Really enjoy your church to church walks! Just wish they would hurry up & open them back up so we can see the inside too! Angmering sounds like a really interesting little town & has wonderful old builds. Especially the one at 4:27 (school?). Perhaps you could give us a little walk around the town of Angmering some time!!!
Some churches have opened as they used to, others are only certain times (because of Covid) and others have never opened outside services. It’s a pain for the churchcrawler!
@@MrGreatplum oh I didn't think any of yours had reopened for anything but services. I'm just still amazed that your country is so free to leave the doors unlocked at all!!! So I have kinda become "spoiled" (I guess you would say) as being able to get a glimpse of them through Richard's (& some of his prodigies) vids! You would never dare to do that here in America! You would either find your church burglarized or vandalized (or both) if you left the building unlocked!😞🙄
Another nice vudeo . The church spires being visible from afar is I believe where point to point cross country horse races and steeple chasing originated ?
Another fine walk, and it seems to be doing your body good as well! Those fields you were walking across remind me of my home territory, where what were once smaller fields with hedgerows, are now massive 100 acre fields a farmer can plow in a day using huge tractors. The loss of the hedgerows is serious, as they were home to birds and wild bees and caused snow to drift and pile up protecting the soil underneath. Now in winter the wind just blows aross the fields stripping them of protection and moisture. Did you know wild bees can pollinate five times as many plants as domesticated honey bees? But wild bees require a year-round food source such as wildflowers in a hedgerow!
A little snip of detail about the Roman 'villa' and bath house: The villa site stood on ground about 5m above sea level and was situated between two tidal tributaries of the River Arun which ran up to Angmering until about the 16th century after which they became progressively silted leaving two small streams, one of which we today know as Black Ditch and the other as a stream leading up to Decoy ponds. The villa was therefore serviced by ships entering the Arun and branching off at a main tributary near Ford. While excavations have concentrated on the magnificent bath house, less is known about the villa itself. It appears that there was not just a single villa on the site, but a dispersed complex consisting of the main villa in its own enclosure, the bath house, and a cluster of four additional buildings with perhaps a fifth building being added in the 3rd century. The smaller buildings, or even the 3rd century building, may well have used materials from the demolished bath house in their construction. The extent of the main building is unknown and much of the site has been ploughed up over the centuries. Small fragments of roof tiles may still be found on the surface near the site of the villa. The bath house, which was located about 55 metres east of the main villa, may have been built in four different phases, these being largely identified by fragments of dated pottery. Source: www.angmeringvillage.co.uk/history/villa.htm
Lovely day for a stroll. I think the south coast was well populated by the Romans due to its fine soils, proximity to the coast and easy access to Chichester and London etc (I think that the tribe of Cogidubnus- the local ruler who I think lived at Fishbourne(I might have spelt that wrong) happily romanised itself and it was a peaceful part of the empire for centuries.)
I agree it’s a great pity that villages had to change however my grandparents left just such a village in Nottinghamshire in the early 20th century for a different life in Canada. A great many others did the same. I was told that they left for financial opportunities and benefits for their families that weren’t available in the situation they were in as the children of tenant farmers. They were able to buy houses in Canada and had much more social mobility . Grandad was a carpenter and Grandmother was in service to the landed family of the area. In Canada they were able to help their three sons to careers in professional Accounting, Engineering and Law.
My cousins were adamant that they would never go in to farming after seeing how hard their parents worked on the farm, in all weathers, virtually 365 days a year and for low wages. Their house belonged to the farmer and they could easily be thrown out of work and made homeless. One cousin became a baker and the other set up his own garage and breakdown company. In those days people at the bottom were destined to remain at the bottom 🤭
Theres a couple of spooky moments in this video where your shadow along with your camera looks reminiscent of a centurian standard bearer alongside their staff bearing the emblems of their legion.
I was wandering about Yew trees. Is my Yew bush, out front of my house in Ohio, the same. If it is allowed to grow. Will it, in 400 years, grow into a tree?
You look back to the good old days of men working the land. But they were the bad old days of Speenhamland wages, enclosures and ending up in the workhouse. But I enjoy your videos.
THOROUGHFARE... (verse 3 of 4) What treasures neath the briar heath wait long to be discovered? Glistening gold by shaking hand some future time recovered Archaic swirls of blue mosaic symmetrically intact Unearthed now by farmland Plough a fiction steeped in fact... JB14
Thanks Richard, you got here ! Should have dropped in for coffee was in all day ! Showed my home village in a great light, managing not to show how busy the village is. The church is indeed lovely and VERY active usually. It had major extension works carried out in c.2007 when 2 gabled extensions were built and the inside reordered, much to the dismay of many of the older villagers ( there are still some older families still living here). Sadly you missed the largest yew at the southeast end of the church which survived a tree surgeon's attention a few years back -it's on the Tree Register as a Notable Tree ( >500 yrs old), The smaller beautifully brick built old school across the road is now the library . I volunteer there in normal circumstances ! Here is a link to our very comprehensive Village website if anyone is interested in more. Includes some old images. www.angmeringvillage.co.uk
Lovely film. Sad to see that these rural communities have been cleansed of the working class, agricultural workers and their communities, to be replaced by rich people who now occupy their former homes, and work places. Many pubs, GP surgeries, shops, libraries, blacksmiths, wheelwrights and schools have closed. Sadly many rural churches themselves are up for sale, or have already been converted in to residential units. Many farmers, and their families, now suffer from isolation, mental illness and addictions. At the same time we now import almost 70% of the food we consume and have decimated the ecology of these areas. Progress...I think not! 🤭
And think,that Masterpiece Theatre woos us into a brief reenactment of the past days of old..though hard they might have been,there was a social cohesiveness that is not found much if at all today...😑
Machinery now does what men once did, One Tractor with the right tools can do in an hour what took men many days. It happens everywhere and will continue to spread into all industries. We call it progress but it's progress that's removing abilities, skills and jobs as machines and computers take over. The Farm workers lost out to The internal combustion Engine and we lost all the benefits that the country pastimes that farm workers and retired farm workers brought to our countryside. Some things improve with progress, others inevitably get worse. We can try to manage change but we can't stop it.
I wonder if ever our churches will ever become relevent again other than an aesthetically ancient piece of eye candy,i bet archaeolgists will have there trowels ready when esslesiastical law and consecrated land finally get snuffed out
Really enjoy your church to church walks! Just wish they would hurry up & open them back up so we can see the inside too! Angmering sounds like a really interesting little town & has wonderful old builds. Especially the one at 4:27 (school?). Perhaps you could give us a little walk around the town of Angmering some time!!!
Will do - it was very busy when I turned up.
Some churches have opened as they used to, others are only certain times (because of Covid) and others have never opened outside services. It’s a pain for the churchcrawler!
@@MrGreatplum oh I didn't think any of yours had reopened for anything but services. I'm just still amazed that your country is so free to leave the doors unlocked at all!!! So I have kinda become "spoiled" (I guess you would say) as being able to get a glimpse of them through Richard's (& some of his prodigies) vids! You would never dare to do that here in America! You would either find your church burglarized or vandalized (or both) if you left the building unlocked!😞🙄
Such a beautiful church yard! Great place to read and just be still! It seems like a fine,little town.
Thank you once again! Shared with my brother- he's always been interested in Rome and it's expansive history!
Wonderful!
If you had a drone you could look for cropmarkings that can indicate old paths, buildings & settlements.
I would have been told off had I flown my drone - the farmers was in the next field driving his tractor, watching me! :)
@@RichardVobes Oh Dear!
Another nice vudeo . The church spires being visible from afar is I believe where point to point cross country horse races and steeple chasing originated ?
Another fine walk, and it seems to be doing your body good as well! Those fields you were walking across remind me of my home territory, where what were once smaller fields with hedgerows, are now massive 100 acre fields a farmer can plow in a day using huge tractors. The loss of the hedgerows is serious, as they were home to birds and wild bees and caused snow to drift and pile up protecting the soil underneath. Now in winter the wind just blows aross the fields stripping them of protection and moisture. Did you know wild bees can pollinate five times as many plants as domesticated honey bees? But wild bees require a year-round food source such as wildflowers in a hedgerow!
A little snip of detail about the Roman 'villa' and bath house:
The villa site stood on ground about 5m above sea level and was situated between two tidal tributaries of the River Arun which ran up to Angmering until about the 16th century after which they became progressively silted leaving two small streams, one of which we today know as Black Ditch and the other as a stream leading up to Decoy ponds. The villa was therefore serviced by ships entering the Arun and branching off at a main tributary near Ford.
While excavations have concentrated on the magnificent bath house, less is known about the villa itself. It appears that there was not just a single villa on the site, but a dispersed complex consisting of the main villa in its own enclosure, the bath house, and a cluster of four additional buildings with perhaps a fifth building being added in the 3rd century. The smaller buildings, or even the 3rd century building, may well have used materials from the demolished bath house in their construction. The extent of the main building is unknown and much of the site has been ploughed up over the centuries. Small fragments of roof tiles may still be found on the surface near the site of the villa.
The bath house, which was located about 55 metres east of the main villa, may have been built in four different phases, these being largely identified by fragments of dated pottery.
Source: www.angmeringvillage.co.uk/history/villa.htm
Nice walk Richard sone nice old buildings at the start of this video, nice new music and lovely weather. Nice video. :)
Glad you enjoyed it, Charlie.
Lovely day for a stroll. I think the south coast was well populated by the Romans due to its fine soils, proximity to the coast and easy access to Chichester and London etc (I think that the tribe of Cogidubnus- the local ruler who I think lived at Fishbourne(I might have spelt that wrong) happily romanised itself and it was a peaceful part of the empire for centuries.)
Your spelling is correct, although some sources state it should be Togidubnus...
Very beautiful England is heart of the European.
I agree it’s a great pity that villages had to change however my grandparents left just such a village in Nottinghamshire in the early 20th century for a different life in Canada. A great many others did the same. I was told that they left for financial opportunities and benefits for their families that weren’t available in the situation they were in as the children of tenant farmers. They were able to buy houses in Canada and had much more social mobility . Grandad was a carpenter and Grandmother was in service to the landed family of the area. In Canada they were able to help their three sons to careers in professional Accounting, Engineering and Law.
Thanks for the interesting comment 🙂
My cousins were adamant that they would never go in to farming after seeing how hard their parents worked on the farm, in all weathers, virtually 365 days a year and for low wages. Their house belonged to the farmer and they could easily be thrown out of work and made homeless. One cousin became a baker and the other set up his own garage and breakdown company. In those days people at the bottom were destined to remain at the bottom 🤭
Theres a couple of spooky moments in this video where your shadow along with your camera looks reminiscent of a centurian standard bearer alongside their staff bearing the emblems of their legion.
The lighting in this video is stunning.
Ha! Much over exposed thanks to GoPro8 - I prefer the 7 ;)
Richard Vobes I believe it gave the yews an ethereal light. I still believe the lighting is great. Watching on the TV not the iPad. 😁
Have you come across a book by H.V. Morton called In Search of England. I think the first edition was 1926 or 27. I have the 1948 edition somewhere.
I read it live a few weeks go on the channel - ua-cam.com/video/kuvORxG8z0U/v-deo.html
@@RichardVobes Ah thankyou. I will listen to it. I would enjoy that though I have read the book.
An interesting walk Richard, maybe a drone shot would reveal some of the Roman work,just a thought.
Not sure I would be allowed to put a drone up.
I would love to see what the Roman villa and baths looked like here once upon at time. 😊
Me too!
I was wandering about Yew trees. Is my Yew bush, out front of my house in Ohio, the same. If it is allowed to grow. Will it, in 400 years, grow into a tree?
You look back to the good old days of men working the land. But they were the bad old days of Speenhamland wages, enclosures and ending up in the workhouse. But I enjoy your videos.
Thank you
THOROUGHFARE... (verse 3 of 4)
What treasures neath the briar heath
wait long to be discovered?
Glistening gold by shaking hand
some future time recovered
Archaic swirls of blue mosaic
symmetrically intact
Unearthed now by farmland Plough
a fiction steeped in fact... JB14
🙂
A very enjoyable walk, sad to see solar panels on an old building.
Thanks Richard, you got here ! Should have dropped in for coffee was in all day ! Showed my home village in a great light, managing not to show how busy the village is. The church is indeed lovely and VERY active usually. It had major extension works carried out in c.2007 when 2 gabled extensions were built and the inside reordered, much to the dismay of many of the older villagers ( there are still some older families still living here). Sadly you missed the largest yew at the southeast end of the church which survived a tree surgeon's attention a few years back -it's on the Tree Register as a Notable Tree ( >500 yrs old), The smaller beautifully brick built old school across the road is now the library . I volunteer there in normal circumstances ! Here is a link to our very comprehensive Village website if anyone is interested in more. Includes some old images.
www.angmeringvillage.co.uk
I did think about contacting you actually.
Lovely film. Sad to see that these rural communities have been cleansed of the working class, agricultural workers and their communities, to be replaced by rich people who now occupy their former homes, and work places. Many pubs, GP surgeries, shops, libraries, blacksmiths, wheelwrights and schools have closed. Sadly many rural churches themselves are up for sale, or have already been converted in to residential units. Many farmers, and their families, now suffer from isolation, mental illness and addictions. At the same time we now import almost 70% of the food we consume and have decimated the ecology of these areas. Progress...I think not! 🤭
And think,that Masterpiece Theatre woos us into a brief reenactment of the past days of old..though hard they might have been,there was a social cohesiveness that is not found much if at all today...😑
Machinery now does what men once did, One Tractor with the right tools can do in an hour what took men many days. It happens everywhere and will continue to spread into all industries. We call it progress but it's progress that's removing abilities, skills and jobs as machines and computers take over. The Farm workers lost out to The internal combustion Engine and we lost all the benefits that the country pastimes that farm workers and retired farm workers brought to our countryside. Some things improve with progress, others inevitably get worse. We can try to manage change but we can't stop it.
I wonder if ever our churches will ever become relevent again other than an aesthetically ancient piece of eye candy,i bet archaeolgists will have there trowels ready when esslesiastical law and consecrated land finally get snuffed out
End of rural life really..monoculture and no community. Sad, really sad.