BARNARD CASTLE | 4K Narrated Walking Tour | Let's Walk 2021

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  • Опубліковано 23 гру 2024

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  • @LetsWalkUK
    @LetsWalkUK  2 роки тому +4

    🎤 To watch with subtitles, please click the 'CC' button on your UA-cam video player :)
    Good evening! And welcome to this walk around one of Britain's loveliest market towns, the once little-known Barnard Castle! Home to centuries of captivating history, there's so much to this enthralling town that's worthy of making headlines, and we'll dive into it all on this tour of the town on a cloudy morning.
    One important correction to make in the narration - Barnard Castle is located west of Darlington, not to the east as I accidentally said at 4:07 - apologies for the error!
    Interestingly, there are a couple more interesting things to know about the town, particularly about its name. It's one of the few towns in England with the word 'castle' in its name, and its nickname 'Barney', derives from the phrase 'Barney Castle', a local phrase meaning 'a pathetic excuse'. Apparently, the phrase originates from the fact that John Bowes once retreated cowardly into the castle...

  • @iesroo
    @iesroo 4 місяці тому

    Love at first sight. What a magnificent little town ❤❤❤

  • @LaurenOliviArt
    @LaurenOliviArt 7 днів тому

    I have family that were born here in the 1700s. Very cool to see such a great video posted here ! ❤

  • @dollsewer448
    @dollsewer448 2 роки тому +7

    So glad I found this!!Just thought I would search and saw this was just posted 👍🏻👍🏻My 103 year old grandma was born and raised and married in Barnard Castle.

    • @bigt9353
      @bigt9353 2 роки тому

      Does she have any relation to the Bowes?? we may be distantly related! My ancestors were all born in Barnard castle, Streatlam castle and Durham castle

    • @bettygitzke4131
      @bettygitzke4131 Рік тому

      Wow, my family history starts here.

  • @michellebruce5092
    @michellebruce5092 2 роки тому +3

    Awesome live walk at Barnard castle I enjoyed it can't wait to see more soon have a great day greetings from Canada 😀

  • @thetravellerflora
    @thetravellerflora 2 роки тому +2

    Lovely to know about the interesting history of Barnard Castle, the view of the town centre is amazing!

  • @joeh9527
    @joeh9527 9 місяців тому +1

    Lovely video of a lovely place👍

  • @catw4729
    @catw4729 Місяць тому

    The number of times he said Barnard Castle brought home why we call it Barney in day to day speech.
    An enjoyable insight into the town.
    It does show what you take for granted as a child. To me, that was just “the museum”, part of my day to day life, and nothing out of the ordinary. It was only when a French exchange student assumed it was the château that I began to see it with others’ eyes.

  • @davyjones844
    @davyjones844 2 роки тому +1

    A Nice Travel Guide Video 😃

  • @stefaniabruno3888
    @stefaniabruno3888 Рік тому

    Ty, very interesting. I’ll be there on December 2022. I hope it will not so cold!

  • @idatipping2428
    @idatipping2428 2 роки тому +1

    Very good as always,
    Thank you
    What about the Masonic building?
    First time I’ve spotted one in your videos and in my many trips around England

  • @caroldave4037
    @caroldave4037 2 роки тому

    As a locally born 'weardale'...pBarny as we used to call it was our sunday night trip over for fish n chips...cracking vid...👍

  • @Tokyowalkin
    @Tokyowalkin 2 роки тому

    Nice walking tour. Thank you for sharing.

  • @martinburke362
    @martinburke362 2 роки тому +2

    Belting chippy in Barnard Castle, when i was there delivering up there last year, got fish n chips best I've ever had

    • @kensearle4451
      @kensearle4451 2 роки тому

      You remember the name? I work near here.

    • @martinburke362
      @martinburke362 2 роки тому +1

      @@kensearle4451 it was called fryer tucks cooked in dripping, delicious

    • @Cheesemaker-o2v
      @Cheesemaker-o2v 2 місяці тому

      @@martinburke362which then changed to Katie’s and now Barnard Castle Fisheries.

  • @angusmacpherson3252
    @angusmacpherson3252 2 роки тому +9

    Should have gone to ... Specsavers. Sorry folks... but it had to be done. 😎

    • @hellie_el
      @hellie_el 2 роки тому +4

      it’s what we were all thinking. :)

    • @Ionabrodie69
      @Ionabrodie69 2 роки тому +1

      That man is an insult to Barney..😡

    • @Cheesemaker-o2v
      @Cheesemaker-o2v 2 місяці тому

      @@Ionabrodie69you’re quite correct but if you ask businesses, he did bring in more tourists & coffers.

  • @honeylacecookie
    @honeylacecookie Рік тому +1

    Just found out this was where my 5th great grandmother was born. Mary Kipling

  • @mikeswift6713
    @mikeswift6713 2 роки тому

    Interesting video again.
    I visited Bowes Museum in 1972 while courting my wife to be when it was still in Yorkshire, where it had been for centuries and to all true Tykes still is despite what Ted Heath decided in 1974.

    • @ianmacdonald1956
      @ianmacdonald1956 2 роки тому +2

      Mike, I was born in startforth over 70 years ago and the boundary for Yorkshire/Durham was the river. Startforth being in Yorkshire and Barney in Durham.
      Even to this day Startforth church comes under the Ripon Diocese, which of course is in Yorkshire.
      Please correct me if I am wrong. I do know that the castle was once owned by Richard 111 who was a Yorkist.

    • @Ionabrodie69
      @Ionabrodie69 2 роки тому

      The castle itself has been owned by MANY. from the 9th Century onwards ..but it passed from Henry Beauchamp in or around 1460..to his Sister, Anne 16th Countess of Warwick.. wife of Richard Warwick, the Kingmaker.. .his daughter ( also Anne ) married Richard lll .and the castle passed to him on the death of the Kingmaker at the Battle of Barnet… I live about 12 miles from Barney and worked there at Artisan aka The Castle tearooms ( an upscale gift shop 😂) .And yes I’m a history buff and Ricardian.. 😂🇬🇧

    • @MrDogbog
      @MrDogbog 2 роки тому +5

      I have lived in Barnard Castle for 73 years, and as far as I know, it has been in County Durham for centuries. North Yorkshire was just over the River Tees until the seventies when boundary changes expanded County Durham into North Yorkshire.

    • @mikeswift6713
      @mikeswift6713 2 роки тому +1

      @@MrDogbog
      We are both correct.
      I’ve looked at several maps I have of Yorkshire pre 1974 and Barnard Castle was indeed never in Yorkshire.
      Bowes though was certainly in the North Riding, as were Startforth, Catherstone, Romaldkirk, Mickleton, Lonton and Holwick.
      These were near the border of a part of the North Riding jutting into County Durham which were shown on a map of 1820.

    • @tynebar
      @tynebar 2 місяці тому +1

      It was NEVER in Yorkshire - the County Bridge (not shown here) has the River Tees flowing under it. One side of the Tees WAS (but not now) Yorkshire, the other side (Barney) was, is and always has been, Co Durham.

  • @bettygitzke4131
    @bettygitzke4131 Рік тому

    This is where my Family came from.

  • @lostinchineseroom
    @lostinchineseroom 2 роки тому

    thanks!