2:18 fun fact, that is not Big Ben, that is the Elizabeth Tower, Big Ben is the huge bell inside, everyone just got so used to saying the tower was it it stuck.
"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, this seat of kings, this earth of majesty, this seat of mars, this other Eden, demi-paradise, this fortress built by nature for herself against infection and the hand of war, this happy breed of men, this little world, this precious stone set in a silver sea, which serves it in the office of a wall, or as a moat defencive to a house, against the envy of less happier lands, this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England"
I love the way you were looking at screen when it showed you the castles.. you were so mesmerised by the castles.. I could tell you really wished you were there now x
the castle at the 16:39 point in the clip, I am positive that it was the location of Clan Macleod from The Highlander(1986) movie as well as many other locations around Scotland.
So you like castles. In Scotland check out Inveraray in Argyll and Culzean (pron. Cullayne) Castle in Ayrshire. England you have to see Middleham castle in Yorkshire (home of Richard III), York castle and Warwick castle - there’s more I could add. For Wales, Chirk is one of my favourites. Do NOT come without seeing the entire length of Hadrian’s Wall with its forts and outposts, especially Housesteads and Vindolanda.
If he had left out Edinburgh, my home town, I would have never watched any of his videos again. As a kid, I used to climb up Arthurs Seat and sometimes got stuck coming down the Salisbury Crags. Pity he didn't mention. "Greyfriars Bobby".
When you said “they didn’t have concrete” about the foundations of Peel castle, actually concrete was introduced to Britain by the Romans 2000 years ago, at least 600 years before the earliest Viking invasions.
Went on the Jacobite train over Glenfinnan Viaduct this summer. Absolutely stunning place. We returned there just before dusk, by car, and got to take in the beautiful views of the Loch without any other people around. The colours at that time of the evening were so incredible- everything was a different shade of blue.
I love to see people excited by castles. We have so many that we just take them for granted and often take no notice. One of my favourites is Bamburgh. Watching these videos makes me look at them and appreciate them now and again. You have to come to Edinburgh. It is a wonderful city. (Did the guy in the video say Stone Hedge/Edge? Lol)
Bamburgh castle is STUNNING! I have been there twice, but didn't get to go inside either time... last time was last summer, and they were filming the next Indiana Jones!
When I was younger, we could walk right up to and among the stones. Avebury, nearby, is a huge stone circle wirh, unbelievably, a small village at its centre. The pub boasts of being the only pub inside a stone circle & YES you can still touch the stones.
At the other end of the processional way from stone henge is Avebury stone circle , stone circles within stone circles with an A road and a pub within the circles. It was built for the winter solstice (21st Dec.) Much better than stone henge as you can have a beer then wander amongst the stone circles.
There is so much more to the U.K as well, foreigners always ignore the North of England, there is Leeds, York, Liverpool, Manchester, Yorkshire and the Yorkshire Dales national park. Nevermind the Lake District which is probably the most beautiful place in England. If you visit the U.K again you must go to the Lake District and I would like to see your reaction to a video set there
Went on the Jacobite train (Harry Potter train) a few years ago, and it was a good way to see the scenery!! Only a few carriages play on the Potter connection, the rest is the fun of a steam train on one of the UK's most scenic routes. Yes, the roads were set out before the car, so no grid system. I hope you will be brave enough to drive when you visit as you will get to see so much more scenery and castles!!
Milton Keynes was built up on a grid system with a roundabout onmost cross junctions. It works extremely well to aid traffic flow. As for the white cliffs this is down to erosion as the shoreline is continuously receding due to the soft nature of chalk and the violent nature of the Sea in stormy weather. We get battered regularly every year in the U.K. with some bad storms.
There are many "castles" (they more like old fancy houses rather than fortified castles) in the edges of lochs in Scotland, all in differing conditions. I believe in They call them Lodges in Scotland
The White Cliffs are along the south coast. The Glefinnan Viaduct in Scotland steam trains go from Fort William to Maliag I have traveled on this route when I traveled up to Scotland a number of years ago going from west to east finishing in Edinburgh at Edinburgh Castle. We have junctions in England, alot have mini roundabouts some have a big roundabout others have traffic lights or no traffic lights or might have a give way sign. The Jurassic Coast is in Dorset I have been lots of times i last visited in July this year.
Cotswolds = an area near Oxford - like a different country, houses built in white stone, small villages. It is IMO most beautiful part of England. Hampstead in London is North London which a lot of tourists miss
If you're into castles there was a great series made a few years ago called 'secrets of the castle', now available on youtube. Its about a 25 year project in France to try and build a castle using the original tools and techniques. Well worth a watch
You used to be able to go on the stones at Stone Henge. The Druids and hippies used to have a ceremony/party there during the summer Solstice. Some people didn't respect the stones and they used to dance on them and damage them, so they stopped people being able to go up to the stones and touch them.
New Yorks grid system was taken from Glasgow Scotlands grid system. (Glasgow city center) The first castle in Scotland he showed you was used in the first highlander movie back in the 80's.
I went to stonehenge as a kid, it was before they stopped the public from going inside the circle so I have a cool picture of me sitting on one of the stones 😎
Edinburgh is a brilliant place for a city break. Completely bonkers when the Fringe Festival is on. For somewhere so well known globally it's quite small and easy to get around. In the very top part of Edinburgh Castle they have the Scottish National War Memorial which is just incredible. On top of what was already mentioned i'd definitely recommend going to the Royal Yacht Britannia, the Palace of Holyrood House and taking a 25 minute train journey to North Queensferry to travel over and see The Forth Bridge, an absolute masterpiece of Victorian Engineering and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
I definitely recommend Edinburgh - no city like it in the world. And pretty sure you can fly there direct from Boston (and it's only something like a 5 and a half hour flight - one of the shortest transatlantic hops).
These places seem to figure, again and again in these sort of videos leaving a lot of better places out. I'm beginning to think this is an well worn itinerary sold by companies to Americans and they stick to it, promoting it via media influencers. I have to say that in a lot of other areas the accommodation is limited in capacity or oversubscribed. It can also be difficult to reach a lot of good places without a car on day trips or it being on a coach trip route.
@@redf7209 you can get decent hotels in Durham near the city for a good price it's easy to get there I should know I live in it traveling to destination is all about getting there as looking at the the place u was going to
Look at the Glen Coe landscape ........... maybe there should be of the top 50 places, include York Minster, Hadrian's Wall, Botallick in Cornwall, Warwick Castle .........
Yes, he got that wrong, Snowdon, in north Wales, is about 3,500 feet high. North Wales has plenty of castles. The highest mountain in Scotland (and the UK) is Ben Nevis which is about 4,500 feet. That's as high as you can go in the UK with-out leaving the ground.
As well as the steam trains, "regular" diesel trains use the line over the Glenfinnan viaduct (and much cheaper) - same views. Though when we went, my daughter had decided to eat a feather off the ground so over the viaduct we spent the time mopping up vomit - ugh! We did see the great views on the way back though!
Visit Warwick Castle (pronounced Worrick) in Warwickshire (pronounced Worrick-sha ... like nearly all our counties, 'shire' is 'sha' and use a short 'a' like in cat).
I haven't visited a castle in so long. And I live near plenty of them 😂 I think if you were born here and grow up around them you can often take them for granted and not realise just how cool and historically significant these castles are. Used to smoke weed with friends in an 11th century Norman castle that'd been abandoned. (Then couple years later the local council decided to properly keep it protected with walkways, little fences,, educational plaques describing what you're seeing , etc. restoration efforts, Which is for the best, admittedly. But man it was so cool there at night time, just making our ways up the claustrophobic staircases to one of the watch towers (?) or I guess where they could shoot arrows out of. (I never littered inside the ruins! from what I can remember- Never leave your rubbish in these places, people. Protect these places for another 900 years to come!) (Also, we have wind farms in the UK, they're just usually more in the south west and in the windy places up north. And in Scotland they've got so much renewable energy is crazy) (Also the cliffs are that white because they're chalk) (If you go on the wikipedia page for Chalk, it mentions south east England. It's one of the places of the world made from chalk. Which means in a few thousand years, where I live might not exist anymore 😳 (Thanet, Kent)) -It's "Edin-bruh"
You should visit them more. I'm hours from any good castles and I go see some whenever I can. Especially the empty ones in the middle of nowhere that are free to explore
I used to horse ride around that area and we’d stop at Stonehenge and eat lunch on the stones, back in the day when there was no problem getting close to it
Fun fact - if you ever visit Edinburgh Castle don't pay - state you want to visit the War Memorial inside the Castle. They have to give you free entry as you cant pay to see a War Memorial (though you get a special badge which 'restricts' entry to some parts of the castle). And people wonder why they say the Scots are cannae (thrifty). For info, there are over 2000 castles in Scotland - place is hoaching with them
The White Cliffs of Dover used to be at the bottom of a prehistoric sea. Layers of dead shellfish collected on the bottom, which eventually formed the chalk that the cliffs are formed of.
"is the Harry Potter train track a real tra...." made me laugh... Bless you kid, yes it is and still has steam trains that run on it and some other lines.
The UK is full of amazing places, most hiding away right under your nose. Within a 10 mile radius of where I live in an unremarkable village in the middle of England, there is a 12th Century castle (the location of Ivanhoe), the childhood home of a 6-day Queen (Lady Jane Grey was just 16 when she was crowned, and within a week, beheaded), an 11th Century cathedral (now the home of Richard III, formerly of a nearby carpark), a 12th Century Abbey, 2nd Century Roman ruins, a school founded in the 1400's, countless truly old churches (the church in my village celebrates it's 1000th birthday in 17 years), among many, many other historical sites. Unfortunately, we are mostly just apathetic to the history around us, so it is good to be reminded by someone looking with fresh eyes.
What are often described as windmills in the Netherlands and here in the Fens in Cambridgeshire are actually wind pumps, to keep the land drained rather than for grinding corn.
Although concrete was not used in castle construction, the Romans used concrete extensively, which is why they could build so quickly throughout their empire. They faced them with brick or stone giving the appearance of brick or stone buildings. Some of ancient Rome's most famous buildings have concrete cores.
If you liked Stonehenge you should've popped up the road to see Avebury - bigger & 1000 years older. It's right next to Silbury Hill & West Kennet Long Barrow.
Conwy Castle ( Castell Conwy ) is 3 miles away from where I live and have walked the town walls and photographed the castle many times, I worked just outside the town walls for 20 odd years. The walled town of Conwy and its castle are worthy of your attention so take a look. The castle in Scotland with the causeway going out to it, appears at the beginning of the film HIGHLANDER.
@@Sue474 Hello Sue, I thought I had replied to you previously but I can't see it? Yes, The family moved to Penmaenmawr in 1961 from Manchester when I was 17, it was like moving to a new world, now the whole area is just HOME. I worked in Conway for almost 30 years. So many things have changed, some for the better, but many not. The "new" coastal A55 Expressway has made a big difference to many of the towns along the coast by taking away the through traffic, but left them high and dry as far as tourism is concerned, shops closed etc., I don't know your area at all really, I went to Lowestoft for a ferry once :-) and Dover. So I can't appreciate what it must be like to live in that SE corner of England, I know I would miss the mountains that's for sure. My favourite area to visit is the Cotswolds. Isn't the Internet great though, you can effectively visit just about anywhere from your armchair. Bye now, best wishes.
@@valeriecarlin1524 Hello Valerie, how long ago did you leave the area? I now live 10 minutes away from Conway, it is still a lovely place. Llandudno has lost a bit of its charm, some major shops have closed for economic reasons, Covid restrictions have made a difference too, although that in a way has brought tourists back, last year in particular was busy. Was it Conway Castle you were referring to or the Scottish one? I love both, the Scots Castle is in a amazing location, and Conway Castle speaks for itself. There was, long before Conway Castle, a castle at Deganwy, there are just a few remaning bits of walling, but there is an artists impression of this castle based on its ground plan I believe, what a fantastic location. The was also an iron age fort on the top of Conway mountain. I hope you have fond memories of the area, All the very best.
@@ianwilkinson4602 hi I left over 30 years ago now. Yeah I agree re llandudno. I went back about 10 years ago and couldnt believe how much it had changed
The White Cliffs are made of chalk. They have eroded from wind and sea over millions of years leaving steep cliffs where the land used to flow gracefully down to the sea some miles out.
@@lindylou6864 The Royal Navy and other navies too, used sloops and brigs in the days of sail. they were small, agile, and fast sailing fast craft to carry despatches and the like, not too good in heavy seas though.
You have to visit Richmond, North Yorkshire if you want to see England's oldest stone castle which overlooks England's fastest flowing river and is the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales!
Plenty of other castles all over the place in various states of ruination or completion - each with their own unique stories. Two of the best cities where you will find a stunning Norman castle and cathedral combination are Lincoln and Durham. Lincoln has one of the few remaining copies of the Magna Carta on display which you can go and see. It’s kept under extremely low light conditions to help preserve it. No flash photography allowed!!!
Edinburgh has two UNESCO heritage sights- the old town and the New Town, the New Town was started in the 1760’s during the Scottish enlightenment and considered the inspiration for modern city planning with its grid network layout.
Dude when you next visit the UK, and if you like castles ( which you obviously do ) visit Conwy Castle, Pembroke Castle or Caernarfon Castle. All are so majestic.
There's a number of castles where I live in the north east of England, Durham being one which is a few mile from where I live & another is Alnwick Castle which is in the Harry Potter film, there's many others too.
We are a tiny Islands but lots packed in you will be spoilt for choice should you make the trip over! I'm in the South of the UK but have ancestory across the British Isles and was fascinated to learn recently of the Galloway hoard exhibition which I would love to see as this was my maiden name. Did you visit Stonehenge after they opened the new visitor centre in 2013? I have heard there is a 360 virtual experience there so that visitors can experience walking inside the stones.
I live in the midlands of England and although we have our problems and its not perfect we are jammed full of places worth visiting which is common throughout Europe. Hundreds of years of history is the main plus compared with USA of course. For example I live less than 30 minutes drive from a pub that dates from 1568. A church from 1280, a castle from 1066 and the remains of a Roman settlement which must be around 2000 years old. We just take it for granted and sometimes don't appreciate it which is why its so interesting seeing how Americans react to all this. By the way if you don't want to sound like an American tourist please pronounce shire as in Oxfordshire as sher. I know its not phonetic but it sounds strange when you say Shiir. xx
Hi Dover cliffs are made of chalk, a soft white, finely grained limestone. Mount Snowdon peak is 1,085 metres or 3,560 feet. You seem very doubtful but you can check it is correct.
Mount Snowden is only about 3000ft, he got carried away. As for the White cliffs, the Ice cap never came as far south so they where formed by erosion and rising sea levels, Britain being cut off from the mainland of Europe by around 6000 BC
Funny, when I was a child we could just go and sit on the stones at Stonehenge. What they've done to it since though, with the tunnel and the "visitor centre" and tickets and all that just leaves me cold.
20% of the UK GDP goes on whitewashing the cliffs on an monthly basis. Honest. Edinburgh and Durham are probably the most picturesque cities. Chester is great for Roman stuff (as is York). Warwick Castle is spectacular - but pricey to get in. There are stone circles like Stonehenge all over the place - a lot are free and you can wander around them. I count myself lucky to live here. :)
I live in Durham City and it amuses me when I hear Americans go on about castles. I can see three from where I live and we probably do take them for granted.
If you came to where I grew up 'Norfolk' you'd change your mind on windmills. Plus a sidenote we have like 4 of the largest offshore windfarms in the world
The white cliffss are chalk. 8,000 years ago we were collected to mainland europe, there was swampy hunting ground linking us toDenmakr and Holland, and a rise fo high ground connecting us to France. The as the ice-caps melted, 150km of the coastline of norway broke off and fell into the seat - triggering a tsunami, which flooded the wetlands and joined forces with a river called the Solent, to separate us from rance, and form the white cliffs. The Solent still runs, but mized with the sea, it divides the Isleo fo Wight from southern England. The wet lands are still under the north Sea, known as doggerland, and wonderful stone age artefacts are found there. After the flood there were only around 5000 people left living on the new British Isles.
I love the way McJibbin always starts his videos completely unprepared - he doesn't seem to have any idea what's going to come out of his mouth.
2:18 fun fact, that is not Big Ben, that is the Elizabeth Tower, Big Ben is the huge bell inside, everyone just got so used to saying the tower was it it stuck.
"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, this seat of kings, this earth of majesty, this seat of mars, this other Eden, demi-paradise, this fortress built by nature for herself against infection and the hand of war, this happy breed of men, this little world, this precious stone set in a silver sea, which serves it in the office of a wall, or as a moat defencive to a house, against the envy of less happier lands, this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England"
One problem with that, is that England is not an isle, sceptred or otherwise.
Made me shiver, hearing those words again!!. Only just caught up with this comment. Yes, I know, it took me 5 months 😆. Thankyou anyway 🇬🇧
Try Northumberland for castles and coastlines, the most castles in England.
Not always heaving with people either.
The White Cliffs are made out of chalk. Many centuries ago the cliffs used to be connected to France.
Mcjibbin.
The train used in Harry Potter was a GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY hall class
The engine you see in this video is a LMS black 5
I love the way you were looking at screen when it showed you the castles.. you were so mesmerised by the castles.. I could tell you really wished you were there now x
the castle at the 16:39 point in the clip, I am positive that it was the location of Clan Macleod from The Highlander(1986) movie as well as many other locations around Scotland.
The Scottish castle with the bridge was used in the movie Highlander
So you like castles. In Scotland check out Inveraray in Argyll and Culzean (pron. Cullayne) Castle in Ayrshire. England you have to see Middleham castle in Yorkshire (home of Richard III), York castle and Warwick castle - there’s more I could add. For Wales, Chirk is one of my favourites. Do NOT come without seeing the entire length of Hadrian’s Wall with its forts and outposts, especially Housesteads and Vindolanda.
When I was a kid we used to climb over the Stones at Stonehenge, my dad just parked up on the A303 and you could just walk to it....no fencing
Me too.
Well done with “Edinburgh”! You nailed it.
If he had left out Edinburgh, my home town, I would have never watched any of his videos again. As a kid, I used to climb up Arthurs Seat and sometimes got stuck coming down the Salisbury Crags. Pity he didn't mention. "Greyfriars Bobby".
When you said “they didn’t have concrete” about the foundations of Peel castle, actually concrete was introduced to Britain by the Romans 2000 years ago, at least 600 years before the earliest Viking invasions.
Went on the Jacobite train over Glenfinnan Viaduct this summer. Absolutely stunning place. We returned there just before dusk, by car, and got to take in the beautiful views of the Loch without any other people around. The colours at that time of the evening were so incredible- everything was a different shade of blue.
Seeing as you are interested in castles, check out Caernarfon castle in north Wales.
One of the worst in Wales and built by the English. Try Harlech cast?e, built by the Welsh to defend Wales.
I love to see people excited by castles. We have so many that we just take them for granted and often take no notice. One of my favourites is Bamburgh. Watching these videos makes me look at them and appreciate them now and again.
You have to come to Edinburgh. It is a wonderful city.
(Did the guy in the video say Stone Hedge/Edge? Lol)
My friend was married in bamburgh castle and it was lovely
Bamburgh castle is STUNNING! I have been there twice, but didn't get to go inside either time... last time was last summer, and they were filming the next Indiana Jones!
The castle, Eilean Donan, in Scotland is the castle shown in the beginning of the film Highlander....truly beautiful in real life.
The Skye footage is where Ridley Scott filmed some of the Alien film Prometheus
When I was younger, we could walk right up to and among the stones. Avebury, nearby, is a huge stone circle wirh, unbelievably, a small village at its centre. The pub boasts of being the only pub inside a stone circle & YES you can still touch the stones.
At the other end of the processional way from stone henge is Avebury stone circle , stone circles within stone circles with an A road and a pub within the circles. It was built for the winter solstice (21st Dec.) Much better than stone henge as you can have a beer then wander amongst the stone circles.
StoneHEDGE? wtf?
There is so much more to the U.K as well, foreigners always ignore the North of England, there is Leeds, York, Liverpool, Manchester, Yorkshire and the Yorkshire Dales national park. Nevermind the Lake District which is probably the most beautiful place in England. If you visit the U.K again you must go to the Lake District and I would like to see your reaction to a video set there
To get those rocks so white, we send a few guys to paint them with weatherproof paint every month or so.
Went on the Jacobite train (Harry Potter train) a few years ago, and it was a good way to see the scenery!! Only a few carriages play on the Potter connection, the rest is the fun of a steam train on one of the UK's most scenic routes.
Yes, the roads were set out before the car, so no grid system. I hope you will be brave enough to drive when you visit as you will get to see so much more scenery and castles!!
Milton Keynes was built up on a grid system with a roundabout onmost cross junctions.
It works extremely well to aid traffic flow.
As for the white cliffs this is down to erosion as the shoreline is continuously receding due to the soft nature of chalk and the violent nature of the Sea in stormy weather.
We get battered regularly every year in the U.K. with some bad storms.
There are many "castles" (they more like old fancy houses rather than fortified castles) in the edges of lochs in Scotland, all in differing conditions. I believe in They call them Lodges in Scotland
The White Cliffs are along the south coast. The Glefinnan Viaduct in Scotland steam trains go from Fort William to Maliag I have traveled on this route when I traveled up to Scotland a number of years ago going from west to east finishing in Edinburgh at Edinburgh Castle. We have junctions in England, alot have mini roundabouts some have a big roundabout others have traffic lights or no traffic lights or might have a give way sign. The Jurassic Coast is in Dorset I have been lots of times i last visited in July this year.
Cotswolds = an area near Oxford - like a different country, houses built in white stone, small villages. It is IMO most beautiful part of England. Hampstead in London is North London which a lot of tourists miss
I would suggest the lake district England's biggest national park.
If you're into castles there was a great series made a few years ago called 'secrets of the castle', now available on youtube. Its about a 25 year project in France to try and build a castle using the original tools and techniques. Well worth a watch
You used to be able to go on the stones at Stone Henge. The Druids and hippies used to have a ceremony/party there during the summer Solstice. Some people didn't respect the stones and they used to dance on them and damage them, so they stopped people being able to go up to the stones and touch them.
you so need to look at a video regarding Scara Brae...it was ancinet when the Pyramids were being built.
New Yorks grid system was taken from Glasgow Scotlands grid system. (Glasgow city center)
The first castle in Scotland he showed you was used in the first highlander movie back in the 80's.
And that was taken from Valletta in Malta …
I went to stonehenge as a kid, it was before they stopped the public from going inside the circle so I have a cool picture of me sitting on one of the stones 😎
Me too, before the yobs started to scratch marks on the Stones.
Edinburgh is a brilliant place for a city break. Completely bonkers when the Fringe Festival is on. For somewhere so well known globally it's quite small and easy to get around. In the very top part of Edinburgh Castle they have the Scottish National War Memorial which is just incredible. On top of what was already mentioned i'd definitely recommend going to the Royal Yacht Britannia, the Palace of Holyrood House and taking a 25 minute train journey to North Queensferry to travel over and see The Forth Bridge, an absolute masterpiece of Victorian Engineering and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
I definitely recommend Edinburgh - no city like it in the world. And pretty sure you can fly there direct from Boston (and it's only something like a 5 and a half hour flight - one of the shortest transatlantic hops).
Yes I agree fuck going to London it's not nice at all. Edinburgh on the other hand is amazing!
Athens of the North
Connor, you need to watch a video about English Castles, there are many
Missing from this but also York, Durham and the Lake District.
These places seem to figure, again and again in these sort of videos leaving a lot of better places out. I'm beginning to think this is an well worn itinerary sold by companies to Americans and they stick to it, promoting it via media influencers. I have to say that in a lot of other areas the accommodation is limited in capacity or oversubscribed. It can also be difficult to reach a lot of good places without a car on day trips or it being on a coach trip route.
Agreed. And Dartmoor and the Cornish coastline.
@@redf7209 you can get decent hotels in Durham near the city for a good price it's easy to get there I should know I live in it traveling to destination is all about getting there as looking at the the place u was going to
Look at the Glen Coe landscape ........... maybe there should be of the top 50 places, include York Minster, Hadrian's Wall, Botallick in Cornwall, Warwick Castle .........
I've been to Stonehenge. Right up to the stones in between them.
I’ve been going to the Isle of Man for years and remember being terrified in peel castle when it started to get dark as a kid.
Yes, he got that wrong, Snowdon, in north Wales, is about 3,500 feet high. North Wales has plenty of castles. The highest mountain in Scotland (and the UK) is Ben Nevis which is about 4,500 feet. That's as high as you can go in the UK with-out leaving the ground.
Snowdon is not just the highest peak in Wales, but in England AND Wales.
He didn’t show you much of Scotland but did show a lot of the Isle of Skye
As well as the steam trains, "regular" diesel trains use the line over the Glenfinnan viaduct (and much cheaper) - same views. Though when we went, my daughter had decided to eat a feather off the ground so over the viaduct we spent the time mopping up vomit - ugh! We did see the great views on the way back though!
Visit Warwick Castle (pronounced Worrick) in Warwickshire (pronounced Worrick-sha ... like nearly all our counties, 'shire' is 'sha' and use a short 'a' like in cat).
I haven't visited a castle in so long. And I live near plenty of them 😂 I think if you were born here and grow up around them you can often take them for granted and not realise just how cool and historically significant these castles are. Used to smoke weed with friends in an 11th century Norman castle that'd been abandoned. (Then couple years later the local council decided to properly keep it protected with walkways, little fences,, educational plaques describing what you're seeing , etc. restoration efforts, Which is for the best, admittedly.
But man it was so cool there at night time, just making our ways up the claustrophobic staircases to one of the watch towers (?) or I guess where they could shoot arrows out of.
(I never littered inside the ruins! from what I can remember- Never leave your rubbish in these places, people. Protect these places for another 900 years to come!)
(Also, we have wind farms in the UK, they're just usually more in the south west and in the windy places up north. And in Scotland they've got so much renewable energy is crazy)
(Also the cliffs are that white because they're chalk) (If you go on the wikipedia page for Chalk, it mentions south east England. It's one of the places of the world made from chalk. Which means in a few thousand years, where I live might not exist anymore 😳 (Thanet, Kent))
-It's "Edin-bruh"
You should visit them more. I'm hours from any good castles and I go see some whenever I can. Especially the empty ones in the middle of nowhere that are free to explore
I used to horse ride around that area and we’d stop at Stonehenge and eat lunch on the stones, back in the day when there was no problem getting close to it
Fun fact - if you ever visit Edinburgh Castle don't pay - state you want to visit the War Memorial inside the Castle. They have to give you free entry as you cant pay to see a War Memorial (though you get a special badge which 'restricts' entry to some parts of the castle). And people wonder why they say the Scots are cannae (thrifty). For info, there are over 2000 castles in Scotland - place is hoaching with them
One of the best places in wales I’d say after spending most of my life here is either Anglesey or abersoch beautiful beach’s and towns
The White Cliffs of Dover used to be at the bottom of a prehistoric sea. Layers of dead shellfish collected on the bottom, which eventually formed the chalk that the cliffs are formed of.
"is the Harry Potter train track a real tra...." made me laugh... Bless you kid, yes it is and still has steam trains that run on it and some other lines.
Isn't it the line that runs from Fort William to Mallaig, one of the most scenic in the world or at least in the UK :-)
Yes I had a laugh at that one ,but hey we live here
The UK is full of amazing places, most hiding away right under your nose. Within a 10 mile radius of where I live in an unremarkable village in the middle of England, there is a 12th Century castle (the location of Ivanhoe), the childhood home of a 6-day Queen (Lady Jane Grey was just 16 when she was crowned, and within a week, beheaded), an 11th Century cathedral (now the home of Richard III, formerly of a nearby carpark), a 12th Century Abbey, 2nd Century Roman ruins, a school founded in the 1400's, countless truly old churches (the church in my village celebrates it's 1000th birthday in 17 years), among many, many other historical sites. Unfortunately, we are mostly just apathetic to the history around us, so it is good to be reminded by someone looking with fresh eyes.
You can go and sit, touch the stones of Stonehenge during the summer and winter solstice (along with several other partying people)
What are often described as windmills in the Netherlands and here in the Fens in Cambridgeshire are actually wind pumps, to keep the land drained rather than for grinding corn.
Fun fact, we have one of the biggest wind turbine "farms" in the world, 6th biggest I think. If you want castles, go to Wales they're everywhere.
Although concrete was not used in castle construction, the Romans used concrete extensively, which is why they could build so quickly throughout their empire. They faced them with brick or stone giving the appearance of brick or stone buildings. Some of ancient Rome's most famous buildings have concrete cores.
If you liked Stonehenge you should've popped up the road to see Avebury - bigger & 1000 years older. It's right next to Silbury Hill & West Kennet Long Barrow.
Conwy Castle ( Castell Conwy ) is 3 miles away from where I live and have walked the town walls and photographed the castle many times, I worked just outside the town walls for 20 odd years. The walled town of Conwy and its castle are worthy of your attention so take a look. The castle in Scotland with the causeway going out to it, appears at the beginning of the film HIGHLANDER.
You are so lucky to live there. Conwy and the surrounding area is my heaven on earth. I live on the Sussex coast and am too decrepit to move now.
I was disappointed by the castle.
I grew up near you in llandudno
@@Sue474 Hello Sue, I thought I had replied to you previously but I can't see it? Yes, The family moved to Penmaenmawr in 1961 from Manchester when I was 17, it was like moving to a new world, now the whole area is just HOME. I worked in Conway for almost 30 years. So many things have changed, some for the better, but many not. The "new" coastal A55 Expressway has made a big difference to many of the towns along the coast by taking away the through traffic, but left them high and dry as far as tourism is concerned, shops closed etc., I don't know your area at all really, I went to Lowestoft for a ferry once :-) and Dover. So I can't appreciate what it must be like to live in that SE corner of England, I know I would miss the mountains that's for sure. My favourite area to visit is the Cotswolds. Isn't the Internet great though, you can effectively visit just about anywhere from your armchair. Bye now, best wishes.
@@valeriecarlin1524 Hello Valerie, how long ago did you leave the area? I now live 10 minutes away from Conway, it is still a lovely place. Llandudno has lost a bit of its charm, some major shops have closed for economic reasons, Covid restrictions have made a difference too, although that in a way has brought tourists back, last year in particular was busy. Was it Conway Castle you were referring to or the Scottish one? I love both, the Scots Castle is in a amazing location, and Conway Castle speaks for itself. There was, long before Conway Castle, a castle at Deganwy, there are just a few remaning bits of walling, but there is an artists impression of this castle based on its ground plan I believe, what a fantastic location. The was also an iron age fort on the top of Conway mountain. I hope you have fond memories of the area, All the very best.
@@ianwilkinson4602 hi
I left over 30 years ago now. Yeah I agree re llandudno. I went back about 10 years ago and couldnt believe how much it had changed
Hope you come and visit us again sometime friend, you're always welcome :)
The White Cliffs are made of chalk. They have eroded from wind and sea over millions of years leaving steep cliffs where the land used to flow gracefully down to the sea some miles out.
3:07 I've never heard the word "sloop" before, but I like it and I'm going to start using it!
A sloop is a small sailing ship in reality.
The Beach Boys’ song - Sloop John B - is where I think I first heard the word but it might have been from an old book!
@@lindylou6864 The Royal Navy and other navies too, used sloops and brigs in the days of sail. they were small, agile, and fast sailing fast craft to carry despatches and the like, not too good in heavy seas though.
I think with snowdon he got an extra zero in there somewhere, it's around 1000m, so 3000ft ish.
Highly recommend Edinburgh , beautiful city and isle of skye is stunning if you want fab views and peace and quiet that's the place to go .
You have to visit Richmond, North Yorkshire if you want to see England's oldest stone castle which overlooks England's fastest flowing river and is the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales!
Plenty of other castles all over the place in various states of ruination or completion - each with their own unique stories. Two of the best cities where you will find a stunning Norman castle and cathedral combination are Lincoln and Durham. Lincoln has one of the few remaining copies of the Magna Carta on display which you can go and see. It’s kept under extremely low light conditions to help preserve it. No flash photography allowed!!!
Edinburgh has two UNESCO heritage sights- the old town and the New Town, the New Town was started in the 1760’s during the Scottish enlightenment and considered the inspiration for modern city planning with its grid network layout.
Dude when you next visit the UK, and if you like castles ( which you obviously do ) visit Conwy Castle, Pembroke Castle or Caernarfon Castle. All are so majestic.
He missed Northumberland where there is the most castles in a small radius
Including Alnwick Castle where they filmed portions of Harry Potter.
We used to be allowed to walk around in Stonehenge. I have photos of my sister and myself as children by the stones.
Mount Snowdon in Wales (Yr Wyddfa) is around 3500 feet. He made an error.
The white cliffs are formed by decayed shell fish.
Stonehenge pah! Try one of the other 1303 stone circles many of which are far more accessible.
For my money, Orkney has one of the best concentrations of stone circles and ancient sites.
Yeah, like Avebury. Fantastic!
You should look at the Time Team videos that follow archaeological digs at various sites around the UK.
You should look at the Edward I castles built around the coast of Wales ...
You might enjoy watching this - ' Edinburgh Castle History'
There's a number of castles where I live in the north east of England, Durham being one which is a few mile from where I live & another is Alnwick Castle which is in the Harry Potter film, there's many others too.
Lots of windmills for you in East Anglia (the round 'bulge' north of the Thames - closest to Holland). :-)
We are a tiny Islands but lots packed in you will be spoilt for choice should you make the trip over! I'm in the South of the UK but have ancestory across the British Isles and was fascinated to learn recently of the Galloway hoard exhibition which I would love to see as this was my maiden name.
Did you visit Stonehenge after they opened the new visitor centre in 2013? I have heard there is a 360 virtual experience there so that visitors can experience walking inside the stones.
Weird that no castles were mentioned in the Wales bit - more castles than you can shake a stick at. Lots of romantic ruins that no one goes to either.
Stonehenge is a tourist trap, there are literally dozens of stone circles you can visit and get close up too...
I was at old Harry's Rocks about 5 weeks ago. It was windy and I'm a wimp so I was probably about 20 foot short of where I could have got to!
We do have windmills here wheree I live there is a few around here and I'm in boston in Lincolnshire England xx not too many tho
I live in the midlands of England and although we have our problems and its not perfect we are jammed full of places worth visiting which is common throughout Europe. Hundreds of years of history is the main plus compared with USA of course. For example I live less than 30 minutes drive from a pub that dates from 1568. A church from 1280, a castle from 1066 and the remains of a Roman settlement which must be around 2000 years old. We just take it for granted and sometimes don't appreciate it which is why its so interesting seeing how Americans react to all this. By the way if you don't want to sound like an American tourist please pronounce shire as in Oxfordshire as sher. I know its not phonetic but it sounds strange when you say Shiir. xx
Mount Snowdon is 1085 metrers, 3556 ft above sea level.
The cliffs are Chalk I used to life on the Isle of Wight, hence the name.
Edinburgh is a great city. I would definitely recommend it.
Hi Dover cliffs are made of chalk, a soft white, finely grained limestone. Mount Snowdon peak is 1,085 metres or 3,560 feet. You seem very doubtful but you can check it is correct.
Mount Snowden is only about 3000ft, he got carried away.
As for the White cliffs, the Ice cap never came as far south so they where formed by erosion and rising sea levels, Britain being cut off from the mainland of Europe by around 6000 BC
You can go into Stonehenge on either the winter or summer solstice.
Funny, when I was a child we could just go and sit on the stones at Stonehenge. What they've done to it since though, with the tunnel and the "visitor centre" and tickets and all that just leaves me cold.
20% of the UK GDP goes on whitewashing the cliffs on an monthly basis. Honest. Edinburgh and Durham are probably the most picturesque cities. Chester is great for Roman stuff (as is York). Warwick Castle is spectacular - but pricey to get in. There are stone circles like Stonehenge all over the place - a lot are free and you can wander around them. I count myself lucky to live here. :)
I live in Durham City and it amuses me when I hear Americans go on about castles. I can see three from where I live and we probably do take them for granted.
If you came to where I grew up 'Norfolk' you'd change your mind on windmills. Plus a sidenote we have like 4 of the largest offshore windfarms in the world
When Americans say "Rotary's" my British brain automatically thinks of the washing lines that are on poles and spin.
Stonehenge is usually open to go near the stones during the pagan festivals like Solstice & Equinox ceremonies
4:16 once a year you can get close to the rocks. I think it's in the winter solstice
Snowdon is 1,085 metres (3,560 ft) above sea level 🏔
You can go in the centre of the stones. There is limited access though and you need to pre book
Eilean Donan Castle - location for some of Conner Macleod's flashback scenes in Highlander (showing my age a bit)
The white cliffss are chalk. 8,000 years ago we were collected to mainland europe, there was swampy hunting ground linking us toDenmakr and Holland, and a rise fo high ground connecting us to France. The as the ice-caps melted, 150km of the coastline of norway broke off and fell into the seat - triggering a tsunami, which flooded the wetlands and joined forces with a river called the Solent, to separate us from rance, and form the white cliffs. The Solent still runs, but mized with the sea, it divides the Isleo fo Wight from southern England. The wet lands are still under the north Sea, known as doggerland, and wonderful stone age artefacts are found there. After the flood there were only around 5000 people left living on the new British Isles.