You ended up with a beautiful day for filming. I hope that you consider extending the time on these as things warm up. The 12-14 minute lengths always leave me wanting more, so I end up going back and watching some of your older videos that I've already seen.
I really like the insect hotel , so many insects have been eliminated by pesticides , thus also affecting the bird population that feed on them. And i believe it also affects the wild flowers and plants because it's not just bees that pollinate the flowers , the insects do so as well.
A great walk on many levels. The solitude, the setting, the weather and the silence. I've walked along there many years ago and I will definitely go back.
Spring is here. From the river's edge, to the open landscape and the church (so much bird song there). Your filming and production is spot on as always. Beautiful.🌷🐞🐝🐜
Beautiful walk in glorious sunshine. Loved the cows and bug hotel. The grave stones looked so pretty with all the daffodils dotted around them. So very peaceful and calming. Church exquisitely built. Thank for that. I feel refreshed.
What a glorious walk! Oh I so much want to walk along the banks of the Arun to North & South Stoke. Very happy memories there. Glad we are back to camera normality!
probably one of the nicest places on earth ...keep walking past the church , go over the river bridge and turn left .....there is amazing view from the east bank ....if you then continue north along the east bank it leads into a small woodland with wooden walk way and an old tree full of coins !
Lovely walk Richard. I've not set foot in a church in a long time now because they are all closed. I do enjoy visiting them when I see one on my travels. Spring is here now and lets hope things change soon Sandy
Been coming here 40 years, it's lovely. If you continue past the church then up around the field the other side you carry on along the river bank, with the white cliffs on your left. It eventually takes you to the George and Dragon pub in Houghton :)
How civilised. Longing to get back to South England (expat now Australian) - but it wouldn't be the same without the pubs. You are tearing through the vaccinations, I'm hoping you'll be out of the woods in late June, what do you think?
I done the same walk you done in the summer last year lovely and picturesque around there and it’s my favourite part of West Sussex the Arun valley.Wish I could afford to live around there lol
Had a family meal at the Black Rabbit a couple of weeks before the first lockdown.....if only we'd known what was coming ! A great walk to a beautiful little church - one of my favourites. So peaceful. The walk could continue across the river to North Stoke which has a lovely redundant church cared for by The Churches Conservation Trust, and designated as a world heritage site in 1955. You were lucky not to meet anyone ! Actually the Bald Explorer has made 2 videos at North Stoke !! worth a look
We got out 2 days ago before the wind and did our Down to the Thames Walk. Lucky for us we can walk from home and this goes via some woodland. The other way 20 mins and we are in Fields and can get to Pangbourne without going on the main road. Loved your Walk again. Love David and Lily.
Hi Richard really enjoyed your film mate. It must be said I discovered during over this Covid pandemic and I think you've definitely helped me stay sane so bloody well done. Keep up the good work mate. Keith
What a beautiful walk! Especially that gorgeous blue sky!💙🌞 Looked like a very nice path along the Arun river. South Stoke looked amazing!!! Couldn't believe you have no videos on it....have you never done a walking tour there?! Such a lovely old church & what looked to be a lot of marvelous array of old builds. Was that the old Manor at 11:40?
I very interesting walk,,,as usual! I know what you mean about how quiet it can be out in the country. Now imagine growing up in such an area then visiting a city for a weekend. For me at 7, according to my mom, I covered my ears because I thought my grand-mothers' house was in such a noisy neighborhood!
@@RichardVobes Yes, it seems funny now. Later I lived in New York city for 3 years and learned just how noisy a city could be! Though I did live in Brooklyn which to New Yorkers seemed quiet, we lived close to an elevated subway and the sounds of the brakes squeeching could wake the dead!
As a sussex man born and bread srong in the arm thick in the head , thanks lovely music, lovely day too. Allso nice your out and about instead of vans and things
A lovely video Richard i would love to goto arundal again haven't been since I was a young boy, lovely listening to the different sounds of the wildlife, and what a lovely idea to have a bug hotel I've seen them on TV before but never personally, great idea. Huge reeds wow and lovely river, lovely looking church and graveyard too you've captured some great images here Richard very lovely. Well done like the shirt too. :)
Gosh Richard that was a stunning walk. So peaceful and the Church was magnificent. I have to say the quality of video was broadcast quality, I don’t know what you were using but keep going.
Lovely video Richard, really enjoyed it. The "sedges" are, I believe, phragmites reeds, although I'm happy to be corrected if someone knows better! :-)
Thoroughly enjoying catching up on all your videos (only recently discovered you on You Tube). Also enjoying watching them in a completely random order! As someone considering moving to the Hailsham/Eastbourne/Polegate area to escape London, I wonder if you have filmed any walks along the Cuckoo Trail or would consider it as a potential future filming project.
Now was the St. Leonard's Church with a Tower, or Steeple ? Usually the Lord of the Manor, would build a tower for a boy, or a steeple for a girl. Maybe he had both, so decided to combine them into one ? ? Lovely Video, as usual ! You didn't say if you were using that "secret agent's camera", or not. See you on the next Vlog ! Stu xx
What a beautiful church with an unusual steeple and the bug hotel is a great idea. I'm usually up higher in the Estate when having a run in the area. I must visit the church when poss. I got caught out with the rain yesterday and was a slipping and sliding on the paths to the West of Fernhurst on a lunch time run. Have you visited Furnace area yet between Fernhurst and Milland? A lot more there than the furnace area you did a Vlog on at Newdigate. There is a society that puts on an open day annually in September when things are normal; might be worth you checking out if you don't know about? They have a website.
I don't think it's too much of a problem to put them in your pocket and take them home. But then you could say that about all of the rubbish that is just chucked - never mind ,out of sight out of mind , someone else will deal with it.
Beautiful weather, beautiful walk, beautiful video. I wonder if they used those reeds for thatching in past days? People don't seem to understand that disposable in the mask description does not mean you can just drop them anywhere- it's very sad. The church tower looks almost Italinate in style. While navigating to this video I came upon one of your videos marked from a year ago, so just before covid struck with avengeance, entitled South Downs Lament - saying how deserted the downs was of people and giving what seemed quite a coherent time line to then. How different now with lockdown and our allowed exercise outings! Who could have foreseen the downs would be crowded and buzzing with folks again. You were lucky on this walk to get the solitude!
True indeed. I was of course talking about the many farmsteads and labourers in prehistory times particularly when people worked and lived on this beautiful hills. Now as you say, plagued with leisure folk.
So nice to hear the sparrows chirping away... here in London, I think the increasing presence of the green parrots have reduced the sparrow populations. Certainly in this area anyhow. I love to hear the happy chirp of the sparrow. ❤️ I used to drink at that pub many moons ago. Used to be a fine restaurant too. Maybe it still is. Don’t know as I haven’t been back there in years. Thanks for sharing your walks Richard. Much appreciated 👍🏼✨
@@RichardVobes yes, London is swarming with them. I love birds but these parrots are very territorial and squawk, don’t chirp. Squawking should be illegal 😂
This is such a lovely part of the world. The reeds are called Norfolk Reed, put there to help stop the bank from crumbling, or so I was told. I was just wondering Richard , could your fear of cows come from them Cravendale milk ads 😄 Thanks for sharing 👍
' Sedges have edges, rushes are round, grasses are hollow, what have you found '.
An old rhyme that helps identification.
Brilliant - must remember that.
In my retirement years, I would be perfectly content living in a nice little cottage out in the lovely English countryside, it's good to dream. :)
A brilliant dream to have.
I agree with Martin a beautiful film on a beautiful day. Nice piece of smooth editing when you took your jacket off, too!
Always cut on action - first editing tip I learned.
You ended up with a beautiful day for filming. I hope that you consider extending the time on these as things warm up. The 12-14 minute lengths always leave me wanting more, so I end up going back and watching some of your older videos that I've already seen.
Thanks very much, John. I may go back to a longer format.
What a glorious walk. Thank you
Just lovely walk, so enjoyed it. Spring is almost upon us.
Glad you enjoyed it
Beautifully filmed Richard. You caught the atmosphere perfectly.
Many thanks!
I really like the insect hotel , so many insects have been eliminated by pesticides , thus also affecting the bird population that feed on them. And i believe it also affects the wild flowers and plants because it's not just bees that pollinate the flowers , the insects do so as well.
We must protect the insects.
A great walk on many levels. The solitude, the setting, the weather and the silence. I've walked along there many years ago and I will definitely go back.
Thanks so much - so glad you enjoyed it.
Spring is here. From the river's edge, to the open landscape and the church (so much bird song there). Your filming and production is spot on as always. Beautiful.🌷🐞🐝🐜
Thanks so much Tracey! More sunshine please!
A lovely, peaceful walk in the sunshine, Richard. Spring is in the air!
It sure is - spring in the air. Thank you.
Thanks again Richard. Lovely video reminding us that we are moving out of winter and we should make every effort to get out in the sunshine.
That Vitamin D is so good for us.
Thank you Richard
My pleasure - thanks for watching.
The beauty of the English countryside - thank you that was refreshing
It is lovely to get out on a warm sunny day!
Beautiful walk in glorious sunshine. Loved the cows and bug hotel. The grave stones looked so pretty with all the daffodils dotted around them. So very peaceful and calming. Church exquisitely built. Thank for that. I feel refreshed.
Fabulous - glad to be have been of service, Shirley.
One of my favourite walks, so peaceful. I hope it stays that way far from the madding crowds.
Excellent walk yet again these walks round off my day perfectly thankyou
Great to hear!
What a beautiful walk. Thanks, Richard ☺
Glad you enjoyed it
Lovely video, idyllic countryside, yes I've visited the black rabbit with my dad, in busier times!
Thanks for a look at the fine old church. Very scenic walk.
Thank You Richard. That was wonderful.
You are very welcome
What a glorious walk! Oh I so much want to walk along the banks of the Arun to North & South Stoke. Very happy memories there.
Glad we are back to camera normality!
A lovely walk indeed and yes, back to proper filming again! :)
probably one of the nicest places on earth ...keep walking past the church , go over the river bridge and turn left .....there is amazing view from the east bank ....if you then continue north along the east bank it leads into a small woodland with wooden walk way and an old tree full of coins !
How wonderful!
Lovely walk Richard. I've not set foot in a church in a long time now because they are all closed. I do enjoy visiting them when I see one on my travels.
Spring is here now and lets hope things change soon
Sandy
Thanks Sandy - it is just nice to get out. But yes, a visit to a church interior would be lovely!
Superb B.E thank you
Thank you too!
Been coming here 40 years, it's lovely. If you continue past the church then up around the field the other side you carry on along the river bank, with the white cliffs on your left. It eventually takes you to the George and Dragon pub in Houghton :)
How civilised.
Longing to get back to South England (expat now Australian) - but it wouldn't be the same without the pubs.
You are tearing through the vaccinations, I'm hoping you'll be out of the woods in late June, what do you think?
@@andyjarman4958 They're saying July, but who knows :) Got mine booked for next week !
Loved the video. Beautifully shot with enchanting music. Thank you.
Thanks, Jenny.
Lovely riverside walk, beautiful views, nice to see a train. The church looked interesting. Sunshine makes all the difference.
The warm sun is eveything.
Beautiful area.
Great walk, Richard. Lovely old church. Very picturesque. Nice to see the Spring sunshine too!
It was so lovely in the sunshine, Zoe.
I done the same walk you done in the summer last year lovely and picturesque around there and it’s my favourite part of West Sussex the Arun valley.Wish I could afford to live around there lol
It is a lovely place, Stephen, I agree.
Had a family meal at the Black Rabbit a couple of weeks before the first lockdown.....if only we'd known what was coming ! A great walk to a beautiful little church - one of my favourites. So peaceful. The walk could continue across the river to North Stoke which has a lovely redundant church cared for by The Churches Conservation Trust, and designated as a world heritage site in 1955. You were lucky not to meet anyone ! Actually the Bald Explorer has made 2 videos at North Stoke !! worth a look
I was going to say, I made a video there with the late Annabelle Hughes. (North Stoke)
Very nice walks along there Richard 😀.
What a beautiful day - (unlike yesterday - spring time in England! 🤷♂️)
This is the stuff that people come back to the channel - fantastic! 👍🏻
We need some more sunny days! :)
Beautiful church!
Beautifully filmed Richard, great the way you framed the shots.
Thanks so much.
I pick up discarded masks and other litter on the dog walks, using poo bags. often have a carry bag for large pieces.
Ah yes - good to have the poo bags handy!
We got out 2 days ago before the wind and did our Down to the Thames Walk.
Lucky for us we can walk from home and this goes via some woodland.
The other way 20 mins and we are in Fields and can get to Pangbourne without going on the main road.
Loved your Walk again. Love David and Lily.
Thanks so much - so pleased you are able to get into the woods!
Hi Richard really enjoyed your film mate. It must be said I discovered during over this Covid pandemic and I think you've definitely helped me stay sane so bloody well done. Keep up the good work mate. Keith
Thanks very much - I very much appreciate the kind remarks.
Looking dapper in your Harris tweed .
Great video as always
Thanks so much :)
Arundel castle very beautiful and very old building. I so Arundel castle in 2010.
Did this walk today, thanks for the vid!
Great job!
I enjoyed the walk, good that you are getting out in your new van.
I love the van and it takes me nice places! :) Thanks, Laura.
What a beautiful walk! Especially that gorgeous blue sky!💙🌞 Looked like a very nice path along the Arun river. South Stoke looked amazing!!! Couldn't believe you have no videos on it....have you never done a walking tour there?! Such a lovely old church & what looked to be a lot of marvelous array of old builds. Was that the old Manor at 11:40?
I think it must have been the old manor house or vicarage because it has access to the church.
I very interesting walk,,,as usual! I know what you mean about how quiet it can be out in the country. Now imagine growing up in such an area then visiting a city for a weekend. For me at 7, according to my mom, I covered my ears because I thought my grand-mothers' house was in such a noisy neighborhood!
How funny!
@@RichardVobes Yes, it seems funny now. Later I lived in New York city for 3 years and learned just how noisy a city could be! Though I did live in Brooklyn which to New Yorkers seemed quiet, we lived close to an elevated subway and the sounds of the brakes squeeching could wake the dead!
As a sussex man born and bread srong in the arm thick in the head , thanks lovely music, lovely day too. Allso nice your out and about instead of vans and things
It is nice to get out!
Lovely walk Richard.It was wet in Radstock all day and it's the same this morning and very windy.
Very windy here today!
A lovely video Richard i would love to goto arundal again haven't been since I was a young boy, lovely listening to the different sounds of the wildlife, and what a lovely idea to have a bug hotel I've seen them on TV before but never personally, great idea. Huge reeds wow and lovely river, lovely looking church and graveyard too you've captured some great images here Richard very lovely. Well done like the shirt too. :)
Thanks, Charlie. The bug hotel was great, although I didn't see any bugs! But I am sure they were in there.
Lovely video.
Thank you very much!
My pleasure. I left some comments about your Hamsey and Sheet videos the other day, Richard. Hope you find them interesting and helpful. :)
A very nice video, the weather was perfect and the views wonderful. I liked your choice of music as well.
Thank you very much!
(sudden thought) Have you ever walked the Wey and Arun canal upstream of (say) Pulborough?
No - I haven't, I must do that.
Glad you think Arundal is fairytale like too. It casts a spell over the landscape doesn't it.
We are lucky to have it in West Sussex - so few castles to speak of.
Gosh Richard that was a stunning walk. So peaceful and the Church was magnificent. I have to say the quality of video was broadcast quality, I don’t know what you were using but keep going.
Thanks so much.
Lovely video Richard, really enjoyed it. The "sedges" are, I believe, phragmites reeds, although I'm happy to be corrected if someone knows better! :-)
Thanks for the info!
Thoroughly enjoying catching up on all your videos (only recently discovered you on You Tube). Also enjoying watching them in a completely random order! As someone considering moving to the Hailsham/Eastbourne/Polegate area to escape London, I wonder if you have filmed any walks along the Cuckoo Trail or would consider it as a potential future filming project.
I must have a look into that - good idea. Thank you.
Thanks for another lovely walk, Richard. Perfect weather too. Will you be able to travel East & walk the Telscombe Cliffs at Peacehaven.?
Ooh that sounds good.
I must do that, yes!
Now was the St. Leonard's Church with a Tower, or Steeple ?
Usually the Lord of the Manor, would build a tower for a boy, or a steeple for a girl.
Maybe he had both, so decided to combine them into one ? ?
Lovely Video, as usual !
You didn't say if you were using that "secret agent's camera", or not.
See you on the next Vlog !
Stu xx
I didn't use the secret agents camera - back to the normal mirrorless.
What a beautiful church with an unusual steeple and the bug hotel is a great idea. I'm usually up higher in the Estate when having a run in the area. I must visit the church when poss. I got caught out with the rain yesterday and was a slipping and sliding on the paths to the West of Fernhurst on a lunch time run. Have you visited Furnace area yet between Fernhurst and Milland? A lot more there than the furnace area you did a Vlog on at Newdigate. There is a society that puts on an open day annually in September when things are normal; might be worth you checking out if you don't know about? They have a website.
I have heard of it and have meant to go and explore.
A good question perhaps would be why the government has never provided specific public waste bins for face muzzles.
I don't think it's too much of a problem to put them in your pocket and take them home. But then you could say that about all of the rubbish that is just chucked - never mind ,out of sight out of mind , someone else will deal with it.
The roadsides and verges are absolutely littered with rubbish at the moment.
Beautiful weather, beautiful walk, beautiful video. I wonder if they used those reeds for thatching in past days? People don't seem to understand that disposable in the mask description does not mean you can just drop them anywhere- it's very sad. The church tower looks almost Italinate in style. While navigating to this video I came upon one of your videos marked from a year ago, so just before covid struck with avengeance, entitled South Downs Lament - saying how deserted the downs was of people and giving what seemed quite a coherent time line to then. How different now with lockdown and our allowed exercise outings! Who could have foreseen the downs would be crowded and buzzing with folks again. You were lucky on this walk to get the solitude!
True indeed. I was of course talking about the many farmsteads and labourers in prehistory times particularly when people worked and lived on this beautiful hills. Now as you say, plagued with leisure folk.
Sorry about that I ment to say I discovered you during this lockdown, don't know what happened their. Keith
So nice to hear the sparrows chirping away... here in London, I think the increasing presence of the green parrots have reduced the sparrow populations. Certainly in this area anyhow. I love to hear the happy chirp of the sparrow. ❤️ I used to drink at that pub many moons ago. Used to be a fine restaurant too. Maybe it still is. Don’t know as I haven’t been back there in years. Thanks for sharing your walks Richard. Much appreciated 👍🏼✨
I was overjoyed to discover that a family of house sparrows had set up home under one of my eaves a couple of years ago!
@@CosmicClaire99 lucky lady 🌻
Green parrots! Not many of those down in Sussex. Yes, a lovely pub. Thanks as ever.
@@RichardVobes yes, London is swarming with them. I love birds but these parrots are very territorial and squawk, don’t chirp. Squawking should be illegal 😂
on your circle back, you can take a footpath past 'Foxes Oven' and there is a book published with the same name and based there.
I did just that on the way back. :)
Phragmytes australis - common reed.
Thanks for that, Andy.
I used to love the Black Rabbit, but then they ruined it with that hideous new seating area by the river :( lol
Lovely to see the river though.
@@RichardVobes yes the river is lovely
This is such a lovely part of the world. The reeds are called Norfolk Reed, put there to help stop the bank from crumbling, or so I was told. I was just wondering Richard , could your fear of cows come from them Cravendale milk ads 😄 Thanks for sharing 👍
Ah yes, Norfolk reed. Thanks, Ian.
Trrrrrrriiiiaaaan!
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