WALKS IN DORSET at MILTON ABBAS (inc MILTON ABBEY CHURCH) [4K]
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- Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2021
- This is another video in my series “ Walks in Dorset” accompanied by my Whippet (Logan). In this episode, I visit the village of Milton Abbas (located about 6 miles South West of Blandford Forum) and explore the surrounding area.
I park my car, for free, by the church in the main street that goes through the village and set off on my 3.5 mile circular route (with a small detour)- from the top of the street.
The village is set in a pretty wooded valley & it is linear in form with whitewashed cob & thatch cottages either side of a single road - it really is a delight for photographers (if they can avoid the parked cars & not film on “bin” days!).
The village has a fascinating history - which I explain in the video - but basically it was “moved” from a previous site not too far away to it's present location in the late 18th century. My walk down the street gives me the opportunity of viewing these pretty cottages as well as the church, almshouses & vicarage.
At the end of the street, I take a detour & head North West along a public footpath to check out the Milton Abbey church - basically all that remains of an abbey that was destroyed in the Dissolution of monasteries. The buildings there are now a public school.
Whilst I believe that there used to be a permissive path from the abbey church, through the school grounds & back on to the road, I am not sure if it still exists ….. so I retraced my steps back along the footpath and rejoined my original route.
I then take a track that goes to the Steeptonbill Farm shop & follow a footpath to my next destination - the Chapel of St Catherine. This delightful chapel, built in 1190, sits on top of a hill looking down on to the abbey church below.
My walk then continues through some glorious woodland and I follow tracks to the lodge at the Northern edge of the estate & then along a bridleway at the edge of fields full of wheat. From there I get to enjoy some stunning views over the Dorset countryside before heading back in to the village.
I finish off this truly wonderful walk with some light refreshment at The Hambro Arms in the main street.
Map courtesy of Google Maps.
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I use a GOPRO HERO 7 or 8 Black Action Camera (sometimes with a Gimbal) & a Rode microphone (either a “Shotgun” or a Rode Wireless Go) together with a Canon Powershot SX530 HS.
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These houses are just lovely. The village is beautiful. It must be magnificent in person.Dave you find the most amazing places to show us. Thanks Dave and Logan for another wonderful walk. Peaceful is the right word Dave. That is how I feel watching and listening to all the history of this wonderful area.👏🏻
Here's another view Melissa of the same village. 😊 ruclips.net/video/H9cPhjkZYdU/видео.html
Gosh so 😮 love the green steps . Gosh horses love them wonderful. Well Dave I think this is my fave walk very interesting my fave Thankyou.
Definitely a big Wow. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Thanks Dee. Yes, those horse "sculptures" were something else!
its just like from a storybook beautiful Milton Abbas 🤩 these places along foot paths are gems, luv the history, Logan is so adorable
Thanks Cath. Logan is a good lad.
Just completed this walk today and it's yet another great walk compiled by Dave. A couple of little cheeky hills, but nothing serious. Milton Abbas is a beautiful little village with plenty of charming features. Keep up the good work Dave!
Kind regards,
Henry and Beth.
Glad that you both had a lovely walk.
Hi Dave,what a great video I know this place like the back of my hand as my grand pairents lived in one of the white houses in the village, I lost my wife of nearly 30 years to brest cancer back in march and I do this walk about twice a month as it makes me feel so much better in myself .Richard.
Hi Richard. So sorry to learn about your loss & I my best wishes go to you. Lovely that you have a family connection with such a beautiful place. Thank you for watching.
Very pretty village and great walk and history lesson. Thank you. At least it is lovely and peaceful in the village. Look what happened to Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire when the Earl decided to move the village. It is now on a very busy main road. Probably fairly quiet when there were just clippetty clops going through! 😊🐴🐴
Milton Abbas is such a pretty village - especially on a sunny day!
Amoooooooooo 💖 seus vídeos obrigada pelo carinho de compartilhar momentos inesquecíveis 💝👏👏
Thank you.
Hi Dave, Walked your Milton Abbas walk today - lovely - thanks. Worth mentioning if you want to go into St Catherine’s Chapel you have to pick up a key from the farm shop and pay a fiver deposit. Best to know before walking up the hill to the chapel. Great walk, lovely day.
Thanks for the information John. I would have loved to have had the opportunity to look (and film) inside the chapel. A good excuse for a return visit I think!
Another very interesting video and an amazing story. Thank you.
Thanks Colin and indeed thank you for watching.
Sunlit fields of greens and golds.
Rolling hills and wooded glen.
Of trodden paths, carved by time.
By people of long ago…
Thank you Dave & Logan ❤️
Lovely words.... thanks again for watching. :)
Wonderful place!🥰❤ Thank you so much for sharing it.I wish I could live here🤗.
Thanks Elena and indeed thank you for watching.
Beautiful, Thank you.
Thank you for watching.
Acalma a minha alma ❤ lugares tão lindo e digo sempre Amor Transcende Tempo e espaço 🌻🥰
Thank you.
Very nice Dave, another informative and interesting walk. Thanks for sharing...Paul and Suzanne. 👌👌👌
Thank you both. I enjoyed filming that one!
Very enjoyable to watch, thank you for another interesting video. (I do love to see Logan trotting along with you.)
Thank you. Logan does make great company on the walks!
lovely narration, very natural, well done.
Thank you Jarsea and indeed thanks for watching.
Thank you very much for your video here. We're visiting this week and will follow your lead.
Thank you. Hope you get some good weather for your visit.
My daughter and I have recently discovered your channel, and we are loving it. We are Australian so not much of a chance we will ever walk these paths but like feeling like we are joining you and Logan for a walk from the other side of the world. Thanks for the great videos.
Thanks Amanda and indeed welcome to the channel! I hope that you enjoy the future videos in the series. Thank you for watching.
Thanks Dave. Another great video.
Thank you Al.
Oh Wow. Such a Beautiful Village . Oh and the Chapel beautiful and church wonderful like the sound of the street fares wonderful . Just amazingly beautiful. I’m amazed . 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍I love it 😍.....A wonderful history Dave . Thankyou . Dave amazing Dee🐕and Sam
Thank you. I must admit that I was somewhat taken by that little chapel on the hill.
Well done 👍 Dave . That was wonderful tour. Love from Pakistan
Thanks and indeed thank you for watching.
Thanks for sharing this with us Dave, l will be looking out for your other posts,
Thank you Keith. I hope that you enjoy the future videos in the series. Thanks for watching.
Fantastic memories. My grandparents lived at Catherine's Well and we quite often walked to the chapel.
The chapel really is in a quite enchanting location.
Thank you for this video. Beautiful and nice places you have there sir. Tremendous blessing you have ther😊
Thank you too.
Thank you Dave, wonderfully idyllic village and fantastic scenery. My greataunt Fanny Sophia Hooper was born here in Dec 1886 during her families trek from Pulham Dorset through to Liss in Hants. Great to see how the village would have almost looked at that time.
How lovely that you have a connection with the village. Thanks for watching.
New follower here!! Love to see creators putting heart on their craft! awesome work!Thanks for the share!
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful! Thank you, I live in Sussex and have would love to move to your area now retired.
Thanks Caroline. I moved from Sussex to Dorset and have never regretted it!
@@DaveFord Seeing you and Logan together on your trips you look so happy. Sussex is too busy now! I'm looking for the right area has to be not too distant from airport for my son working abroad so cuts a lot of places out...still beautiful areas though and wish you many more happy trips out.
Hello Dave. Lovely little village, which I have heard the history of sometime ago. You, however fill in so much more important details, together with your photography. That Abbey church is very large for such a small village and even a pub. Thanks so much for the video.
Thanks Lionel. So much history there & such a pretty place.
Thank you Dave and Logan, brought back memories of doing a walk similar to yours when we stayed in the area to visit the Blandford Stream Rally, a few years ago.
Thanks Christine. :)
Never been to Dorset it looks beautiful, and what a pretty little chapel.
So many trees too.
There were some great views of the Abbey church from the chapel, for sure. thanks for watching.
Apparently Middleton/Milton is named because it is in the very middle of Dorset! I didn't realize until recently. Beautiful location. Well done Dave another brilliant video. 😀
Thank you Rachel. It is such a pretty village.
I just discovered your channel and i love it.
God bless you and may you live long Dave.
Thank you and indeed welcome to the channel!
Thank you for this video and showed that beautiful little village.So amazing.I need to go there.♡
Thank you. It really is such a pretty village, for sure.
Hi Dave
Another great video
When we do that walk and we reach the Abbey, we just walk to the right which takes you to the bottom of the steps to the Chapel, and carry on and walk out main entrance. No one has ever stopped us. Then you turn right and walk along road which takes you under a angled bridge which is actually carrying the steps up to the the Chapel!
All the best
Alan and Michelle
Plus Maisie and Freddie (Dogs) 😂
Thanks. Yes, I thought there used to be a sort of permissive path as you describe (it showed in an old walking guide book that I was using) but there was some sort of event going on when I was filming (lots of folk about etc) and a "new looking" footpath sign indicating that there was no public access - which was a nuisance as it would have made for an easier circular walk! Hopefully it was a temporary thing and that it is accessible again.
Hello Dave thanks for sharing this Part of Dorset with us. we were looking for inspiration to get out and see our Beautiful Dorset. There are so many wonderful places to visit. we will be visiting Milton Abbey Church when we can get the time to take in the wonderful landscape. such informative too which we really appreciate. we hope you have a wonderful day and we look forward to seeing more from you. Welcome to our youtube Family my friend Love and Light Sarah and Glenn
Thank you ... and welcome to the channel! I hope that you get the chance to visit Milton Abbas soon. :)
My home village, thanks for the great video, you passed very close to where I lived for the first twenty years of my life. What you called monks walk, we called it fishermans walk, my neighbour who also came from Milton, called it green walk. Funny how things change👍🏻
Thanks Jon. What a lovely place to have lived in. Thank you for watching.
Am loving your videos Dave. I’m from Poole originally and need to get back to Dorset and go on some of these incredible walks, a lot of which I’ve already done as a child.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it and indeed hope that you find the future videos in the series interesting. Thank yiu for watching.
Just wish to travel there one day Alfred Mutua from Kenya
I hope that you get the opportunity to visit - it really is quite special.
@@DaveFord then kindly invite me
The place that I was happiest in my life
It is a lovely place for sure.
Glad to see a good quality video! Big like! New fan here! Nice!
Thank you :)
Fabulous video Dave! This is my second comment on here as there's another below, because I just found this 8 minute BBC series video from a few years ago that might interest you. It shows the grass steps and the lake, as well as inside one of the buildings, and there's some more history too! 😊 Cheers! 🍺 ruclips.net/video/pF88iYUIeAE/видео.html And another! ruclips.net/video/OlxHHB-M1cQ/видео.html
Thanks for the extra information.
@@DaveFord My pleasure Dave. There's another longer video in the other message I sent which I've now copied to here. It's a very interesting one too! Cheers. ruclips.net/video/H9cPhjkZYdU/видео.html
Thanks yet again Dave. Have you walked the Trent area?
I have a walk planned for Trent this year.