A Walk near Maud Heath Causeway in Wiltshire | Cool Dudes Walking Club
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- Опубликовано: 29 май 2024
- A 4-mile walk in Wiltshire. This is a peaceful walk alongside the river next to the Maud Heath Causeway.
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Just pausing the video in the first few seconds to say that I really love the piece of music you use at the start of these CDWC videos. It now immediately induces in me a sense of deep calm and also of happiness knowing that the upcoming video will be an escape into the countryside. Nice one!
It is one of my favourites too. I use it a lot. Asher Fulero's 'Boreal'.
I was thinking the same and Shazam'd it at the start too 😄
Hello cool dudes. A most eggsellent walk. I would definitely have a chip shop at the end of a walk.
This is a very good call.
Love the bench mileage idea haha! Genius! Also just a coffee shop anywhere or vendor. Doesn't need to be bricks and mortar
Yes. I like the cool coffee vans.
As a kid I loved the book Stig of the dump. I always wanted to be Stig.
Great walk as always Marek, stay cool 😎
I remember the TV programme. It put me off reading the book. I must do it one day.
Marek, you're doing a great job, and its very exciting that you're running out of time to reply to people! You keep making me smile, so please keep up the good work 😊😊
Thanks cool
Dude
Love your work as always. I always think of your videos whenever I see strawberry laces on the supermarket shelves. When I'm buying sweets for my children, I mean. Yeah, definitely for my children. I'd have a little swing-out mini table on every bench along a walk (at the side of the bench like uni lecture theatres have at the side of the seat) so you can pop your lunch on it. My local park had a chess table with the pieces in a little drawer. This lasted approx 3 days before the pieces were stolen. And this is why we can't have nice things.
What a***hole would nick the chess pieces. So depressing.
The swing out table is a brilliant idea. Also a swing would be good too!
Bins! Nice ones, near but not immediately next to the benches and emptied daily.
Another vote for bins!
Cool dude. You won. Can you email me your address again please?
@@cdwc Whoo! Yeah man no worries, nice one cool dude!
Thanks for a lovely video Marek your time and effort is much appreciated. I would like a reclining bench please so I can put my feet up! Also despite having 2 dogs myself I would pass a law that no dog poo bin can be positioned within smelling distance of a bench.
This is an excellent law. They always seem to be next to benches!!!
+1 to Cider with Rosie; "studied" it for 'O' level Eng Lit back in the day and remember fondly not understanding a word of it. Thanks for the Wiltshire Wander. Eggciting!
It is such a good book
The book I would like to be in is " 80 days around the world" as I would have loved to go travelling with Phileas Fogg.
Yes it would be good to see the world back in those days.
Yes it would be good to see the world back in those days.
I used to be obsessed with The Magic Faraway Tree and wished I could find it. Oh, and also The Lion , The Witch & The Wardrobe when Lucy gets to visit the beaver family..not the Snow Queen and all the snow though.
The start of Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is great. I used to love the illustrations in my old copy. Especially the lampost and Mr. Tumnus.
Great video as usual. I always have an initial moment of disappointment when I see your latest video is not on the Island - my ancestral and spiritual home. However when I start watching the feeling soon disappears. Oh and I've just finally joined the CDWC - I'm beyond excited!
Thanks for joining official cool dude.
Great video of a beautiful part of the country! Seeing how part of the walk floods, you'd never think it's the same area - amazing!!
I love the idea of distances between benches! I love to have more quirky looking benches on walks, like sitting in a tree stump or half a boat etc etc!
I'd never want to live in any books I read as my genre is horror! 😂
I can't read horror. I read 'The Haunting of Hill House' and couldn't sleep.
@@cdwc That's a good one! 😃
Very good walk Marek thanks. Definitely approve of Maud for founding Cool Dudes member. The distance marker on benches is inspired! I got C, phew! Wouid live in The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge, everything works out well for everyone and the food is delicious.
I had never heard of 'The Little White Horse' it looks great. I have put it on my list
Loved the video. This is about 20mins from my house and I’ve never heard of it. I need to get out more.
The views from the Maud Heath statue is great
Peggy says there should be a strawberry laces vending machine half way around!
I reckon there should be a piggy back service 😅
As for story... Peggy be in the lion the witch and the wardrobe and I choose 🤔 the flight of the navigator
When I was a child I was given a whole set of Famous Five books and always imagined it would be great to explore an old house and find a secret passageway that took you to a secret cave 😀
I need to read more of them.
Another lovely walk... animals were behind fences and no hilly bits, so a general well done to Maud Heath and Marek Larwood. 👏 It's a good job I don't like mead, because I picked B and fellllllll....
15th Century mead was delicious I've heard.
Always look forward to the next walk! I agree with your idea for bench location markers.
Yes I should get the Nobel Prize for Walkers.
@@cdwc I see the merit in that.
You should do the West Highland Way, oh coolest of all the Cool DudesThe starting point on the outskirts of Glasgow is between a Greggs and a Costa, and 96 miles later there’s a Wetherspoons right by the end point in Fort William🍺🍺
I might skip the Wetherspoons.
@@cdwc Oh!!! a Spoons not for you then Cool Dude?
I'd have some interesting history info boards and maybe a stall or repurposed phone box selling painting/drawing supplies for mid-walk artistry
I think I would end up spending hours looking through all the stationary and gear. Ha.
Best wishes to all cool dudes. Great video as always I love chilling out to them and having a laugh too. Hoping you might try the Peak District sometime it's got lots of history and folk tales and most importantly good walks too.
Stay cool.
Hope to get to the Peak District one day cool dude.
Great video as ever, Marek. Amenity-wise, there need to be more pigeon-free safe spaces! btw did Cider With Rosie for Eng Lit O'level back in 1985 - a bit of saucy read in parts especially for a then 16 y.o. lad!
I remember the bit in Cider with Rosie that alluded to people messing about with animals, and that it was dealt with internally in the village.
I think I'd like to live in one of John Swartzwelder's absudist Frank Burly stories. He's always getting himself in silly situations. I can wholeheartedly recommend them.
Keep being cool, dude.
I will look them up cool dude
That bench idea is genius. More benches in general would be great! But more toilets definitely more important, if I had to choose. Maybe I'd add an ice-cream van at the end of all walks?Living in the world of Swallows and Amazons would be pretty idyllic, I think. But only if I got to be in their gang! Or perhaps the Famous Five?
Swallows and Amazons is a very good choice cool dude.
Cool! Dudes!!
Lovely walk Marek, the countryside really reminded me of the countryside here in Nottinghamshire where I live. Can’t believe we also share the usborne detective book from when we were kids. I used to know its contents off by heart as I used to copy it out with my sister, my co-detective. Hope you had a good trip, that walk made me pine to do a similar one, but that’s still a long way off for me. My best walks with my dad have always ended at a pub, so that’s a must for me! Take care cool dude, Robin
My brother and I used to make our own detective casebooks from out of date diaries my Nan gave us from work. You can pick up that detective book on World of Books, it is well worth it.
@@cdwc I had the luxury of my nan being a store detective and we got all her stories of chasing criminals across town, when we saw her at weekends. Happy days…
Yeah, if I could live inside any story it'd be "The Hobbit", specifically, Buckland, The Shire, Middle Earth; I'd be willing to take my chances with the risks with respect to Dragons, Goblins, Trolls and other what-have-yous; totally worth the potential risks, Cool Dudes!
I think more houses should be built inside hills like in the shire.
Yeah, they totally should be, Cool Dude. It'd be awesome.
Sundials on the marker at the opening were cool. Anyone know how to change membership levels? In another video (I think) there was a suggestion to have signs with distance to good lunch spots. That would be handy. Stories to live inside. I’ve always been fond of “Cannery Row” by John Steinbeck.
Cannery Row is one of my Mum's all-time favourites.
Thanks
Thanks cool dude. Very kind of you.
Good to see your impressive calf muscles getting some sunshine 😉
Maybe a water tap by each bench, and the benches could be exactly 3 miles apart (about an hour's walking).
I grew up on Enid Blyton books and I always wanted to be in any of the Adventurous Four or Famous Five books, mostly for the lashings of ginger beer. Stay cool dude 👍
I must read another Famous Five book soon.
Waking club? Oops! 😂 😊
“If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything” ~ William Blake 😊
Ha. Corrected. To be fair, I was half asleep.
@@cdwc Ironic 😂
In Australia we like building low decked paths over areas. They let you explore the area without damaging it. Also good for staying out of wet areas.
They do that on some marshland here.
nice to see the sun is still shining, definitely starting to feel a bit more summery after the wet spring. I'd love to be in Robinson Crusoe, just an island almost to myself sounds idyllic and it would allow me to use all my skills from reading Bear Grylls.
Ha. Bear Grylls drinks his own piss though right?
@@cdwc he does when there's no elephant dung to wring a few drops from...but this island would have a stream and some pirate grog stashed away
Great question in this video, Zoe would live in Alice beyond the looking glass, I would live in a Battle of Britain book so that I could whitness that period of history.
More coffee and cake stops.
The Battle of Britain would be terrifying. Have you read 'First Light' by Geoffrey Wellum? It is phenomenal.
@@cdwc I've read a few of the books written about the battle. His is a great book. I bought a framed autographed picture of his in Newport. I have total respect for those very young men.
This causeway has been somewhere with in my walking radar for over ten years now... Well done for cooly pipping me to it. 😉 If you ever get to Betws-y-Coed in Snowdonia and head up (uphill) in to the woods towards Llyn Elsi... There are indeed signs that encourage you on AND tell you the distance to the next bench!
Enjoyed seeing your walk around Flatland. Cider With Rosie... Wasn't that written by the Poet from Slad in the Cotswolds? Slad (again, hilly) is worth exploring as they have a poetry trail around the hills... Just not sure how accessible it is by public transport.
Technically I did not really do the Maud Heath Way, as it is just along a road, so you can still be the first cool dude.
@@cdwc Ah, well, I'm pretty sure that the walk I had bookmarked (in paper format) was very similar to your own route; a brief moment to admire the causeway and, away again!
What are your costume ideas for if you ever went on Taskmaster, Marek? 🥚
gregs had rosin and the other fella on but not marek, funnier than both added together😊
I am afraid I don't watch it cool dude.
Marek, I’d like to live in The Hitchikers Guide To the galaxy, I share my taste in clothes with Ford Prefect 🤣
Gets my vote
I dress more like Arthur Dent.
Another awesome walk, thankz Marek..agree with the next bench distance markers along the walk, and maybe a fruit table with a selection of in season fruit left out for walkers by kind locals or maybe some strawberry laces :)
I can’t believe no-one else has mentioned strawberry laces
Beer pumps next to the benches you have put in place...
That would attract drunks though.
@@cdwc That is a very good point! Being a responsible drinker I didn't think of that. maybe water stations instead!
How can I not answer today's question of the day?
I know that this answer may seem weird or off but The Walking Dead. I don't know if I would last long, I may not but given the state of the world these days I would appreciate a simpler way of life even if would be more taxing physically.
A world full of zombies!?!!?
Ahoy Marek!
We had a similar conversation just 2 days ago on facilities on longer walks and we both agreed... Water! We walked from Grange Chine to Yarmouth , topped up at the lifeboat station at Freshwater bay. Nothing at The Needles (unless you paid) or Alum (pay) and the pier at Totland had a tap but it is closed. Some lovely ladies at the Stalag Luft Brambles Chine Encampment furnished us with fluids. so yeah, water.
Cheers dude. Nice vid.
I did a Freshwater walk recently. I could go and use the toilets in Alum Bay for free!
@@cdwc Ah! Golden advice. Though talking of golden - we did have a peek at Alum but figured the toilets would be awash with half-term wee, so gave it a miss. Cheers!
There is one book i read as a kid which depresses the hell out of me everytime i think of it called Jennie. I'd live in that story purely so i could change the bloody ending and it make it happier!
Poor Jennie.
I would have a coffee shop facility on the walk Cool Dude so I could enjoy the walk even more
I’d like to visit Robert Rankins Antipope. I’d spend my days in Brentfords Flying Swan pub waiting for Cowboy Night. 😂
I've always thought I'd be good at allotment golf.
Mr Larwood seems such a nice and friendly guy my dream is to meet him in real life and offer him a pork pie and a cherry Bakewell or maybe a nice burger... I know its a very simple dream.. but then again i am a simple man. ;)
Nice video cool dude. Have you ever done the walk from Yarmouth to freshwater along the western yar? I’d love to see a walk along there 🙏🏼
I think I have done bits of it but not the whole thing cool dude.
@@cdwc did you record that walk? If so cool dude I’d like to watch it 🙌🏼
I would like to live inside Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and have one of the golden tickets. I wouldn't dream of breaking any of the rules or getting into trouble in the factory and as a result I would end up inheriting the whole thing at the end. But I wouldn't get in the glass elevator if I could possibly avoid it.
btw good question, cool dude.
Excellent answer. Your QOTD is coming up in a video soon cool dude.
nice one cool dude
Minibar, what a mess, thx 😊
Surely a pub is better cool dude.
On a walk I require a Soy Latte and depending on the weather perhaps a fancy ice cream. Sometimes a vegetarian burrito or a sandwich. Most of my walks end up food based. I would be annoying to hike with as I’d mainly be wondering where the next food stop was.
You are a professional. What is the difference between hiking and walking?
Mazza, you know you are not supposed to talk to sheep.
I only walk. I could not tell you what hiking is. I think it is something people who walk fast do.
I would never go on a walk with anyone who called me Mazza.
@@cdwc Luckily we live on the opposite side of the world then and can only annoy each other it the comments section of your channel.
Hi marek should I take offence that you were less than a mile from my house and didn’t pop round !! Also Langley chip shop is at the end of the walk !
Oh man. I totally forgot. You are still my best friend.
@@cdwc love you too baby doll
acers its him off the telly on a walk.
I just got back from gold diggers nightclub, cool dudes
Hope you had a good time.
Marek, surely on your walk you would have a Strawberry Laces Kiosk?
Yes.
I would have Ice cream and berger stalls every 3 miles on walk's.
I would like to live in the book 'Harold last of the Saxon Kings'.
You'd be too fat to finish the walk.
Solar-powered USB recharging points tastefully positioned near benches.
Very good call cool dude.
Jen: Never Ending Story
Mike: Asterix The Gaul
Yes! To Asterix.
Wasn't the world in Never Ending Story being eaten?
@@cdwc Jen said that after the story of the film was finished she would be in the story
I'd live in Brambly Hedge (and be mouse-sized, obviously).
I have not read those books cool dude. They look good. Also it reminded me I would quite like to live in 'Frog and Toad's' world.
Maud Heath raised a road, Beatrix Potter protected land, very grateful that so many great prescient female minds have walked this earth.
I think I'd live inside a Where's Wally book (I'm not a great female mind, haha) and get to know him, why does he want to stay hidden? Is he a spy? Could I help him out? An intriguing fellow (Oh, and you're not rubbish Marek 👍🏻)
This is a good theory. 'Where's Wally' is on the run from the police. I hope it is not an Operation Yewtree case.
They all ask, "Where's Wally?" and no one cares to ask "How's Wally?"
While eggs are a tough ask, is a bag of angry weasels not a harder carry across a flooded water meadow? I would propose a water tap or fountain of spring water on each bench. Love Danny the Champ, but Stig of the Dump has to be the one story to be trapped in. On the questioned routes for Maud, would Path B allow you to be raised by said moles? Checking before I make a final choice. I like moles. Just sayn'. CD#123
Yes you are right to ask. She would live among the moles and eventually become mole queen. She would spawn the first moleboy, and her children would eventually rise up from the earth and takeover the world.
@@cdwc then I pick that one! A happy ending, straight out of the BBC's Springwatch.
Sorry if this comment is quiet, it’s from inside the belly of a wolf.
The question about which fictional world to live in is very hard! I’ll probably be mulling it over all evening. I’m a millennial so of course I half expected to get an owl with my hogwarts letter on my 11th birthday
Hogwarts is the perfect school I think.
A book to live in? The Hobbit I think. It doesn't have the same impending doom and danger of The Lord of the Rings! I'd be happy to sit in my Hobbit-hole and watch that fool Bilbo go off on an adventure.
Life in the Shire would be pretty good I reckon.
I think I briefly saw Sam in the background there
He told me he is coming to kidnap you.
Hello Marek. Do you make the twisted wire spines for the key-rings yourself or do you buy them? If you buy them could you tell me where from. Cheers!
I twist them all myself from craft wire cool dude. Those keyrings take ages to make. Ha.
@@cdwc Thanks.
I got eaten by wolves? Bugger!
Hang on, just how much money was there in walking eggs around 550 years ago? something else is going on there......also, I ended up in the mole hole. Good luck everybody, especially Marek.
I hope you aren't trying to sully the good name of Maud Heath.
I am confused cool dude, you said she died and then set up a trust? Was she a ghost
You are correct she was a ghost.
Right then, I'm off to Gold Diggers Night Club having chosen Path C (can't believe I actually chose the right answer for once). But first I need to step back in time into a Winston Graham book & become Demelza for a day or two at Nampara with Ross Poldark💑. I had a fab Aunt called Maud. She had a quirky shop selling weird & wonderful things in the historic part of Norwich. Fond memories💚. Thanks for reminding me of her🙂....Loved the illustrations with this one Marek & the Can Can at the end was impressive!
Here's a story for you. Many years ago I used to go out with Angharad Rees's niece (she played Demelza in the original Poldark). She was a lovely lady in real life.
@@cdwc I love all things Poldark. Watched the first series in the 70s too. Have read Winston Graham's books many times. Angharad would have been 80 this year. Sad she passed away young. Glad you got to meet her via her niece, Marek. Winston met & worked with the cast of the first series overseeing the production. His son, I believe, was an advisor on set for the more recent 2nd series. Wish they would take the story further to include the later books! x J x
Been around that walk and a couple of pubs handy.
Probably a little cafe selling home-made eats on a walk.
Book 🤔 sorry no idea really
A bacon roll from a cafe would be good.