon sculpture in it. Very few people know about this and, IMO, it's amongst the best Early Medieval sculpture in England. You can video the hill fort as well.
Thank you John. I know Breedon church. I’ll look into that
And did you know while Roald dahl was at Repton the boys used to get free samples of chocolate from cadburys to taste test and thats where he got the idea for Charlie and the chocolate factory......interesting.
Thanks for that! Brilliant, I didn’t know that. That’s fantastic!
I sort of remember that from the book Boy. Everyone read Boy.
The date on below the initials seems to be 1684, could it be the person who built the leat in the 17th century?
I missed that! I’ll watch that bit back! It certainly could’ve been mate yes
Could what is described as stables be an ice house?
My mate thought the same, but ice houses usually go quite deep below ground level, I have a few videos on here actually where I’ve visited ice houses. I certainly wouldn’t say it isn’t one though, because it is near a lake.
Ayup bud, I'm not sure but they might have listed the building as a stable so it is an agricultural building, if I remember correctly during the early 1900s they had a ROOF TAX , that's why you see a fair few old buildings without roofs, to save paying taxes, that building has a curved brick roof, so calling it a stable would save knocking it down and paying taxes, just a thought bud
Interesting. But why do you whisper and make it difficult to listen over crunching footsteps? I feel that I missed things, and sometimes backed the video to relisten so I didn't.
Because I’m daft lol…sometimes I whisper, because sometimes I shouldn’t be there lol…
Pretty awful that such behavior among the students was sanctioned by the school! 🤦♂️
Yes, it’s awful that they would alow that, that’s for sure! Thanks for watching.
41 seconds and boring, adios.
Thanks for the feedback
@@LeiceExplore
Methinks someone has an extremely short attention span.
@@Wotsitorlabartit did cross my mind lol! However, people are aloud to have their own opinions.
5:10 Simple if you don't like this sort of thing don't watch it and keep your comments to yourself!!!
@@mboman42 Eh up here’s the cavalry lol
I’m a north east lad, Sunderland fan.
First time coming across your channel. I love history and being out in nature.
I’m very happy to have being recommended by UA-cam for this.
I’m subbing right now to your channel. Great stuff. Looking forward to watching lots more of your videos ☮️
Bless ya! Thank you very much for subscribing, it’s very much appreciated! Sunderland eh? I fancy them for a top six finish this season. Good young players that will improve on last season. It’s to big a club not to be in the premier league. Cheers.
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