In a world filled with AI, I feel it's important to tell you that 95% of the footage was filmed by me in the REAL English countryside (minus the peasant farming the land, couldn't find one of those), and the still photos are sourced from online. But the snail, sheep, rain drops, cows, and rest are real. :)
Great video GGL!! There are small areas that still use strip farming methods from the middle ages but these are few and far between (South Yorkshire has some). Most farmers don't mind you accessing their land as long as you follow the "Country Code" ie don't trample crops, stick to footpaths if possible, don't leave litter, keep gates closed, keep dogs on a lead, don't mess about with machinery or other farming stuff....Etc etc....
Do yourself a favour, my friend and try exploring the SCOTTISH countryside. Might be worth waiting until after the Mayday Bank Holiday in 2025 and I would particularly recommend North of Perth and Dundee. As well as Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Highlands. I have no real wish to detract from the undoubted splendour and beautiful scenery that many parts of the English countryside has to offer but it's just that with coming from Scotland well we have a wealth of Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. I am so glad that you are able to get out and enjoy the countryside and greenery of the UK. And of course at this time of year, the air doesn't really get much fresher.
As a Brit, I was shocked to discover from American friends that public rights of way (footpaths, bridleways, byways) as we know them here don't exist in the US. I use public footpaths all the time. They're one of my favourite aspects of the British countryside.
As a Scot I find it particularly interesting as our rights of access to open land are significantly greater in Scotland compared to England. There are still some limitations of course, but for Scots used to the "Right to Roam" it's even more shocking for us to see Americans amazed by the opportunity of what we'd consider restricted access.
this is definitely a great thing, we have similar public paths in Poland, but more and more people are fencing themselves off and you can't pass through private land
Kaylyn, that is absolutely spot on! As a former Northumberland National Park employee I am impressed by your research - and, a bonus, my wife was the National Lead manager of for all England's National Trails, Footpaths and Open Access (worth another video?) for, Natural England so on a personal level I'm delighted Natural England are mentioned. It's not often (if ever) I hear the 'Definitive Map' being mentioned. .
Absolutely spot on video, I'm a country boy from North Oxfordshire and have spent many happy years wandering around the countryside on mile after mile of peaceful footpaths, and even after 30+ years I find a path a haven't happily got lost on. Superbly researched 10/10
Oh so beautifully green. After arriving back in the UK, from a trip to a very parched and brown region of Sicily, our landscape dazzled me with it's lushness. I love our countryside.
The only wild cattle left in the whole world is the herd of Chillingham Cattle which is in Northumberland. 41,000 miles of public footpaths are in danger of being lost forever because they haven't been registered by local councils. The deadline for them to be registered is 2031. Very good on the history Kalyn. The only bit you missed on was landowners evicting people from villages and farms to turn arable land into livestock farms because there was more profit in it.
Very different from your normal videos, but a brilliant video. I am English and I love the Countryside. It would be great if you did more of this type of video.
Once more, dear lady, a great, informative, and well thought out video on a niche subject so often overlooked. One of my sons is a legal consultant to the CPRE and represents it in court battles to preserve the Green Belt and public footpaths (llwybrau cyhoeddus 🏴). Keep up the exellent work. ❤
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial Yes, she tried to protect her Borderline. Never quite got Into the Groove with the British way of life. Got Hung Up on a point of law. [That's enough Madonna songs. - Ed.]
🇬🇧 Just had a holiday travelling through the extremely beautiful English countryside. A slow progress through the Chiltern Hills and Berkshire. Ye Olde Inns, a car picnic, small lovely villages. SO LOVELY
@@fasteddie406 Stone is predominantly used more in the mountainous regions and surrounding areas where hedgerows are more difficult to grow, and are equally beautiful.
@@fasteddie406Dry stone walls are far from barren, they are covered in lichen and mosses, many different plants and animals make their homes in them, many other animals use them for shelter which often leads to certain places having buildings attached to them for sheep and cows to over winter without need to be brought off the hills and mountains and into barns, this means birds will have permanent residence away from people and their droppings fertilize the land.
@@ChrisShelley-v2g Dry stone walls are lovely. I grew up in East London but I loved spending time in the countryside when we went back to Ireland and loved learning how to do things like shear sheep and basic farm skills.
Well done on gathering so many threads together & making it make sense - some clever footage too. I've been all over the world & visited some striking landscapes but there is no where I'd rather live than here in the UK - rainfall included. Love your stuff, keep up the good work. Love & Kisses from God's back yard (Shropshire)
You REALLY, really did your homework on this!!! 99.99% of Brits would know no more than 5% of this. Investigate the TOTALLY amazing beauty of the W coast temporate rain forests. Utterly brilliant video again. You really do seem to have fallen in love with the UK - biased opinion - the least worst place in the world to live. If you feel "fiited-in", welcome!!
Very well done Keylen. You make an Englishman very happy. Yours is the best & most concise description of the wonderful English countryside I have heard in my 70+ years of life. You have instantly promoted yourself to the highest level of Englishness, because you have explained by this just what being English (& British) is.
Brilliant. Well done digging up the legislation and making the point that the English countryside is not natural but has been crafted by generations of farmers and landowners over hundreds of years.
And it’s more than just England. Wales is so beautiful that the traffic jams in a Friday is full of traffic jams full of caravans, cars with tents and just cars queuing to get into Wales for the weekend because it is a garden spot of BRITAIN! The beaches, the forests, and the wonderful mountains. Just as nice as England, truly. I live right by the Severn bridge, and we always avoid Friday afternoons because the traffic just shows how popular Wales is. We have our own language which pre dates English by thousands of years, and was the original language of Britannia. When the Romans invaded under emperor Claudius, he met an entire island that spoke Welsh ( Brythonic- an early form of Welsh). English hadn’t been invented for another thousand years.
I used to work in the Peak District, much better to explore it on a weekday than when it's busy at the weekend! Weekends are full of caravans, cars, tents and groups of motorbikers, weekdays hardly anyone is there if it's not summer.
Love this so much. Such a different style from your previous content, which have always loved, and I'm sure this is more expensive and complicated to make, but you're so good at this. It's so well done. Having seen the video of big reaction channels making money off your work, really hope this could be a departure for you. Love it
Well done with this video. Girl done her homework. I was born in a rural area and seen many hedges torn down. Only now in last few years there planting them again.some new ones where i come from are now really tall. The wildlife loves them and the land seems less baron. Over the years ive seen top soil blowing off the feilds, I think thats proberly a reason many are planting again. But it makes England Beautiful.
Best short summary of the English countryside I've ever seen. Terrific. Protecting the countryside and its wildlife though continues and will be a major and difficult task against the current pressures. Always take water and or a flask of something hot and snacks (sandwiches). Quick tip: buy yourself some decent leather walking boots (if you don't want to get sodden footwear or turn an ankle); good, breathable waterproof trousers; and a breathable waterproof jacket.
One thing worth mentioning to anyone visiting the UK or using public footpaths is that you must stick to the paths, keep your dogs on a lead, pick up after them and take note of the warning notices about livestock safety. The footpath entrances and field gates will be signed and tell you if there's cattle or other livestock with young which usually includes instructions in case you're faced with a herd coming at you but generally speaking, if you stick to the path and don't go wandering across fields and over to them, you'll be safe.
Brilliant from an American. Another American Bill Bryson the author was a President of CPRE( Campaign for the Preservation of Rural England) and is an expert on the hedgerows. When you pass through Germany, Netherlands and Belgium the lack of hedges is really strange.
Kalyn. I've been following your videos for a long time now. This one was brilliant and you obviously spent lots of time researching and putting the dialogue together.
Great content Kalyn, your best video yet, hope you do many more Kalyn goes out of the house soon. Back in the day we had Empires run by Emperors, Kingdoms run by Kings, and now we have Country's run by, errrr, well you get the idea. :) Can't remember who i plagerised that from, but credit to them. :)
Well done! probably the best explanation of the countryside for non Brits I've seen. You are exactly right about countryside being a fusion of nature and history, people don't realise that even deserted or empty areas like Scoltland or Dartmoor were once busy places where lots of people lived. If you dig a hole anywhere is southern England including the countryside you will find medieval and Roman artifacts.
As a fell runner and landscape artist I love the countryside, as well as the footpath network in most national parks in England and Wales there's access land too, this land is shaded on OS maps with a thick peach coloured border, on access land you are free to roam within reason.
It took a while before I subscribed, but I have enjoyed "stalking" this channel for a while. Whilst the comparisons are interesting this edition reached a whole new level. I grew up in rural Suffolk in the 1960s & 70s, when farmers were encourage to grub out hedges and fill ditches-usually a hedge and ditch went together (at least in East Anglia)- to allow bigger machinery for farming "efficiency". That post WW2 mechanisation was the biggest change in the rural economy since the enclosure movement and Acts of the 17th & 18th centuries and it permanently changed farm working methods many of which until that time, our Anglo-Saxon predecessors would have recognised. The biggest loss (in East Anglia) is the combined mixed farm, as this had protected the meadow land needed for the hay and animal grazing and the flora & fauna that thrived on it. I used to have to wait for the cows to cross the road between the fields and the milking parlour when cycling to secondary school, however, that herd has gone, and arable crops on enlarged fields and houses have replaced several of the meadows and hedgerows. This makes the pavement cleaner under foot if walking to the village shop but we are also poorer for that. Of course, with the loss of the hedgerows and field edges, the rights of way become difficult to follow accurately, "proceed that way for 350 yards, then turn 95 degrees to the right passing close to, but not at the pylon and follow a ditch for 50 yds then aim for the middle of that big hedge over there to find the gap". That is genuinely a route across one path that joins another in the middle of what is now a large arable field, that used to be several smaller ones. Using that route makes for a pleasant circular walk, if you can find the way! Research the comments US airmen made about being in the East Anglian bases during WW2 and the landscape as they saw and filmed it, as comparing the then and now is revealing. I've recently had conversations with colleagues living in London, who find country living far too quiet-almost frighteningly so-to sleep. They are also unnerved by being away from the built up areas-my childhood bedroom looked out over fields, where the loudest noise at night was likely an owl or a fox (unless the UK & US air forces were on low flying exercises-though this was rarely at night). It's great that you took the time to make your own images from the things you saw around you, too often we look for the general bigger picture and miss the small exquisite details. You managed to make the point that the "countryside" is a working area as well as being a thing of beauty and recreation space, as such it must evolve, but it also needs to be a balance between the various conflicting pressures, which I'm not sure we have right at the moment-but, what is "right"?
Brilliant video , looks good and you gave a very good explanation with history included . more like this please get out on the streets , markets , cafe's etc ❤
Thank you from a Brit. I think we take our countryside for granted and it was good to be reminded about how lucky we are. It was heartwarming to know you appreciate our heritage.
That was marvellous, just enough information to be interesting without being nerdy (although I quite like nerdy). As for the keys, I’ve done it myself - no shame there.
Great video Kaylyn. Your pace, facts and the cutting of the shots got this so well expressed. Normally, I'd want to add something extra in the comments but you covered so much in such a short video. The only thing I'd add is the public footpaths legislation came about when the Ramblers Association organised the Kinder Scout protest. Honestly, you should do more stuff like this.
A great video Kalyn, very informative indeed and will defo help tourists visiting England but in Scotland a bit different as we have the "The Land Reform Act 2003" which basically gives anyone the right to go pretty much anywhere they want to go on private land and landowners cannot stop them. The most important thing I think you alluded too and in Scotland the phrase is "leave it how you found it", keep up the good work you
Interesting to note that footpath BEED/18/1 ends across the road from a pub in the hamlet called "World's End" ... what could go wrong walking through a dark field on the way to the World's End pub! With such a destination there's no need to pack snacks!
A speedy and concise rendition of the British countryside. Well done. We have a field hedge that is around 600ft (180m) in length as it loops around our property. Unfortunately, the once fields beyond were developed into a housing estate in 1960's and as a result we have 22 properties that back onto our hedge (as defined by the deeds). Those neighbours have over the years planted all sorts of invasive weeds like conifers into the hedge that has gradually killed parts that makes the retention of the hedge much more difficult and a loss of habitat to the wildlife. The other issue is that the ditch that used to run behind the hedge has been filled in by those neighbours, cutting off the discharge from our stormwater system. it is fortunate that the soil is so free draining because otherwise most of those houses would have a bog at the end of our garden. I just pity the person that owns the property that sits on the former pond where all the ditch water used to drain to as that now ground water course is probably still active.
You can still see the ridges created by the feudal farming system. If you watch out you'll see a lot of farmland and even wooded land where the ridges and furrows are still there.
Anyone wanting to visit a sizeable forest area in the south, I'd recommend the area in between Guildford and Dorking in Surrey, where the North Downs Way runs through. Much better than Epping Forest and no main road running all the way through it like Epping.
Some nice views there from Coombe Hill, looking out over Chequers , Beacon Hill towards Chinnor. Up there regularly myself. The cows always look very content to be there too!
In a world filled with AI, I feel it's important to tell you that 95% of the footage was filmed by me in the REAL English countryside (minus the peasant farming the land, couldn't find one of those), and the still photos are sourced from online. But the snail, sheep, rain drops, cows, and rest are real. :)
it's top stuff too 👍
Nice one Kalyn. Great to see an "out and about" style video.
Excellent video. One of your very best. Well done.
Great video GGL!! There are small areas that still use strip farming methods from the middle ages but these are few and far between (South Yorkshire has some). Most farmers don't mind you accessing their land as long as you follow the "Country Code" ie don't trample crops, stick to footpaths if possible, don't leave litter, keep gates closed, keep dogs on a lead, don't mess about with machinery or other farming stuff....Etc etc....
Do yourself a favour, my friend and try exploring the SCOTTISH countryside.
Might be worth waiting until after the Mayday Bank Holiday in 2025 and I would particularly recommend North of Perth and Dundee.
As well as Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Highlands.
I have no real wish to detract from the undoubted splendour and beautiful scenery that many parts of the English countryside has to offer but it's just that with coming from Scotland well we have a wealth of Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
I am so glad that you are able to get out and enjoy the countryside and greenery of the UK.
And of course at this time of year, the air doesn't really get much fresher.
As a Brit, I was shocked to discover from American friends that public rights of way (footpaths, bridleways, byways) as we know them here don't exist in the US. I use public footpaths all the time. They're one of my favourite aspects of the British countryside.
Definitely something we're missing in the US that I would love to have there.
As a Scot I find it particularly interesting as our rights of access to open land are significantly greater in Scotland compared to England. There are still some limitations of course, but for Scots used to the "Right to Roam" it's even more shocking for us to see Americans amazed by the opportunity of what we'd consider restricted access.
And great for walking the dog.
this is definitely a great thing, we have similar public paths in Poland, but more and more people are fencing themselves off and you can't pass through private land
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Love it❤❤
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Girl Gone... Country-style ❤
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What a well-researched and well-presented video. Fantastic stuff!
many many thanks for watching!
Excellent!!!! Video Kalyn, well done! 👍👏👏👏😊
Thank you so so much!
It was lovely, wasn't it. Happy and heartfelt ♥️
You are perfect for documentaries.Articulate, transparent and loaded with interesting factual nuggets.
And funny, don't forget funny 😊
Kaylyn, that is absolutely spot on! As a former Northumberland National Park employee I am impressed by your research - and, a bonus, my wife was the National Lead manager of for all England's National Trails, Footpaths and Open Access (worth another video?) for, Natural England so on a personal level I'm delighted Natural England are mentioned. It's not often (if ever) I hear the 'Definitive Map' being mentioned. .
A great video demonstrating some typical English landscapes. Lovely to see you outside your living room or kitchen for a change too!
I’ve lived around the world (mainly the commonwealth), and there’s nothing as beautiful and serene as rambling in the English countryside.
it's definitely gorgeous!
I grew up in a semi-rural market town. I know exactly how this video smells!
it definitely is such a distinct countryside smell!
Me too. It smells of damp, cold Autumnal air, soil / mud, sticks and the faint smell of wood burning or chimney smoke from a coal fire 🍂🍁
Absolutely spot on video, I'm a country boy from North Oxfordshire and have spent many happy years wandering around the countryside on mile after mile of peaceful footpaths, and even after 30+ years I find a path a haven't happily got lost on. Superbly researched 10/10
Oh so beautifully green. After arriving back in the UK, from a trip to a very parched and brown region of Sicily, our landscape dazzled me with it's lushness. I love our countryside.
The only wild cattle left in the whole world is the herd of Chillingham Cattle which is in Northumberland.
41,000 miles of public footpaths are in danger of being lost forever because they haven't been registered by local councils. The deadline for them to be registered is 2031.
Very good on the history Kalyn. The only bit you missed on was landowners evicting people from villages and farms to turn arable land into livestock farms because there was more profit in it.
Very different from your normal videos, but a brilliant video. I am English and I love the Countryside. It would be great if you did more of this type of video.
So glad you still enjoyed! Will definitely do more!
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial more like this please
Well this is a new format. Well done.
Thank you very much. :)
Agreed. GGL should do more stuff like this when possible.
Once more, dear lady, a great, informative, and well thought out video on a niche subject so often overlooked. One of my sons is a legal consultant to the CPRE and represents it in court battles to preserve the Green Belt and public footpaths (llwybrau cyhoeddus 🏴). Keep up the exellent work. ❤
Thank you so much! How interesting that your son is involved with the CPRE - I love the countryside.
Madonna tried to stoop people crossing on her land and thankfully she lost.😊
didn't know that!
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial Yes, she tried to protect her Borderline. Never quite got Into the Groove with the British way of life. Got Hung Up on a point of law.
[That's enough Madonna songs. - Ed.]
They should have posted photos of her visage post Botox. That would have scared them away.
🇬🇧 Just had a holiday travelling through the extremely beautiful English countryside. A slow progress through the Chiltern Hills and Berkshire. Ye Olde Inns, a car picnic, small lovely villages.
SO LOVELY
Without doubt one of your best videos. Loved it. 👍👍👍
Thank you so much. :)
Great to see you out and about!
Thanks so much for watching! More adventures to come!
The further north you go you will see the hedges less and dry stone wall taking their place..
Always think dry stone walls look so cold and barren compared to hedgerows, suppose been it is more Scotland or North of England it is more barren.
@@fasteddie406 Stone is predominantly used more in the mountainous regions and surrounding areas where hedgerows are more difficult to grow, and are equally beautiful.
@@fasteddie406Dry stone walls are far from barren, they are covered in lichen and mosses, many different plants and animals make their homes in them, many other animals use them for shelter which often leads to certain places having buildings attached to them for sheep and cows to over winter without need to be brought off the hills and mountains and into barns, this means birds will have permanent residence away from people and their droppings fertilize the land.
@@ChrisShelley-v2g Dry stone walls are lovely. I grew up in East London but I loved spending time in the countryside when we went back to Ireland and loved learning how to do things like shear sheep and basic farm skills.
Come to Gloucestershire.
Brilliant video, Kalyn! Would love to see more walk about adventures 😊
Thank you so much Arthur! More definitely incoming!
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial come to Warwickshire! Lots of history and historical buildings (I'm next to Kenilworth Castle so biased)
Great production Kaylin🌳🐑🏞
Thank you so much!
Deffo one of the best videos you have ever made, please keep the trend going 👍
Fantastic camera shots and editing, GGL!
Really appreciate the kind feedback, thank you, I tried my best!
Well done on gathering so many threads together & making it make sense - some clever footage too. I've been all over the world & visited some striking landscapes but there is no where I'd rather live than here in the UK - rainfall included.
Love your stuff, keep up the good work. Love & Kisses from God's back yard (Shropshire)
Thank you so much! Appreciate you!
The best 9 minutes of an history lecture ever.
Aw thank you so much!
Goodness, you packed a huge amount of interesting information into 9 minutes. Well done
Thank you so much for your nice feedback!
You REALLY, really did your homework on this!!!
99.99% of Brits would know no more than 5% of this.
Investigate the TOTALLY amazing beauty of the W coast temporate rain forests.
Utterly brilliant video again.
You really do seem to have fallen in love with the UK - biased opinion - the least worst place in the world to live.
If you feel "fiited-in", welcome!!
Thank you so much for your kind words, they really mean a lot.
There speaks someone who lives in a city
@@markforster2794 Are you always so very wrong in all things?
Wow. Maybe your best video yet! I love it. Thanks.
Thank you so much for the nice feedback!
Up there with Button Moon..
Great video, I loved it. Hedgerows are great for snacking if the blackberries are out 😃
Many thanks for watching!
Also wild rasberries, slows, damsons etc
Only pick above a dog's cocked leg height.
@@Lily-Bravo And allow for the odd pub goer, returning home.
You can also explore the countryside without threat of being eaten (except by midges or mozzies)
a great point!
Very well done Keylen. You make an Englishman very happy. Yours is the best & most concise description of the wonderful English countryside I have heard in my 70+ years of life. You have instantly promoted yourself to the highest level of Englishness, because you have explained by this just what being English (& British) is.
Thank you so much for the kind words, glad you enjoyed.
It's official she does go outside and is not a vampire
just got off house arrest last week!
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Just nibbles, doesn't bite.
🇬🇧 Excellent video. Something a little different.
🇬🇧 Thank You 🇬🇧
Brilliant. Well done digging up the legislation and making the point that the English countryside is not natural but has been crafted by generations of farmers and landowners over hundreds of years.
Oo, I love this intensive "not a word wasted" educational approach!
Thank you! I will try to do more like this.
And it’s more than just England. Wales is so beautiful that the traffic jams in a Friday is full of traffic jams full of caravans, cars with tents and just cars queuing to get into Wales for the weekend because it is a garden spot of BRITAIN! The beaches, the forests, and the wonderful mountains. Just as nice as England, truly. I live right by the Severn bridge, and we always avoid Friday afternoons because the traffic just shows how popular Wales is. We have our own language which pre dates English by thousands of years, and was the original language of Britannia. When the Romans invaded under emperor Claudius, he met an entire island that spoke Welsh ( Brythonic- an early form of Welsh). English hadn’t been invented for another thousand years.
I used to work in the Peak District, much better to explore it on a weekday than when it's busy at the weekend! Weekends are full of caravans, cars, tents and groups of motorbikers, weekdays hardly anyone is there if it's not summer.
Lovely video! Thank you Kalyn.
Thank you so much for watching!
Absolutely loved this episode, so well explained and excellent views. Thank you.
Thank you so much, this made my day!
Love this so much. Such a different style from your previous content, which have always loved, and I'm sure this is more expensive and complicated to make, but you're so good at this. It's so well done. Having seen the video of big reaction channels making money off your work, really hope this could be a departure for you. Love it
Well done with this video. Girl done her homework. I was born in a rural area and seen many hedges torn down. Only now in last few years there planting them again.some new ones where i come from are now really tall. The wildlife loves them and the land seems less baron. Over the years ive seen top soil blowing off the feilds, I think thats proberly a reason many are planting again. But it makes England Beautiful.
Many thanks for watching and sharing your story!
I appreciate that your videos, are concise, informative with a dry and enjoyable delivery.
Well, that was well presented & informative. A+
Many thanks! :)
Great video from my beloved Buckinghamshire!! ❤️ Have fun exploring the Chilterns. X
LOVE your videos. You research so carefully and film beautifully. Thank you, K xx
That was so good. Clear, concise, and informative and that’s coming from somebody who has lived here all their life. Brilliantly done.
On mile 8 of what was supposed to be a 2 mile hike and you didn't pack a snack? Welcome to the British Army.
Great video, you can't beat the British countryside, I'm from the lake District Cumbria it's a very special place.
Brava!!! Hedgerows are beautiful homes for so many creatures. I'm so glad that you appreciate them and are telling others too.
Best short summary of the English countryside I've ever seen. Terrific. Protecting the countryside and its wildlife though continues and will be a major and difficult task against the current pressures. Always take water and or a flask of something hot and snacks (sandwiches). Quick tip: buy yourself some decent leather walking boots (if you don't want to get sodden footwear or turn an ankle); good, breathable waterproof trousers; and a breathable waterproof jacket.
As a Brit that loves walking in the country, you did a very good job of researching and presenting that video, well done 🙂
One thing worth mentioning to anyone visiting the UK or using public footpaths is that you must stick to the paths, keep your dogs on a lead, pick up after them and take note of the warning notices about livestock safety. The footpath entrances and field gates will be signed and tell you if there's cattle or other livestock with young which usually includes instructions in case you're faced with a herd coming at you but generally speaking, if you stick to the path and don't go wandering across fields and over to them, you'll be safe.
Great vid. A very balanced and thorough description of our wonderful countryside
This was one of your best videos, with one of your best scripts. TV quality level reporting! Well done!
WOW, Your outside.
Had to think if this was really you or a fake upload.
I know, a real treat to be let out of the house!
Brilliant from an American.
Another American Bill Bryson the author was a President of CPRE( Campaign for the Preservation of Rural England) and is an expert on the hedgerows.
When you pass through Germany, Netherlands and Belgium the lack of hedges is really strange.
Best video you've made imo
This makes my day, thank you for saying that!
Kalyn. I've been following your videos for a long time now. This one was brilliant and you obviously spent lots of time researching and putting the dialogue together.
Kalyn, you are really good at this. Thanks for making this excellent video!
Now this is the real England I love. Really happy you escaped London to see it for yourself.
Brilliant to see you out and about! Love it
This has got to be amongst the best videos you have made, well done!
I have to admire the research you put into your videos which separate you from the usual reaction videos.
Thanks so much, I appreciate that as I do try to do a lot of research to have something interesting to say.
What an absolutely brilliant video, thank you
Great content Kalyn, your best video yet, hope you do many more Kalyn goes out of the house soon.
Back in the day we had Empires run by Emperors, Kingdoms run by Kings, and now we have Country's run by, errrr, well you get the idea. :)
Can't remember who i plagerised that from, but credit to them. :)
Sounds like Jethro to me - brilliantly irreverent comedian!
Well done! probably the best explanation of the countryside for non Brits I've seen. You are exactly right about countryside being a fusion of nature and history, people don't realise that even deserted or empty areas like Scoltland or Dartmoor were once busy places where lots of people lived. If you dig a hole anywhere is southern England including the countryside you will find medieval and Roman artifacts.
Great video Kaylin, nice to see you out side the home.
thanks so much for watching!
Great research ! Enjoyable to watch. Nice one.👍🏻
thank you!
One of your best posts, concise and bright keep up the good work ❤
As a fell runner and landscape artist I love the countryside, as well as the footpath network in most national parks in England and Wales there's access land too, this land is shaded on OS maps with a thick peach coloured border, on access land you are free to roam within reason.
It took a while before I subscribed, but I have enjoyed "stalking" this channel for a while. Whilst the comparisons are interesting this edition reached a whole new level. I grew up in rural Suffolk in the 1960s & 70s, when farmers were encourage to grub out hedges and fill ditches-usually a hedge and ditch went together (at least in East Anglia)- to allow bigger machinery for farming "efficiency". That post WW2 mechanisation was the biggest change in the rural economy since the enclosure movement and Acts of the 17th & 18th centuries and it permanently changed farm working methods many of which until that time, our Anglo-Saxon predecessors would have recognised. The biggest loss (in East Anglia) is the combined mixed farm, as this had protected the meadow land needed for the hay and animal grazing and the flora & fauna that thrived on it. I used to have to wait for the cows to cross the road between the fields and the milking parlour when cycling to secondary school, however, that herd has gone, and arable crops on enlarged fields and houses have replaced several of the meadows and hedgerows. This makes the pavement cleaner under foot if walking to the village shop but we are also poorer for that.
Of course, with the loss of the hedgerows and field edges, the rights of way become difficult to follow accurately, "proceed that way for 350 yards, then turn 95 degrees to the right passing close to, but not at the pylon and follow a ditch for 50 yds then aim for the middle of that big hedge over there to find the gap". That is genuinely a route across one path that joins another in the middle of what is now a large arable field, that used to be several smaller ones. Using that route makes for a pleasant circular walk, if you can find the way!
Research the comments US airmen made about being in the East Anglian bases during WW2 and the landscape as they saw and filmed it, as comparing the then and now is revealing.
I've recently had conversations with colleagues living in London, who find country living far too quiet-almost frighteningly so-to sleep. They are also unnerved by being away from the built up areas-my childhood bedroom looked out over fields, where the loudest noise at night was likely an owl or a fox (unless the UK & US air forces were on low flying exercises-though this was rarely at night).
It's great that you took the time to make your own images from the things you saw around you, too often we look for the general bigger picture and miss the small exquisite details.
You managed to make the point that the "countryside" is a working area as well as being a thing of beauty and recreation space, as such it must evolve, but it also needs to be a balance between the various conflicting pressures, which I'm not sure we have right at the moment-but, what is "right"?
Without a doubt your best video so far. 👏
that was super interesting! I live in the countryside and I still learnt something!!
Brilliant video , looks good and you gave a very good explanation with history included . more like this please get out on the streets , markets , cafe's etc ❤
Many thanks for watching, will definitely do more!
Thank you from a Brit. I think we take our countryside for granted and it was good to be reminded about how lucky we are. It was heartwarming to know you appreciate our heritage.
Loving this change of direction 👍
Thank you!
That was marvellous, just enough information to be interesting without being nerdy (although I quite like nerdy). As for the keys, I’ve done it myself - no shame there.
Thank you so much for the nice feedback and for watching.
Love this new approach. ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for the feedback! It was really fun to film!
It's good to seen you out of your house 😊
Good to be out, haha. Thanks for watching!
Great video Kaylyn. Your pace, facts and the cutting of the shots got this so well expressed. Normally, I'd want to add something extra in the comments but you covered so much in such a short video. The only thing I'd add is the public footpaths legislation came about when the Ramblers Association organised the Kinder Scout protest. Honestly, you should do more stuff like this.
A great video Kalyn, very informative indeed and will defo help tourists visiting England but in Scotland a bit different as we have the "The Land Reform Act 2003" which basically gives anyone the right to go pretty much anywhere they want to go on private land and landowners cannot stop them. The most important thing I think you alluded too and in Scotland the phrase is "leave it how you found it", keep up the good work you
I was filming near Gorleston, out in the middle of somewhere. I love those little shelter huts. They are very necessary, too.
Love this format. Thanks!😊
Interesting to note that footpath BEED/18/1 ends across the road from a pub in the hamlet called "World's End" ... what could go wrong walking through a dark field on the way to the World's End pub!
With such a destination there's no need to pack snacks!
Love the new format 😀
Hey Kalyn, I really enjoyed watching this one: very informative, and on a topic I am personally drawn to. Keep up making more, please
Thank you so much for the positive feedback, glad you enjoyed.
Great video. Amazing how much there is to learn and things I didn't know about and I've lived surrounded by it my whole life
Thanks so much for watching!
That was really great Caitlyn ,I'll bet old Jack hargreaves is nodding his head in appreciation up there
I can see a career move for you ,a natural presenter !
A speedy and concise rendition of the British countryside. Well done.
We have a field hedge that is around 600ft (180m) in length as it loops around our property. Unfortunately, the once fields beyond were developed into a housing estate in 1960's and as a result we have 22 properties that back onto our hedge (as defined by the deeds). Those neighbours have over the years planted all sorts of invasive weeds like conifers into the hedge that has gradually killed parts that makes the retention of the hedge much more difficult and a loss of habitat to the wildlife. The other issue is that the ditch that used to run behind the hedge has been filled in by those neighbours, cutting off the discharge from our stormwater system. it is fortunate that the soil is so free draining because otherwise most of those houses would have a bog at the end of our garden. I just pity the person that owns the property that sits on the former pond where all the ditch water used to drain to as that now ground water course is probably still active.
Thank you so much for watching - interesting to hear your own stories on the topic!
Well done with this,the most concise down to earth “British” style piece I’ve seen an American do on this country 👏👍
You can still see the ridges created by the feudal farming system. If you watch out you'll see a lot of farmland and even wooded land where the ridges and furrows are still there.
Fabulous video. As a Brit, 🇬🇧 really enjoyed watching this and learning a few things in the way! Thank you.
One of your best and most resonant videos - thank you!
Anyone wanting to visit a sizeable forest area in the south, I'd recommend the area in between Guildford and Dorking in Surrey, where the North Downs Way runs through. Much better than Epping Forest and no main road running all the way through it like Epping.
Some nice views there from Coombe Hill, looking out over Chequers , Beacon Hill towards Chinnor. Up there regularly myself. The cows always look very content to be there too!
Great video!
Thank you very much!
I enjoy your well researched videos. Beautifully filmed, too.
Nice to see an American appreciate something simple but beautiful about England, thank you
Thanks so much for watching, glad you enjoyed.
You did a great job informing your viewers about the interesting history of the English countryside, thank you.