Exploring Sussex: Greatham Bridge, West Sussex
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- One of my lovely viewers suggested I check out Greatham Bridge, a medieval structure that crosses the river Arun close to Pulborough and Storrington in West Sussex.
Here during the English Civil War a skirmish took place with the bodies of some of the dead soldiers hastily buried in the near by Greatham Church.
I was eager to have a look at this magnificent bridge.
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Everytime I think I’ve watched all your walks another lovely surprise pops up. Thanks Richard!
Ooohhhhh!!!! Wonderful, beautiful old bridge! Amazing how all that stone work stood the test of time. The snow just made it all that much magical!!!😘
I must go back in the summer.
Thank for the trip out.
This has popped up in my recommended nice wintery walk
G'day Richard. I am going into the past with your Exploring Sussex. At time of me writing this in 2021. It is steaming hot here. I true Australian Summer. Amazing to see all the snow in your story here. Where I live, it never snows. The Bridge looks amazing.
Ah yes, I remember that one - it was icy at the time.
I love old bridges. I shall definitely go there soon.
What a wonderful looking bridge! You can't tell from ground level, but on Google maps you can plainly see the bridge is actually curved. BTW_I'm from your future and I can tell you that you will continue to explore the area and gain popularity with your excellent videos!
Thanks Richard. A great walk with the river and a lovely old stone bridge. Brrr! I'm going to have another cup of coffee to warm up.
Yes - a nice coffee would have been nice to have taken with me. :) Thanks for the comment.
Lovely walk with you Richard
Thank you Mark.
A new one on me Richard, we had a fair bit of snow here. What a truly lovely piece of History
Isn't it lovely tucked away in rural Sussex. :)
Lovely video thouroughly enjoyed it, brought back many memories of canoeing under there with my father back in the 1950s. love your films, keep them coming.
Magpie Baldwin Thanks Magpie. Seems lots of people have canoed under the bridge!
A couple of decades ago my boy racer mates and I used to "rally" those roads like we were immortal.
Good heavens - well, the bridge survived you all right :)
Hahahahaha
I beleive the little pointy bits at the sides that allow you to escape out of the trajectory of a runaway horse & cart, are called something like 'starlings' but I may have that wrong. If ever in Devon you can find a similar bridge on the river Dart at Staverton, near Totnes, & a tiny older one called Lydia Bridge at South Brent, on an old Bronze Age route up onto the moor, which has an old notice forbidding its use by 'locomotives' which I beleive refers to traction engines.
A lovely (if chilly) walk - years ago I canoed under that bridge!
Wow - I bet that was fun - I must get my kayak out sometime. :)
Richard Vobes - it’s good fun if you follow the flow of the river!
MrGreatplum Easier too imagine!
The Arun and particularly the Western Rother have several Medieval bridges.
Dating from c.1394 in the case of Greatham Bridge to 1422-1423 in the case of Stopham Bridge.
Trotton Bridge on the Rother which is still carrying the A272 dates from 1400.
Returning to the Arun. Which is the fastest flowing navigable river in England. The River Arun is renowned for its ability to flood! Certainly it is advisable not to fall into the Arun (particularly if it is on the ebb tide)
Because if you do, you quite unlikely to come out!
I met a chap that loved to swim in the Arun. I am sure he chose the best times to do it however.
@nicholaskelly1953. Hi, Nick. You appear to have greater knowledge of this bridge. Do you know if the renewed part of the bridge was to replace earlier arches lost to flooding? My bones suggest that the ironwork is of military sources is it of a much later date than Richard suggested?
@newspaniard The metal (eastern) part of Greatham Bridge appears to have replaced a wooden drawbridge which allowed vessels to pass without having to lower their masts.
Originally Stopham Bridge also is believed to have had such a structure as well.
@@nicholaskelly1958 Very interesting, Thanks
Begs the question as to why the medieval bridge doesn't cover the entire river. Was part of the bridge demolished or did the Arun expand beyond its original course?
Good question.
' Brrr !
Another Great(ham) explore Richard 👍👍👍
Thank you.
( Was really worried at one point that you may slip into Arun. Never to be seen again !
Then what would we all do ? )
Keep wearing bobble hat !
Sad to say - there are other RUclips channels out there ... :(
Meant to ask you Richard ,what sort of time do you start
you walks each day? Looks to be very early !
As a rule I try to get out before other Humans ruin the shots - I am an early riser luckily. :)
Crossed it many times :) It's actually pronounced 'Gretham" :)
I have since learned that!
@@RichardVobes Cheers :)
Bŕrrŕr. Hope you had a flask of hot chocolate to warm yourself up after that little jaunt. Beautiful bridge though and thanks for braving the freezing weather to show it to us
I had a lovely coffee when I got home. Thanks for watching.
Richard, do you have any idea what the antenna is for next to the bridge?
I might be wrong but i think there is weather monitoring equipment there
or the water level is sent to the recipient.
I don't - but I imagine Dave is right - it is a yagi antenna - UHF - like the old TV aerials were - so yes, probably a private bandwidth.
It's monitoring something - might be beavers? (or some such mammal? )
Could be.
It is pronounced Gretham
Cheers.