Really enjoyable for many many reasons. Life is definately easier when there is two of you trying to unpick things. I assume you will be back next week despite the significant loss/not loss.
Thank you, Yorkshire Aussie here …. Newby last week too… Excellent episode! More please my friend…. And thanks for not singing this week ⚔️⚔️⚔️⭐️⭐️😎🍻👏👏
Thank you Andrew - glad you enjoyed it. I’ve got one planned for a few weeks where I may have to do a little singing, but I will keep it as brief as possible!
Mr WC21's 'episodes' (I liked that description by Andrew) appear to me at 7-30 PM on a Sunday ... A bit later in the evening than Time team used to air...But move aside Tony R 🤣
Hello Darren. I cannot thank you enough for re educating me. I have visited Wallingford countless times, as I live only 18 miles away. I never realised that it was such an important Saxon town with such impressive earthworks still in situ. The area you surveyed up to Highmoor is a delightful landscape and will now been viewed by me with greater understanding of ancient parish boundaries. Once again, a brilliantly educational and entertaining episode. 👏👏👍😀
That’s very kind of you - thank you @Meusli - it’s terrible here today too and I’m not going out! Did I read on Tom’s channel that you’re in Burton in Kendal?
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd You did, only for work though. I live in (un)Sunny Morecambe. Which is why I love your videos so much, not much done around this area.
@@Meusli Oh I love Morecambe! I think one of my USPs might be doing this in the north west. Loads down south, it seems and yet in Lancashire, Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Northumberland we have amazing things. All the collabs I’ve done have involved me going down there!
A very entertaining watch, really fun to see the back and forth here, twixt you and Mr Fox... and I loved the Q&A session! Also that jaunty music which made an appearance just after. Is that its first debut? Very well put together, the pace of this flows really well, particularly with the "back in the studio" segments. Beautiful autumnal scenery and great use of maps. I have had a look at the Electronic Sawyer site myself, and I'm glad to hear even Tom finds the site a bit hard to use. I assume the struggles I have with it are of a different nature but there's a lot of insider knowledge required to make any sense of it. Lots of acronyms, shorthand, then an odd jumble of text which is sometimes half Latin and half Old English. For what it's worth (and I feel hopefully outgunned here in terms of antiquarian credentials!) I recall discussing with Hedley that Wansdyke, although initially built as some sort of boundary ditch, very likely had later use as a track... and I'm not just referring to the modern Wansdyke Path. If there's a dug out channel which is relatively clear and goes in the rough direction you want to go then why wouldn't you use it as a track? "Old way" sounds sufficiently vague that it could be referring to an old ditch built for some other purpose which is now used as a track. I think my channel is a bit silted up!
Thank you Tweedy, and yes, that was a new piece of music - I think it’s called something like, “Retro synth with Sax”! I’m always pleased when the music is noticed! That Sawyer database is a nightmare, isn’t it? I’ve encountered that mix of Latin and old English too. All those bewildering symbols! It was funny with the Old Way. I started out satisfied that it was the boundary, then full of doubt, before arriving back at certainty! I think that’s right, though, its original function is obsolete, it becomes an obvious route to follow. Probably to the side of the ditch, as today. My biggest “learning” in this, was that “heathen burials” does not refer to things like barrows. More like the graves we have today. Thanks for also noting the scenery - we were lucky with the weather that day.
One of my favourite channels. History and humour are a great combination. The amount of effort that went into building the ditches and fortifications is amazing. I am pleased to see that your subscriber count is increasing.
Thanks Ron - always appreciate your support and encouragement. I'm glad I got up really early so I could include Alfred's Burh fortifications - it's so wonderful they've somehow survived. And that section of Grim's Ditch is indeed an awe inspiring piece of work. We underestimate our ancient forebears, I think.
Autumn colors and that distinctive sunlight were beautiful. Particularly liked the old church, both ruins and intact sections. Always amazed by the extensive earthworks constructed by our ancestors. So much labor required at a time when society was very close to subsistence indicates the importance of the work. Great camera work and discussion 🎉
Thank you - I was pleased we got a good day and it was interesting filming those bits in Wallingford so early in the day. Glad you liked the autumnal colours - in some ways you can’t beat this time of year in England. Yes, the work that went into these structures is incredible. Great that they’ve survived to the current day. It was a nice surprise finding that church too.
Cheers Davie - this was a lot of fun to make and very insightful. I understand how easy it could be to become addicted to finding these old boundaries in the landscape today!
Apologies Darren but i watched Toms half of this collaboration before yours, but having done so i have to say i was pleased to get your whistlestop tour around Wallingford before getting onto the serious business of tracing the Anglo Saxon Parish Boundaries as Tom barely mentioned the Town other than to completely dismiss your (and others) interpretation of its name. And as i commented in Allotment Fox's video i thorougly enjoyed it's Contentious Nature (i do so enjoy a well argued disagreement) and having watched both videos i'm thinking that your theory about the Bronze Age Island being Cat's Island and the Barrows in the adjoining field being the associated Heathen Burials actually holds more water than either of you eventually gave it credit for, even if it does create problems when further interpreting the Charter. Either way, Great and Thoroughly entertaining stuff from RUclipss Finest Amateur Antiqaurians!
Thanks @gibjamie - I really appreciate you noting the segment on Wallingford, which I filmed really early that day. I thought it was important context for our adjacent charter, plus I really love that the Burh fortifications have somehow survived in the town. It’s great doing collabs, but I’m always conscious about trying to put something different in so there’s reason for people to watch both. I’m probably overthinking that, and of course, the style is so different. Thank you as well for giving my Cat’s Island idea some support. I really did think I’d hit on something with that. I think in the 10th Century when the charter was written, it probably looked similar to Tom’s - namely only separated by a narrow/occasional watercourse. If the surveyor was referring to the farm/church as Newnham (as the 16th Century map does), then my Bronze Age barrows do appear in the right sequence! So many “ifs” and “buts”! Anyhow, hopefully it provides for an interesting discussion in nice scenery. Cheers as ever for your support.
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd it is incredible that Alfreds Burgh Fortifications are so well preserved and i definitely appreciated the Context that exploring them provided! As to whether or not you are overthinking the Content when Collaborating? All i will say is that a thoughful approach when tackling thought provoking content will always be a sound approach to take in my opinion, and yes there will always be "ifs" and "buts" when attempting to interpret in our Modern Landscape charters that are over a Thousand Years old! All the Best and Bring on next Sunday i say! Cheers!
Hi Darren- had to watch in fits and starts as looking after a 10 week old puppy so been on wee watch!! Interesting watch mate and I think you won ! Got to go my socks being attacked by little needle teeth!! 🐶
I loved the childhood sniggers about beavers between you two 🤣....I doubt Allotment Fox needs to fear bears...he looks like he could wrestle them with ease.
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd Noo..Yogi would share his breakfast with his mate Boo boo .....I loved this week's video ...Personally, I feel Darren won 4-2 as in 1966, and the ball did cross the line! You should have nicked Agatha's poppy.
That was very informative and highly entertaining. Well done guys. Frankly, I'd be worried if two amateur antiquarians agreed on where to have lunch!, let alone much regarding historical matters. 🤣
Thanks Phil! It was an interesting one to make. There’s the desk work and then going out into the field to take a look. I loved the little insights into 966AD - such as a cross having stood on Warren Hill. Your other question gets an answer in Tom’s video, by the way.
Oh to go back with a time machine, but surprisingly the landscapes will not have changed too much. Love the channel, a piece of sanity is insanity from today's world!
Thank you - that is such a great thing to say about the channel and I might well borrow it! One of my fascinations is that question: how recognisable would the landscape be to a visitor from over 1,000 years ago? And vice versa. I suspect it would be - even down south in an area like that featured in this video.
Hi Darren, great collaboration and provides the answer as to where to find these charters👍👍 Not that it's a competition but did you loose 10 nil or 12 nil. I ask merely to clarify it for other viewers who are undoubtedly asking the same question...... I love these autumn walks, the scenery is just wonderful. Very interesting to see all the old maps and the photographs of the bypass excavations. The question about reintroduction of bears, wolves, wild boar and beavers is interesting, it often comes up on the news down here where wolves attack the sheep and the farmers aren't allowed to hunt them. Wild boar have become a pest in many areas seeking out food in the urban areas, mind you they do taste good!! Strangely enough you often find references in the media in Spain referring to the "anglosajones" refering to the English speaking world of the UK and America, maybe not Australia or New Zealand, this being Anglo-Saxon which I think we only use in historical terms. Great video, well done. Have a great weekend!!
Thanks David and glad you enjoyed it. I may have been way off the mark with my Cat’s Island, but I’m glad I got to tell that story. Incredible finds there - those fields have been lived on and farmed for thousands of years. Unfortunately, because it wasn’t a competition, I seem to have not kept a proper tally. I like the idea of reintroducing these species back into the British landscape, personally, but I do wonder about the practicality in terms of wolves on this crowded island. Glad the scenery came across well - the Chilterns really are at their best this time of year.
@WC21UKProductionsLtd I did spot Bear Wood on one of the maps perhaps Tom should do a trial introduction of Bears there. The Wolves would best be introduced nearer to Westminster although I think they already be there. From what I've read the Beavers won't come till the rivers are cleaner. Wild boar enclaves could be set up in underpasses, rendering them safe for Ant Aquariums. You're reasoning for Cat's island was very convincing. I was born not too far away from here but I wouldn't call it my neck of the woods
I think your video was brilliant. Thank you for sharing 💙 💪 extremely nice to see the landscapes in the UK thats impossible for me and my wife to access these amazing places. We'd love to visit them. It's important you're doing it for us all 👏🪖 Got to love history. Ps I'm not offended as a veteran you didn't wear your poppy. I know you think of us when you visit all towns and cities.🪖🪖🪖✅️
Thank you Mark - I find it really encouraging getting feedback on the landscapes from people living abroad. Tom chastised me for wearing my hat when I went in Nuffield Church to make a donation as I parked in their car park, I pointed out he wasn’t wearing a poppy! He won that too though, by reminding me it was now past the 11th November.
I just noticed your videos are not popping up in my in box, although I subscribed a couple of months ago. I became aware of the channel on the back of Tom's channel and I stumbled upon him off the back of Tweedy. I'll specifically keep an eye on your channel and watch the last couple of videos today, this hopefully will straighten out the electronic log jam by the time the next one comes along. Very odd though ! Personally I think your Cat's Island is more plausible. It really depends on how old the foundations of the church are. The local nobility did sometimes build the church closer to their manor house than the village because they were paying for it; let the peasants walk through the mud on a bleak November day.
Thanks Iain and it’s frustrating that RUclips isn’t doing its job properly - I do think it sometimes show its age. And thank you for supporting my Cat’s Island. If only I could prove that Newnham Murren was where the church and farm are, in the 10th Century. Interestingly, the older maps have the name of the village there and not over on the road. Those ploughed out barrows would be in the right order then! Whilst it’s tempting to think the later parish boundary just followed this charter, down by the river there it doesn’t because that ran on the other side of the Thames. I really enjoyed this exercise and can well see me going back for another look!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd I left the barrows out of the mix. They tend to be on the lee side of a ridge overlooking the settlement of the builders (your grandads' up there, where I'll be some day). They might not line up with a road, river, ford, bridge or later populations settlements. I'm with Tom (and most historians) that the Anglo-Saxons really didn't respect previous political alignments/boundaries and just imposed the real-politic of their own society.
I simply can't think of a witty or poignant response to this, it was fun, interesting and educating. I shall simply have to look forward to the sequel, "WAR OF THE HATS" part two. It could take place in an amphitheatre. Arguably. Under MMA rules?
Very enjoyable. What arguments there are about Grimms Ditch/The Icknield Way and etcetera around those parts. All good fun. And where did the Romans cross The Thames? Different hoohah (not a ha-ha) for a different day. Carry on.
You want some Wild Boars? You can find them inside Barcelona city looking for food. Those animal lovers won't let us kill them. Also most farmers have problems with these 'lovely' creatures every time they destroy their crops. And isn't London full of wolves?
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd An all expenses paid trip to Slough, staying nearby at the wonderful Holiday Inn Express Heathrow, with a complimentary candlelit dinner at Fred's Charcoal Grill. Shame! 😂
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd Bullseye prizes were hysterical...If contestants won, it was a vacuum cleaner or some tatt...If they lost they '' Could have won'' a speedboat ...really handy for a couple of blokes living on a council estate in Milton Keynes.
@ Weirdly, I recently watched a selection of those Bullseye moments on RUclips. My favourite was when two burly miners won a budget to buy fashionable clothes!
My Sundays just get better when a new video pops up. Cup of tea & biscuits in hand with a roaring fire on my boat👍 The problem with the likes of introducing the likes of wolves is stupid people will try & feed them or pet one..I seen a woman try to pet a baby seal (pup)& the mother nearly severed her hand.. it’s a wild animal. Just respect the distance & make yourself heard, it’s that simple. Mind you, wolves do need to be introduced to Scotland to keep the over populated deers down, it’s literally turning or turned barren with over grazing & brush burning for the shooting lobby & the raptors are being poisoned or shot( with video evidence of said criminal activities).
Thanks @henchy3rd - I really appreciate your feedback. It is absolutely terrible what's happened to landscapes and wildlife in Scotland in the name of the hunting industry. Wish I'd asked Allotment Fox what he thinks about that.
But wolves are not dangerous but rather nervous of man, & there are very few reports of them killing, or even attacking people in places where they still survive. They will I would think, represent some danger to livestock, but the areas where they might be introduced would be in special control zones. Beavers shood be little problem, in fact a benefit in the right places. Bears. again would need particular chosen places.
Really looking forward to your Sunday videos now 🙂 Very enjoyable.
Thank you very much - that’s great to hear and very encouraging. Feedback spurs me on each week when I’m feeling tired!
Loving this channel on a Sunday now , along with Paul’s channel , Jagos and secrets of the motorway it’s great Sunday viewing.
Thank you very much. I feel flattered to be in that list.
@ it’s well deserved mate , your content is excellent
Really enjoyable for many many reasons. Life is definately easier when there is two of you trying to unpick things. I assume you will be back next week despite the significant loss/not loss.
Thank you very much, Paul. I’m over the loss and will be back! Very different working in a pair - I like the variety of it all.
Thank you, Yorkshire Aussie here …. Newby last week too…
Excellent episode! More please my friend….
And thanks for not singing this week ⚔️⚔️⚔️⭐️⭐️😎🍻👏👏
Thank you Andrew - glad you enjoyed it. I’ve got one planned for a few weeks where I may have to do a little singing, but I will keep it as brief as possible!
@ haha… you go for it…. I’m no Simon Cowell!!!
Look forward to the next episode ( is that the right word?) ⚔️⚔️🍻🍻🙏😎⭐️🪐
@ I do like “episode” - since I think I should have been on the telly!
@ Agreed! Episodal 🤣⭐️😎🍻
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd I think Andrew was just encouraging you to sing more. 👹
Darren your videos are now as much a part of my Sunday morning as bacon eggs coffee and the Telegraph...super video
That’s a very nice thing to hear, Michael. Good for one’s ego! Cheers - off to get my breakfast now!
Mr WC21's 'episodes' (I liked that description by Andrew) appear to me at 7-30 PM on a Sunday ... A bit later in the evening than Time team used to air...But move aside Tony R 🤣
Hello Darren. I cannot thank you enough for re educating me. I have visited Wallingford countless times, as I live only 18 miles away. I never realised that it was such an important Saxon town with such impressive earthworks still in situ. The area you surveyed up to Highmoor is a delightful landscape and will now been viewed by me with greater understanding of ancient parish boundaries. Once again, a brilliantly educational and entertaining episode. 👏👏👍😀
Thanks for another great collab, a good treat for a miserable day. :)
That’s very kind of you - thank you @Meusli - it’s terrible here today too and I’m not going out! Did I read on Tom’s channel that you’re in Burton in Kendal?
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd You did, only for work though. I live in (un)Sunny Morecambe. Which is why I love your videos so much, not much done around this area.
@@Meusli Oh I love Morecambe! I think one of my USPs might be doing this in the north west. Loads down south, it seems and yet in Lancashire, Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Northumberland we have amazing things. All the collabs I’ve done have involved me going down there!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd Well, if you don't mind me saying, we have the best RUclipsr too. :)
@ I don’t mind that at all! Cheers!
Another entertaining and interesting collaboration. Thanks guys.
Thank you - glad you enjoyed it - it was a very enjoyable process. Researching at a desk and then going out to take a look.
A very entertaining watch, really fun to see the back and forth here, twixt you and Mr Fox... and I loved the Q&A session! Also that jaunty music which made an appearance just after. Is that its first debut?
Very well put together, the pace of this flows really well, particularly with the "back in the studio" segments. Beautiful autumnal scenery and great use of maps.
I have had a look at the Electronic Sawyer site myself, and I'm glad to hear even Tom finds the site a bit hard to use. I assume the struggles I have with it are of a different nature but there's a lot of insider knowledge required to make any sense of it. Lots of acronyms, shorthand, then an odd jumble of text which is sometimes half Latin and half Old English.
For what it's worth (and I feel hopefully outgunned here in terms of antiquarian credentials!) I recall discussing with Hedley that Wansdyke, although initially built as some sort of boundary ditch, very likely had later use as a track... and I'm not just referring to the modern Wansdyke Path. If there's a dug out channel which is relatively clear and goes in the rough direction you want to go then why wouldn't you use it as a track? "Old way" sounds sufficiently vague that it could be referring to an old ditch built for some other purpose which is now used as a track.
I think my channel is a bit silted up!
Thank you Tweedy, and yes, that was a new piece of music - I think it’s called something like, “Retro synth with Sax”! I’m always pleased when the music is noticed!
That Sawyer database is a nightmare, isn’t it? I’ve encountered that mix of Latin and old English too. All those bewildering symbols!
It was funny with the Old Way. I started out satisfied that it was the boundary, then full of doubt, before arriving back at certainty! I think that’s right, though, its original function is obsolete, it becomes an obvious route to follow. Probably to the side of the ditch, as today.
My biggest “learning” in this, was that “heathen burials” does not refer to things like barrows. More like the graves we have today.
Thanks for also noting the scenery - we were lucky with the weather that day.
One of my favourite channels. History and humour are a great combination. The amount of effort that went into building the ditches and fortifications is amazing. I am pleased to see that your subscriber count is increasing.
Thanks Ron - always appreciate your support and encouragement.
I'm glad I got up really early so I could include Alfred's Burh fortifications - it's so wonderful they've somehow survived.
And that section of Grim's Ditch is indeed an awe inspiring piece of work. We underestimate our ancient forebears, I think.
Autumn colors and that distinctive sunlight were beautiful. Particularly liked the old church, both ruins and intact sections. Always amazed by the extensive earthworks constructed by our ancestors. So much labor required at a time when society was very close to subsistence indicates the importance of the work. Great camera work and discussion 🎉
Thank you - I was pleased we got a good day and it was interesting filming those bits in Wallingford so early in the day. Glad you liked the autumnal colours - in some ways you can’t beat this time of year in England.
Yes, the work that went into these structures is incredible. Great that they’ve survived to the current day. It was a nice surprise finding that church too.
Your channel gets better and better…. Ticks the boxes that others fail to tick. Thank you.
Thank you - that is such encouraging feedback and means a lot. Cheers.
hello again Darren, and hi Allotment fox, very interesting video again , i really enjoyed this well done and thank you guys 😊
Cheers Davie - this was a lot of fun to make and very insightful. I understand how easy it could be to become addicted to finding these old boundaries in the landscape today!
Apologies Darren but i watched Toms half of this collaboration before yours, but having done so i have to say i was pleased to get your whistlestop tour around Wallingford before getting onto the serious business of tracing the Anglo Saxon Parish Boundaries as Tom barely mentioned the Town other than to completely dismiss your (and others) interpretation of its name. And as i commented in Allotment Fox's video i thorougly enjoyed it's Contentious Nature (i do so enjoy a well argued disagreement) and having watched both videos i'm thinking that your theory about the Bronze Age Island being Cat's Island and the Barrows in the adjoining field being the associated Heathen Burials actually holds more water than either of you eventually gave it credit for, even if it does create problems when further interpreting the Charter. Either way, Great and Thoroughly entertaining stuff from RUclipss Finest Amateur Antiqaurians!
Thanks @gibjamie - I really appreciate you noting the segment on Wallingford, which I filmed really early that day. I thought it was important context for our adjacent charter, plus I really love that the Burh fortifications have somehow survived in the town.
It’s great doing collabs, but I’m always conscious about trying to put something different in so there’s reason for people to watch both. I’m probably overthinking that, and of course, the style is so different.
Thank you as well for giving my Cat’s Island idea some support. I really did think I’d hit on something with that. I think in the 10th Century when the charter was written, it probably looked similar to Tom’s - namely only separated by a narrow/occasional watercourse. If the surveyor was referring to the farm/church as Newnham (as the 16th Century map does), then my Bronze Age barrows do appear in the right sequence! So many “ifs” and “buts”!
Anyhow, hopefully it provides for an interesting discussion in nice scenery. Cheers as ever for your support.
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd it is incredible that Alfreds Burgh Fortifications are so well preserved and i definitely appreciated the Context that exploring them provided!
As to whether or not you are overthinking the Content when Collaborating? All i will say is that a thoughful approach when tackling thought provoking content will always be a sound approach to take in my opinion, and yes there will always be "ifs" and "buts" when attempting to interpret in our Modern Landscape charters that are over a Thousand Years old! All the Best and Bring on next Sunday i say! Cheers!
Watching this video is an informative and entertaining way to spend a wet Sunday afternoon
Thanks Garry - that’s great. It is terrible today and lots of people are mentioning that in the comments!
The music/sounds in the first 25 seconds made my cat freak out
Oh no - sorry about that! Something about the frequency, perhaps?!
Is no one going to mention the very rare sighting of the Chiltern Sasquatch at 21.50 😮
Oh my goodness! I didn’t even notice that when I was editing - too busy looking at my face! I’ll have to create a sensational short for TikTok!
I think it had a bobble hat on. 🤣
@@philcollinson328 I’ll edit that out!
Hi Darren- had to watch in fits and starts as looking after a 10 week old puppy so been on wee watch!! Interesting watch mate and I think you won ! Got to go my socks being attacked by little needle teeth!! 🐶
Thanks for your support at this difficult time, Carol! I mean the competition, not the puppy! Although I imagine that is quite challenging!
I loved the childhood sniggers about beavers between you two 🤣....I doubt Allotment Fox needs to fear bears...he looks like he could wrestle them with ease.
Whereas I’d just end up as bear breakfast!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd Noo..Yogi would share his breakfast with his mate Boo boo .....I loved this week's video ...Personally, I feel Darren won 4-2 as in 1966, and the ball did cross the line! You should have nicked Agatha's poppy.
That was very informative and highly entertaining. Well done guys. Frankly, I'd be worried if two amateur antiquarians agreed on where to have lunch!, let alone much regarding historical matters. 🤣
Thanks Phil! It was an interesting one to make. There’s the desk work and then going out into the field to take a look. I loved the little insights into 966AD - such as a cross having stood on Warren Hill.
Your other question gets an answer in Tom’s video, by the way.
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd I was heading there next haha.
cracking stuff
Thank you and glad you enjoyed it!
Oh to go back with a time machine, but surprisingly the landscapes will not have changed too much. Love the channel, a piece of sanity is insanity from today's world!
Thank you - that is such a great thing to say about the channel and I might well borrow it!
One of my fascinations is that question: how recognisable would the landscape be to a visitor from over 1,000 years ago? And vice versa. I suspect it would be - even down south in an area like that featured in this video.
Good job it was just for fun and not a competition .!!
Yes! I might have become testy otherwise!
Hi Darren, great collaboration and provides the answer as to where to find these charters👍👍
Not that it's a competition but did you loose 10 nil or 12 nil. I ask merely to clarify it for other viewers who are undoubtedly asking the same question......
I love these autumn walks, the scenery is just wonderful. Very interesting to see all the old maps and the photographs of the bypass excavations.
The question about reintroduction of bears, wolves, wild boar and beavers is interesting, it often comes up on the news down here where wolves attack the sheep and the farmers aren't allowed to hunt them. Wild boar have become a pest in many areas seeking out food in the urban areas, mind you they do taste good!!
Strangely enough you often find references in the media in Spain referring to the "anglosajones" refering to the English speaking world of the UK and America, maybe not Australia or New Zealand, this being Anglo-Saxon which I think we only use in historical terms.
Great video, well done. Have a great weekend!!
Thanks David and glad you enjoyed it. I may have been way off the mark with my Cat’s Island, but I’m glad I got to tell that story. Incredible finds there - those fields have been lived on and farmed for thousands of years.
Unfortunately, because it wasn’t a competition, I seem to have not kept a proper tally.
I like the idea of reintroducing these species back into the British landscape, personally, but I do wonder about the practicality in terms of wolves on this crowded island.
Glad the scenery came across well - the Chilterns really are at their best this time of year.
@WC21UKProductionsLtd I did spot Bear Wood on one of the maps perhaps Tom should do a trial introduction of Bears there. The Wolves would best be introduced nearer to Westminster although I think they already be there. From what I've read the Beavers won't come till the rivers are cleaner. Wild boar enclaves could be set up in underpasses, rendering them safe for Ant Aquariums.
You're reasoning for Cat's island was very convincing.
I was born not too far away from here but I wouldn't call it my neck of the woods
@ that made me “lol”, David! I am going to suggest that wood to Tim for his reintroduction scheme!
I think your video was brilliant. Thank you for sharing 💙 💪 extremely nice to see the landscapes in the UK thats impossible for me and my wife to access these amazing places. We'd love to visit them. It's important you're doing it for us all 👏🪖 Got to love history. Ps I'm not offended as a veteran you didn't wear your poppy. I know you think of us when you visit all towns and cities.🪖🪖🪖✅️
Thank you Mark - I find it really encouraging getting feedback on the landscapes from people living abroad.
Tom chastised me for wearing my hat when I went in Nuffield Church to make a donation as I parked in their car park, I pointed out he wasn’t wearing a poppy! He won that too though, by reminding me it was now past the 11th November.
I just noticed your videos are not popping up in my in box, although I subscribed a couple of months ago. I became aware of the channel on the back of Tom's channel and I stumbled upon him off the back of Tweedy.
I'll specifically keep an eye on your channel and watch the last couple of videos today, this hopefully will straighten out the electronic log jam by the time the next one comes along. Very odd though !
Personally I think your Cat's Island is more plausible. It really depends on how old the foundations of the church are. The local nobility did sometimes build the church closer to their manor house than the village because they were paying for it; let the peasants walk through the mud on a bleak November day.
Thanks Iain and it’s frustrating that RUclips isn’t doing its job properly - I do think it sometimes show its age.
And thank you for supporting my Cat’s Island. If only I could prove that Newnham Murren was where the church and farm are, in the 10th Century. Interestingly, the older maps have the name of the village there and not over on the road. Those ploughed out barrows would be in the right order then!
Whilst it’s tempting to think the later parish boundary just followed this charter, down by the river there it doesn’t because that ran on the other side of the Thames.
I really enjoyed this exercise and can well see me going back for another look!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd I left the barrows out of the mix. They tend to be on the lee side of a ridge overlooking the settlement of the builders (your grandads' up there, where I'll be some day). They might not line up with a road, river, ford, bridge or later populations settlements. I'm with Tom (and most historians) that the Anglo-Saxons really didn't respect previous political alignments/boundaries and just imposed the real-politic of their own society.
@ yes I was surprised to learn that “heathen burials” didn’t generally refer to Bronze Age barrows - typically later, Romano British graves.
I simply can't think of a witty or poignant response to this, it was fun, interesting and educating.
I shall simply have to look forward to the sequel,
"WAR OF THE HATS" part two.
It could take place in an amphitheatre.
Arguably.
Under MMA rules?
Thank you very much - can’t ask for better feedback than that. Cheers.
I’d pay to see that contest. If I wasn’t starring in the arena, of course!
“My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
“Let us go then , you and I,
While evening is spread out against the sky”
Very enjoyable. What arguments there are about Grimms Ditch/The Icknield Way and etcetera around those parts. All good fun. And where did the Romans cross The Thames? Different hoohah (not a ha-ha) for a different day. Carry on.
You want some Wild Boars? You can find them inside Barcelona city looking for food. Those animal lovers won't let us kill them. Also most farmers have problems with these 'lovely' creatures every time they destroy their crops.
And isn't London full of wolves?
It’s a really contentious issue, isn’t it? I think most of England is too crowded now to seriously consider wolves and bears.
That church door - made that size to prevent an armoured, shield and sword bearing person access?
That’s a good idea - it was way too slim for our modern builds!
I'd just presumed it was made by a wealthy mouse back in the day.
Thanks
Thank you kindly, Phil!
Hugely enjoyable, as always! 😁 Sorry you lost, but here's what you would have won:👑😂
Cheers Rob - would it have been a speedboat?!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd An all expenses paid trip to Slough, staying nearby at the wonderful Holiday Inn Express Heathrow, with a complimentary candlelit dinner at Fred's Charcoal Grill. Shame! 😂
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd Bullseye prizes were hysterical...If contestants won, it was a vacuum cleaner or some tatt...If they lost they '' Could have won'' a speedboat ...really handy for a couple of blokes living on a council estate in Milton Keynes.
@ Weirdly, I recently watched a selection of those Bullseye moments on RUclips. My favourite was when two burly miners won a budget to buy fashionable clothes!
How about you go to investigate the huge Saxon earth walls built around Wareham town in Dorset ? 😃😃
Thank you for the suggestion. I did see them once, but years ago. It would be good to revisit that part of the country too.
My Sundays just get better when a new video pops up.
Cup of tea & biscuits in hand with a roaring fire on my boat👍
The problem with the likes of introducing the likes of wolves is stupid people will try & feed them or pet one..I seen a woman try to pet a baby seal (pup)& the mother nearly severed her hand.. it’s a wild animal.
Just respect the distance & make yourself heard, it’s that simple.
Mind you, wolves do need to be introduced to Scotland to keep the over populated deers down, it’s literally turning or turned barren with over grazing & brush burning for the shooting lobby & the raptors are being poisoned or shot( with video evidence of said criminal activities).
Thanks @henchy3rd - I really appreciate your feedback.
It is absolutely terrible what's happened to landscapes and wildlife in Scotland in the name of the hunting industry. Wish I'd asked Allotment Fox what he thinks about that.
Top notch...best wishes from the wirral peninsula....E....😊😊😊😊
Thanks Eamon! What’s the weather like there? It’s awful here in North Yorkshire!
Weyland's Ford
I like that a lot. I wonder what @AllotmentFox will say?!
Bonkers.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank you! And I can’t disagree!
10:32 Egg on the chin.
Oh no! I’m used to getting egg on my face!
But wolves are not dangerous but rather nervous of man, & there are very few reports of them killing, or even attacking people in places where they still survive.
They will I would think, represent some danger to livestock, but the areas where they might be introduced would be in special control zones. Beavers shood be little problem, in fact a benefit in the right places. Bears. again would need particular chosen places.
Farmers don’t want it, I believe. They are going to eat some livestock without a doubt. Beavers should be good for water management.
Man this one I learned a lot .thanks
Brilliant - that’s great - thank you very much.