Very nice Tweedy. You are truly fortunate to be able to enjoy nice outdoor walks followed off by a visit to a nice English Pub. Absolutely love the pint and pub grub. Over here pub food is way over priced. Love the tweed suits . Thanks for making the most of your environment and sharing. Regards Dave 🇬🇧 🇳🇿
At my local gym doing some cardio and watching this. Another fantastic clip. I may physically be on the elliptical machine in a suburb of Philadelphia, but in my mind, I’m in England with a proper mild in hand! Cheers!!
Lovely walk and always nice to get out even if it's only for the day. Nice warm bread and cheese and a couple or three pints. A nice way to spend a day:)
Terrific video, Tweedy. Absolutely love that pub and I actually like the moody winter landscape. Nice fireplace in The Catherine Wheel but pity about the John Barleycorn 🥹
Absolutely loved it! What a magical looking atmosphere around the Bell Pub. I love these types of random little adventures where you can hop off a beautiful country path for a pint and bite to eat at a charming old pub! Cheers! 🎩🍻🍺🧀🍞
Thanks Jamie! It wasn't a gruelling quest but the 3 or 4 mile walk from the nearest station to the pub was enough to make me appreciate it that bit more!
Hi Tweedy. Thank you for pointing me to this video. I can well understand why the Bell Inn is so special to you. Not only because of the memories of your late friend, but also because it remains unspoiled and traditional. A hunk of cheese in a warm roll, with an excellent pint is definitely an incentive to visit. 🥖🧀🍺👏👏👍😀
It is a great pub! I know it's not quite a Ploughman's but I understand why they felt the need to streamline their food preparation side of things, and it somehow still felt a bit like a Ploughman's in spirit. Great beer and cider too!
Thank you for taking us along, Mr Tweed, much appreciated. I wonder if those "escaped" snowdrops are different to our local species, like is happening with bluebells?
Superb Pub John. I am logging your videos for potential future Pub stops when I am in these areas. Actually I have also drank at the Barleycorn, many, many years ago......seem to remember a Bar Billiards table there ? You are a better man than me taking on that cheese roll !!! As you were carefully troweling on the condiments to that block of cheese, I noticed the individual bricks in the wall beside you. I was imagining the medieval bricklayer doing the same thing 500 years ago ;) Thx for taking us along my Friend
Thanks Giles! Yes the John Barleycorn does indeed have a bar billiards table - or at least it did on my last visit, about 3 years ago. Fingers crossed it reopens some time soon and the new management keep it the same! Also I love that phrase "troweling on the condiments" - and a great analogy to the people who built the pub. I wonder if they could have envisaged people would still be admiring their handiwork five centuries later!
Thanks Cara! Yes it's a nice area, I used to live not far away so it's all familiar territory for me. There isn't much in terms of ancient history in the immediate vicinity of Goring and Streatley though, despite the fact the Ridgeway passes through. I get the sense modern farming has been allowed to overwrite whatever might have been there in terms of barrows etc.
Thanks Hedley, really glad you like the videos. Thanks also for the tip on a good route to Aldworth - as I think I mentioned in the video the route I took on this occasion wasn't exactly the most scintillating countryside (maybe not helped by the glum weather!) but it was worth it regardless for a trip to the beautiful Bell!
Yes I think it's a nice spot! Relatively well served by trains if that helps. There are a total of three pubs in Goring (assuming the John Barleycorn reopens at some point) although the Miller of Mansfield is more like a hotel and not very pubby. There's also the Bull over the river in Streatley, albeit the interior has unfortunately been modernised a fair bit. I think either the first bit of the Holies / Streatley Hill featured here or Lardons Chase would be great picnic spots. You can get to both on foot from Streatley although the entrance to Lardons Chase from the village isn't very obvious (nor well marked on the OS map), might need to ask a local for directions there.
@@tweedyoutdoors I have already made a gps file of that very route so thanks for the confirmation. I just found out that the streatley turf maze is searchable on Google maps. Never knew it existed. In the comments someone said that it's disappearing so I better get a move on before it's gone.
Just a suggestion - don't be so downbeat about the weather. Sure, it's great to see blue skies, but the walk's just as interesting regardless of the weather and it's also great to see the landscape and atmosphere changing with the seasons. Good to see you getting stuck into that mammoth cheese roll. Definitely needed a pint or two to wash it down.
Thanks Steve! Yes definitely a bad habit of mine, grumbling about the weather - even when in reality this was actually very good weather for walking (not too hot, not too cold, relatively firm underfoot and no howling gale or driving rain to contend with). It's partly just because I'm videoing as I go and always hoping to get footage with beautiful sweeping views beneath glorious skies. Anyway, that's part of the magic of pubs - great whatever the weather!
Yes you're right, I have a bad habit of complaining about the weather pretty much whatever it's like, but these conditions definitely made for easy walking, especially considering the time of year!
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine: There sleeps Titania's sometime of the night, Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight; And there the snake throws her enamell’d skin, Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in.
My wife saw I was watching this and remarked "It's that Bell Inn again". I think that's what she said, anyway. I enjoyed the river views (what was the bridge at the beginning?) and the epic cheese wedge.
Hahaha nice one Mrs B. The bridge was over the Thames, between Goring and Streatley. Not sure if it has a name. Yes the cheese roll was a rustic delight, no Kraft Singles here!
You looked nice tweedy. 👌 i must comment about the butty though. Whilst it looked good, it cannot be as good as a fresh warm baguette from the boulangeries filled with french soft cheese. Yummy. I ate the things for breakfast everyday for six weeks whilst in france many years ago. Yummy. 🙂
Ahhh cheese is a very subjective beast though! It may sound unsophisticated but, nice though it is once in a while to go a bit more exotic in terms of fermented curd, good old Cheddar is absolutely my desert island cheese.
@@tweedyoutdoors to say soft cheese was a little more approprite than the semi soft cheese that it was. Delicious all the same tweedy. Your playing out bag is all ways full of culinary delights, its funny how you make the effort to walk with the weight of a bottle of wine ...or spirit. No plastic cups in your kit eh. Ha ha. Lets hope you next vid is when this 7 inch snow bomb is going to drop. A proper wintery camp. Have fun.
Very nice Tweedy. You are truly fortunate to be able to enjoy nice outdoor walks followed off by a visit to a nice English Pub. Absolutely love the pint and pub grub. Over here pub food is way over priced. Love the tweed suits . Thanks for making the most of your environment and sharing. Regards Dave 🇬🇧 🇳🇿
At my local gym doing some cardio and watching this. Another fantastic clip. I may physically be on the elliptical machine in a suburb of Philadelphia, but in my mind, I’m in England with a proper mild in hand! Cheers!!
Lovely walk and always nice to get out even if it's only for the day. Nice warm bread and cheese and a couple or three pints. A nice way to spend a day:)
Thanks - it was indeed a very pleasant day out - nothing too strenuous or groundbreaking but nice nonetheless!
What no pickled onions!! But that’s a great way to remember a departed friend with a get together in their favourite pub.
Terrific video, Tweedy. Absolutely love that pub and I actually like the moody winter landscape.
Nice fireplace in The Catherine Wheel but pity about the John Barleycorn 🥹
Absolutely loved it! What a magical looking atmosphere around the Bell Pub. I love these types of random little adventures where you can hop off a beautiful country path for a pint and bite to eat at a charming old pub! Cheers! 🎩🍻🍺🧀🍞
Thanks Jamie! It wasn't a gruelling quest but the 3 or 4 mile walk from the nearest station to the pub was enough to make me appreciate it that bit more!
Hi Tweedy. Thank you for pointing me to this video. I can well understand why the Bell Inn is so special to you. Not only because of the memories of your late friend, but also because it remains unspoiled and traditional. A hunk of cheese in a warm roll, with an excellent pint is definitely an incentive to visit. 🥖🧀🍺👏👏👍😀
It is a great pub! I know it's not quite a Ploughman's but I understand why they felt the need to streamline their food preparation side of things, and it somehow still felt a bit like a Ploughman's in spirit. Great beer and cider too!
Thank you for taking us along, Mr Tweed, much appreciated. I wonder if those "escaped" snowdrops are different to our local species, like is happening with bluebells?
Superb Pub John. I am logging your videos for potential future Pub stops when I am in these areas. Actually I have also drank at the Barleycorn, many, many years ago......seem to remember a Bar Billiards table there ?
You are a better man than me taking on that cheese roll !!! As you were carefully troweling on the condiments to that block of cheese, I noticed the individual bricks in the wall beside you. I was imagining the medieval bricklayer doing the same thing 500 years ago ;) Thx for taking us along my Friend
Thanks Giles! Yes the John Barleycorn does indeed have a bar billiards table - or at least it did on my last visit, about 3 years ago. Fingers crossed it reopens some time soon and the new management keep it the same!
Also I love that phrase "troweling on the condiments" - and a great analogy to the people who built the pub. I wonder if they could have envisaged people would still be admiring their handiwork five centuries later!
Thanks for the video, I enjoyed it. 👍
Thanks Ysgolgerlan, glad to hear it!
Brilliant walk, the view even on a grey day looked amazing. And that was one hell of a cheese sandwich. 😊
Thanks Cara! Yes it's a nice area, I used to live not far away so it's all familiar territory for me. There isn't much in terms of ancient history in the immediate vicinity of Goring and Streatley though, despite the fact the Ridgeway passes through. I get the sense modern farming has been allowed to overwrite whatever might have been there in terms of barrows etc.
@@tweedyoutdoors sad to say that is often the case 🥴
Nice video. I would have liked to see more cheese in the sandwich.
Thanks JRD! I'm considering a second channel, Tweedy Eats Sandwiches.
Nice. I will obviously subscribe.
Loving your videos, found you via WC21. My favourite way to Aldworth is to carry on up The Ridgeway around Streatley Warren, very picturesque.
Thanks Hedley, really glad you like the videos. Thanks also for the tip on a good route to Aldworth - as I think I mentioned in the video the route I took on this occasion wasn't exactly the most scintillating countryside (maybe not helped by the glum weather!) but it was worth it regardless for a trip to the beautiful Bell!
Goring and streatley is on my list of places to checkout for a picnic with a group of friends in summer. Looks like it could turn into a pub crawl.
Yes I think it's a nice spot! Relatively well served by trains if that helps. There are a total of three pubs in Goring (assuming the John Barleycorn reopens at some point) although the Miller of Mansfield is more like a hotel and not very pubby. There's also the Bull over the river in Streatley, albeit the interior has unfortunately been modernised a fair bit.
I think either the first bit of the Holies / Streatley Hill featured here or Lardons Chase would be great picnic spots. You can get to both on foot from Streatley although the entrance to Lardons Chase from the village isn't very obvious (nor well marked on the OS map), might need to ask a local for directions there.
@@tweedyoutdoors
I have already made a gps file of that very route so thanks for the confirmation. I just found out that the streatley turf maze is searchable on Google maps. Never knew it existed. In the comments someone said that it's disappearing so I better get a move on before it's gone.
Now THATS a chunk of cheese! lol Looks a good pub that. You have some very interesting places near you.
Yes it's a great pub! Not the easiest to get to without a car, but I think it's well worth the trek.
Excellent 👌
Just a suggestion - don't be so downbeat about the weather. Sure, it's great to see blue skies, but the walk's just as interesting regardless of the weather and it's also great to see the landscape and atmosphere changing with the seasons. Good to see you getting stuck into that mammoth cheese roll. Definitely needed a pint or two to wash it down.
Thanks Steve! Yes definitely a bad habit of mine, grumbling about the weather - even when in reality this was actually very good weather for walking (not too hot, not too cold, relatively firm underfoot and no howling gale or driving rain to contend with). It's partly just because I'm videoing as I go and always hoping to get footage with beautiful sweeping views beneath glorious skies. Anyway, that's part of the magic of pubs - great whatever the weather!
I believe that hill is known as the Wrekin, Mr. Tweed, if memory serves correctly. Think that's in a Dicken's novel, maybe? I might misremember.
It's not raining, windy or 40 degrees. I'd say the weather is perfectly fine! 😉
Yes you're right, I have a bad habit of complaining about the weather pretty much whatever it's like, but these conditions definitely made for easy walking, especially considering the time of year!
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania's sometime of the night,
Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight;
And there the snake throws her enamell’d skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in.
My wife saw I was watching this and remarked "It's that Bell Inn again". I think that's what she said, anyway.
I enjoyed the river views (what was the bridge at the beginning?) and the epic cheese wedge.
Hahaha nice one Mrs B. The bridge was over the Thames, between Goring and Streatley. Not sure if it has a name.
Yes the cheese roll was a rustic delight, no Kraft Singles here!
You looked nice tweedy. 👌 i must comment about the butty though. Whilst it looked good, it cannot be as good as a fresh warm baguette from the boulangeries filled with french soft cheese. Yummy. I ate the things for breakfast everyday for six weeks whilst in france many years ago. Yummy. 🙂
Ahhh cheese is a very subjective beast though! It may sound unsophisticated but, nice though it is once in a while to go a bit more exotic in terms of fermented curd, good old Cheddar is absolutely my desert island cheese.
@@tweedyoutdoors to say soft cheese was a little more approprite than the semi soft cheese that it was. Delicious all the same tweedy. Your playing out bag is all ways full of culinary delights, its funny how you make the effort to walk with the weight of a bottle of wine ...or spirit. No plastic cups in your kit eh. Ha ha. Lets hope you next vid is when this 7 inch snow bomb is going to drop. A proper wintery camp. Have fun.
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