The Sussex Border Walk - Part Twenty: Selsey
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- Опубликовано: 15 апр 2021
- I have reached Selsey on my Sussex Border Walk. I started in Worthing and have now entered the Manhood Peninsular. My journey begins at St Peter's Church and I make my way past plentiful thatched farm cottages towards Selsey Bill. I explore the RNLI Lifeboat Station area, the beach and Gibbet Fields, where smugglers were hanged in chains in the 18th Century.
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This is my birth place. Selsey Bill I believe protrudes 7 miles out to sea. I have many happy memories taking my dog for walks and going to see the lifeboat when aged 6. Thank you for bringing back Happy memories ❤
Lovely video Richard. I paused on the names on the war memorial and thought about the men and their families who'd have had the terrible news. Each one a story and each a tragedy. Selsey is a lovely spot.
This is my use morning walks with my doggie. Learnt something new about the church thanks Richard. Next time your in Selsey come in for a cuppa.
Brilliant Richard. Selsey to so many people is just a seies of holiday camps and caravans but it has a great history as you've discovered . Indeed St Peter's is a lovely church , a cousin is on the memorial ( great to see it on the video) Bertie ( Albert) Whitenstall died 1916 at the Somme & buried at Thiepval. Thank you
Thanks, Linda.
Great video Richard have done that walk around Selsey love all that history so fascinating thank you.
Oh I love Selsey! Took my grandchildren for a holiday there a couple of years back, they loved it too. But I can go back 60 years where my parents took my brother and I for wonderful holidays at Broadreed’s holiday camp for several years running until Pontins took it over and it was never the same after that. It was always sunny , clear blue skies and a rock pool or two back then.
Stunning morning. Beautiful town. Buildings , houses, thatched roofs and stonework are amazing. What a wealth of history. Thank you once again for my morning stroll.
A lovely Church and a great story about it. great looking thatched cottages, I bet you would love one of them Richard. What a lovely village too, its almost as if it's like a real life story, very lovely property's on the walk to the seafront. Nice to see little boats on the sea, interesting story about the smugglers, and some lovely properties on the seafront, ice never se en a boat get winched up like that before that was cool. Great music throughout. Really enjoyed this one, thankyou Richard this series has been great so far, thankyou for your hard work making theese Richard. :)
What a marvelous old town Selsey is! So many beautiful old, historic builds! Thank you for sharing the church building history!!!
Good stuff 👍 I remember 20 years ago taking my then 3 year old son to the Lifeboat Station, happy days
How interesting I’m sure many places have legends of bells still tolling under water, we have the same such legend here in the village. But this village was utterly delightful. Thanks Richard.
Fancy having the same church in two different places. And how much work must have involved in moving it stone by stone.
I spent a week at Pontins holiday camp in the early 80s, so it was interesting to hear the history of the place, both before and after. I can’t recall seeing those beautiful properties you walked past, but then, in the holiday camps, one didn’t really have to go outside the perimeter.
Thankyou for showing us the new lifeboat station Richard. I grew up with the view of the old one on stilts in the horizon as viewed from Pagham indelibly embedded on my memory and so when I went back in 2018 I was horrified to see it was no longer there! The new one looks a treat so all is well!
A very nice day for the walk and Selsey is a fascinating old village. My sister lives there, I know it well but didn't know about Gibbet Fields, that is incredible. Sir Patrick Moore lived there for many years until his death and he had a little observatory in the garden, when I was a Cub Leader we took the lads over to see it, he was great fun and very interesting!
Did he still have his old Ford Prefect?
@@davidbarlow350 I don't know! We visited in teh evening as part of our Pack Meeting and din't see hs car, but I am sure, as he liked old things, he most probably did. He was very amusing and charming, and extremely interesting.
@@BoninBrighton Wow! That is incredible!!!
The Farthings as his house was called can be found on Google Earth street view.
I lived in selsey for about six months I loved it, it's probably the best town in England
Selsey must be the one place in Sussex that I have never visited , so I am especially grateful for this fascinating insight into a hitherto undiscovered gem. From the transplanted church to hurricane-lashed seafront it was a joy to watch, one of your best Richard.
Hi Richard, excellent video and very interesting information. Thank you.
A lovely place and lovely tour around Richard. :-)
A particularly interesting episode this. The unlikely tale of the church underwater and yet the bells still ringing, will haunt me for a while!
Another good vid richard, nice to see you mentioned orange jumper Martin snow, I enjoyed your films with him
I thought Selsey would be just a bungalow town - how wrong I was - superbly filmed - you obviously got up early too!
Super video Richard. Sometimes when I am home alone I like to urinate in plastic bottles because I am too lazy to use the toilet at night.
Nice to have you back on the SBP.
Stunningly beautiful old farm buildings. Thanks for my early morning walk.
I had not realised the connection between Church Norton and the church at Selsey. Enjoyed this fresh episode of the Sussex Border journey. You have 'turned the corner' on this stretch of coast and now the convolutions of Chichester Harbour await you!
Great place, Selsey it is!
Richard, your series of Sussex walks are fascinating, and for me, very timely. During May 2022, I have booked a few days at Church Farm Caravan site, which you explored in the video previous to this one. I am a landscape and wIldlife photographer, so I will be following in your steps, as you have aided me in my increasing knowledge of this fascinating area. Many thanks for all your videos, along with your gentle humour.
Thanks, David. Enjoy your photo-holiday.
There's a lot of history in the UK, but no ones aware of the villages and towns. Its only because your telling it, that people find these things out. Once you've completed Sussex, you can start on the other 26 counties! 🤦♂️ top work as usual. 👍
You were in your element today.
Superb video. I am very happy.
Thank you! 😃
I am impressed ,thank you for another walk by the sea I shall miss it but I am also eager for the inland journey . On a scale of one to ten it has fallen a bit as the anticipation of those walks pales in comparison with the other works that you will be presenting 🥳🖖👍🖖👍🖖👍🖖👍🤔🤔😘💞🙋🏼♀️
You and me both!
Very interesting about church and grounds selsey nice place visit
Lovely music at the start, as if signaling of wonderful things to come!
A fascinating episode!
Glorious! Well framed, that man!
Another classic, well done
Used to go there for holidays in the 1960s, White Horse Caravan Park, great times.
Interesting little place, many Londoners now living there, plus the HUGE holiday park.
This does bring back memories though I'm afraid I don't really recognise much of what you're showing here. Back in the 1960's our family used to spend holidays at a campsite at Bracklesham Bay, Redskins I think it was called. I remember once when we were walking along the shore around Selsey Bill, where it was just a very open grassy landscape. There was something there that struck me as rather odd at the time, and has ever since. It was a sign at the edge of a campsite just behind the beach - it went something like this : 'you can ask at any caravan on this campsite to be served bacon and eggs' for - a certain price - a bob or two, it would have been. Can you imagine being on holiday and having to accept that one of the conditions for staying there was to be on hand ready to presumably provide and serve a quick meal in the caravan at any time during the day ? Very strange.
I would love to see a whole series just on churches. So fascinating.
ON THE BORDER (verse 28 of ???)
Church Norton hosts a Chapel
so much larger once in size
Yet thrive it does impressively
in its far smaller guise
Stained glass depictions of the old
are balanced by the new
It's many ancient artefacts
enjoyed there by the few. JB21
Nice town walk Richard, I've missed these explorations. I laughed when you said the 100 year old house was "modern". Anything that old here in Florida is literally considered a historic site. Thanks for the video Richard.
In England we have what is called The New Forest', which was a planted forest, for the building of the English Wsrships.
It was planted 1000 years ago !
Over half the housing in England is over 100 years old.
So beautiful.
What a beautiful day! I've not explored Selsey, whose most famous inhabitant was Sir Patrick Moore, the astronomer. He lived in West Street. I want to know more about that church!
You can walk our Selsey Tram trail from Selsey to Chichester 20 of us did it few months ago we did the first 6 miles finishing at Chalder Station near the farm that produces Iovely local Ice Cream Carolines .We hope to restore the Platform half is already cleared of brambles shrubs overgrown parts .Lived here 46 years was local Baker and chef Sir Patrick Moore used to chat to us in the bakery waiting for his bread .My late wife Caroles Dad helped build the sea wall she helped her Dad walk the cows back to the barn after milking by the then Albion pub now The Lifeboat pub
Nice walk down Selsey way there Richard. I did not know there were so many thatched cottages. I've only been a few times due to the long way down from Chichester. Early childhood memorable moment is seeing the lifeboat being launched down the steep wooden ramp early in the 70s. Shame it's gone.
Interesting on the Hawkhurst gang connection. If it's the same incident the two victims got drunk in Rowlands Castle, taken to Rake and attacked at Harting Combe before one was dumped in a pit at Ladyholt South of Ditcham School, alive and took days to die. With heavy items throw down the pit to try to kill him. Horrible! There is a plaque by an identified pit. Let me know if you want the grid ref. for it?
I once nearly fell down the old well in Lady Holt Park. Yes, it is the same story,
Thank you Richard, wonderful video (as usual!)
Great walk!
ON THE BORDER (verse 29 of ???)
When Patrick Moore to Selsey came
night skies were always dark
Today the glow of Chichester
creates an orange arc
So he took flight a while back
to live amongst the stars
To a new address in Heaven
North East of planet Mars! JB21
He used to refer to the night time glow of Bognor as "Arora Bognor Regis" and the council put special masking on all the street lights that surrounded his garden to reduce the light pollution.
@@MrNas42 The man's a national treasure and no mistaking. The precise reason he moved to Selsey from Brentford or somewhere, in the early 60's, was because at the time it was one of the darkest places in the country......
Excellent and very informative. Love selsey. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
husband use to go to selsey/saw many lifeboats launches and play acting which was good
Great video Richard. The church would be good to draw.
Very well filmed and informative..... you're good!😌👌
Thank you! 😃
Lovely and bright morning on the coast of Brittania. For a moment I thought you possessed telekinesis as I saw the boat being pulled up onshore. You do look like Prof. Xavier. But younger!
Wonderful Richard , thank you, creepy atmosphere I guess there where the gibits were .
Have a UK friend who is going to visit Selsey in the near future so thought it would be smart for me to learn something about it before she goes.
Of course old chap, Southernmost point - Selsey Bill, West Sussex at 50°43′21.62″N 0°47′16.77″W
Eaglegards... Great video.
It has been suggested that Beachy Head is more south by a few yards.
ON THE BORDER (verse 30 of ???)
Smart lifeboat Station Selsey
is a modern work of art
An upgrade for its ancient rusting
off-shore counterpart
For those in peril finding precious life
hangs by a thread
Speeds steel nerve through trough & crest
their rescue to spearhead.JB21
Wish you had gone inside the church !
I'd forgotten how nice Selsey is. Thank you Richard 👍
Not been there for a few years. Ta Richard 🙂
Lovely colours.
No mention of Sir Patrick Moore a true National Icon of Selsey ?
I don't suppose the mice are very impressed with the green plaque!
I'm not going to ask what shape the Manhood Peninsula is.
NOT GOOD THEY HAVE PLANTED SOME VIAGRA THERE IN THE HOPE IT GROWS
Really!? Manhood Peninsula!?
It looks like a nice place.
How much my birthplace has changed I left for Australia in 1969 hope to get home again one day
The house you looked at is Grade 2 listed, 4 bed semidetached, the asking price was £395,000.
Golly - a bit out of my price range then! :)
Alot of pubs have been rebuilt over the years hence the difference in actual established dates
use to live by the high street
I wonder how many of them lovely homes are actually lived in? I bet most are holiday homes for the rich.
Congratulations Richard for another wonderful video, but I would like to know why the flags are raised in the middle.
Flag at half-mast in mourning for Prince Philip.
The country is mourning the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.
No mention about Patrick Moore who lived in Selsey for many years?
You just did - thank you.
What is a chancel & a font
Are you going to walk round to west beach
I need to check the map!
Isn"t SELSEY the place where Oswald Mosley and his followers took their holidays in the 1930"s ????
Don't know - they might have done.
@@RichardVobes The information comes from a TV doc i saw several years ago ,, as i worked and lived in SELSEY for 3 years 40 years ago i was intrigued by this ,,,,,Thats all for now ???
Hi there,
My name is Lily Gilboy, I'm writing to you from Blast! Films where we make Saving Lives at Sea. We'd potentially love to feature this footage in a future episode. If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, please could you send me an email at lgilboy @ blastfilms . co . uk
Apologies for all the spaces in that email address, it's just so RUclips hopefully doesn't recognise my comment as spam!
Please do let me know either way if this sounds like something you'd be interested in.
Kind Regards,
Lily