Herefordshire - Three Black and White Villages

We visit three of Herefordshire's black and white villages - Weobley, Pembridge and Eardisland - using words from the 1938 Arthur Mee's Guide to Herefordshire in 'The King's England' series.

[@davidhodges2583]

Excellent video. Nice to know Im not the only one who still visits villages and Churches in Herefordshire armed with the Arthur Mee"s Kings England book.

[@retrovoxvintage7364]

Just outside Pembridge if you know where to go theres the most magical blue belle wood , i used to love playing in there as a small boy back in the early 1970s , i think i still have a cousin living in the village but most people i knew are now long passed

[@lucymariepea]

Thanks for that little tour !! ... I really enjoyed it !! 😊

[@1258-Eckhart]

How lovely, and with a real person doing the voiceover, not some AI programme. I was interested to learn how to pronounce Weobley.

[@webrarian]

The Pembridge belfry reminds me of buildings I've seen in Romania. Traditional building techniques using local materials, I imagine. As always, thank you for this lovely calm, beautifully narrated video.

[@philmorr]

Many thanks, Chris, for this - your comments are much appreciated. There are similar belfries in Norway - the stave churches. Watch out for our video on Thomas Traherne, the Herefordshire poet, again filmed in Hereford and the Herefordshire countryside.

[@webrarian]

@@philmorr It's probably too late now, but will you be featuring Gerald Finzi's "Dies Natalis" which use Traherne's writings?

[@philmorr]

@@webrarian I have not actually used 'Dies Natalis' as it doesn't really fit in with what we are doing in the video, which is more to show the landscape which so inspired Traherne. However, we use the setting of 'How like an angel' by Malcolm Archer.

[@webrarian]

@@philmorr I was thinking that DN might be a bit tricky. But the Malcolm Archer is lovely.