A Night Alone in a Tiny Abandoned House
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2023
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Big shout out to Craig @ toastyfox.co.uk/ for keeping me warm, you legend!!!
The rain has been terrible where I live, none stop for 3 weeks. It cleared up for an evening and was due to start again the next day, so I decided to go spend a night in the woods at a tiny abandoned house.
I've visited it a few times in previous videos, and I have always wanted to go spend a whole night there. So I jumped at the chance.
I was wildly unprepared, it was very last minute and ended up being a lot of fun.
The abandoned house sits in the middle of a Yorkshire forest, deep into a valley. It is really remote but such an incredible spot. I spent a lot of time as a kid playing around there and it seems significant.
My plan is to try find the owner, and get them to let me do it up and turn it into a Bothy, for passing travellers to rest for a while. I think that would be great.
I hope you enjoy, I really did.
Thanks you legends!
WT
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The wandering Turnip is my favorite television personality. Sun lounger was needed after all.. Entertaining rambles..Sleeping in the larder where the summer preserves and meat would have cured. Wandering turnip a natural narrator
Appreciate this thank you 😀
@@wanderingturnip Agree, you are my new youtube favourite
Just found your videos..love them well done
@wanderingturnip You are such a beautiful soul. Young man loves nature and houses. I have so much in common with you. I really do enjoy the work you do! You are the blessing from God to us! There are no many Young men who will be interested to do the job you do. I really do appreciate it very much so. I've had recently discovered your channel. The only thing puzzled me was? How did you decide to call yourself, the Wandering Turnip? Are you don't want to be addressed on your real name? If you don't mind, what is your name? I've already subscribed to your channel! Take care of yourself in that house? There are no facilities in it. I do hope that you will bring us many more an interesting stories in your videos? Thank you so much darling!
David,
Loved the film about the “little house”.
I know that area well and often walked past there with the dog. Apologies for this rather long post but I thought you might be interested to know a bit about its history.
This homestead is called Beverley End and was inhabited by the Bentley family through most of the 19th century and presumably earlier. It would appear from a brief scurry through the archives that there were three brothers. The first is so far unidentified but he was married to Mary; Henry was born in 1799 and John was born in 1806. It would appear that they were all born at Beverley End.
In the 1841 census the elder Bentley brother has died leaving Mary with four children, Hannah born 1818; James born 1823; John born 1822; Mary born 1841. As there is such a big gap between the last two I’m guessing that Mary was someone else’s.
The other household comprises the middle Bentley brother, Henry, who is married to Betty Roberts. They have five children, all girls, Hannah born 1827; Sarah 1828; Elizabeth 1830; Alice 1833 and Mary 1835.
All those of working age are employed as weavers in the cotton industry.
The third Bentley brother is John Bentley who is unmarried but not at this stage living at Beverley End.
For reasons which are not clear Beverley End appears to escape being recorded in the 1851 census.
However, we find Betty and her family living in Lydgate (Todmorden). Betty along with Sarah, Alice and Mary. Also living with them is Thomas Roberts who is Betty’s child by a previous relationship. Thomas was baptised in Heptonstall in 1819 and his father is recorded as being presumed to be William Greenwood late of Heptonstall and now in the British Army. Whether he joined to escape his fate or whether he was simply on leave we do not know. But clearly a cad and a bounder, nay, a dirty dog.
At the time of the 1861 census Mary is still at Beverley End with Hannah and James. Hannah has had two illegitimate children, Judith born in 1843 and Mary Allen born in 1856. Mary is recorded as being the housekeeper at the age of 68 and Hannah, James and Judith are all employed as cotton power loom weavers. We can assume that their earlier weaving activity was as handloom weavers.
The third Bentley brother John is now living at Beverley End and is employed in a local stone quarry as a quarry man. He is unmarried and as far as I can see never marries.
In 1861 Betty and her family are still living in Lydgate. With her are two of her five daughters. Alice now 27 a cotton winder; Mary 25, a cotton weaver and Henry who is Betty's grandson and therefore born to either Alice or Mary.
In 1871 at Beverley End we have Hannah living with her brother James along with her two children Judith and Mary Allen. John is occupying another household and is now employed as an outdoor worker.
By 1881 Hannah and James are still there along with Judith who has had an illegitimate child Emma Barker who is four years old.
By the time of the next census in 1891 it would appear that Beverley End had been abandoned as I cannot find any trace. James and his niece Judith are living in the household of William Barker over at Dean Bottom, Duke Street. Barker is aged 35, a farmer and cotton weaver. We can presume that one of this family, perhaps he or his father, fathered Emma Barker.
There are without doubt descendants of these people still living in Todmorden but genealogy works backwards so no way of knowing who they are. Perhaps someone will read this and claim them.
Oh my word. Thank you so much for this. That was a great great read.
There is so much history there. How did you go about finding it all?
Thanks again, amazing stuff 😀
Amazing history
Wow! thanks for the history lesson, that's amazing. Just love this channel, have been binge watching all the old ones.
I Just luv you pal, a man after my own heart. Please don't ever stop being your lovely self. Sending a great big man hug to you. I grew up doing stuff like this long before the internet was even available to average folk. Kind regards and best wishes for the future to you. Keep on keeping on pal!!!
Mate this is probably the best comment I’ve ever gotten. Thanks so much for the support and the encouragement to keep making this stuff!
Appreciate it so much 👍😀👍
I don't have a television licence or netflix because of channels like yours. Cheers for another brilliant video!
I appreciate it thanks 😀
Me too
My tv & Netflix are being cut off today ($270./month was too much, DC area). Found Turnip 2 days ago - so life is good.
Oh I would love to live there in the middle of the woods..how fab ! Yes the sun lounger was worth the hike..just a battery candle and your sorted😂.....ty for taking us on your journey🎉 as I am disabled now..these outdoor videos are great to watch..keep em coming 🎉..
I’m not sure I appreciate you stealing my sun lounger on the only sunny day we’ve had in weeks… However, it made for a great film, so all is forgiven 😂 p.s it’s nice to see you cleaning up for a change 😉
He needs to be better prepared next time.
And naturally....he should always put his safety and security first.
🤣🤣 You tell him, Eleanor! Mind you, after some *great philosophical thinking..* 🤔🤷🏻♀️ he decided it was worth it.. 🤣
@@pimpozza unfulfilled desire
Bring the gf along next time
😂😂
Go with him next time!! Would be fun to watch you guys together :) A guy as entertaining as him must only have an amazing girlfriend
“It’s brought me so much joy from just existing”. Well said, sir.
You are so eloquent - and funny as you drank more beer! Very entertaining. I am quite the introvert and could never talk so much and be interesting with it! Happy for you that you’ve managed to quit your job. Keep going; thinking of quirky videos. We all love them. All the best 👍👏🥰
Aw thank for that. I’m glad you enjoyed it 😃😃
That was so funny when you thought someone was heading up to the little house - "What if he's got a sun lounger?". And the photo of Ted. It's so entertaining, no wonder your channel is doing so well.
Cheers for watching 👍👍
This felt so totally British and I love it.
Extreme sun lounging..
I'm glad your beloved tiny house is in a remote spot.. feels so safe and protected from too many unappreciative folk! It would be fascinating if you were able to renovate it.. 👍 Some beer, some Byron and some kip in the bothy.. 😁 How cool is that!
Thanks for taking us on this fascinating adventure, David.. *The lounger was definitely worth it!*
Congrats on becoming a full-time UA-camr.. 👏🍻
Classic Wandering Turnip 😊 The roof isn't too good😅 a few holes 😂 brilliant. You really made it cosy. Somehow you need to buy it.👍
Congratulations on your UA-cam success! Your a nice genuine guy - you deserve it 😍
Thank you 🙏
It's been raining for the last three weeks, going to be OK tonight and forecast to rain for the next two weeks. Welcome to England!
heated jumper what a great idea.
Parts of this video look like "one man's descent into madness". Love your videos, man. But now I've watched ALL of them and have to wait for more. Don't disappoint!!
You are not alone if you are with a book. You are sharing company with a learned and erudite companion.
Liked the poem; have you visited Byron's ancestral home Newstead Abbey, with it's huge monument to his favourite dog? "Near this Spot
are deposited the Remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the virtues of Man without his Vices.This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human Ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog". He also kept a bear and practiced indoor pistol shooting. An early Russel Brand who, incidentally, got his idea of being verbose from reading Dickens.
Anyhow: "The cock is crowing, and I must be going, as I can no more."
I so relate to your weather rant round the fifteen minute mark. The winter in this country grinds my gears and it's always a pisser when it's rainy for prolonged periods in summer, because it's bad for our physical and mental health not to get a good bit of sunshine when possible.
This summer has been really bad. Here’s hoping august is good
Mr Turnip: READ THIS! For your next overnight stay, there is an old shooting lodge / cottage next to a tiny disused reservoir on Hallam Moors. Can give directions. It's an amazing place and has a roof!
Oh buzzing! Could you email me on wanderingturnip2022@gmail.com
I’m a Brit that hasn’t lived in England for twenty years and now it seems so weird that it doesn’t get dark in summer till half nine . Where I am it’s dark by seven to half seven all year round 😊
Still light at 11pm in midsummer. Getting dark around half nine means winter is just around the corner.
Once you put a roof on it and sweep the forest out the door you could set up the hives - and the honey bees will come. You could grow some rows of carrots and radishes and dig a small patch for the turnips, perhaps.
Oo yeah defo some turnips
this is one of your best videos mate! just class laid back vibes
You have a nice vibe and make decent telly. I think people like this because we'd all like to live in little houses beside a river in the middle of a forest. Lovely simple lives.
Great video, it was very enjoyable and entertaining.
Have you considered putting a tarp over the top of the old house to keep it weatherproof?
A portable wood stove with a chimney would be ideal to keep you warm, and you could cook something extravagant like bacon and eggs.
Your many followers would love something like this.
👍
It's a great idea to repair the little stone house, the only thing is getting the materials up and down the hill, oh, and water.
Haha I did think this. It would be such an effort…but worthwhile
When I lived in Sheffield someone told me Yorkshire has 2 seasons - winter and August. Bloomin loved it there though, beautiful place. Being able to walk out to Rivelin Valley was magic.
Edit: congratulations on your UA-cam milestone!
Haha winter and august. That is spot on
The picture and explanation of Ted “he hates bath time” cracked me up! Great video! It allows the viewer to experience the beautiful Yorkshire countryside! Thank you, David!
Thank you for watching 😀
Don't think ive ever seen anyone get so passionate about dry stone walls so much hahaa hilarious! Great vid probably my favourite one so far
Another great video, David. You're a natural and not afraid to be yourself - people like that! All the very best as you totally commit to this great channel.
He should go a long way on UA-cam, I really hope so, he totally deserves it.
Thanks so much! Means a lot 👍👍
Excellent footage Mr Turnip. Greetings from rainy Ireland. In scotland/ireland we use the word "bothy" for a rough shelter for hikers. The principle is probably thousands of years old. There is even a trad group called "the bothy band"
Oh really that interesting. I’ll give them a listen thank you
you made me giggle david watching you have a mini adventure in the woods. now you have shown people where it is other folks might go there and try it out... glad you kept warm . maybe you could do another one again.
Great idea! I really really enjoyed your adventure! Thank you for taking us along and for reading us the poem!
Be well and enjoy your adventures!
Cheers for watching 😀
The scenery is gorgeous and I'm so jealous of the solitude in the cottage can't imagine how big the spiders are tho lol
Thought the same.
We used to play in that house as kids. We used to bring new freinds just to show them the spiders lol. They were weird colours and creeped us.
This was brilliant! You looked like you were in your element! Respect to you for lugging that sunlounger all the way up there. It would be great if you could get permission to do the place up a little and do some proper camping there. Great stuff!
I have watched many of your cheap property videos and have even got the missus watching you too. This vid was hilarious you should do it more often.Dan from Kent
We have lots of old Tholtans around the hills of the isle of man...hikers sometimes use then when necessary...like your little house usually no roof...Nice one Dave👍
In spite of all the odds you stayed the night there and proved a point two whoever owns the land and the building that it can be used and bring happiness just being in the countryside like it was built for all those years ago as a beehive ..... Good for you......
That was a brilliant look at life in the wilds of England. I really enjoy your sense of humour and fun. Subscribed after seeing your first video. Great that you are able to do youtube full time. Hi from New Zealand. Great to see the real English countryside.
So happy you are able to do this full time now! Amazing content as always 🌞
Yeah I’m buzzing! Thanks for watching 😀😀
@@wanderingturnip what work did you do before this?
@@beepboopbeepp pizza chef 👍
That would make a cosy one person place to live or a artist retreat - sitting their painting the views... Nice.
Congrats mate! You're doing what lights you up and you deserve all the success! Your positivity and enthusiasm is infectious.
😀 thank you mate
Dave, you deserve all the success in the world, and if the right sponsor comes round take it. That was like The Blair Turnip Project. Love the jumper too, good luck mate,
As always thank you 😀
Well done WT what a lovely little hideaway just with nature around you.😀👍
would definitely be cool seeing you restore this place if possible.
Fabulous, I had seen the house on your earlier video so really pleased you were able to return. I was worried you might be eaten alive with mozzies and other biting insects but you seen to have emerged unscathed. Never mind the weight of the sun lounger, what about all those tins 😆 Really pleased you are managing to do this full time too.
You’ve surpassed yourself with this one. Absolutely loved it!
Cheers for watching 😀
Should have done a Ray Mears and built your own sun lounger out of a couple of twigs and a rock.
You should have brought Ted with you and had a teddy bears picnic 👍👍👍🙉
Well done for quitting your job, to be a full time youTuber! Still loving your personality, and your love for the forest.. and the little house 😊😊
Morning Swede. Full time UA-cam, rock on, good luck to you lad.
That was no butty that was one big door stop.
So what next? How about going back over the hill to Burnley and showing people some of the mills that are still there before they all disappear.
With all the rain we've had this last few weeks has there been floods in Tod.?
Cheers Milly
Best one yet! Drunk and trying to kill time.
Id love to see you travel and stay at all bothies you could find throughout the UK, starting in the lakes.
Not many bothy overnighters too. This would be pretty epic 😂
Yeah I think I’m going to do more of this 👍👍
Find rhe farmer and see if knows the purpose of building, looks like it could have originally been a little place to stay when hunting but its been used in the past 30 years as the door, windows, and plastic drainage are not massively old.
I was in Hebden and deicing around the hills yesterday, love it up on the tops when its wet and misty.
Yeah I’m on it at the moment, think I might have found them 😀
Did you find them?
A nice foray into wild camp territory! It would be good to see more of this type of stuff.
Yeah I’m definitely going to do more
It's so weird stumbling across that place and so many places in that side of the valley. They seem so inaccessible. And haunted.
Full entertainment for a Sunday afternoon, I’m staying subscribed here - an intelligent chap that backs up all his dialogue with facts. An eye opening experience to say the least.
Thanks👍😀
How very lovely and refreshing.
It's interesting that the building has a plastic drainpipe. So someone's been using it in the past half century or so? Presumably just as a shelter for the farmer?
I live in the mountains in Italy, one of my friends has a tiny house like u described in the woods, just a fireplace couple of beds. Best weekends ever spent there during the winter
Congrats on becoming a full time UA-camr! Brilliant content as always. 👍👍
Thanks for the support 😀
I absolutely love you and your mad adventures! What a spirit ❤ and I can well understand the charm of your little secret house....loved it cheers x
Thank you for watching 😀😀
So I’ve literally stumbled across one of your videos earlier today - all afternoon i have been entertained by your channel, but this video is by far the best!
Love this little forest dwelling and what an experience you have had there, keep up the good work - ohh and fair play to you!
Hey I appreciate you watching my stuff! I think this one was the most fun to make 😀
really enjoyed your rambles the poem was beautiful. I have wrote it out in my journal. So grateful for your videos . A little sanity in a sometimes insane world.
Aw nice that’s great. It really is a lovely poem 👍👍
Lovely little place. Great idea 💡 on asking the farmer to doo it up 👌🙏🏻
Namaste 🙏🏻
Cheers for watching 👍👍
A mushroom forage and cook would be epic there
There are abandoned chalets in Derbyshire that you could do this in, not as remote but they are by the river. What an excellent idea! Great videos btw 👍
Oh really. Have you got anymore information on them?
Thanks for watching 😃
We spend a lot of time walking along the Calderdale pathways ( we live in Leeds) and would love to bump into you one of these fine days. You give us hope as you investigate onwards and upwards…
Congrats on leaving your job to do this! Your videos are always great!! Its really cool you aren't going to do the random sponsor advertising, i feel the same about them. Great jumper btw mate :)
Cheers for watching 👍👍
Brilliant video. Now you're full time I'm looking forward to some tree videos. Hope the channel gets even more successful
I saw such a good tree the other day. Going to wait till Autumn for that one as with all the leaves gone it reveals like 5 trunks all connected, it’s amazing!!!
Love this wondering turnip - simple living 😊
Your videos have the happy knack of making me wish I was there but when that butty came out I was actually jealous mate.This is way better than television.
That butty was mega 👏
And thank you I appreciate it 😀😀
Only just subbed. And going a bit backwards. Love the channel. This reminds me of the days when we used to build "dens", in the local woods, when we were kids. We used to take bottles of water and jam butties. Lol.
I’ve been watching your videos most of the night
From Donny to sunny France and now Beverley’s End
Each video I feel like I’m on these journeys with you
Fascinating content
Congratulations on being a full time UA-camr 🎉
Love your vids
I think I could do that with a couple of mates but not on my own - respect to you! The idea of a bothy is a great one.
Too cool! Love it! Reminds me of when I was a kid. Always off on great adventures. Love the video. If you go again, you could strap the lounger to your back as well maybe.
surprised the spiders didn't eat you during your sleep, last time I was there the roof was infested with long legged beasties, whatever you do don't disturb those terraces they are naturally spectacular in late spring
He he!! Mental. that was hilarious. Well done! There's loads of these little abandoned "houses" here!
You know I’ll be there one day 😀 hopefully not too long
Corned dog and beetroot butty..oh yeah 🎉 heated jumper WOW...fab idea🎉
We’ve actually got sunshine today! Love the woods! Looks like I’m about watch an adventure 😀
I agree, teasing weather is the worst!
Have a couple of your mates help you bring some galvanize up there to fix that roof and let the floor and walls dry out a bit. This could be your annual summer getaway! Nice video man! Ideal location.
Yeah I’ve got a few mates with real skill who would be ideal. Cheers for watching
Cornbeef butty is everything. Maybe a bit of cheese pickle and toasted with mustard too. Oofff ima go get me one tomorow
would be brilliant to bring back to life that house!!
You needed a native bearer for your bed like the great Victorian explorers!!
Such a happy video: yet again I am watching with a smile on my face
That would be amazing turning it into a bothie ,love your channel 🥰
Wow! Beautiful place. It would be worth renovating the place a bit.
Love your videos. Just natural unpretentious ramblings. Proper northern style no nonsense fun
Long may it continue
Quite a nice little abandoned little forest retreat.
Looked nice dry and cosy in the one you decided to sleep in. I bet it was lovely and quiet other than the wildlife. Would be cool if you could get to buy it and live there. 😀
Yeah the wildlife noise at night was crazy. There were definitely things coming very close 😂 kinda spooky
This has to be the wettest July ever, and June was so warm and sunny. What you said about it soon being August, then 1 month and summer is finished, is exactly what we were saying after I had been 2 hours, in my raincoat, in non-stop rain, pulling weeds at my veg garden. 😭😭😭
Yeah it’s not been a good summer at all. Hopefully august and maybe September will be decent
fantastic little place - you sure Gandalf doesn't own it?
Love your mindset young man , curiously comedic video , we’ll done , need more young people with sense of adventure , hope you didn’t get too much of a bollocking for mud on favourite sun lounger and know a good chiropractor
Loved this! You inspire me to visit nature, the woods and the countryside! We have a nature reserve nearby called Fingringhoe Wick and I've just visited, first time since I've lived here for years, definitely want to get back to nature. I see why you like that little building, it would be really great if you could buy it and restore it, what a great project! I'm also excited for you that you are doing this full-time now, good for you, nothing ventured nothing gained. You will make a big success of your channel and you have so many supporters. Best channel on UA-cam! By the way were you a little scared there when night came? Lol 😂 I would be. All the best, Jane 😊
Ah I’m so glad I inspired you to get out. That great 😀 I really appreciate the support.
So I was actually fine until I fell asleep and then kind of forget where I was. I kept hearing all sorts of noises and suddenly waking up 😂 I loved it though
I'm excited for you being excited to possibly do the house up, hopefully it happens, would love to see it! Great vid
If you do france again, try the french/german borders, theres still bunkers up there complete with slits for machine guns that you could spend a night in , we have them in my area too, mostly left over from when the germans occupied my village
It could be an AirBnB if you did it up. Make an arrangement with the farmer. He can get 20% 😄
I would of left the Sun lounger there & bought my girlfriend a new one 😂😂🐨🐨. Its there for you whenever you want to visit it in future 🤔
Great content as always David. I would try and buy it my friend. It is so very secluded, quiet and peaceful! Buy the missus a new lounger and leave the old one there for future ventures! Thumbs up
That would be ace. And yeah good plan about the lounger 😂
Take a picture 📷
Then lock the door
Clean the area
Wait and claim 😊
Now the proud owner of the little house 😝
A lovely setting for a night in the forest. You should have carried the sunl-ounger on your back.