I Found The Original Real Life SimCity In Dorset: Poundbury!
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- SINCE FILMING I HAVE REALISED POUNDLAND IS MUCH BIGGER THAN THE SMALL AREA I EXPLORED. GUTTED I MISSED THE EPIC MAIN SQUARE. IT WAS ONLY A FLEETING VISIT.
Last week I uploaded a video of me exploring the strange yet captivating project at the new town of Nansledan in Newquay in Cornwall. Several viewers recommend that I check out and compare it to the original new build city built on Prince of Wales' land, Poundbury near Dorchester in Dorset. It's another strange yet wonderful place, sterile yet intriguing and unique. Construction began on Poundbury in 1993, so it's had a couple more decades to attain its own sense of self... or not! I take a quick wander and compare the two.
Check out the official page for Poundbury here poundbury.co.uk
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Great walkthrough. I always sort of laugh a bit when people consider these renditions of more ancient architecture as 'film sets' or 'toy model' versions of a town. People forget that a Georgian town would have looked realitively new and clean when it was first built, like our new hosing developments do. Its only time that really ages things. The limestone in Bath, would have been polished and shiny when built, not aged like we see it today.
Modernity doesn't have to be ugly. ❤
I'm a Brit who grew up in the Netherlands.
Looking at Poundbury and why it's so quiet I would hazard 2 guesses.
It was designed to be a traditional, walkable village but ran afoul of regulations requiring large amounts of parking. If you compare it to a Dutch town or village where cycling is the preferred mode of local transport, the Dutch streets have far more life and activity in them.
Second guess would be Poundbury is an expensive place to live so you have two commuting parents who work fulltime out of the village.
There aren't many attractions or free entertainment places for kids (like mini playgrounds that you find everywhere in Dutch towns) and the prices aren't attractive for pensioners.
also , no parking restrictions at poundbury , no yellow lines , meters , wardens !
I'm a German who grew up partly in Dorset. Your second guess is accurate. Most villages and towns in Dorset have a lot of community and are community driven, but Poundbury doesn't have any of that, at least not yet. It also has a bit of a sad reputation as being Prince Charles's vanity project. I used to live in Dorset and drove past Poundbury quite often on the A35, but I never saw any reason to stop there. I regret that now, I think I should at least have taken a look at the place.
Dutch towns are really awesome!
So it's a suburban development with the architecture and layout of an old English/Cornish village.
@@elizabethrowlands9419 yeah and look at the two main squares, filled with cars, and the other a waitrose car park. So much wasted potential allowing cars all over the place, and I haven't been there but judging from videos, not a single bus so very poorly connected by public transport.
@@dittikke It's growing
It reminds me of a town from a horror movie. I image residents smiling robotically at visitors during the day and then sacrificing them at night whilst dancing naked around a massive fire. I'm glad you escaped safely!
A lot better than all the new builds going up in the rest of the country.
I’ve thought about this a lot. I think spaces work best when they develop organically to meet human needs. When every aspect is “planned“ and then turned over to real people it can be like sticking a square peg in a round hole. I noticed that when I worked at a summer camp for years. The staff used to hang out on three green park benches set up in a triangle under a grouping of old shade trees. It was wonderfully casual and adaptable. Too many people? We’d just drag over a few more benches, etc. It was “the” place to be and many marriages began there. One year the new camp Director‘s wife decided she didn’t like the fact that grass wouldn’t grow under this well-used spot. I think she thought she was doing us a favor by building an “official” staff hang out in a gazebo type structure away from the trees. That killed it! It was institutionalized, sterile, unadaptable and ruined 😢 With the benches we could easily pull them closer together, so everyone could interact, but now we were all sitting around in a big stupid circle 15 feet away from the person on the other side. The best teen teen staff hangout spot was lost, and the gazebo remains unused.
Beautiful town so much better that the usual soulless brick box estates love it
It’s soulless because they are mostly not Dorset people, second homes, a right dump.
Looks lovely and the properties looks very beautiful but I must admit I prefer the look of Nansledan as I absolutely adore the colours of the buildings, even if the sun ain’t shining the colours of Nansledan will brighten your day x
Im obsessed with these SimCities!
@@WendallExplores it’s extremely interesting to see buddy ….. this one is lovely and the building look almost period type properties….. the style they were going for I guess and they r lovely x
Looks like a decent town 👍- I like it😊
I like the balconies too 👍
Yeah I liked the balconies
Thanks Oli, had never heard of Poundbury, looks quaint. Love the balconies.
Faux quaint
1:00 That must have been the window tax of 2018.
Yeah so weird - ??? - but I'm an Aussie/ Scot ...so Brit culture is a mystery ...
I remember when poundbury was a field
Love Poundbury and Nansledan. You can find a similar new town at Tornagrain, near Inverness.
I live close to poundbury. Its plagued with second homes bought by city dwellers and left empty much of the year. The remainder is retirees from the rest of of the uk and yummy mummies parked there while the husband commutes from the city. Very few Dorset people live there nor can afford to live there.
3:21 Welcome to Pined Brie.
You're already halfway settled in cos just here you called it Poundland. Bravo!
Looks alright, not many People though, half expecting Zombies to turn up for an English Fry Up. Cheers Wendall.
Bacon and eggs
poundbury isn’t that bad 😂
Poundbury looks a lot better in my opinion. Great vids Wendall.
Cheers Pounce!
The City is beutiful, I like it, greetings from Croatia 🇭🇷🏙🌆🌃🌇🌉
Can you visit the main square soon? As you can see, I'm binge watching your videos at the mo 😊
i think they could have squeezed the buildings tighter together and made a few more car free zones, with more trees.
Dorchester is lovely, trains to Weymouth, Bournemouth, Poole..and Waterloo ... I love how clean the air looks.
If businesses were encouraged outside of London and around certain areas in the uk i feel like places like these would be amazing to live in :D
Hi there. It is an intriguing place - we visited there sometime ago. It was a bit busier but still had a relaxed atmosphere 👍😀
I wish I’d had more time to explore more
Fairford Leys in Aylesbury is very similar to poundbury. You should check that out if you are un Buckinghamshire one day!
Hi Wendell Explores,
Thank you for sharing another one of your exploration or shall I say another one of your strange journey!
I had been to UK many times but the places in UK that I had been to was never so deserted as this. Now I know why. I found out it would only be fully completed in three years time. This is a place I must visit when I get back to UK!
It’s a strange must visit, but a must visit nonetheless!
@@WendallExplores
It looks a bit like a deserted town in Iceland, if you watch one of Gabriel Traveler’s journey to find a laundrette in Iceland. First I have to get over my fear of flying. I never have this dread of flying. I used to like just get on a plane without thinking twice. Anyway, look forward to visiting Wigan and London, places that i used to live with my husband and where I am familiar with. Anyway, hope everything is well with you in Cornwall - a place I wish to visit too.
@@wendylim1936 love Gabriel Traveler, think I watched that episode.
Town looks beautiful, glad people are fighting back against the mafia of modernist architects and town planners that ruined many British towns and cities. Only problem with it is that it’s too car focused, they should’ve made it more transit, cycling and pedestrian oriented
I think Poundbury is more like a Cities Skylines 1 city than a Sim City city because only in CS1 are you able to download and use British assets.
This is interesting. I still think it looks a bit eerie and quiet for a normal town. But perhaps people were at work or at school at the time of your visit? And the trees still need to be a lot taller... 😊 I have heard they have built numerous of cities like this - and bigger - in China and no-one has moved in. So they just stand there as ghost towns.
… Wendall goes to China ✈️
@@WendallExplores 😎🤘🤣🤣
I’m not keen on these Truman show style towns! All a bit ghostly to me 🙈 There’s one just on the outskirts of Plymouth called Sherford, all made with good intentions of adding a school, surgery etc but still, when you walk around there’s just no soul to these places! Strange 🤷♀️
I’ll go and check out Sherford at some point
everywhere should have to be built like this in the uk
No thank you, it's horrible
lol Poundland, cheers Wendall
Couldn’t stop myself from saying it
@@WendallExplores Prince Charles won't find Poundland funny, didn't he have something to do with the town?
@@wladniem yeah I think it is/was his land
Poundland is like Ashbourne meets tunbridge wells..
Crikey wendall, I thought you was in Brighton 🤔 mate you do get about 🤷🏻♂️ but you put me in a positive mood for places to visit 👍🏻 thanks Ollie 😎
Gotta keep exploring mate
Like the balconies. The buildings look in Good nik after 20 years, never been there considering the amount of time we have spend in Dorset visiting Weymouth and Portland.
It Totally reminds me of some towns in the states.
Real near Weymouth, check it out, it’s way bigger than the part I filmed
@@WendallExploresI must admit its quite a nice town not too big and some nice Pubs by the harbour. In the summer while sitting having a beer by the harbor you always see people climbing the draw bridge when its up and jumping off it.
Looking forward to watching your video.
The sunshine over poundbury glowing it's buildings,I am thrilled and want to have seen the town again,it has caste a spell on me,to move on and see time and again
You missed the best bit up by the garden centre the pub and Sainsbury and Waitrose
Where’s all the people ? I remember stopping off here on the way back. It was quiet then.
I think they have cardboard cut outs of people for important events
It’s not officially finished yet and won’t be until 2025, at which point there should be enough homes for 5 times the present population.
When the trees grow, it’ll look a lot better.
Not enough greenery that you would see in traditional villages.
sorry Wendall ..but theres something ...wrong...with that place a Replicant town a synthetic copy of somewhere else theres no soul there its a dead place and the name..poundbury...eeeeugh the place gives me the creeps
I think the desolate strangeness of it also draws me to it. I wouldn’t want to live there but it fascinates me.
i know right it needs a huge massive glass and concrete skyscraper for it to feel less eerie. if it does not look like a pound shop version of dubia i am not interested. how dare they build something that looks british in britian!
There’s one in Newquay in Cornwall..
I go through Poundbury very often. It is completely soulless and I can't think why anyone would live there.
The wealthy are only ones who can afford it, they like it because it keeps the riff raff out.
Glad to know you only go through Poundbury and don't darken the place permanently with your soul.
@@AtlasofInfo ha ha
Sure you did call it Poundland @3:29 😂
Poundbury needs some double yellow lines…
Talk about ghost town . Where is everyone ? .
Where is everyone? It looks like a film set, not real.
You are looking at the newer part, go to the original which is better. Italianate in Dorset does not really work.
Id say you would need to have a lot of cash to live there ?
There are cars but where are the people?
Where are all the people, it's errie
Poundland LOL
"Poundland" 😅
I would move there if I could. It probably is the best thing King Charles has done.
Poundbury is not a town if you can’t get that right what a waste of time.
Waste. Of. Time. 🕰️
Trumpton lmao
The buildings are beautiful but the area is soleless
No black people from caribbean?no pakistani?no chinese ?no nigerians?......only white, anglosaxon and protestant?