Have you been to Castle Drogo and have you done the gorge walk? We ran out of time to do the walk and chose to cut this out as (spoiler alert) we were visiting Lydford Gorge the next day (next week's episode). I'm eager to go back to Dartmoor as I don't think we did the National Park justice and would be interested to hear from people whether a re-visit to Castle Drogo would be a good idea or not.
Thanks for sharing. We loved the tour of the foundry. We found the wages interesting and also where some of our old sayings come from. Beautiful walks too in the castle grounds. It looks like a beautiful part of the U.K. x
So pleased to hear you enjoyed it and found some of the information I shared to be interesting. I loved the castle grounds too - couldn't agree more, it's a stunning pocket in the UK! ❤️
So pleased to have you part of our little community and wanting to see more of my adventures. Also really pleased to hear you found it informative too! 🙏
Thank you for your lovely words and so nice to hear you've learnt things from it! Based on your name, well done you. I have someone very close to me trying to do the same and I know it's not easy! 🙌
Hi Jamal, thank you again for your support and lovely words. I really enjoy creating these videos, but it's even nicer to know others appreciate them too
What a beautiful area - so many different flowers and colours in that garden. Good to check out the newest castle, I didn't realise they were being built so recently. Excellent tour of the Foundry as well, interesting to see that giant hammer that shaped the tools as well as learn about what the worker's wages bought them back in the day. I didn't realise about the 'top dog' and 'under dog' phrases - good to get the back story on that one. Another great video 👍
Hi Matt, so pleased you enjoyed it. I perhaps should have added to the video that Castle Drogo, whilst called a castle wasn't built as a defence but rather for a family with more money than they knew what to do with it 🤦♀️ I thought the area was stunning too, so pleased it came across this way!
Hi Emily and Tom. Obviously it depends on what you're into, but I'd HIGHLY recommend doing the circular walk through Lydford Gorge. Throughout the whole walk I was saying how awesome it would be in autumn!!🍂🍁
@@WhenAdventureKnox awesome! Thanks so much for your advice - will definitely try to squeeze it in before we head off. I love autumnal colours so would love to see in it full force somewhere 😊
Hi Obayd, thank you for such a lovely comment, I'm so pleased to hear you liked the video. You are the first person to comment on any of my videos from Somalia (or at least that I know of) which is awesome!! 🙌 I hope you are well!
Last part of my research dartmoor is an upland area in southern Devon England moorland surrounding area land has been protected by national park status since 1951 dartmoor national park covers 953 km known for myths legends haunt of piexies headless horseman large black dog great thunder storm in 1638 wide come in moor visited by devil ghost stories for decades such as hair Jann beast of dartmoor it’s inspired writers artists. Such as Arthur Conan Doyle in hound of Baskerville Sabine baring Gould in Harry Potter goblet. Of fire it’s popular one of greatest wilderness in uk with inspirational landscapes of heater clad moor. Drugged tors attractions national park visitors center granite way okehampton castle grims pound talstock market buck fast butterfly farm dartmoor otter sanctuary dartmoor railway pennywell farm river dary country park Jolly Roger speciality museums parks abbey bucklAnd abbey national trust thank you you are as guide tourist for all people around world especially us as foreigners subscribers as overseas students stay safe blessed good luck to you your dearest ones
Aaaah your research has brought up so many places I'd have loved to visit but just didn't have the time over the long weekend - a good excuse to return one day!
How are you doing mrs Caroline as always iam gathering main information about places you visited briefly here it’s castle Drogo is country house mixed revivalist castle near drew stelgnton Devon England constructed between years 1911 and 1930 its last castle in England client was Julius drewe founder of home and colonial stories drewe chose site formed part of Lands of his supposed medieval ancestor drogo deteigne architecture he chose to realis his dream was Edwin Lutyens height of his career lutyen slamented drewe determination to have castle but produced one of his finest building architectural critic Christopher hussey described result ultimate just fiction of drogo is. That doesn’t pretend to be castle is built of granite on mountain in twentieth century and finch foundry is 19 th century water powered forge situated in village of fickle path near rev ampton it’s originally used to produce agricultural mining tools peak produced around 400 edge tools a day remained active foundry till 1960 when roof collapsed has been national trust property since 1994 contains examples of tiles hammer drop shear hammer all powered water wheels the trust maintains forge in working order and demonstrations of tools are given
Hi Khatoon, I am very well thank you, I hope you're doing well too. Our guide did talk to us about the roof collapse at Finch Foundry, turns out, several of the workers were across the road having a pint so were very lucky, but it was something I didn't include in the video, so nice one for being able to find this out for yourself 👍
Nice video, but as a Devonshire lad it would be nice for a change for a local Devonshire lad or lass to do a video of this instead of a tourist who might only know what they read in books/phones or on the information boards at these places, most locals know stories and folklore that not many non locals would know.
Hi Dave. Totally understand where you're coming from as I think it would give a deeper meaning from a video like that. I'm afraid there's not much I can do though as I'm 100% a tourist in this situation. Thank you for your kind words in saying the video was nice 🙏
@@WhenAdventureKnox As a "tourist" we love you all really, you will always be welcome from us down in Devon. Btw: if you are near Okehampton/Meldon Dam look up "Black-a-tor copse" it's a protected area within Dartmoor national park. It's one of only a handful of places where the original trees Dartmoor was covered with still exist today, it's easily accessible from Meldon Dam car park and it's also down beside a nice river so a great place to stop and have something to eat and take it all in. Good luck with your adventures and have fun.
Have you been to Castle Drogo and have you done the gorge walk? We ran out of time to do the walk and chose to cut this out as (spoiler alert) we were visiting Lydford Gorge the next day (next week's episode). I'm eager to go back to Dartmoor as I don't think we did the National Park justice and would be interested to hear from people whether a re-visit to Castle Drogo would be a good idea or not.
Thanks for sharing. We loved the tour of the foundry. We found the wages interesting and also where some of our old sayings come from. Beautiful walks too in the castle grounds. It looks like a beautiful part of the U.K. x
So pleased to hear you enjoyed it and found some of the information I shared to be interesting. I loved the castle grounds too - couldn't agree more, it's a stunning pocket in the UK! ❤️
Love that little owl 💓 great video with lots of information 💟 I've subscribed to you so I can see more 👍☺️
So pleased to have you part of our little community and wanting to see more of my adventures. Also really pleased to hear you found it informative too! 🙏
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Thank you for your lovely words and so nice to hear you've learnt things from it! Based on your name, well done you. I have someone very close to me trying to do the same and I know it's not easy! 🙌
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Hi Jamal, thank you again for your support and lovely words. I really enjoy creating these videos, but it's even nicer to know others appreciate them too
What a beautiful area - so many different flowers and colours in that garden. Good to check out the newest castle, I didn't realise they were being built so recently. Excellent tour of the Foundry as well, interesting to see that giant hammer that shaped the tools as well as learn about what the worker's wages bought them back in the day. I didn't realise about the 'top dog' and 'under dog' phrases - good to get the back story on that one. Another great video 👍
Hi Matt, so pleased you enjoyed it. I perhaps should have added to the video that Castle Drogo, whilst called a castle wasn't built as a defence but rather for a family with more money than they knew what to do with it 🤦♀️ I thought the area was stunning too, so pleased it came across this way!
We're currently so close to Dartmoor - maybe we should follow your itinerary!! The flowers are also looking so beautiful also :)
Em + Tom
Hi Emily and Tom. Obviously it depends on what you're into, but I'd HIGHLY recommend doing the circular walk through Lydford Gorge. Throughout the whole walk I was saying how awesome it would be in autumn!!🍂🍁
@@WhenAdventureKnox awesome! Thanks so much for your advice - will definitely try to squeeze it in before we head off. I love autumnal colours so would love to see in it full force somewhere 😊
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Hi Obayd, thank you for such a lovely comment, I'm so pleased to hear you liked the video. You are the first person to comment on any of my videos from Somalia (or at least that I know of) which is awesome!! 🙌 I hope you are well!
Last part of my research dartmoor is an upland area in southern Devon England moorland surrounding area land has been protected by national park status since 1951 dartmoor national park covers 953 km known for myths legends haunt of piexies headless horseman large black dog great thunder storm in 1638 wide come in moor visited by devil ghost stories for decades such as hair Jann beast of dartmoor it’s inspired writers artists. Such as Arthur Conan Doyle in hound of Baskerville Sabine baring Gould in Harry Potter goblet. Of fire it’s popular one of greatest wilderness in uk with inspirational landscapes of heater clad moor. Drugged tors attractions national park visitors center granite way okehampton castle grims pound talstock market buck fast butterfly farm dartmoor otter sanctuary dartmoor railway pennywell farm river dary country park Jolly Roger speciality museums parks abbey bucklAnd abbey national trust thank you you are as guide tourist for all people around world especially us as foreigners subscribers as overseas students stay safe blessed good luck to you your dearest ones
Aaaah your research has brought up so many places I'd have loved to visit but just didn't have the time over the long weekend - a good excuse to return one day!
How are you doing mrs Caroline as always iam gathering main information about places you visited briefly here it’s castle Drogo is country house mixed revivalist castle near drew stelgnton Devon England constructed between years 1911 and 1930 its last castle in England client was Julius drewe founder of home and colonial stories drewe chose site formed part of Lands of his supposed medieval ancestor drogo deteigne architecture he chose to realis his dream was Edwin Lutyens height of his career lutyen slamented drewe determination to have castle but produced one of his finest building architectural critic Christopher hussey described result ultimate just fiction of drogo is. That doesn’t pretend to be castle is built of granite on mountain in twentieth century and finch foundry is 19 th century water powered forge situated in village of fickle path near rev ampton it’s originally used to produce agricultural mining tools peak produced around 400 edge tools a day remained active foundry till 1960 when roof collapsed has been national trust property since 1994 contains examples of tiles hammer drop shear hammer all powered water wheels the trust maintains forge in working order and demonstrations of tools are given
Hi Khatoon, I am very well thank you, I hope you're doing well too. Our guide did talk to us about the roof collapse at Finch Foundry, turns out, several of the workers were across the road having a pint so were very lucky, but it was something I didn't include in the video, so nice one for being able to find this out for yourself 👍
Nice video, but as a Devonshire lad it would be nice for a change for a local Devonshire lad or lass to do a video of this instead of a tourist who might only know what they read in books/phones or on the information boards at these places, most locals know stories and folklore that not many non locals would know.
Hi Dave. Totally understand where you're coming from as I think it would give a deeper meaning from a video like that. I'm afraid there's not much I can do though as I'm 100% a tourist in this situation. Thank you for your kind words in saying the video was nice 🙏
@@WhenAdventureKnox As a "tourist" we love you all really, you will always be welcome from us down in Devon.
Btw: if you are near Okehampton/Meldon Dam look up "Black-a-tor copse" it's a protected area within Dartmoor national park.
It's one of only a handful of places where the original trees Dartmoor was covered with still exist today, it's easily accessible from Meldon Dam car park and it's also down beside a nice river so a great place to stop and have something to eat and take it all in.
Good luck with your adventures and have fun.