Hey guys, great reaction. This is Dartmoor in Devon. An area of ancient Britain that has changed little in the last 2000 years. I recommend you looking into the Somerset Levels, the peat bogs that Lyndsay was talking about.
The UK used to be extensively forested (possibly about 60% forest cover) until clearance for agriculture began to happen about 4000-ish years ago. The Romans came next with their organised infrastructure and advanced building techniques, all of which required timber. Then the Normans after 1066 and by the 14th century, forest cover was down to around 15%. Deforestation continued for agriculture and industry and by the early 20th century, there was only around 5% forest left. Due to conservation efforts, we are back up to around 13%, but the ancient woodland is a rare and precious thing. We are lucky to have it and I hope we keep it. Thank you for another great video!😊
@@peterwilliamson5953 Plus 1 to that. A huge amount of timber was needed to build the Navy. Not just for Elizabeth, but right up until the late 19th century. One of the major reasons the British Empire became what it was. As the tune says: Britannia Rules the Waves. It really did - for a long time - until maybe mid WW2 when the USA took the title after ramping up to deal with the Japanese
To be fair, it was massive land clearance by the Normans and the early medieval period (that was when forestation stood at around 15%) that accounted for most of it. Each generation chipped away at it, though with the Tudors and the Industrial Revolution each taking a sizeable amount.
@@911scTarga Even a smallish Frigate took over 100 Oak trees to build, a Ship of the Line closer to 300, along with imported Teak for the deck planks. Little wonder that few Oaks over 200 years old left. The Merchant Fleet also needed ships. The Navy had a replanting programme in Nelsons time but an Oak takes 200 - 300 years to grow to a decent useable size. Farming has caused many of those to be cleared.
Without being too specific, that's in the Dart valley. I've spent many happy hours there, sitting on those very (and very damp) moss covered rocks. One of the most peaceful, extraordinary and beautiful places in the UK. I once took a real "townie" friend there, and he was completely stunned - had a bit of a "moment"!
It's so near where stayed on wedding night never knew about this, now wouldn't be able to access it properly as would need wheelchair if more than few minutes, wonder how much of that path is wheelchair accessible.
@@SolarVibeEnergy I'm sorry to say (last time I was there), you'd need one of those knobbly tyred cross-country jobs. And a lot is fairly high off the river bank. Maybe manageable if you've got the upper-body strength for crutches, and took your time.
According to The Woodland Trust we have 9 areas in the UK designated as temperate rainforest. These are spread along the west side of the UK from Cornwall and Devon up across the west and north of Wales and the west coast of Scotland. I think this one was on Dartmoor (Devon) in the south west of England.
Yes it was on Dartmoor. I used to visit it regularly when I was a child. I grew up on the edge of Dartmoor so we would have day trips to the moor. These places were the ones I love most. Living around there I learnt to appreciate nature and realise that it needs protecting.
The commentator is right. The average Brit just doesn’t realise how rare this sight is because it can crop up anywhere and you are right it’s beautiful. There’s a saying in Britain “ small but beautifully formed”, I’ll appreciate it even more in future.
"A dreary rain-soaked forest", you've hit the nail on the head there Steve! 😀 In all seriousness, when I travel anywhere else in the world I notice it's usually harsh; harsh sunlight, really hot or really cold, or really dry or really wet. When I return to England and you get that soft grey (dreary) light we have most of the time, I realise it is quite gentle and very rare in the world and it makes me appreciate where I come from.
Hey guys, this is an area of dartmoor national park in Devon in the South west of England. Its very near to where I live in Plymouth. Good place to go for a walk on a dreary day. Thanks for the video :) makes me realise how lucky I am to live near such beautiful nature.
I live in South West Scotland and there is a place called port logan botanical Gardens with exotic plants, palm trees etc. Its because on the west coast we are close to the gulf stream so the climate is more temporate.
Started at wistmans woods on Dartmoor Devon. It’s really amazing and magical the oldest forests in England. But it’s tiny … a two mile walk from the tiny road along a crazy moorland then you find the 1 square mile of the wistman wood.
I live in a place called the Derwent Valley in the North East of England. It was formed during the last ice age and it is just like this. Some days I look out my window and see clouds been made just above the trees.
Some of this is in the Lydford Gorge near Tavistock and Dartmoor in Devon in the south west of England. We have a very temperate climate in the UK. The prevailing winds come from the south west from across the Atlantic ocean and are known as being warm (relatively) and wet. Our climate is mild for our location on the planet. Our latitudes match with Canada and are well North of the USA south of this border. Lerwick in Shetland is on a similar latitude to Anchorage in Alaska. It's the warm ocean that keeps our islands warm.
Lydford Gorge is beautiful. We used to go there so much as a child that I can recognise the White Lady Waterfall from a picture. But it was a beautiful place. I never went over to the devil's cauldron as my balance was too rubbish and I also have an unstable ankle. Best wishes
The forests in the lord of the rings were inspired by a place called Moseley bog. On the edge of Birmingham. It’s still there and open for the public to explore 😊
Even the stones that Tolkein observed in England eventually had their part in the tail they had to tell in The Lord of the Rings. Prequel to The Lord of the Rings is The Silmarillion. Dare I say, an even greater work than his, The Lord of the Rings ? Aule, a Valar Spirit superior to that of the Miar (such as the Istari Sorcerers - Gandalf, Saruman of Many Colours, Radagast... ) created the Dwarves out of stone. But Illuvatar, The Holy One Whom created all, was displeased that Aule should create `children of the Earth` before he Himself had called into being those of His own design ( The Elves ), and therefore commanded Aule to hold the works of his hands. Aule - seeing that he had displeased Illuvatar raised a great hammer in order to destroy the Dwarves, his creation. But seeing how the Dwarves cowered under the shadow of the hammer Illuvatar stayed the hand of Aule, saying to him, `see how they flinch at the dread wound you would meet upon them; now that you have given them power to think and feel... ?` And Illuvater said to Aule that the Dwarves should sleep under the earth, as stone, until a time of His ( Illuvatar`s ) choosing."Though many ages may pass, as seems to you !" The Forests, of course, have their own place in both Epics, and the Valar argued as to their fate. Orome - Aldaron - ( Lord of the Forests ) lammented that his trees should be put to tests that they cannot remove themselves from and Aule - The Smith - argued that the children of his choosing ( the Dwarves ) shall inflict no uncssesary ills upon the forests, " Nonetheless, they shall have need of wood...." Tolkien`s tales are incredibly detailed and believable. Naturally, as fantastic as they are if they were not believable they wouldn`t be worth the paper they were written on. I trust you are a fellow fan ? Some say that his works are a Mythology of the English Nation - arising at times even to the status of a Great Mythology such as that the Ancient Greeks are known for.
I live in this area and have visited these woods many times in my life. They are incredible. People are purposely not naming the exact areas of Dartmoor because they've struggled with damage from high footfall, particularly during the pandemic.
Sadly the last woodland in the video had to be closed to the public for a while because during our lockdown when we were allowed to go outdoors for walks, a lot of people who who would not normally visit the woodland descended upon it en mass and started to take bits of the trees away as souvenirs. I think it was Dartmoor National Park Authority had to close off the access to protect it from permanent damage. You notice the guy in the video stated that he would not enter the wood but viewed it from the outside. Unfortuantely, the general public didn't have the same appreciation.
Funny you should say that we live next to a wood its a nature reserve in cumbria and most of the time before the pandemic nonesense it was never over visited just locals with dogs to walk from the near housing estate but since the pandemic there has rarely been a time where the car park right next to the wood is almost daily full with cars my brothers would come for dinner on sunday and park there but now if they aren't soon enough there is no room left I long for the time when it was only locals that came who were also more caring about the reserve and didn't drop rubbish everywhere its sad that people have no thought for what they do the nature reserve spans quite a distance but is split into three or more sections and was so peaceful now not so much.
It was the Duchy of Cornwall that reduced the access as they own that section of the moor. It was lovely, but I grew up around the moor and would visit it often. Our house was called Tor View. So we always saw the Moor.
@@marybarnes8698my local ancient woodland and more modern, managed woodland is the same. Pre pandemic it was pristine, now there is a gravel car park, always packed, litter everywhere, broken trees, shopping trolleys in the lake, the rangers cabin was burned down and left to rot. I don’t think we will ever get it back from the urbanites who are destroying it. When it’s gone they will moan.
@@matt-fh6hb I always wished the car park the council made was never there before it was made I only ever saw one man go into the wood with his white boxer dog there was no gravel footpaths back then but natural ways which no doubt the small animals made in their daily or nightly routines I would go in now and then and just enjoy the peace now I haven't been in for months since the covid illness I just hope in time they will stop coming though its been 4 years now at least they haven't left trolleys so much just the once one was abandoned at the footpath going in but the rubbish baskets have been overflowing so often its so sad to see.
The area he wasnt going to enter was definitely Wistmans Wood . Its a tiny area which would not survive long if it became a tourist attraction . I suspect thats wĥy the name wasnt mentioned .
It is also home to the UK’s largest slug the Ash-black which can grow up to 30cm long! The new Prince of Wales has committed to doubling the size of Wistman’s Wood. Recently thousands of Acorns were collected & taken away to nursery’s & will be planted when they become saplings.
I went on a walk there for the first time a few months ago and was absolutely blown away by it. I couldn’t help saying how much like a rainforest it was over and over, and then I went and looked it up and found out that it was! This is Dartmoor in the south west of England :)
He mentioned Dartmoor, which is in Devon, a beautiful county in the south of England. Excellent reaction video, when you visit the UK , I think you need to come for a couple months!!
What I got told was that British rainforests are mostly found in Wales, but many parts of the western side of the country from Dartmoor featured in the video up to the Highlands of Scotland and western Ireland could fit in as being rainforest with the amount of rain we get in these regions. Where these sort of woodland are are known as ancient woodland, the really old remanence of our forest that you'd imagine how the country would have looked like during our Medieval period and back to when the Celtic Druids would wander. There's a number I've been to around the Lake District and the surrounding limestone hills west of the Pennines. It was head blagging when told that the Forest of Bowland, a large area of Lancashire that has heathland fells and scattered woodland, is the definition of a forest and its been managed by people for thousands of years and this is where selective thinning would be apart of countryside maintenance. Mostly due to the absence of animals like boar, beavers and wild ponies. Also predators like wolves to keep the deer population healthy. With most of this woodland mostly be made up of oaks, beech and birch and other valuable hardwoods. We've only got these pockets left remaining when this hardwood timber was used in industries like our ship building and construction through the centuries. Which then left large areas of land open for agriculture.
True Wales has a lot of old ancient woodlands. The the loggers came and called me a tree hugger. They cut down very old trees for profit massacred the trees left the pines alone, they were not interested in the pines. Left leaving a horrible mess no thought for the wild life that lived there.
Really?? Far as I know, many of our trees are recorded and can get into real bother if they're cut down. Especially if they're in national parks and aren't park of a plantation. But to leave the pines doesn't make sense as there's an incentive to harvest pine and larch crops to plant native hardwoods.
@@rachelpenny5165 Now you mention it I've seen it spelt that way quite often. I live near Bovey Castle so not far from Wistmans, and places you probably know
Yes, Steve, the lighting is fine. You need to flip the image as all the writing is backwards. Thank you for all the great videos. Best wishes to you, Steve, Lynsey, and Sophia. 😊🙂👍❤
I can't talk comment about the rest of the U.K, but in Wales, we have a total of 1937 miles of forests and woods, I grew up right in between the forested hills and the sea, so the views were always incredible, which I never really appreciated until I got got older, I spent everyday playing as a child in areas like this.
Wistmans Woods part of the rainforest sits only a couple of miles away from home, however, due to people taking away plant life, it has become a no go area, strange how people dont appreciate rarity but decide that they are entitled to it
@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches because people have been taking some of the moss,lichen & fern (for hanging baskets?) some of it has been cordoned off, and people are ‘asked’ not to wonder through, but to go around. Apparently there are signs all around asking you to stay out and go around, since it was on the news nearly a couple of years ago i havent been so I cannot confirm about signage. There is ONE comment on trip advisor made this year that more or less says waste of time visiting. If you are visiting Dartmoor, there are MANY places of beauty to visit so dont be put off.
Hi Steve and Lindsay, another great reaction from you lovely people and I love your enthusiasm. I've been to the States several times and you do have some amazing sights but you had better plan a long trip to the UK cos we gonna blow your socks off man!! Our countryside is the best in the world without a doubt and that combined with our architecture which you love will keep you Wowing for eternity. Greetings as always from Cheshire 😘 H
Aww I’m so lucky to live near landscapes like this. Seeing it through other peoples eyes makes me appreciate more. Watching this I could smell the damp, earthy smell, feel the springy leaf strewn floor, hear the sharp snap of twigs. Even the drizzle was lovely.
Steve, Lindsey, I check out your channel most days and enjoy watching your reactions. Always a giggle but I think it's time you did a vid about yourselves! What you do, where you grew up, what your hobbies are etc. I think your 'people' would love that! Also, when are you going to set your camera the right way round? The map in the background is a giveaway! 😂
Great reaction, glad you enjoyed the special nature and atmosphere. While much of the UK has relatively high rainfall, only pockets among hills on the western side of England, Scotland and Wales have the conditions for real rainforest. The video you saw was in a small area of Dartmoor, a national park in Devon, south-west England. There are larger areas in parts of Snowdonia (Wales), the Lake District (north-west England, near where I now live) and especially the western highlands and islands of Scotland.
Totally concur with this comment. The west coast of mountainous pockets in all 4 countries of the UK. These are called temperate rain forests and are more under threat than the rainforest. We have lots of woodland areas in Uk due to rainfall. I am lucky enough to live in walking distance from a woodland forest, known as Penllergaer valley woods. It is a charitable trust which has been restored over many years! It is in Swansea South 🏴. I also live a few short miles from the Gower peninsula. First area of natural outstanding beauty. Well worth a video Steve and Lyndsey 👍
Thanks, Steve. This rainforest video was in my Watch Later, so I've killed two birds with one stone. My favourite temperate rainforest is the Fairy Glen in Wales. It's otherworldly, and if a fairy popped out from behind a tree, I wouldn't be surprised. 😊
From the Sound of Plymouth Hoe Devon South West England , as you sail in on the Brittany Ferries from France and Spain you can see the Dartmoor hills in the distance , I have walked it many times with my family & friends and my dog , I love this walk there are many other places on Dartmoor that are similar to walk , where the ponies sheep and different Cattle roam freely Galloways Aberdeen & also Highland Cattle, Dartmoor Farmers have looked after the moor for centuries with great care.
Hey, pleased you enjoyed the video... i'm currently working on a new rainforest video that's all about restoration and research of this wonderful habitat, so keep an eye out for that. I can confirm that this video waw filmed in Dartmoor, dotted throughout are many fragmented but beautiful patches of rainforest!
I am one of the lucky ones who live in a forest area ,my village is right in the middle of The Savarnake forest in Wiltshire UK.I can walk for a good few miles in some of the lovely forest areas and watch wild deer and kites,and hawks very near to me is a 300year old oak tree which is beautiful. Forget doing touristy things look towards our green and pleasent countryside and be amazed how beautiful it is.
Well it's an ancient forest in Dartmoor and very beautiful. When it's raining you could say it's a rain forest, but certainly not what you think of compared to an Amazon tropical rain forest, and no monkeys, deadly snakes or Tarountulas. Dartmoor is in Devon, with wild horses, rocky outcrops called Tors and amazing scenery.
Yes, we have several of them. Temperate rainforest is rarer than tropical and grows mostly coastally in rainforest zones. Stretching right down from Scotland to the tip of England, they are found in the North-West (Lancs, Cumbria), Yorkshire (as far over as Barnsley and Sheffield (Wyming Brook Nature Reserve)) to Devon and Cornwall. In many cases they're fragments, not huge, but the great thing about them is that they can spread quickly with little human intervention. It's great to see UK rainforests getting more recognition at last! ❤ They certainly deserve preservation. Thanks guys.
I live in North West England and having a house purely made of wood isn't a good idea. I had a soft wood back door and although it was fairly sheltered it only took 5 years for it to start rotting even though it was treated every year. My garden is full of mosses of different types and lichens. In fact the trre I'm sat looking at is about 50 feet high at least and on the north side of it all the branches are covered in moss so it looks green all year round We get high rainfall but generally it rains more during the night than in the day in the summer, making it a good environment to grow soft fruit such as strawberries
This video and your reactions to it did my little druid heart good. I have been to that woodland on the hill. It's incredible. The air is so sweet and life is everywhere.
I originally come from the biggest city in Scotland and other than traveling to and from football games I'd seen nothing really of my homelands natural beauty. It took my Northern Irish wife to show me around my own beautiful land. Now 30yrs and 3 grown up kids later I've been living in her small semi-rural hometown in County Down. We are sandwiched between the Irish sea & the majestic Mourne mountains, it's where Belfast born C.S Lewis got his inspiration for his Narnia books. So basically I live in Narnia guys.😁😂 Loved the content and reaction guys as they're always so genuine & sincere and the lighting was perfect so stop fretting.👍😂
My sister-in-law works at a college that specialises in animal, equestrian, and outdoor courses. Over the spring and summer, she runs forest bathing sessions at the college.
If the world has around 1% of this type of environment left right now, we need to protect it at all costs. England only covers 0.05% of the worlds land mass so image 1% of that, its tiny. I love the passion you both share for the beauty of nature. Please keep spreading this love.
I live in Horrabridge on Dartmoor and are just 8miles from this location and have previously visited several times. It is beautiful, quiet and serene as is much of Dartmoor and I continually feel blessed to have so many hundreds of ancient moorland around me to explore at will.
I think he said it was Dartmoor, and if so then yes I have been there. It’s just as amazing as it looks, with moss and funguses everywhere and lots of the trees having grown into wild crazy shapes. There are sundews in places too, which comes as a surprise to people who weren’t aware that Britain has some carnivorous plants. I believe that in the ancient past the patches of forest that exist today in parts of the UK all linked up together, and I have a vague memory that this may have inspired Tolkien’s Old Forest and Fangorn Forest in Lord Of The Rings, which he described in the story as each being parts of one single huge forest thousands of years before.
As he mentioned Dartmoor Ponies, it can only really be on Dartmoor in Devon which is the easterly part of the bit that sticks out of the south west of England…the westerly part of that outcrop is Cornwall. Both the Dartmoor Ponies (wild horses that live on Dartmoor) and Dartmoor in general are worth taking a look at, as well as Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. I lived in Cornwall, close to the border with Devon for a number of years and was just a short distance from both Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor. Both of which are full of history and legend. Bodmin Moor with its Beast of Bodmin, links to King Arthur and its standing stones and Neolithic Burial Sites. Dartmoor with its old prison, army base, Monks producing a fortified wine that the government of Scotland considered banning and of course being the inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles…which of course is one of the most famous Sherlock Holmes adventures.
My Father in law and I walked through those woods about 20 years ago, it is magical, however there is also a Tropical rain forest in captivity at the Eden project in Cornwall too.
If and when you come to the UK, you should go to the Lake District. Mountains, forests, tarns meres and lakes. Also if you like old movies, there is a museum dedicated to Laurel and Hardy(Stan Laurel was born there). If you like fast cars and boats look up Colin and Malcolm Campbell and their speed records. There are also museums connected to the spearheads etc found in the area.
Lovely video, nature at its best without interference from us! never did find out where it was.. probably best otherwise will be swamped by the day trippers lol
Oh my God, I had no idea we had rainforests in our county in The Lake District, Cumbria UK (we'd LOVE to see a reaction of that area), a little Google and I realised that one of them was just a couple of hours drive. Thanks! 😂
Lighting is good. It's great to see the UK through someone else's eyes. I think you'd enjoy St Fagans, Welsh national museum. History you can touch and walk around in.
Some of the last remaining temperate Atlantic rainforests on earth! I think this is Dartmoor National Park (Devon). There is rainforest in Scotland too
Dartmoor where the guy mentioned, is in Devon Southern England just above Cornwall. Note the width of the roads, as these are the roads used by general traffic. And yes these are all very real.
We have forests all over the UK and plenty of rain. We just don't have the wildlife that can kill you with one bite or sting. You maybe can get a headbutt off a cow but that's about it. As Big Al Murray said" Squirrels aren't gonna hunt you down in packs"😂😂
Cows are terrifying! And deadly! They kill several people every year. I'd say cows and horses would be the most dangerous animals you'd encounter in the countryside. I'm a country girl and I've had horses all my life but I would not mess with cows. Our actual wild animals are pretty tame compared to large domestic animals.
I’ve had some fairly scary experiences with cows. I felt the need to jump a fence into a farmyard as some cows ran down a hillside towards me. Also, my friend’s dad got trampled by a cow (he survived).
Over here I'm pretty sure that's only because there is so many cows and horses so you are more likely to come into contact with them, how many times do people see sharks? If people came into contact with sharks as much as they do cows and horses, sharks would win with a kill count I guarantee it.
@@Will-nn6ux they're so scary! Most of my family are involved in countryside activities or work of some sort, I've always been around farm animals and horses, my niece is a herdsman for a large dairy farm and she loves all the cows but I cannot get over my fear of them!
Fairly sure he said Dartmoor. The most anazing vista I have ever seen was in Wales. I have no idea where it exactly it is somewhere near the Brecon Beacons. Green glens with tumbling brooks and flora similar to this video. I kept expecting Merlin to ride out on a unicorn! So magical. As a child in the Brownies my sub group was Sprites and I have to say I felt really at home!
As a youngster in Scotland I used to play in a wood just like this , few people knew it existed as it was a bit away with no path to it , my friends and I thought it was fairy land , happy days
The UK rainforests are in Devon, Cornwall and Cumbria in England, in North and West Wales, and along a part of the West Coast of Scotland. These Temperate rainforests are found in areas subject to influence of the sea. They are all in the West of the UK, which is usually the wettest part of the UK along with the North. The South and East of the UK usually having the drier milder climate.
I live in Cumbria where we have areas of temperate rainforest. This vid shows landscape very similar to the area near where I live. You'll find other pockets of temperate rainforest in western areas of the UK and Ireland.
Having lived in west of Ireland all my youth .. I’d say you would be lucky to find much woodland. Many local Irish and especially farmers seemed to hate trees. Most landscape was barren. Only trees were found in some small protected areas or on old estate properties. My parents house had a fringe of well established and very nice Ash, Sycamore and Holly. When it was sold in early 80’s the first thing the new residents did was chop down all the trees to make a barren lawn only.
@@kwc1138 I've never been to Ireland (I should visit as I have some pedigree from there - no, really! 😂) but I did hear when I was younger, that Ireland didn't have many trees but want sure if it was true. I mentioned Ireland above only because the map on the Woodland Trust website showed Ireland as having some temperate rainforest so I stand corrected if this isn't the case 👍🏻
I love Dartmoor, I lived just down the road in mid Devon for most of my life, fairly equidistant to Exmoor, Devon is one of the most amazing places to grow up
I have to say, my husband and I are in our early 30s and we take our lad through the public footpaths, kayaking down the canal and camping to the Highlands every year. We live in front and behind farms so we spend most of our time at the weekend exploring the outside, at local Commons or at national trust places around the country (we buy a pass each year). You have to like the outside yourself if you're gonna get your kids to. Our lad is always muddy and soggy or covered in rain. Because we are. And now he collects leaves and bugs to look at under his microscope. We need tech, but we need outside life too. Shout out to all the tree lovers out there :)
Another great video Steve and Lindsay - I’m a brit in London with close ties to my Irish ancestry too - where you paused and said “I wanna live there” looked identical to the west of ireland. Not sure where your roots are but you WILL love the west of ireland - moss galore - and the rain too 😂 👌
My wife and I have passed through The Dyfi , pronounced Dovey, Temperate Rainforest in Powys, Wales on our way to Machynlleth to visit the Cors Dyfi Reserve and Dyfi Osprey Project. Passing through the rainforest and seeing the information boards was the first time that we learnt that such environments existed in the U.K. Since then we've always taken a break there on our journey to wherever we're staying in The Dyfi Valley.
driven through that area only few days ago, i take the long way home to avoid the M6 and head west then south, Wales has so many very pretty area. grew up in Llangollen and lots areas i cycled when lot younger so now bad health my car gets me close as i can to those places, so instead of 3 hour drive boring motorway i take the country side following the mountains right through wales 5-12 hour drive depending on how much exploring i want to do, and long summer days im happy to do 8-9 hour drive through wales and go explore. always love going back to home town where i grew up and done most my school and now driving can explore so much more, camera gets a lot use in wales
This one looks like one I've visited on Dartmoor, Devon, South West England. There are even more extensive woods like this nearby on Exmoor, in the vicinity of Dunkery Beacon, West Somerset. Check out Horner Woods! The South West has the perfect combination of mild, damp westerly weather, but mild winters. A low density of population helps!
I would like to see you react to more of our traditions. I recently watched a video about Beltane Border Morris, a dance troop. There are several things to look for: Morris Dancing, Haxey Hood, the Atherstone Ball Game, the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, the Olney Pancake Race, the Cooper's Hill Cheese Race, the Dorking Wife Carrying Race, the World Gurning Competition, the list could go on and on.
This is in Dartmoor that is in Devon on the long leg of the South west Devon borders with Cornwall Dartmoor is a large ancient strech of elevated moorland filled with bogs interspersed with high rocky Tors & Steep Valleys it also houses one of England's oldest & notorious secure Prisons!!
People think you just leave nature to it, it’s an ancient art form nearly lost you have to manage forests etc to make them thrive. Watched a programme on this years ago and it was fascinating.
I agree with everything you was saying about getting out in nature and how that has changed recently, its truly saddening. If you do decide to explore your local nature spaces then i think it would be really good for long form vlogs that i for one would definitely watch.
Those spooky curly tree branches go on forever. I always imagine Robin Hood ,his merry men and even thieves riding through the woods. It always takes me back to all those medieval tales.
Hey guys, great reaction. This is Dartmoor in Devon. An area of ancient Britain that has changed little in the last 2000 years. I recommend you looking into the Somerset Levels, the peat bogs that Lyndsay was talking about.
I agree about the peat bogs. There are also many areas of salt marsh on the Norfolk coast and elsewhere on the east coast of England
I grew up on the edge of Dartmoor so used to visit places like this a lot.
Whistmans Wood is Top Notch!
Dartmoor is beautiful. I love to escape for a day or two on the moors. Sometimes you won't even see another person all day. Complete solitude.
Awesome! Appreciate the info. :) We'll definitely have to check out the peat bogs.
The UK used to be extensively forested (possibly about 60% forest cover) until clearance for agriculture began to happen about 4000-ish years ago.
The Romans came next with their organised infrastructure and advanced building techniques, all of which required timber.
Then the Normans after 1066 and by the 14th century, forest cover was down to around 15%.
Deforestation continued for agriculture and industry and by the early 20th century, there was only around 5% forest left.
Due to conservation efforts, we are back up to around 13%, but the ancient woodland is a rare and precious thing.
We are lucky to have it and I hope we keep it.
Thank you for another great video!😊
the real reason there is less forest is , Queen Elizabeth needed boats to conquer the sea . very few trees left after that .
@@peterwilliamson5953 Plus 1 to that. A huge amount of timber was needed to build the Navy. Not just for Elizabeth, but right up until the late 19th century. One of the major reasons the British Empire became what it was. As the tune says: Britannia Rules the Waves. It really did - for a long time - until maybe mid WW2 when the USA took the title after ramping up to deal with the Japanese
To be fair, it was massive land clearance by the Normans and the early medieval period (that was when forestation stood at around 15%) that accounted for most of it. Each generation chipped away at it, though with the Tudors and the Industrial Revolution each taking a sizeable amount.
@@911scTarga Even a smallish Frigate took over 100 Oak trees to build, a Ship of the Line closer to 300, along with imported Teak for the deck planks. Little wonder that few Oaks over 200 years old left. The Merchant Fleet also needed ships. The Navy had a replanting programme in Nelsons time but an Oak takes 200 - 300 years to grow to a decent useable size. Farming has caused many of those to be cleared.
They cut most of the Irish trees. @peterwilliamson5953
Without being too specific, that's in the Dart valley. I've spent many happy hours there, sitting on those very (and very damp) moss covered rocks. One of the most peaceful, extraordinary and beautiful places in the UK. I once took a real "townie" friend there, and he was completely stunned - had a bit of a "moment"!
It's so near where stayed on wedding night never knew about this, now wouldn't be able to access it properly as would need wheelchair if more than few minutes, wonder how much of that path is wheelchair accessible.
@@SolarVibeEnergy I'm sorry to say (last time I was there), you'd need one of those knobbly tyred cross-country jobs. And a lot is fairly high off the river bank. Maybe manageable if you've got the upper-body strength for crutches, and took your time.
and you also saw The Exorcist when you were 4
@@papalaz4444244 That would have been difficult - I was 21 when It was released.
@@SolarVibeEnergythey do produce 4×4 off Road electric wheelchairs
According to The Woodland Trust we have 9 areas in the UK designated as temperate rainforest. These are spread along the west side of the UK from Cornwall and Devon up across the west and north of Wales and the west coast of Scotland. I think this one was on Dartmoor (Devon) in the south west of England.
I'd agree that looks like Dartmoor to me. Especially the mention of the ponies.
also a few in Northern Ireland, Glenarm is a prime example
Yes, must be, I saw the landscape and immediately thought it looks a lot like Dartmoor.
Yes it was on Dartmoor. I used to visit it regularly when I was a child. I grew up on the edge of Dartmoor so we would have day trips to the moor. These places were the ones I love most.
Living around there I learnt to appreciate nature and realise that it needs protecting.
Definitely Dartmoor - Wistmans Wood near Princetown (Southwest England)
The commentator is right. The average Brit just doesn’t realise how rare this sight is because it can crop up anywhere and you are right it’s beautiful. There’s a saying in Britain “ small but beautifully formed”, I’ll appreciate it even more in future.
You can see why so many amazing writers have come out of the UK, our landscape can't help but inspire imagination.
So true you can imagine tolkien or lewis visiting these places and imagining middle earth and narnia
Too true. CS Lewis was inspired by Mountains of Mourne. Tolkien, Shropshire.
@arthurterrington8477 I'm a Shropshire girl, and I can see Mordor every time I step out my front door
Unfortunately it's mostly been destroyed and we're in the bottom 5% for biodiversity now.
For sure!! Makes total sense.
He did mention it was Dartmoor, which is in Devon, in the South/West.
"A dreary rain-soaked forest", you've hit the nail on the head there Steve! 😀 In all seriousness, when I travel anywhere else in the world I notice it's usually harsh; harsh sunlight, really hot or really cold, or really dry or really wet. When I return to England and you get that soft grey (dreary) light we have most of the time, I realise it is quite gentle and very rare in the world and it makes me appreciate where I come from.
I always say, you can't have the green without the grey. ❤ I love our seasons and our island weather palette. It's all good imo.
The lighting looks nice and warm, homely ❤❤❤
Glad to hear it! :)
Hey guys, this is an area of dartmoor national park in Devon in the South west of England. Its very near to where I live in Plymouth. Good place to go for a walk on a dreary day. Thanks for the video :) makes me realise how lucky I am to live near such beautiful nature.
Hi fellow Devon person. :)
Awesome! Happy to know where it is, exactly :)
Plymouth the best city in Britain🇬🇧
We have Palm Trees and Coral as well. Check out the Isles of Scilly if you want to see a subtropical environment.
Awesome! Appreciate the suggestion :)
I live in South West Scotland and there is a place called port logan botanical Gardens with exotic plants, palm trees etc. Its because on the west coast we are close to the gulf stream so the climate is more temporate.
Started at wistmans woods on Dartmoor Devon. It’s really amazing and magical the oldest forests in England.
But it’s tiny … a two mile walk from the tiny road along a crazy moorland then you find the 1 square mile of the wistman wood.
I live in a place called the Derwent Valley in the North East of England. It was formed during the last ice age and it is just like this. Some days I look out my window and see clouds been made just above the trees.
Sounds beautiful!
Some of this is in the Lydford Gorge near Tavistock and Dartmoor in Devon in the south west of England. We have a very temperate climate in the UK. The prevailing winds come from the south west from across the Atlantic ocean and are known as being warm (relatively) and wet. Our climate is mild for our location on the planet. Our latitudes match with Canada and are well North of the USA south of this border. Lerwick in Shetland is on a similar latitude to Anchorage in Alaska. It's the warm ocean that keeps our islands warm.
Lydford Gorge is beautiful. We used to go there so much as a child that I can recognise the White Lady Waterfall from a picture. But it was a beautiful place.
I never went over to the devil's cauldron as my balance was too rubbish and I also have an unstable ankle. Best wishes
We are in Cornwall so we have our own weather system here.
The forests in the lord of the rings were inspired by a place called Moseley bog. On the edge of Birmingham.
It’s still there and open for the public to explore 😊
Even the stones that Tolkein observed in England eventually had their part in the tail they had to tell in The Lord of the Rings. Prequel to The Lord of the Rings is The Silmarillion. Dare I say, an even greater work than his, The Lord of the Rings ? Aule, a Valar Spirit superior to that of the Miar (such as the Istari Sorcerers - Gandalf, Saruman of Many Colours, Radagast... ) created the Dwarves out of stone. But Illuvatar, The Holy One Whom created all, was displeased that Aule should create `children of the Earth` before he Himself had called into being those of His own design ( The Elves ), and therefore commanded Aule to hold the works of his hands. Aule - seeing that he had displeased Illuvatar raised a great hammer in order to destroy the Dwarves, his creation. But seeing how the Dwarves cowered under the shadow of the hammer Illuvatar stayed the hand of Aule, saying to him, `see how they flinch at the dread wound you would meet upon them; now that you have given them power to think and feel... ?`
And Illuvater said to Aule that the Dwarves should sleep under the earth, as stone, until a time of His ( Illuvatar`s ) choosing."Though many ages may pass, as seems to you !"
The Forests, of course, have their own place in both Epics, and the Valar argued as to their fate. Orome - Aldaron - ( Lord of the Forests ) lammented that his trees should be put to tests that they cannot remove themselves from and Aule - The Smith - argued that the children of his choosing ( the Dwarves ) shall inflict no uncssesary ills upon the forests, " Nonetheless, they shall have need of wood...."
Tolkien`s tales are incredibly detailed and believable. Naturally, as fantastic as they are if they were not believable they wouldn`t be worth the paper they were written on.
I trust you are a fellow fan ?
Some say that his works are a Mythology of the English Nation - arising at times even to the status of a Great Mythology such as that the Ancient Greeks are known for.
Grew up close to there, used to play there as a youngster.
I live in this area and have visited these woods many times in my life. They are incredible. People are purposely not naming the exact areas of Dartmoor because they've struggled with damage from high footfall, particularly during the pandemic.
Makes sense!
Sadly the last woodland in the video had to be closed to the public for a while because during our lockdown when we were allowed to go outdoors for walks, a lot of people who who would not normally visit the woodland descended upon it en mass and started to take bits of the trees away as souvenirs. I think it was Dartmoor National Park Authority had to close off the access to protect it from permanent damage. You notice the guy in the video stated that he would not enter the wood but viewed it from the outside. Unfortuantely, the general public didn't have the same appreciation.
Funny you should say that we live next to a wood its a nature reserve in cumbria and most of the time before the pandemic nonesense it was never over visited just locals with dogs to walk from the near housing estate but since the pandemic there has rarely been a time where the car park right next to the wood is almost daily full with cars my brothers would come for dinner on sunday and park there but now if they aren't soon enough there is no room left I long for the time when it was only locals that came who were also more caring about the reserve and didn't drop rubbish everywhere its sad that people have no thought for what they do the nature reserve spans quite a distance but is split into three or more sections and was so peaceful now not so much.
It was the Duchy of Cornwall that reduced the access as they own that section of the moor.
It was lovely, but I grew up around the moor and would visit it often. Our house was called Tor View. So we always saw the Moor.
@@marybarnes8698my local ancient woodland and more modern, managed woodland is the same. Pre pandemic it was pristine, now there is a gravel car park, always packed, litter everywhere, broken trees, shopping trolleys in the lake, the rangers cabin was burned down and left to rot. I don’t think we will ever get it back from the urbanites who are destroying it. When it’s gone they will moan.
@@matt-fh6hb I always wished the car park the council made was never there before it was made I only ever saw one man go into the wood with his white boxer dog there was no gravel footpaths back then but natural ways which no doubt the small animals made in their daily or nightly routines I would go in now and then and just enjoy the peace now I haven't been in for months since the covid illness I just hope in time they will stop coming though its been 4 years now at least they haven't left trolleys so much just the once one was abandoned at the footpath going in but the rubbish baskets have been overflowing so often its so sad to see.
The area he wasnt going to enter was definitely Wistmans Wood . Its a tiny area which would not survive long if it became a tourist attraction . I suspect thats wĥy the name wasnt mentioned .
It is also home to the UK’s largest slug the Ash-black which can grow up to 30cm long! The new Prince of Wales has committed to doubling the size of Wistman’s Wood. Recently thousands of Acorns were collected & taken away to nursery’s & will be planted when they become saplings.
I believe he mentioned Dartmoor pony's early in the vid so that would make it Devon
It's, such a shame we have no way to share photos of the beauty of the UK
we could send him postcards,
I went on a walk there for the first time a few months ago and was absolutely blown away by it. I couldn’t help saying how much like a rainforest it was over and over, and then I went and looked it up and found out that it was! This is Dartmoor in the south west of England :)
He mentioned Dartmoor, which is in Devon, a beautiful county in the south of England. Excellent reaction video, when you visit the UK , I think you need to come for a couple months!!
That was deeper than I thought Steve, hope your all doing well, love you and your family, wholesome doesn't even come close.
It's Dartmoor Devon south west England
What I got told was that British rainforests are mostly found in Wales, but many parts of the western side of the country from Dartmoor featured in the video up to the Highlands of Scotland and western Ireland could fit in as being rainforest with the amount of rain we get in these regions. Where these sort of woodland are are known as ancient woodland, the really old remanence of our forest that you'd imagine how the country would have looked like during our Medieval period and back to when the Celtic Druids would wander.
There's a number I've been to around the Lake District and the surrounding limestone hills west of the Pennines. It was head blagging when told that the Forest of Bowland, a large area of Lancashire that has heathland fells and scattered woodland, is the definition of a forest and its been managed by people for thousands of years and this is where selective thinning would be apart of countryside maintenance. Mostly due to the absence of animals like boar, beavers and wild ponies. Also predators like wolves to keep the deer population healthy.
With most of this woodland mostly be made up of oaks, beech and birch and other valuable hardwoods. We've only got these pockets left remaining when this hardwood timber was used in industries like our ship building and construction through the centuries. Which then left large areas of land open for agriculture.
True Wales has a lot of old ancient woodlands. The the loggers came and called me a tree hugger. They cut down very old trees for profit massacred the trees left the pines alone, they were not interested in the pines. Left leaving a horrible mess no thought for the wild life that lived there.
Really?? Far as I know, many of our trees are recorded and can get into real bother if they're cut down. Especially if they're in national parks and aren't park of a plantation. But to leave the pines doesn't make sense as there's an incentive to harvest pine and larch crops to plant native hardwoods.
Last one is Wistman's Wood I think on Dartmoor. Pixies live in the woods
On Dartmoor in the area where I grew up they are called piskies 😂.
I got into nature conservation due to growing up in an area like this.
@@rachelpenny5165 Now you mention it I've seen it spelt that way quite often. I live near Bovey Castle so not far from Wistmans, and places you probably know
Shut up please
Looks like it’s Dartmoor in Devon. South west England.
Yes, Steve, the lighting is fine.
You need to flip the image as all the writing is backwards.
Thank you for all the great videos. Best wishes to you, Steve, Lynsey, and Sophia. 😊🙂👍❤
Your lighting is very good, thank you for extending your recording abilities for us fans :)
Fantastic reaction guys
I watched this last week amazing landscapes
Peace love from England ❤
Fantastic reaction guys... really enjoyed it
I can't talk comment about the rest of the U.K, but in Wales, we have a total of 1937 miles of forests and woods, I grew up right in between the forested hills and the sea, so the views were always incredible, which I never really appreciated until I got got older, I spent everyday playing as a child in areas like this.
He's on Dartmoor in SW England. Initially around The Dewerstone and then Wistman's Wood, I think
It looks very much like the ancient forest on Dartmoor, which is in the south west in the County of Devon, he did mention Dartmoor ponies ,
He mentioned the Dartmoor ponies in the video so I assumed it was Dartmoor.
@6:00 The river was on Dartmoor, Devon, Southern England.
The forest in the video is Bovey Valley Woods, Bovey Tracey on Dartmoor Devon. Love the video, thanks.
Wistmans Woods part of the rainforest sits only a couple of miles away from home, however, due to people taking away plant life, it has become a no go area, strange how people dont appreciate rarity but decide that they are entitled to it
@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches because people have been taking some of the moss,lichen & fern (for hanging baskets?) some of it has been cordoned off, and people are ‘asked’ not to wonder through, but to go around. Apparently there are signs all around asking you to stay out and go around, since it was on the news nearly a couple of years ago i havent been so I cannot confirm about signage. There is ONE comment on trip advisor made this year that more or less says waste of time visiting. If you are visiting Dartmoor, there are MANY places of beauty to visit so dont be put off.
Hi Steve and Lindsay, another great reaction from you lovely people and I love your enthusiasm. I've been to the States several times and you do have some amazing sights but you had better plan a long trip to the UK cos we gonna blow your socks off man!! Our countryside is the best in the world without a doubt and that combined with our architecture which you love will keep you Wowing for eternity. Greetings as always from Cheshire 😘 H
Thanks, Howard! We're definitely gonna have a hard time narrowing down our itinerary :)
Aww I’m so lucky to live near landscapes like this. Seeing it through other peoples eyes makes me appreciate more. Watching this I could smell the damp, earthy smell, feel the springy leaf strewn floor, hear the sharp snap of twigs. Even the drizzle was lovely.
Steve, Lindsey, I check out your channel most days and enjoy watching your reactions. Always a giggle but I think it's time you did a vid about yourselves! What you do, where you grew up, what your hobbies are etc. I think your 'people' would love that!
Also, when are you going to set your camera the right way round? The map in the background is a giveaway! 😂
Great reaction, glad you enjoyed the special nature and atmosphere. While much of the UK has relatively high rainfall, only pockets among hills on the western side of England, Scotland and Wales have the conditions for real rainforest. The video you saw was in a small area of Dartmoor, a national park in Devon, south-west England. There are larger areas in parts of Snowdonia (Wales), the Lake District (north-west England, near where I now live) and especially the western highlands and islands of Scotland.
Totally concur with this comment. The west coast of mountainous pockets in all 4 countries of the UK. These are called temperate rain forests and are more under threat than the rainforest. We have lots of woodland areas in Uk due to rainfall. I am lucky enough to live in walking distance from a woodland forest, known as Penllergaer valley woods. It is a charitable trust which has been restored over many years! It is in Swansea South 🏴. I also live a few short miles from the Gower peninsula. First area of natural outstanding beauty. Well worth a video Steve and Lyndsey 👍
Lighting is perfect guys. Even as a townie I love trees, they soften the hard landscape. Great reaction, enjoyed.
This one is in Dartmoor, Devon in the South West of England.
Thanks, Steve. This rainforest video was in my Watch Later, so I've killed two birds with one stone.
My favourite temperate rainforest is the Fairy Glen in Wales. It's otherworldly, and if a fairy popped out from behind a tree, I wouldn't be surprised. 😊
From the Sound of Plymouth Hoe Devon South West England , as you sail in on the Brittany Ferries from France and Spain you can see the Dartmoor hills in the distance , I have walked it many times with my family & friends and my dog , I love this walk there are many other places on Dartmoor that are similar to walk , where the ponies sheep and different Cattle roam freely Galloways Aberdeen & also Highland Cattle,
Dartmoor Farmers have looked after the moor for centuries with great care.
Hey, pleased you enjoyed the video... i'm currently working on a new rainforest video that's all about restoration and research of this wonderful habitat, so keep an eye out for that. I can confirm that this video waw filmed in Dartmoor, dotted throughout are many fragmented but beautiful patches of rainforest!
I am one of the lucky ones who live in a forest area ,my village is right in the middle of The Savarnake forest in Wiltshire UK.I can walk for a good few miles in some of the lovely forest areas and watch wild deer and kites,and hawks very near to me is a 300year old oak tree which is beautiful. Forget doing touristy things look towards our green and pleasent countryside and be amazed how beautiful it is.
Well it's an ancient forest in Dartmoor and very beautiful. When it's raining you could say it's a rain forest, but certainly not what you think of compared to an Amazon tropical rain forest, and no monkeys, deadly snakes or Tarountulas. Dartmoor is in Devon, with wild horses, rocky outcrops called Tors and amazing scenery.
What about the beast of Dartmoor,
@@lesdonovan7911 Don't worry all the black Pumas died out in the winter of 2010.
There can be cooperation but also competition between the different plants and trees... They communicate too !
Yes, we have several of them. Temperate rainforest is rarer than tropical and grows mostly coastally in rainforest zones. Stretching right down from Scotland to the tip of England, they are found in the North-West (Lancs, Cumbria), Yorkshire (as far over as Barnsley and Sheffield (Wyming Brook Nature Reserve)) to Devon and Cornwall.
In many cases they're fragments, not huge, but the great thing about them is that they can spread quickly with little human intervention. It's great to see UK rainforests getting more recognition at last! ❤ They certainly deserve preservation. Thanks guys.
😊Steve,it’s in Devon also take a look at Clovelly,both of you will love it promise.
I live in North West England and having a house purely made of wood isn't a good idea. I had a soft wood back door and although it was fairly sheltered it only took 5 years for it to start rotting even though it was treated every year.
My garden is full of mosses of different types and lichens. In fact the trre I'm sat looking at is about 50 feet high at least and on the north side of it all the branches are covered in moss so it looks green all year round
We get high rainfall but generally it rains more during the night than in the day in the summer, making it a good environment to grow soft fruit such as strawberries
I love the lighting, it has a nice warm, cosy glow
This video and your reactions to it did my little druid heart good. I have been to that woodland on the hill. It's incredible. The air is so sweet and life is everywhere.
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Have a look at the Somerset Wetlands - I grew up in that area and it's a beautiful part of south west England with wonderful wildlife areas.
I originally come from the biggest city in Scotland and other than traveling to and from football games I'd seen nothing really of my homelands natural beauty. It took my Northern Irish wife to show me around my own beautiful land. Now 30yrs and 3 grown up kids later I've been living in her small semi-rural hometown in County Down. We are sandwiched between the Irish sea & the majestic Mourne mountains, it's where Belfast born C.S Lewis got his inspiration for his Narnia books. So basically I live in Narnia guys.😁😂
Loved the content and reaction guys as they're always so genuine & sincere and the lighting was perfect so stop fretting.👍😂
Hi both from Scotland 👋🏼👋🏼love that you want to know so much about the UK.
My sister-in-law works at a college that specialises in animal, equestrian, and outdoor courses. Over the spring and summer, she runs forest bathing sessions at the college.
Sounds right up our alley! :)
If the world has around 1% of this type of environment left right now, we need to protect it at all costs. England only covers 0.05% of the worlds land mass so image 1% of that, its tiny. I love the passion you both share for the beauty of nature. Please keep spreading this love.
Fabulous Steve It has a real cozy feel :). Thumbs up from me
I think you’ll love Symonds Yat. Not a rainforest but it’s absolutely stunning all the same.
I live in Horrabridge on Dartmoor and are just 8miles from this location and have previously visited several times. It is beautiful, quiet and serene as is much of Dartmoor and I continually feel blessed to have so many hundreds of ancient moorland around me to explore at will.
I think he said it was Dartmoor, and if so then yes I have been there. It’s just as amazing as it looks, with moss and funguses everywhere and lots of the trees having grown into wild crazy shapes. There are sundews in places too, which comes as a surprise to people who weren’t aware that Britain has some carnivorous plants. I believe that in the ancient past the patches of forest that exist today in parts of the UK all linked up together, and I have a vague memory that this may have inspired Tolkien’s Old Forest and Fangorn Forest in Lord Of The Rings, which he described in the story as each being parts of one single huge forest thousands of years before.
It’s Dartmoor. SW England. Very beautiful. ❤
As he mentioned Dartmoor Ponies, it can only really be on Dartmoor in Devon which is the easterly part of the bit that sticks out of the south west of England…the westerly part of that outcrop is Cornwall.
Both the Dartmoor Ponies (wild horses that live on Dartmoor) and Dartmoor in general are worth taking a look at, as well as Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. I lived in Cornwall, close to the border with Devon for a number of years and was just a short distance from both Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor. Both of which are full of history and legend. Bodmin Moor with its Beast of Bodmin, links to King Arthur and its standing stones and Neolithic Burial Sites. Dartmoor with its old prison, army base, Monks producing a fortified wine that the government of Scotland considered banning and of course being the inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles…which of course is one of the most famous Sherlock Holmes adventures.
My Father in law and I walked through those woods about 20 years ago, it is magical, however there is also a Tropical rain forest in captivity at the Eden project in Cornwall too.
You should look into some of the urban exploring videos. There is some very interesting buildings that have been abandoned in the UK. :)
I live just round the corner from here, it is beautiful and magical.
It really is beautiful here on Dartmoor, i am so lucky to live on the edge of the Moors in Devon. Love your videos guys xxx
I love this guy from Mossy Earth. He is so passionate and lovable.
If and when you come to the UK, you should go to the Lake District. Mountains, forests, tarns meres and lakes. Also if you like old movies, there is a museum dedicated to Laurel and Hardy(Stan Laurel was born there). If you like fast cars and boats look up Colin and Malcolm Campbell and their speed records. There are also museums connected to the spearheads etc found in the area.
Donald Campbell ?
Lovely video, nature at its best without interference from us! never did find out where it was.. probably best otherwise will be swamped by the day trippers lol
Oh my God, I had no idea we had rainforests in our county in The Lake District, Cumbria UK (we'd LOVE to see a reaction of that area), a little Google and I realised that one of them was just a couple of hours drive. Thanks! 😂
You need to see Coleford Forest in the Wye Valley if you like moss, it’s other world stunning.
Lighting is good. It's great to see the UK through someone else's eyes. I think you'd enjoy St Fagans, Welsh national museum. History you can touch and walk around in.
Some of the last remaining temperate Atlantic rainforests on earth! I think this is Dartmoor National Park (Devon). There is rainforest in Scotland too
total enchanting beauty,
Dartmoor where the guy mentioned, is in Devon Southern England just above Cornwall. Note the width of the roads, as these are the roads used by general traffic. And yes these are all very real.
We have forests all over the UK and plenty of rain. We just don't have the wildlife that can kill you with one bite or sting. You maybe can get a headbutt off a cow but that's about it. As Big Al Murray said" Squirrels aren't gonna hunt you down in packs"😂😂
Cows are terrifying! And deadly! They kill several people every year. I'd say cows and horses would be the most dangerous animals you'd encounter in the countryside.
I'm a country girl and I've had horses all my life but I would not mess with cows. Our actual wild animals are pretty tame compared to large domestic animals.
I’ve had some fairly scary experiences with cows. I felt the need to jump a fence into a farmyard as some cows ran down a hillside towards me. Also, my friend’s dad got trampled by a cow (he survived).
Over here I'm pretty sure that's only because there is so many cows and horses so you are more likely to come into contact with them, how many times do people see sharks? If people came into contact with sharks as much as they do cows and horses, sharks would win with a kill count I guarantee it.
@@Will-nn6ux they're so scary! Most of my family are involved in countryside activities or work of some sort, I've always been around farm animals and horses, my niece is a herdsman for a large dairy farm and she loves all the cows but I cannot get over my fear of them!
@@seanpittaway5341 I think cows are meaner than sharks 😂
Fairly sure he said Dartmoor. The most anazing vista I have ever seen was in Wales. I have no idea where it exactly it is somewhere near the Brecon Beacons. Green glens with tumbling brooks and flora similar to this video. I kept expecting Merlin to ride out on a unicorn! So magical. As a child in the Brownies my sub group was Sprites and I have to say I felt really at home!
A lot of primary schools have forest schools or classes. My granddaughter learnt fishing, making campfires as well as looking and exploring the woods
Love that!
Yes, I worked in a forest school for a few months. Great fun.
I love Wistman’s Wood. It is magical. I’ve spent a lot of time wandering around Dartmoor fishing. Wistman’s Wood is an ecological marvel.
As a youngster in Scotland I used to play in a wood just like this , few people knew it existed as it was a bit away with no path to it , my friends and I thought it was fairy land , happy days
The UK rainforests are in Devon, Cornwall and Cumbria in England, in North and West Wales, and along a part of the West Coast of Scotland. These Temperate rainforests are found in areas subject to influence of the sea. They are all in the West of the UK, which is usually the wettest part of the UK along with the North. The South and East of the UK usually having the drier milder climate.
there are a few rainforests in NI as well, Glenarm is my favourite to visit.
@@georgebarnes8163 ... Yes, indeed there are.
It was the Normans who deforested the UK and Ireland not the British@@Sabhoh
@@Sabhoh aifeal mwhban wahdan, fa'ant jahil
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Thank you for your praise. Your love for us Moss's is much appreciated 😂
I live in Cumbria where we have areas of temperate rainforest. This vid shows landscape very similar to the area near where I live.
You'll find other pockets of temperate rainforest in western areas of the UK and Ireland.
Having lived in west of Ireland all my youth .. I’d say you would be lucky to find much woodland. Many local Irish and especially farmers seemed to hate trees.
Most landscape was barren. Only trees were found in some small protected areas or on old estate properties.
My parents house had a fringe of well established and very nice Ash, Sycamore and Holly.
When it was sold in early 80’s the first thing the new residents did was chop down all the trees to make a barren lawn only.
@@kwc1138 I've never been to Ireland (I should visit as I have some pedigree from there - no, really! 😂) but I did hear when I was younger, that Ireland didn't have many trees but want sure if it was true.
I mentioned Ireland above only because the map on the Woodland Trust website showed Ireland as having some temperate rainforest so I stand corrected if this isn't the case 👍🏻
@@SkipSidekick
There is a rain forest in Ireland .. but it’s in Wicklow mountains in the east.
It’s where the 80’s movie Excalibur was filmed.
I love Dartmoor, I lived just down the road in mid Devon for most of my life, fairly equidistant to Exmoor, Devon is one of the most amazing places to grow up
I have to say, my husband and I are in our early 30s and we take our lad through the public footpaths, kayaking down the canal and camping to the Highlands every year. We live in front and behind farms so we spend most of our time at the weekend exploring the outside, at local Commons or at national trust places around the country (we buy a pass each year).
You have to like the outside yourself if you're gonna get your kids to. Our lad is always muddy and soggy or covered in rain. Because we are. And now he collects leaves and bugs to look at under his microscope.
We need tech, but we need outside life too. Shout out to all the tree lovers out there :)
Another great video Steve and Lindsay - I’m a brit in London with close ties to my Irish ancestry too - where you paused and said “I wanna live there” looked identical to the west of ireland. Not sure where your roots are but you WILL love the west of ireland - moss galore - and the rain too 😂 👌
This is Devon in the South West of England. We visited Wistman’s Wood in Dartmoor several years ago. It’s such a magical place, like another world 💚
My wife and I have passed through The Dyfi , pronounced Dovey, Temperate Rainforest in Powys, Wales on our way to Machynlleth to visit the Cors Dyfi Reserve and Dyfi Osprey Project.
Passing through the rainforest and seeing the information boards was the first time that we learnt that such environments existed in the U.K.
Since then we've always taken a break there on our journey to wherever we're staying in The Dyfi Valley.
driven through that area only few days ago, i take the long way home to avoid the M6 and head west then south, Wales has so many very pretty area. grew up in Llangollen and lots areas i cycled when lot younger so now bad health my car gets me close as i can to those places, so instead of 3 hour drive boring motorway i take the country side following the mountains right through wales 5-12 hour drive depending on how much exploring i want to do, and long summer days im happy to do 8-9 hour drive through wales and go explore. always love going back to home town where i grew up and done most my school and now driving can explore so much more, camera gets a lot use in wales
This one looks like one I've visited on Dartmoor, Devon, South West England. There are even more extensive woods like this nearby on Exmoor, in the vicinity of Dunkery Beacon, West Somerset. Check out Horner Woods! The South West has the perfect combination of mild, damp westerly weather, but mild winters. A low density of population helps!
Another 5 star reaction, guys!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (I can count, but I've thrown in an extra star for good measure)
I would like to see you react to more of our traditions. I recently watched a video about Beltane Border Morris, a dance troop. There are several things to look for: Morris Dancing, Haxey Hood, the Atherstone Ball Game, the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, the Olney Pancake Race, the Cooper's Hill Cheese Race, the Dorking Wife Carrying Race, the World Gurning Competition, the list could go on and on.
This is in Dartmoor that is in Devon on the long leg of the South west Devon borders with Cornwall Dartmoor is a large ancient strech of elevated moorland filled with bogs interspersed with high rocky Tors & Steep Valleys it also houses one of England's oldest & notorious secure Prisons!!
People think you just leave nature to it, it’s an ancient art form nearly lost you have to manage forests etc to make them thrive. Watched a programme on this years ago and it was fascinating.
Thank you both, I have lived in England all my life& had nooo idea this was around. It looks like a Lord of the Rings set! Beautiful.
I agree with everything you was saying about getting out in nature and how that has changed recently, its truly saddening. If you do decide to explore your local nature spaces then i think it would be really good for long form vlogs that i for one would definitely watch.
I moved from London to Dorset near THE NEW FOREST you should check that out also Dorset and Studland/ Sandbanks x
Those spooky curly tree branches go on forever. I always imagine Robin Hood ,his merry men and even thieves riding through the woods. It always takes me back to all those medieval tales.
Love the lighting, love the beanie, love the channel ❤❤❤❤