"Do people actually live there?". Oh, always a guaranteed laugh on this channel! Yes, people live there and pay a fortune for their houses. Most of them will be "listed", which hugely limits what you can do to them. No ripping down walls to make open plan. The windows will be wooden, and if need of replacement, they have to match the originals. Any changes have to be within English Heritage guidelines, and they'll probably inspect before, during and after any work. That's how the character is maintained through time.
yes of course here are some of the people who live here David and Victoria Beckham Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi Jeremy Clarkson Alex James Kate Moss Jilly Cooper Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen Lily Allen Damien Hirst
Google it the average house price is about 450k my council house is worth 600k because it’s near London . My brother lives in the Cotswoldsits not as expensive as London to live there restaurants everything is cheaper but the wages are lower . The house prices are not that high in Cotswolds unless you want something big it’s quite surprising . 🏴
@@tabitha4135 its not london prices but its still expensive. £450k is about the same as a city like Bristols house prices. But its mainly farmers retirement homes and rich people in the cotswolds as theres far less jobs there. Grew up in stroud which isnt quite the same as the proper old stone houses in surrounding areas.
I live in the Cotswolds. It’s a farming area plus tourism of course - lots of people just living their lives, and yea there are schools, supermarkets, pizza restaurants… We just do it in beautiful surroundings that we often forget to appreciate
Yes, people really do live in the Cotswolds and I'm lucky enough to be one of them. As for working there, I'm one of the guys that keeps the plants growing on the house walls (and gardens) under control! You could say that I have a dream job and you'd be dead right. I love it :)
My wife's parents lived in the Cotswolds, in Lower Slaughter. Their house faced onto the Fosse Way, the main road past the village, which was laid down by the Roman Army soon after they invaded, defining the limit of their territory at that time. The field alongside them was the site of a Roman fort from that period, so the place is full of history. I have good memories of our youngsters with their cousins playing in the stream there during the summers. Upper Slaughter is a small village just upstream, about a mile away, and for me it epitomises the Cotswold village because it is relatively unknown and quiet. I once joined a group carol-singing there one Christmas, going from house to house, being invited in for mince pies and sherry at the larger houses. The carols got better and better after every visit, as you can imagine! 😊 And Bourton On The Water, a few miles south along the Fosse Way, is the big tourist attraction. And yes, the houses are very much lived in - they're every-day homes, not museum pieces!
It's not a theme park, this is just what villages in this part of the country look like. I for one don't take it for granted even though it's what I grew up with.
Not always green. I have nearly 100 types including cultivars with leaves of various shades of yellow, green, blue-green and grey splashes, white or yellow edges, and white, cream and/or yellow splashes. Plus forms that turn purple-brown or almost black during the winter.
@ Like any plant out of the wild, it needs control. Not difficult if done regularly and it’s not difficult to kill if you really need to, you just need to know how.
Tyler has questioned this many times and each time I explained about ivy. Also pointed out old prestigious American universities are known as "ivy league". He doesn't read comments, I have discovered over the last year, so we waste our time with explanations, I'm sorry to say. 🫤
Hi Tyler, thanks for this video! I'm so glad they made you so happy! There are so many beautiful villages in England. The Cotswolds are an extraordinary, untouched area - though overrun with tourists at times. But even in very ordinary, less touristy places across the UK, you can often find an old church and some very old houses in most village centres.
Picturesque comes at a price. The price being that it's almost impossible to move in these places during the tourist season. Many residents have had to put up signs explaining the obvious...that people actually live there, because of the number of tourists (mostly Japanese and Chinese) stomping all over their gardens to get a better shot, or even peering into their front windows.
Wisteria and virginia creeper are some of the plants on the walls. Both will climb but to keep it looking tidy you put wires or trellis up for their support. Ivy is not encouraged on listed buildings as it damages the stone and mortar.
The Cotswolds are beautiful we were there a few weeks ago. Bourton on the Water was gorgeous but heaving with people, even in October. Stardust was another film that used Castle Combe as a location. The thousands of old churches in the UK. Christchurch Priory (Dorset - near the New Forest which is another lovely area) is over 900 years old. Driving on small roads is normal for us!
I used to live at the top of Castle Combe and my daughter used to catch ( not to eat!) fresh water crayfish in the shallows below the bridge...Stardust with Michelle Pheiffer was shot there...Jamie Cullum the jazz pianist used to play in the pub to entertain the clients during Sunday lunches.
Lots of people live in the Cotswolds. It’s a beautiful part of Gloucestershire. You can drive around, stay in any of the villages. Oxford is not far from the Cotswolds and is a must to see. There are loads of cafes and pubs where you can stay for the night!
I really enjoy seeing UK things through your eyes. I moved here 20 years ago from South Africa and love it. When are you planning to finally come and experience it for yourself in person? Let me know…. We have a couple of spare rooms and your welcome to stay.. (Kent.. Garden of England - South East)
These are all very much peoples homes. To be honest these houses are all listed buildings (meaning they have to be kept in a good state of repair, but as true as practically possible to their original design), and if they weren't private homes, the government (local or national) would have to bear the cost of the maintenance
Someone close to me moved from suburban London to the Cotswolds for work purposes about five years ago. She rents a wonderful little Hobbit house with a park behind the house and a river outside her front door. She goes on a daily walk - often to Bibury. Unfortunately it's unlikely she will be able to buy a house there as almost all the houses in her village are second homes - not lived in all the time but used as weekend/holiday homes by the rich of London - so the prices are hugely inflated. Burford is lovely - I've trundled up and down that hill in my mobility buggy many times! By the way, it's pronounced Castle COOM not COMB. And the person who wanted to buy the row of cottages to take to Michigan was Henry Ford. Do keep up!
I live in Witney, a market town on the edge of the Cotswolds, not far from Burford. It is a beautiful town, and is the home of the ‘Witney Blanket’, which was exported hundreds of years ago to the Hudson Bay Company in Canada; they were used to trade with the indigenous people. And films and television programmes were made in this town and surrounding villages, including, in recent years, some parts of Downton Abbey. Yes, we do live here! It is an incredibly beautiful part of England, full of history, and we are lucky to live here - and your video and commentary has reminded me just how lucky we are!❤
This is not Disney Land this is England ,people live and work here, the buildings you see are private homes not a place for American tourists to look through the window.
The cotswolds is a range of hills and the reason it looks old is because the wool industry' collapsed in the 18th century and nobody could afford to demolish and rebuild in a more modern style. The Victorians would have found these buildings hopelessly old fashioned and our fondness for them is a relatively recent phenomenon. (So I moved here...)
Yes those are peoples homes. (All moderised inside) Arlington terrace in Bibury sounds like a nightmare to live in. I've heard stories of tourists shouting at the home owners to move their cars so they can take photos. 🤦♀️ The plants on the buildings are climbers (like ivy). Their roots cling to the side of the building naturally. The purpose of it is to look nice, and it also provides shelter for birds. 😊
Tyler dude, allow me to officially extend an invitation to visit. The cotswolds are just one small example. You should see some of the towns and villages in the southwest. Dunster in somerset for example, or the village of Beer in devon. We would be happy to show you round
Visited Castle Combe twice with my grandchildren ,its where Warhorse was filmed ,stunning village they also have a nice motor racing circuit not far from the village
RAF Fairford is only few miles away from these places and hosts the largest military airshow in Europe every year in July . So watching top military jets and large bombers fly over is also an added bonus for some .
Since you mentioned frodo and gandalf. The shire was based on a few different counties in the UK: Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Shropshire (theres probably more but this was the general area he based the shire on). There's a village near where i grew up in Shropshire called Bagginswood. Cant be certain, but we're pretty sure Tolkien got the name Baggins from it, since its a very unusual name, and the village is older than the lord of the rings
The Cotswolds are beautiful you should look at Bourton -on - water , Stow on the wold, the Slaughters, there are many many very pretty villages. Also the Roman town of Cirencester is nearby, and the larger town of Cheltenham. Well worth a visit.
it looks like a fairy-tale because those tales took these villages and places as their inspiration...most villages across the UK have differing architecture which help identify the region and place but they still essentially have this sort of charm of their own kind. They are real and many millions live in these places.
The Cotswolds is veery real! Alongside the beautiful stone cottages there are also many large, imposing houses still built in the honey coloured Cotswold stone and even larger Manor Houses in beautiful grounds. It's well worth a visit when you decide to come to the UK Tyler.
I live in Worcestershire, one of the counties that the Cotswolds passes through, and I can wholeheartedly agree that it's one of the most beautiful areas n the country :)
Which is why these homes are regularly inspected and maintained as part of the heritage of the area. Ivy is not encouraged. There are Wisteria-covered cottages all over the UK that are 250-350 years old if not more..
I live near Lincoln (UK) and where are lots of old buildings that go waaaaaaay back. There is an archway built by the Romans which is the only one in the country that still has traffic passing through it. 😁
OMG, have you been to Edinburgh? Such a beautiful city! As a dual national I really enjoy your videos. (though I am somewhat homesick right now....missing the UK!)
The Counties in the South-west are amazing too..Devon, Cornwall, Somerset (where the cider apples grow). If you have the series Doc Martin in the U.S you'll see some outstanding beauty. There's history everywhere and many, many very beautiful old buildings. You ABSOLUTELY MUST take a trip over !
I wonder why they didn't film in spring or summer when the trees are in leaf and the gardens/vines in full bloom. A bit like videoing the skiing in Aspen in the summertime, lol
Love your content, I live in The Cotswolds and as you say it's like a fairy tale. It's a shame they chose this time of the year to show Bibury, in the summer the plants and flowers, everything is just so much more vibrant and looks even more of a fairy tale.
Apparently the Cotswolds was the area of Britannia the Roman bigwigs preferred to build their villas. (There were no thatched cottages there at that time, of course.) Reminder: when the Romans occupied Britannia they killed or enslaved a quarter of the population.
My later childhood was spent on the edge of the Cotswolds. A few of the villages are well-known tourist traps; the best thing is to go to some of the less-well-kmown ones. Always visit the Parish Church, which is usually interesting, often dating back to the 1100s. Most of the building of one village church in Gloucestershire( Deernurst) dates back to 780... (Not 1780!) A quirk of English Law means that the whole area is criss- crossed with Rights of Way. These are ancient paths you have the right to walk on, and so see all the beautiful scenery.
I live in the town of Cheltenham which sits on the edge of the Cotswolds. I’ve been to Bibury, Winchcombe, Bourton On The Water, Stow on the Wold, Broadway and Cirencester. The average house price in the Cotswolds is around $600,000. The narrow roads are what puts me off visiting more.
Where I live just running around my area I will pass thatched houses three castles a pub that has been a pub from 1600 until now in constant use as a pub Victorian houses everywhere an even the path (sidewalk) outside pub is from the 16th century we are so lucky to live here
Tyler, those are not "stone _fences"_...!! They are actually called 'stone _walls_ ' And of course people live in those houses - they were not built for tourists to gawk at!! The narrator already said the cottages are 17_th Century...and that's from the _1600's _to the_ 1700's_ of course.
@neuralwarp There's no "suppose" about it, I have heard several Americans refer to walls as fences and tbh it's annoying...most don't even bother to describe them as stone fences - oh, and I have also heard at least two Canadians call walls "fences" too, so that's equally annoying, imo, regardless of your description / origin of the word definition.
I live in Cornwall, was near St Ives for a long time. Quaint English villages are everywhere, but they're a bit out of the way. I always feel like I'm intruding when I'm walking through one.
It's like a movie set because Hollywood copied real life. Not just from the UK but also from European countries. An example is the Disney castle which is a copy of a famous German castle. Sometimes the set designers mixed up designs from different countries that you wouldn't see in real life but they didn't invent most of it. BTW, Walt Disney's family came from a small village in Lincolnshire originally.
Ivy grows up the side of buildings, it looks great especially when it goes red in autumn, but it puts roots into the brickwork or rendering which can be quite damaging.
Yes The Cotswolds stretches across parts of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire In Southwest England and there is a lot more to see , really beautiful any time of year. Those of us who are lucky enough to live here, ( and we don’t all live in ancient cottages though), do appreciate it! Come visit.
I'm lucky enough to live in village on the edge of the Cotswolds near Castle Combe, utterly stunning area and a fantastic place to live. So glad you like it
You do need to choose climbing plants (please note some climbing plants can damage buildings) and it is best to provide a frame for plants to climb up on, rather than just a wall. However- it has been proven that these plants can help regulate the temperature in the buildings
Princess Anne lives in an estate in one of those beautiful villages, where some residents can see a part of it from their own gardens so "fairytale" is such a fitting description for the Cotswolds! 👌
No she doesn't. She lives at Gatcombe park, which is a bloody great sprawling estate, between Minchinhampton and Avening. Charles also has Highgrove house near Tetbury.
Vines, if you grow them will naturally grow everywhere. Just here in the states, most people trim them off the walls. some older brick houses in the east coast have them. They aren't 16th century old, so not really old ha ha. Most newer building here are wooden and vine roots would just destroy those, so I wouldn't recommend it.
Climbing plants can take over. Some need to be trained but they can go berserk. They look amazing but they can cause damp and the roots penetrate between the bricks.
Cotswolds means sheep’s pens in the rolling hillside. I live just outside the area, and in the summer months it is full of American and Japanese tourists. Because it is a tourist area everything is very very over priced.
Many countries in Europe have small charming fairytale villages like this, or at the very least old buildings if the whole villages haven't been preserved, although the UK is very good at preserving them! I live in northern Sweden and only an hours drive from where I live there is a thousand year old church that is open to the public, built while most people in the area still believed in the old norse gods.
It's a shame this was filmed in the winter. The vegetation growing up the buildings are either 'climbers' or 'ramblers'. Examples are Wisteria, Roses, Hederas (Ivies), Virginia creeper, Clematis, Passion flower, Honeysuckle, Jasmine, climbing Hydrangeas, Morning Glory, and MANY others. Climbing plants generally mean those that are self-supporting with tendrils or rootlets. Rambling plants generally need some support from trellises, or wire.
Large area - Oh dear - it started off with a map showing, exactly, the whole area. How on earth did that not make it clear that the Cotswolds is not just one town but an area of England? But I couldn't believe it when Tyler asked in a very doubtful way "Are there people who actually live here??? " and then, later "This place looks as though someone actually lives there!" We're forever hearing stories of tourists just walking into people's homes, or taking photos of the inside of a home through the windows (there's mention of this further down in the comments). I've always wondered how such person's brains work - do they think whole villages & towns bus in hundreds of people every day to clean up, cook for all the restaurants, stand around to get their photos taken and then close down at 5pm or something? How in the name of all things logic, could that work? If everyone all buggered off at the end of the day, what would stop tramps & homeless people taking over and using all the houses & buildings to sleep in? And how would they get there, or leave each morning? Good grief!! If tourists to the US tried to walk into strangers houses they'd probably get shot. But hey, the dear, quaint old Brits take a large portion of the country & shoo out the residents in order to give tourists completely free house/garden tours.😂😂
Not 'Castle-Come', as in hair comb, but Castle COOM, and not 'CotswOlds', try 'Cotswlds', as though there is nothing between the w and the l. Wild plants grow wild - they are not planted to look 'cool'.
im from the cotswolds still live on the edge i personally find anywhere thst dosnt look like this weird . l used to live in a cotswold stone house built around 1140 when the village was established but im 6ft and there built for hobbits so moved to a modern house 1931 in the same village i would recommend our cheese, dairy, pork ,lamb, beef there are really good butchers all over the place the Jurassic limestone grasslands make for good grazing land .our village farm has a 24h dairy vending machine vending very fresh milk , cheeses , cream stuff like that so it alot more modernised than it appears we have fibre broadband now in most of the villages
It would have been kind of wrong and thanks for saying it. I like your video after that. Lots of people live in the Cotswolds. They are the richer ones of us!
"Do people actually live there?". Oh, always a guaranteed laugh on this channel! Yes, people live there and pay a fortune for their houses. Most of them will be "listed", which hugely limits what you can do to them. No ripping down walls to make open plan. The windows will be wooden, and if need of replacement, they have to match the originals. Any changes have to be within English Heritage guidelines, and they'll probably inspect before, during and after any work. That's how the character is maintained through time.
yes of course
here are some of the people who live here
David and Victoria Beckham
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi
Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi
Jeremy Clarkson
Alex James
Kate Moss
Jilly Cooper
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Lily Allen
Damien Hirst
I live here too!
Lawrence llewelyn-bowen was a neighbour and I dropped off Lily Allen's housekeeper once after a party!...
Very cool!
Google it the average house price is about 450k my council house is worth 600k because it’s near London . My brother lives in the Cotswoldsits not as expensive as London to live there restaurants everything is cheaper but the wages are lower . The house prices are not that high in Cotswolds unless you want something big it’s quite surprising . 🏴
@@tabitha4135 its not london prices but its still expensive. £450k is about the same as a city like Bristols house prices. But its mainly farmers retirement homes and rich people in the cotswolds as theres far less jobs there. Grew up in stroud which isnt quite the same as the proper old stone houses in surrounding areas.
Stone little fences are called "Walls".
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Careful, don't get too technical for Tyler!
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The whole of the UK is a living museum. We live ordinary lives in extraordinary buildings. It's magic!
I live in the Cotswolds. It’s a farming area plus tourism of course - lots of people just living their lives, and yea there are schools, supermarkets, pizza restaurants… We just do it in beautiful surroundings that we often forget to appreciate
We really need to get this guy over to the uk for a holiday 😂
He'll never leave his bubble his comfort zone. He his zero social awareness of life outside of it.
@@davidmalarkey1302you seem like a nice guy
@@davidmalarkey1302On the contrary, it is growing bit by bit..
Good luck...😂
He has 'learned' so much about it by now.
Love the bit where you said ''I'd be honored to be crushed by that clock'' lol .. Love that comment, ... Great video reaction by the way.
People DO live in those places in the Cotswolds. It ain't Diisneyland.
Thats exactly what I was going to say where you might find something similar in the US. Either there or a movie set in Hollywood. At least the front.
Yes, people really do live in the Cotswolds and I'm lucky enough to be one of them. As for working there, I'm one of the guys that keeps the plants growing on the house walls (and gardens) under control! You could say that I have a dream job and you'd be dead right. I love it :)
Keeping wild plants under control is almost a full time job. No such thing as weeds, they're just plants growing in the wrong places.
My wife's parents lived in the Cotswolds, in Lower Slaughter. Their house faced onto the Fosse Way, the main road past the village, which was laid down by the Roman Army soon after they invaded, defining the limit of their territory at that time. The field alongside them was the site of a Roman fort from that period, so the place is full of history. I have good memories of our youngsters with their cousins playing in the stream there during the summers. Upper Slaughter is a small village just upstream, about a mile away, and for me it epitomises the Cotswold village because it is relatively unknown and quiet. I once joined a group carol-singing there one Christmas, going from house to house, being invited in for mince pies and sherry at the larger houses. The carols got better and better after every visit, as you can imagine! 😊 And Bourton On The Water, a few miles south along the Fosse Way, is the big tourist attraction. And yes, the houses are very much lived in - they're every-day homes, not museum pieces!
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It's not a theme park, this is just what villages in this part of the country look like. I for one don't take it for granted even though it's what I grew up with.
Disneyland is probably where you can at least find something similar at least what it front facing. There and Hollywood sets.
These plants are called IVY. It attaches itself to the bricks and grows very quick. The leaves are always green.
Not always green. I have nearly 100 types including cultivars with leaves of various shades of yellow, green, blue-green and grey splashes, white or yellow edges, and white, cream and/or yellow splashes. Plus forms that turn purple-brown or almost black during the winter.
It’s horrible stuff. I have a neighbour who has it and it’s spread everywhere. It’s impossible to kill with weed killer.
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Like any plant out of the wild, it needs control. Not difficult if done regularly and it’s not difficult to kill if you really need to, you just need to know how.
Tyler has questioned this many times and each time I explained about ivy. Also pointed out old prestigious American universities are known as "ivy league". He doesn't read comments, I have discovered over the last year, so we waste our time with explanations, I'm sorry to say. 🫤
Lol. IVY... He has led a very sheltered life.
I try to make it to the UK every year. There is so much to see and appreciate. The Cotswolds are on my list for the next trip.
Just don’t hire a big SUV when you go there. You could end up getting stuck. The roads there are very narrow compared to the US.
Hi Tyler, thanks for this video! I'm so glad they made you so happy! There are so many beautiful villages in England. The Cotswolds are an extraordinary, untouched area - though overrun with tourists at times. But even in very ordinary, less touristy places across the UK, you can often find an old church and some very old houses in most village centres.
Picturesque comes at a price. The price being that it's almost impossible to move in these places during the tourist season. Many residents have had to put up signs explaining the obvious...that people actually live there, because of the number of tourists (mostly Japanese and Chinese) stomping all over their gardens to get a better shot, or even peering into their front windows.
I sometimes got that when I was washing dishes in our flat in Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick, west London.
From caerphilly and it's always the Japanese tourists you find down the far side of town eating food on someone's lawn
Wisteria and virginia creeper are some of the plants on the walls. Both will climb but to keep it looking tidy you put wires or trellis up for their support. Ivy is not encouraged on listed buildings as it damages the stone and mortar.
The Cotswolds are beautiful we were there a few weeks ago. Bourton on the Water was gorgeous but heaving with people, even in October. Stardust was another film that used Castle Combe as a location. The thousands of old churches in the UK. Christchurch Priory (Dorset - near the New Forest which is another lovely area) is over 900 years old. Driving on small roads is normal for us!
I really wished the video had been recorded in spring /summer rather than winter 🙏❄️😭
These narrow roads with hedges were used for driving cattle and sheep along, so they couldn't get out of hand. A brook is a creek in your language.
The roads were there before cars were invented. It is wide enough for a horse and cart which is what it was originally needed for
Around 136,000 people live in the Cotswolds.
You really need to come visit!
400,000 live in my city alone I want out 😢
No, he doesn't !
I used to live at the top of Castle Combe and my daughter used to catch ( not to eat!) fresh water crayfish in the shallows below the bridge...Stardust with Michelle Pheiffer was shot there...Jamie Cullum the jazz pianist used to play in the pub to entertain the clients during Sunday lunches.
I love the Cotswolds and my favourite is Stowe on the Wolde.
Way too manicured for me. I prefer a bit less. Norfolk and Northumbrian coast 👍🏻
*Stow-on-the-Wold
There are many little villages around the UK, I live in one only 20 min drive outside London
Lots of people live in the Cotswolds. It’s a beautiful part of Gloucestershire. You can drive around, stay in any of the villages.
Oxford is not far from the Cotswolds and is a must to see. There are loads of cafes and pubs where you can stay for the night!
Hello from Malmesbury, oldest town in England and in the Cotswolds.
I really enjoy seeing UK things through your eyes. I moved here 20 years ago from South Africa and love it. When are you planning to finally come and experience it for yourself in person? Let me know…. We have a couple of spare rooms and your welcome to stay.. (Kent.. Garden of England - South East)
Curiously, many creepers on the walls are American - Virginia creeper, Boston ivy
It is a tourist locacation, however people do live there
These are all very much peoples homes. To be honest these houses are all listed buildings (meaning they have to be kept in a good state of repair, but as true as practically possible to their original design), and if they weren't private homes, the government (local or national) would have to bear the cost of the maintenance
Someone close to me moved from suburban London to the Cotswolds for work purposes about five years ago. She rents a wonderful little Hobbit house with a park behind the house and a river outside her front door. She goes on a daily walk - often to Bibury. Unfortunately it's unlikely she will be able to buy a house there as almost all the houses in her village are second homes - not lived in all the time but used as weekend/holiday homes by the rich of London - so the prices are hugely inflated. Burford is lovely - I've trundled up and down that hill in my mobility buggy many times! By the way, it's pronounced Castle COOM not COMB. And the person who wanted to buy the row of cottages to take to Michigan was Henry Ford. Do keep up!
If we all donate $0.50, we could send Mr Rumple to the Cotswolds to make a video...
I live in Witney, a market town on the edge of the Cotswolds, not far from Burford. It is a beautiful town, and is the home of the ‘Witney Blanket’, which was exported hundreds of years ago to the Hudson Bay Company in Canada; they were used to trade with the indigenous people. And films and television programmes were made in this town and surrounding villages, including, in recent years, some parts of Downton Abbey. Yes, we do live here! It is an incredibly beautiful part of England, full of history, and we are lucky to live here - and your video and commentary has reminded me just how lucky we are!❤
This is not Disney Land this is England ,people live and work here, the buildings you see are private homes not a place for American tourists to look through the window.
The cotswolds is a range of hills and the reason it looks old is because the wool industry' collapsed in the 18th century and nobody could afford to demolish and rebuild in a more modern style. The Victorians would have found these buildings hopelessly old fashioned and our fondness for them is a relatively recent phenomenon. (So I moved here...)
Lucky, very lucky.😊
Yes those are peoples homes. (All moderised inside) Arlington terrace in Bibury sounds like a nightmare to live in. I've heard stories of tourists shouting at the home owners to move their cars so they can take photos. 🤦♀️
The plants on the buildings are climbers (like ivy). Their roots cling to the side of the building naturally. The purpose of it is to look nice, and it also provides shelter for birds. 😊
Tyler dude, allow me to officially extend an invitation to visit. The cotswolds are just one small example. You should see some of the towns and villages in the southwest. Dunster in somerset for example, or the village of Beer in devon. We would be happy to show you round
Glad you liked it, it's my favorite place to go every year for my birthday 😊
Visited Castle Combe twice with my grandchildren ,its where Warhorse was filmed ,stunning village they also have a nice motor racing circuit not far from the village
Burton on the water, broadway and cirencester all of which are part of the cotswolds are lovely
RAF Fairford is only few miles away from these places and hosts the largest military airshow in Europe every year in July . So watching top military jets and large bombers fly over is also an added bonus for some .
Since you mentioned frodo and gandalf. The shire was based on a few different counties in the UK: Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Shropshire (theres probably more but this was the general area he based the shire on).
There's a village near where i grew up in Shropshire called Bagginswood. Cant be certain, but we're pretty sure Tolkien got the name Baggins from it, since its a very unusual name, and the village is older than the lord of the rings
I used to cycle to Castle Combe often as a teen.... it's truly beautiful
The Cotswolds are beautiful you should look at Bourton -on - water , Stow on the wold, the Slaughters, there are many many very pretty villages. Also the Roman town of Cirencester is nearby, and the larger town of Cheltenham. Well worth a visit.
it looks like a fairy-tale because those tales took these villages and places as their inspiration...most villages across the UK have differing architecture which help identify the region and place but they still essentially have this sort of charm of their own kind. They are real and many millions live in these places.
The Cotswolds is veery real! Alongside the beautiful stone cottages there are also many large, imposing houses still built in the honey coloured Cotswold stone and even larger Manor Houses in beautiful grounds. It's well worth a visit when you decide to come to the UK Tyler.
You need to see so many houses/buildings that are older than the US!!!
I live in Worcestershire, one of the counties that the Cotswolds passes through, and I can wholeheartedly agree that it's one of the most beautiful areas n the country :)
The problem with ivy growing up the wall is that they eat away at the morter and eventually the wall will collapse.
Which is why these homes are regularly inspected and maintained as part of the heritage of the area. Ivy is not encouraged. There are Wisteria-covered cottages all over the UK that are 250-350 years old if not more..
Boston ivy or Virginia Creeper do not eat into the mortar as they use tendrils to attach themselves. I agree that Irish ivy can be more of a problem.
I live near Lincoln (UK) and where are lots of old buildings that go waaaaaaay back. There is an archway built by the Romans which is the only one in the country that still has traffic passing through it. 😁
Your reactions are so funny 😂 'do people live there'
OMG, have you been to Edinburgh? Such a beautiful city! As a dual national I really enjoy your videos. (though I am somewhat homesick right now....missing the UK!)
The Counties in the South-west are amazing too..Devon, Cornwall, Somerset (where the cider apples grow). If you have the series Doc Martin in the U.S you'll see some outstanding beauty. There's history everywhere and many, many very beautiful old buildings.
You ABSOLUTELY MUST take a trip over !
I wonder why they didn't film in spring or summer when the trees are in leaf and the gardens/vines in full bloom. A bit like videoing the skiing in Aspen in the summertime, lol
Love your content, I live in The Cotswolds and as you say it's like a fairy tale. It's a shame they chose this time of the year to show Bibury, in the summer the plants and flowers, everything is just so much more vibrant and looks even more of a fairy tale.
Now you'll need to visit York. It's special too.
Apparently the Cotswolds was the area of Britannia the Roman bigwigs preferred to build their villas. (There were no thatched cottages there at that time, of course.) Reminder: when the Romans occupied Britannia they killed or enslaved a quarter of the population.
My later childhood was spent on the edge of the Cotswolds. A few of the villages are well-known tourist traps; the best thing is to go to some of the less-well-kmown ones. Always visit the Parish Church, which is usually interesting, often dating back to the 1100s.
Most of the building of one village church in Gloucestershire( Deernurst) dates back to 780... (Not 1780!)
A quirk of English Law means that the whole area is criss- crossed with Rights of Way. These are ancient paths you have the right to walk on, and so see all the beautiful scenery.
If you listen to the narrator, he did say that it was your Henry Ford who wanted to ship the cottages back to the States.
I live in the town of Cheltenham which sits on the edge of the Cotswolds. I’ve been to Bibury, Winchcombe, Bourton On The Water, Stow on the Wold, Broadway and Cirencester. The average house price in the Cotswolds is around $600,000. The narrow roads are what puts me off visiting more.
Do you know who Jeremy Clarkson is ? He lives there.
There are cobbled roads in the UK that are older than the US. It is a beautiful lovely country
Where I live just running around my area I will pass thatched houses three castles a pub that has been a pub from 1600 until now in constant use as a pub Victorian houses everywhere an even the path (sidewalk) outside pub is from the 16th century we are so lucky to live here
Tyler, those are not "stone _fences"_...!! They are actually called 'stone _walls_ '
And of course people live in those houses - they were not built for tourists to gawk at!! The narrator already said the cottages are 17_th Century...and that's from the _1600's _to the_ 1700's_ of course.
My friend the dry stone waller classes walls as a kind of fence. I suppose it's an old thing that Anericans still do.
@neuralwarp
There's no "suppose" about it, I have heard several Americans refer to walls as fences and tbh it's annoying...most don't even bother to describe them as stone fences - oh, and I have also heard at least two Canadians call walls "fences" too, so that's equally annoying, imo, regardless of your description / origin of the word definition.
I live in Cornwall, was near St Ives for a long time. Quaint English villages are everywhere, but they're a bit out of the way. I always feel like I'm intruding when I'm walking through one.
It's like a movie set because Hollywood copied real life. Not just from the UK but also from European countries. An example is the Disney castle which is a copy of a famous German castle. Sometimes the set designers mixed up designs from different countries that you wouldn't see in real life but they didn't invent most of it.
BTW, Walt Disney's family came from a small village in Lincolnshire originally.
Looks so cool, well done the people of the cotswolds.❤❤❤
You're correct! A brook is another word for a small stream.
Ivy grows up the side of buildings, it looks great especially when it goes red in autumn, but it puts roots into the brickwork or rendering which can be quite damaging.
Yes The Cotswolds stretches across parts of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire In Southwest England and there is a lot more to see , really beautiful any time of year. Those of us who are lucky enough to live here, ( and we don’t all
live in ancient cottages though), do appreciate it! Come visit.
No thanks. I tell everyone the Cotswolds is awful and to stay away.
My part of the Cotswolds is free of tourists and we like it that way.
@@TryptychUKYou don’t even know what a river is! 😂
I'm lucky enough to live in village on the edge of the Cotswolds near Castle Combe, utterly stunning area and a fantastic place to live. So glad you like it
Just Discovered Your Channel and subscribed. Thanks for highlighting the Cotswolds.
You do need to choose climbing plants (please note some climbing plants can damage buildings) and it is best to provide a frame for plants to climb up on, rather than just a wall. However- it has been proven that these plants can help regulate the temperature in the buildings
Princess Anne lives in an estate in one of those beautiful villages, where some residents can see a part of it from their own gardens so "fairytale" is such a fitting description for the Cotswolds! 👌
No she doesn't. She lives at Gatcombe park, which is a bloody great sprawling estate, between Minchinhampton and Avening.
Charles also has Highgrove house near Tetbury.
@@TryptychUK For the record Gatcombe Park IS in the Cotswolds! 🤦♂️ Never mind! 😏
@@jettser17UK I know. I live five miles down the road from it.
But it's not in a village. It's on the Avening road past the Ragged Cot.
The two Blanket brothers manufactured the first 'blankets' 😵
Somebody tell this guy that some UK place names come from the Vikings... that should break his brain🤯
I live in a little village in the Midlands,and can go to the Cotswolds for a day out and dinner,it is beautiful ❤️
I live in a high-rise building in Coventry, and I see the Cotswolds from my lounge. 🔭🪟🏢🏔
Vines, if you grow them will naturally grow everywhere. Just here in the states, most people trim them off the walls. some older brick houses in the east coast have them. They aren't 16th century old, so not really old ha ha. Most newer building here are wooden and vine roots would just destroy those, so I wouldn't recommend it.
Climbing plants can take over. Some need to be trained but they can go berserk. They look amazing but they can cause damp and the roots penetrate between the bricks.
It's fantastic that you think this is a fantasy world and not one that's lived in. These homes are that, peoples homes, expensive homes!!
The US has places like these. Probably sets in Hollywood or Disneyland.
"Looks like its from a story book".. where do you think those fairy tales books come from and get their ideas for them 😂
Cotswolds means sheep’s pens in the rolling hillside. I live just outside the area, and in the summer months it is full of American and Japanese tourists. Because it is a tourist area everything is very very over priced.
Many countries in Europe have small charming fairytale villages like this, or at the very least old buildings if the whole villages haven't been preserved, although the UK is very good at preserving them!
I live in northern Sweden and only an hours drive from where I live there is a thousand year old church that is open to the public, built while most people in the area still believed in the old norse gods.
Do you know we have weirs where a river runs through the road and you have to drive through the water if it’s low enough to safely drive.
Love borton on the water. Go swimming in the river and eat ice cream. Many happy hours spent there
My parents lived in a same era house, in the Cotswolds, not far from Castle Combe (in the thumbnail). An area worth visiting.
It's a shame this was filmed in the winter.
The vegetation growing up the buildings are either 'climbers' or 'ramblers'. Examples are Wisteria, Roses, Hederas (Ivies), Virginia creeper, Clematis, Passion flower, Honeysuckle, Jasmine, climbing Hydrangeas, Morning Glory, and MANY others.
Climbing plants generally mean those that are self-supporting with tendrils or rootlets. Rambling plants generally need some support from trellises, or wire.
"Do people live there"? lol. Of course they do. They're not theme parks! :) They're villages. You're looking at people's homes. :)
Have a look at Bourton on the Water in the Cotswolds,you will really love it.❤
You really should check out the village of Lavenham in Suffolk it will blow your mind
Large area - Oh dear - it started off with a map showing, exactly, the whole area. How on earth did that not make it clear that the Cotswolds is not just one town but an area of England? But I couldn't believe it when Tyler asked in a very doubtful way "Are there people who actually live here??? " and then, later "This place looks as though someone actually lives there!"
We're forever hearing stories of tourists just walking into people's homes, or taking photos of the inside of a home through the windows (there's mention of this further down in the comments). I've always wondered how such person's brains work - do they think whole villages & towns bus in hundreds of people every day to clean up, cook for all the restaurants, stand around to get their photos taken and then close down at 5pm or something? How in the name of all things logic, could that work? If everyone all buggered off at the end of the day, what would stop tramps & homeless people taking over and using all the houses & buildings to sleep in? And how would they get there, or leave each morning? Good grief!! If tourists to the US tried to walk into strangers houses they'd probably get shot. But hey, the dear, quaint old Brits take a large portion of the country & shoo out the residents in order to give tourists completely free house/garden tours.😂😂
Yes People do live in these towns and villages.
That’s a (small) river, brooks are smaller still.
It's a stream.
@@TryptychUKIt's a river. A stream can be jumped over
@@TryptychUKYou are wrong, it’s the River Colne.
@@samuelbarrett9403 Even rivers start as streams.
It's a physical stream, and named as a river.
@ You are talking rubbish, it’s a full blown river at this point, not a stream, it’s the river Colne one of the finest Trout rivers in England.
Not 'Castle-Come', as in hair comb, but Castle COOM, and not 'CotswOlds', try 'Cotswlds', as though there is nothing between the w and the l. Wild plants grow wild - they are not planted to look 'cool'.
im from the cotswolds still live on the edge i personally find anywhere thst dosnt look like this weird . l used to live in a cotswold stone house built around 1140 when the village was established
but im 6ft and there built for hobbits so moved to a modern house 1931 in the same village
i would recommend our cheese, dairy, pork ,lamb, beef there are really good butchers all over the place the Jurassic limestone grasslands make for good grazing land .our village farm has a 24h dairy vending machine vending very fresh milk , cheeses , cream stuff like that so it alot more modernised than it appears we have fibre broadband now in most of the villages
Why do they often insist on filming these beauty spots during the winter months instead of spring or summer?
I had a cottage in the village of Ashton Keynes cotswolds ❤ l loved it ❤️ 🇬🇧
"How do the walls grow plants up them?"
Don't they have trellises in America?
"This road is for one car." Exactly wrong. They didn't have cars 400 years ago.
It would have been kind of wrong and thanks for saying it. I like your video after that. Lots of people live in the Cotswolds. They are the richer ones of us!
My aunt and uncle live in Cotswolds