BERWICK-UPON-TWEED | 4K Narrated Walking Tour | Let's Walk 2021
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- Join me for a walk around the historic heart of the northernmost town in England: Berwick-upon-Tweed! Located just two and a half miles shy of the Scottish border, this distinctive town has switched hands between England and Scotland around 14 times through history, and as such is home to a wealth of captivating and unique history, from its gorgeous bridges to its stunningly-preserved medieval defenses!
On our walk around Berwick-upon-Tweed, we pass a number of interesting landmarks, including Marygate, Berwick Town Hall, the old town stocks, the Buttermarket, Hill Hide, The Kings Arms Hotel, Sandgate, Shoregate, Berwick Town Walls, Berwick Bridge (The Old Bridge), old Custom House, The Main Guard, Coxon's Tower, the River Tweed, Berwick Elizabethan Ramparts, Berwick Barracks, Holy Trinity Church, St. Andrew's Wallace Green & Lowick Church, the old Berwick Advertiser building, The Leaping Salmon pub, the Royal Tweed Bridge, the statue of Lady Jerningham, the Royal Border Bridge, Bank Hill Victorian Public Toilet, Scots Gate, Castlegate, the former St. Mary's Church, Berwick War Memorial, Berwick-upon-Tweed Railway Station, Coronation Park and the ruins of Berwick Castle.
Thank you so much to the following sites for their help in my research of Berwick-upon-Tweed:
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berwickcivicsociety.org.uk/mai...
www.berwickfriends.org.uk/hist...
www.discoverbritainstowns.co....
www.visitberwick.com/where-to...
www.castleuk.net/castle_lists_...
www.english-heritage.org.uk/v...
www.english-heritage.org.uk/v...
www.sawg.org.uk/our-history
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0:00 Marygate
0:43 Berwick Town Hall
1:53 Old Town Stocks (replica)
2:10 Berwick Town Hall
2:45 Buttermarket
3:08 Church Street
3:24 Berwick Town Hall
3:34 Hide Hill
4:22 The Kings Arms Hotel
4:43 Hide Hill
5:19 Sandgate
6:17 Shoregate
6:34 Berwick Town Walls
7:21 Berwick Bridge over the River Tweed
8:13 Quay Walls
8:54 Old Custom House
9:07 Quay Walls
9:48 The Main Guard
10:34 Quay Walls
12:27 Coxon's Tower
13:44 Berwick Town Walls
16:44 Elizabethan Ramparts
19:41 Old Gunpowder Magazine
20:18 Elizabethan Ramparts
21:04 Windmill Bastion
21:45 Berwick Barracks
22:51 Windmill Bastion
23:08 Elizabethan Ramparts
24:00 Berwick Barracks
25:37 Holy Trinity Church
26:18 St. Andrew's Wallace Green & Lowick Church
26:57 Church Street
28:12 Chapel Street
29:50 Walkergate
31:01 Marygate
31:47 Golden Square
32:34 The Leaping Salmon Pub
33:07 Bank Hill
33:46 Lady Jerningham Statue
34:08 Elizabethan Ramparts
34:32 Royal Tweed Bridge
34:47 Royal Border Bridge
34:54 Bank Hill
35:21 Bank Hill Victorian Toilet
35:37 Bank Hill
35:57 Marygate
36:10 Scotsgate
36:36 Castlegate
38:59 St. Mary's Church and Berwick War Memorial
39:20 Castlegate
40:32 Berwick-upon-Tweed Station
41:03 North Road
41:54 Castle Terrace
42:16 Coronation Park
43:13 Ruins of Berwick Castle
43:51 Coronation Park
44:03 Ruins of Berwick Castle
44:19 River Tweed
44:27 Thank you for watching!
Stats for nerds:
Distance walked: 2.4 miles/4km
Step count: 4800 steps (approx.)
Time taken: 43 mins 48 secs
Average speed: 3.3mph/5.4kmh
Please do not use any footage from this video without my permission.
Good evening! And welcome to another narrated walk on the channel! On this walk, we're taking a tour of the northernmost town in England - Berwick-upon-Tweed, which is home to perhaps the highest density of history and heritage you'll find in the country.
We mentioned many of the fascinating stories of Berwick's history on this tour, but there were still a few things we didn't get the chance to cover. The famous artist LS Lowry often holidayed here in Berwick, and a number of his sketches depict scenes from the town, including a view off the ramparts, and a view of Berwick Lighthouse.
Another interesting fact about Berwick that owes itself to the town's hybrid nationality comes with its football team, Berwick Rangers. They play their home games across the river in Tweedmouth, but a few seasons ago, Berwick Rangers were unique in being the only English club to play in the Scottish football league. They've since been sadly relegated, but here's hoping the team can make their way back up into that unparalleled position :)
Thank you. I live in Berwick. I’m not a geordie. I’m further nort. I’m a Northumbrian but indeed as you said the accent is changing. My wife’s accent is Scottish . Her family coming from Dunbar,over the boarder there. We are a family of nine. I love this walking tour. Ii have to say you missed a gem of a sanctuary of peace and tranquility. Maybe you want to keep it to yourself. If you’re walking into the train station. There is a beautiful garden hidden away down on the left. I’m not sure many folk know this. It is so peaceful. Maybe Victorian. Looks like you’re going back to Berwick. Upon tweed. As did the artist Lowry. Their is something I can’t explain about living their.
This is my home town and half of the stuff about the town all I didn’t even know
Is it a nice place to live?
@@Glover_PJ yeah it is a very nice place to live
I visited from the US last year, driving across Scotland and England by car. I only had a chance to drive through, as I had no previous knowledge of Berwick. I was struck by the town hall. Although we have similar buildings from our colonial period, there's an undeniable charm and mystique about the place. Love this.
Fantastic commentary and camerawork. Interesting and informative throughout.
I absolutely love Berwick we used to go there every year for our summer holidays when I was a kid.
I visited Berwick for the first time last July.
What a wonderful place. I parked in the large car park near the parish church and Barracks. I bought a parking disc from a nearby cafe/museum. It only cost £1 and can be used every day in many car parks throughout Northumberland for ever. What great value. I hope to visit again in 2022 and will follow your route around town.
Wow! That's quite a deal - and you've certainly got more than enough places to explore around Northumberland, an absolutely magical county :)
Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoy your next visit to Berwick, and that you have a good walk following this route too!
You must have spoke with my mother-in-law Anne. She works in the visitor centre.
Fabulous walk with you around Berwick. Great narration, Thankyou 💚
I'm so glad you liked it - Berwick is certainly a wonderful place to explore and walk around!
Thank you so much for watching and for your kind words :)
Lovely relaxing walk around Berwick! Thanks for sharing!
Really enjoyed watching during my jog. Thanks again.
THANK YOU FOR UR VIDEO ENJOYED WATCHING IT CANT WAIT TILL UR NEXT ONE
Thank you so much! We enjoyed this very interesting tour, and the audio was an added treat.
Stunning video and commentary from my home town 👍👍👍👍👍
I've been binge watching some of your content and my goodness you get out and about.Its refreshing to see you visit places that are not exactly on the tourist list ,like Hartlepool . I will definitely be putting some of these towns on my visit list for the summer,thank you for showing us around ❤️.
Beautiful video guide of the town I live in. There's even more history than in this brilliant video!
WOW, stunning video, probably your best made even better by the audio commentary.
Your videos are so interesting with so many facts that I sometimes miss views or subtitles, the commentary was perfect, we got the information and were able to take in the views, please make this the normal for the future.
We visited Berwick a few years ago and stayed at The Castle near the railway station visiting Holy Island and Eyemouth among other places in the area.
After a walk round the town we walked back along the Tweed and up some steps back to near the station and hotel.
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed the video and the narrated format too! Rest assured that these narrated videos will be part of the weekly schedule into the future, so we've got many more places to explore :)
Berwick and the surrounding area - Eyemouth and the Holy Island too - are absolutely wonderful places to visit as I'm sure you know well, plus that riverside walk in the town centre is so scenic!
Please please make more narrated tours. I loved the Durham video and this one is amazing as well!
Informative and well presented! Thank you
Thank you so much! It was wonderful to take a stroll again around the beautiful town I grew up in. I now live thousands of miles away. Much has changed since then, but so much is still exactly as I remember it.
What a wonderful and interesting video! Very interesting, well narrated and full of interesting facts.
Thank you! Another excellent walk!
You're welcome! And thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed this trip through Berwick's incredible history :)
Keep up the good work. You have a great mix of easy listening information and camera shots.
Thank you for such a wonderful and interesting insight into our history of Berwick upon tweed used to take our children on holiday at the Berwick holiday centre from London in the 1980s such a lovely town ,used to shop in Woolworths and have some lovely meals in the upstairs bakery in the town fantastic memories there .
Thank you so much for this! I'm visiting Berwick for the first time in March and your well researched video is such a good introduction and has helped me work out where i want to go when I visit
My heritage is from this beautiful town, I am at my happiest when on holiday up there! Thank you for this video, everyone you should visit! There is so much to see, you can do the Lowry walk and go across into Spittal.
Cheers mate
A marvellous video of this unique, historic town.. I had a great aunt and uncle who lived in Berwick. I visited with my mum when I was very small so my recollection is, sadly limited. I thoroughly enjoyed your walk.
Such a great and informative video to watch, I absolutely enjoyed watching your video! Thank you for sharing it with us, big like from Japan 🇯🇵
Great video as always. Narration on point too.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the walk and the narration - there's so much fascinating history to Berwick upon Tweed!
Excellent! and great with narration.
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed the video and the narration - I had a great time making it :)
Great video! I live in Berwick and you've done a great job covering the main points 😊
If you head to spital sea front is the galleon pub still there my husband stayed there in the seventies while visiting a friend who lived on the highcliff estate, he loved Berwick and hope's to visit again,
Thank you for your throughly interesting video off Berwick, I was there last week , I live over the border in Roxburghshire in Scotland, I’ve been visiting Berwick my whole life and I’ve learned a lot of history that I didn’t know about.
Oh that's wonderful to hear! The Borders are a fascinating part of the country that I've really enjoyed visiting too - and like you say, there's always something new to discover when it comes to a captivating town like Berwick :)
Thank you so much for watching!
@@LetsWalkUK Thank you .
Oct 17, 2022 and your history walk is still fascinating. Cheers mate🍻
I am from Berwick but i live in Thailand. Feeling a bit homesick as not been home for over 2 years, so thank you for the upload, is appreciated.
Excellent. Many thanks.
You're welcome! And thank you very much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the walk :)
Thank you for the video 😀 you really know your history. I really liked the all the information you are giving us while filming. Can you do more videos like this?
Awesome! ❤️👍
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed the video - Berwick certainly is an awesome town :)
Berwick upon Tweed looks very nice and quiet 👍👍😁
You got a beautiful day for your visit, although the sun maks filming kind of tricky. Berwick's an interesting town, a place I only visited once, and I really enjoyed our walk. Your narration was excellent and I've decided; I definitely prefer the narrated walks.👌😁
Excellent informative narration!
Very interesting video, thank you!
Fantastic tour of a town I grew in love with as a child although Scottish I regularly spent holidays there and never tire of visiting and seeing the town which for me makes it one of the most unique towns in the UK
I lived there for 3 years and went to middle school as well as high school. Left in 1997 after Year 10.
Great town and people.
Castle Terrace was my road.
My favourite English coastal town, although if I ever live there as I hope I will I'll be on the south side of the river, just in case.
Use to stay in Coldstream and would visit there many times as I volunteered at the BHF
Good video 👍
Great video , well narrated to thanks
A fine characterful town. It was also quiet the day I walked a similar route around and I think it deserves many more visitors.
I love Berwick , used to get an Explorer Bus Ticket 🎟 twice a week . And travelled when the Bus used to go from the Haymarket . It was quite a busy market then and I would buy grapes etc. Also bought mustard from the Honey 🍯 Farm. Would go on the Ramparts where the Supermarket is , then catch 3 express buses back home again . It’s a lovely ride our.
Hello and thank you for such an interesting tour of Berwick. I hope to visit one day and retrace your steps.
I have just discovered your channel and nave subscribed! ❤
Very interesting indeed.
Enjoyed that cheers
I'm very glad to hear it! Thank you so much for tuning in - I hope you found the history of Berwick as interesting as I did :)
Nice walk today I enjoyed it can't wait to see more soon very beautiful and historical the medieval town is. Your history lessons are always great and your walks are always enjoyable how is your weekend? Mine was great. Have a great day 😀 greetings from Canada 😀
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed the video - the history of Berwick is indeed fascinating, and the buildings of the town showcase it in captivating detail :)
I had a lovely weekend - I'm glad you did too!
thanks for the tour 🦋🦋🦋
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video :)
A Nice Informative Video 👍
That's very kind of you to say! Thank you so much for tuning in - I'm really glad you enjoyed the walk :)
amazing.
I'm Your fan.
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!
An excellent walk. The house at 19.28 is the Lions House. It is the highest building in Berwick- Upon -Tweed
I didn't know that one! It's a very striking building overlooking the ramparts - the views from inside must be spectacular :)
Thank you so much for watching and for that extra bit of info - I'm really glad you enjoyed the walk!
I thought Berwick had changed hands 13 times. It was Scottish until Edward I, so that was the 1st and when it flipped flopped then when the English took it, it would be the 'odd' times. However....I love Berwick. Went down there very often when I was in my early-mid teens, initially staying right under the old bank at Bridge End and then acoss the river on Dean Drive, where I met the lovely Karyn, whose family used to own the Buckthorpe Inn. Anyhow enough of my reminiscing. Very enjoyable. Thumbs up.
They all love Geordie's , the ones left behind !
👍🍺 Perfect. enjoyd your video of a great place
Why did the conflict between Scotland and England never stop when Scotland was at power in Berwick .
hello from Florida; narration is great improvement over subtitles, please continue to narrate
😍👏👏👏👏
Love the narration again however there is an annoying background hum during the vocal overdub. Great walk and info as always 👍🏻
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed the narration - and many thanks for the feedback on some of the background noise, I'll try to rectify it in future :)
Been thro Berwick-upon-Tweed many times via the train never actually visited tho
the berwick barracks
Hello I am from Toronto Canada, my father was from Berwick; I always wondered what Berwick looked like and its history. I was always confused as to what my father was, was he Scottish, Irish, British and yet he never talked or acted like any of them, he was just rough and out-spoken.
Scottish is British? What do you mean british?
How different it is from when I grew up and lived there , high street looks derelict
I see you called the gate Shore gate. It's actually Sandgate.
The structure mentioned is called Shore Gate, and is a Grade 1 listed.
@@kevingraham8639 I have living in Berwick since 1969 and I have never heard it called shore gate. I lived roughly 100m from the gate for the first 19yrs years of my life in Palace St. I also know it's a grade 1 listing like a lot of the buildings here. My hours is over 450 yrs old.
you failed to mention the local brewery....the bear claw brewery...
Oh no I've lived here for 5 years now and still currently live in spittle. I'm a southerner not a tweed what's it. It's a shame to see over the years I've been here the town is not as lively it's certainly a town for the elder generation to come and settle down in certainly now a town for us younger generation.
So would you not recommend moving there from the south then?
I always thought the story about Berwick being at war with Russia was true - I'm kind of sad you've debunked it
Ha ha I was the same when I found out! It's such a great story though - so let's keep pretending that it did happen :)
Thank you so much for watching - I do hope you enjoyed the video!
Berwick was once one of the wealthiest and most prosperous towns in Scotland, until it was invaded by King Edward of England and his army in 1296
For three days his army spent its time slaughtering the population. Men, women and children, regardless of age or condition were killed.
It is said thousands were murdered during one of the worst cases of genocide on these islands.
Now you have to over dub your old ones
Ha ha yes indeed - although I'm rather tempted to visit all these places once again if I can and make new narrated videos, plus that might show us what things have changed in the last couple of years :)
Thank you so much for watching - I do hope you enjoyed this video!