Walking out of London - West Ruislip to Seer Green (4K)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- A walk from the end of the Central Line at West Ruislip through Ickenham, passing the River Pinn and down across the fields to the Grand Union Canal and Denham. Then past Denham Aerodrome and following the South Bucks Way to Chalfont St. Peter. From here we cross Goldhill Common to Seer Green and Jordans.
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A new John Rogers film is always a delight. Thank you. All the best. Ian
Thanks Ian - just started editing the next one
There isn’t one of your videos I don’t like, but when you’re over in my neck of the woods, I tend to like those ones a little more! Thanks John, keep walking and keep capturing it all. So comforting and therapeutic!
I'll be back there soon Leon
John Rogers looking forward to it! I would recommend Ruislip woods, copse woods, mad bess and anywhere around there! It encompasses a section of the Hillingdon trail I believe! Although, BEWARE, you may/will find yourself on a golf course at some point! 😂👍🏻
yes Leon great suggestions - went through Mad Bess Woods a few years back, there's a very short video on here, but really want to do more of the Hillingdon Trail and walk the length of the Pinn some day too
Funny enough, i'm also planning on doing a walk of the River Pinn. There's a walk called the Celandine route, which follows the river from Pinner to the grand union canal, maybe you can check that (if not already done so). I want to go from Ruislip and as far as Yiewsley, which is where i grew up as a child. It'll be like a pilgrimage from the present back into the past, with the river Pinn as my guide.
Thank you John. That let me re-live my walks in that area 45 years ago as a teenager. Specifically I recall a camping trip when we got the rain to Seer Green from West Ruislip and took 3 days to get back - playing in the woods at Jordan’s, camping on Gold Hill, camping by a dam on the River Misbourne, looking out for a glimpse of Roger Moore and Cilla Black and marvelling at those very same water reflections under the railway viaduct. Wonderful memories.
thanks for sharing those memories Peter
Another Wonderful walk John your just the best guide thankyou xx
Thanks so much Norma
Ahhhhh :-) what a peaceful way to spend a lunch break in a busy work schedule. X
Great walk! Thanks for taking us along.
Thanks Dawn it was a pleasure
Marylebone was part of Sir Edward Watkin's dream of a high speed railway connecting England with the continent via a channel tunnel. Ironic that a new high speed route is being built on similar terrain to one which was largely abandoned in the 1960s. Lovely walk on the Bucks fringes.
thanks for that Borderlands - I fear we've missed the boat with high-speed railways now, apparently HS2 will be old tech by the time it's actually finished
I used to live right next to west ruislip station, near the newsagents. I have so many memories walking along the countryside outside my doorstep.thank you for filming i may have to go back and visit
It’s great over that way, I often feel the pull westwards
Your videos are a great unwind after a third night shift... am following this one on Google maps, looking at a photo of the bridge over the canal on street view at the moment.
thanks for watching Daniel - great to hear the walks help people unwind, they certainly do for me. I even find the editing relaxing after a long day at work
Thanks John for letting us follow you along the ways Enjoyed that.
thanks for watching Paul
Beautiful
Fantastic!
Fantastic video. Many thanks for taking us along.
thanks Ron
Great walk John, I always enjoy you bringing us along on another adventure. I wonder what is going to happen the the part of Old Shire Lane that was blocked off, hopefully it is left intact. As always Thank you John for sharing, take care.
Thanks Darrell- I hope the closure of that section of Old Shire Lane is only temporary whilst the work is ongoing
Thanks john for that lovely video. So refreshing to watch that instead of the rubbish they show on the tv. Cant wait to take my grandson on walks when he is older.
Thanks Robert
Delightful walk - as always; thank you, John. 'Influencing factors', haha! Loved the patterns on the ceiling of that bridge.
PS The soundtrack is perfect; I'm not sure how you manage to choose just the right bits of music for different parts of your walk when you edit!
Thanks Mariana- this music just fitted perfectly, I do spend a bit of time choosing the music
That was a good one, John. Liked the reflection of the shimmering river on the viaduct. Magic.
thanks brYan
Cheers! made me get up and get out into our local woods!
Fantastic Lee
Thanks for this wonderful walk on the outskirts of London. It's lovely to know that the bucolic countryside still exists if you know where to find it. Well done!!!
Lovely John, I don't know the area at all but my parent both grew up around The Chalfonts so it was nice to see what it looks like from a walkers point of view. To put a few faces to names so to speak. Thanks again!
It's great out there Jonny - well worth a visit
Absolutely beautiful walk! I enjoyed that so much. I have only ever been to England once (2015), and I've been pinning for another visit ever since. I love it so much. Hope to get back across the pond again real soon. Thank you so much for sharing this with the world!
My pleasure Lin - I’m planning to head back over to the western side of London again soon
It's that beautiful soundtrack again! Love it. with the GUC towards Regents Park or the other way? Perfect partners in crime, the visual and the audio. Genius! but also works in so many other areas as you've shown. An ever green track that never grows old, says my Dad.!
Great continuity with this walk John, from rural countryside to small towns then back to the countryside all blended in very well.
Thanks Theo, yes that struck me particularly as I went along an alleyway behind houses in Chalfont - love moments like that
Such a well crafted video with lovely soundtrack, love from INDIA
Thanks very much Probhakar - much appreciated
Fantastic stuff as always John.......
cheers Jag
You may want to look into taking a sports drink like Gatorade, to help you better with the the heat and exhaustion. 95F in August here where iam at in South Florida is something expected every year.
I'll give it a go marie, thanks for the tip, although I fear we'll be lucky to get more than a few more days at those temperatures
I got emotional by looking at this video..thanks for showing us that London is not just pure concrete..
Great video John 👍☺️
thanks Ronnie
Wonderful walk as always John. So many great surprises when you don’t make any planned destination for a change. Among other things this walk has had some of the most interesting London signage I’ve seen.
Thanks Ross - yes some amazing signage out there
Really enjoying your videos.
Cheers Steve
Beautiful video, has to be one of my favourites.
thank you - I loved this walk, often think back to that day
Lovely walk John really enjoyed that. i have been going on longs walks myself but i can't drink in the afternoon if it's too hot it really knocks me out so i stick to water
I can't usually drink during the day gaz but made an exception in the heat and that I'd be walking it off
Great video as always. Loved it keep it up bro
thanks Leo - much appreciated
some beautiful shots in there John.. it felt like I was watching an episode of the detectorists!
Ha, very high praise indeed, that thought crossed my mind when I was choosing the music
Thanks for a great video. Loved following your walk on my Memory-Map. Good to see bits (Old Shire Lane) I walked on a stroll from Berkhamsted to Uxbridge (part of a much longer walk from Beeston to Teddington).
That sounds like a cracking walk Tim
4:37 I wholeheartedly agree.
So you're at the Hainault/Collier Row/Marks Gate area of West London. Awesome John, saved me a few trips so thanks for bringing us along again! Fairlop Lake near Hainault was also used as an airfield/, as you know. Now you have one in the docklands - London City Airport which is going to get expanded I think you shared that in another video. Scary Stuff! But exciting, I suppose.
Tilehouse Lane was where Mike Oldfield lived in the 1980's and kept his plane on Denham airfield as he used to fly as well as helicopters. He had his studio in the house. His son now produces there in the same room. Oldfield moved to the Bahamas
Brilliant info Ian, really adds to the landscape
@@JohnRogersWalks The least I can do for such wonderful and fascinating walks. I am astounded at your knowledge. You have almost inspired my wife and I to make vlogs about walks around Liverpool and Cheshire except I am very camera shy but I do have a photographic background. So far I have made one film on my channel about the filming of War Of The Worlds with Rafe Spall due to come out anytime soon on BBC. Click on my avatar if you feel like a gander. I used my own music too!
so peaceful and deserted by the conclusion
Great walk John, I have started the south bucks way walk from Denham a few months ago. Just need to finish it up too Aylesbury 😊
Have you ever thought of a walk around Ruislip and it's woods (supposidly the most woodland in London). From Ruislip Met Line Station, the high street takes you to the old village & church (until recently I lived in a 16th century cottage in The Oaks). You can then continue ahead to the medieval Manor Farm House (where my grandmother lived) and barns, then on across the Pinn into Park Wood, into the Lido by Woody Bay Station and round the lovely north end of the reservoir, then cut across the Poors Field (Ruislip Common) into Copse Wood and continue across Ducks Hill Road to the supposidly haunted Mad Bess Wood (I lived in a house in the middle of the wood when my grandfather was the keeper of the woods) and then across into Bayhurst Wood. A lovely area so close to London !
Great video : love it! Thank you. And I love the music again, too. [Your're right : The Bear on the Barge was formerly called The Horse and Barge, and I 'think' it was called The Coach and Horses before that.]
It was named the Halfway House. A really rough pub!
@@tonyharber8240 That's useful to know; thank you for that info. Following a little further research, I discovered that the present building was built in 1937 close to the original Halfway House.
Lived round there in 70s. So different
I didn't realise that HS2 was having such an immediate impact. Your video is recording our era's 'enclosing of the commons' as it is happening. I was also wondering if any of your walks have features of ancient landscapes showing through: the news outlets have had several stories about the lines of ancient settlements and sacred routes being revealed in the ground because of the hot weather. They make a contrast: the new lines of HS2 that are yet to be and the old lines of something that we have left behind...
It shocked me too Malcolm- they've also started demolishing buildings around Euston.
I've also been intrigued by the photos in the media of traces of the past emerging during the heatwave- makes me wish I had a drone
how good was that walk fantastic as usual hope you enjoyed your chips and fanta you really deserved it hope the fab was good thanks again is it moe or are they getting better and better
The thing that strikes me is how few others you meet on your walk, everyone nowadays is obsessed with travelling by car no one walks.
It is really strange Tony, particularly when these walks are not in remote places
John - another great walk -- HS2 is such a scar --- shame
Thanks Martin - completely agree about HS2
excellent
John, we appear to be inadvertently stalking each other across London, though I turned south rather than west on the Hillingdon Trail!
It's great out there Mike isn't it. Want to walk more of the Hillingdon Trail
Indeed. I had a really good walk along the Yeading Brook from North Harrow to Cranford. Lots of interesting paths crossed which I want to go back and investigate. The wild bit between RAF Northolt and the A40 was especially interesting.
ah yes, the marshy bit? Ickenham Marsh? Cranford's been on my list for a while - want to visit the grave of Tony Hancock
That's the spot - a few cows lurking there too, not my favourite animal! I hopped on a bus at Cranford after a long hot walk, will need to pick up the route next time.
20:07 too beautiful for words
Was it an orange Fanta? In the summer it is the best.
Yes, the classic although I've become slightly addicted to Lemon Fanta this summer
It seems like you don't meet anyone on the walk, or do you just pick quiet times to film? Great vid btw
That's true Marius - you rarely see anybody once you leave the streets
I don't know if you'll get this but who is playing the banjo type music in your videos? I have looked at Puddle and Huma Huma every time I hear it but I can't find it and I love it so much.
Nice to see that somewhere South of Watford is still fairly waterlogged John! According to the London Gardens on-line website, 'The Pynchester Moat site has remains of the dried up moat of a medieval farmhouse in a bend of the River Pinn....'
www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.php?ID=HIL038
There is a lot more detail here on the Historic England website:
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1002001
It was excavated in the nineteen sixties and there are details here of what the archaeologists found. According to the site quoted at the top 'A Pynchester Ferme is referred to in a deed of 1531 as part of property owned by Swakeleys Estate though it is not known if that is the moated site here.'
This picture from Flickr reminds me of an old nineteenth century engraving I have of a similar site at Barnsbury Square, which has also featured in one of your other walks; although the old moated manor house at Barnsbury looks very different now, as the footage you shot and posted on UA-cam clearly shows:
www.flickr.com/photos/dgeezer/9162998274
brilliant info as always Rupert
I think there may be some more in your Facebook message box that you haven't seen if I am not mistaken.
Shame about the HS2 ruining green belt