Walking Tour of the Ancient Town of Barnstaple (4K)
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2022
- A walk around the ancient town of Barnstaple, North Devon.
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We start on the Long Bridge over the River Taw and walk along the riverbank through Queen Anne's Walk to Barnstaple Castle. We then walk through the town centre along the High Street and into Joy Street where the writer W.N.P. Barbellion lived, author of the Journal of a Disappointed Man.
We take a stroll down Butchers Row and through the Pannier Market and then along Church Lane to look at Queen Anne's Chapel, the Parish Church, and Alice Horwood's School and Almshouses.
Music:
A Gentle Invitation - Dawn, Dawn, Dawn
Kindred Spirits - Howard Harper-Barnes
Lamna - Lo Mimieux
Romeo Alpha 129Hz-141Hz - Joseph Beg
courtesy of Epidemic Sound
Maps:
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Thank you John. A wonderfully fascinating tour of my home town. Some of the areas you toured, like the Pannier Market, Butcher’s Row, the Guildhall and the High Street will be renovated, redecorated and even remodelled, over the next couple of years as a result of North Devon Council’s successful bid from the ‘Future High Streets Fund’. It will be an honour if you could revisit and document the changes in 2024! Best wishes. 👏 👍
We are very proudly based in Barnstaple and it’s great to see this excellent tour which highlights some of the many historical and beautiful places in the town and surrounding area!
I live here, and the film dies show it as it is now, a little down at heel, too many buildings boarded up or covered with scaffolding. It will never be beautiful, but it has It's beautiful bits and I like it. What about a film of Truro, including the outlying villages.
Thanks for not tell anyone about the good beaches
Do a podcast with Russel Brand
Well, if I can make one suggestion, I'd love to see a tour of Oxford. I'm Dutch but I've been there a few times because I'm a big Inspector Morse fan :) I visited most of the film locations a lot of which are pubs :)
Thank you for inspiring me. I am from Barnstaple, and my excuse of not practicing my storytelling/ filmmaking because of where I live, is no longer valid👍
I go to barnstaple area every year for the last 10yrs, and what spoils barnstaple is its schizophrenic ring road system in and out of holiday season. And the new retail park strip that encourages locals and tourists to travel accross the flow of the towns centre roads. The town centre now is just a desert, and frankly often grubby from deisel soot and wind blown dust and litter. Its a shame as only a few years ago it was alive and busy with pedestrians, and clean, smart and attractive.
That's so uncanny that John Gay was born in a Poundland as Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Novel, which draws on The Beggars Opera has a proto-Poundland shop in it." Mr MacHeath was thus able to keep his prices very low, but never knew exactly what sort of goods he was going to receive"
I'm told I walk just like my dad, and seeing your dad walking ahead of you I can say with certainty, you walk just like your dad! Great video as always. AAA+++
I so enjoyed the Audio version of W. Barbellion. The Journal of a Disapointed Man, over 3 nights before sleep. Thoroughly enjoyed his writing. Had never heard of him, so thanks again.
Lovely surprise coming across this. I really enjoyed it. Thank you !
I Love the West Country.. Devon Cream Scones and Cider.. Great..
my dad loved this area cycling down from Croydon in about the 1930s I now have several relatives in the area because of this
Barnstaple the home of the traffic jam and some of the most historic potholes
Many thanks for the great memories, I lived on Newport terrace when I left for Canada 60 years ago, spent the war years in Bickington on the Bideford road, I also worked in Barnstaple for a while.Great place.
I've heard of Barnstaple but only the name. Fascinating to walk around and learn so much. Those 18 mins flew by, will have to watch it again and again.
Mr Rogers,this is AMAZING. This is coincidence (or is it?),this is synchronicity,this is God's Providence,this is Meant To Be. I am going to Barnstaple tomorrow on the NE coach and staying overnight. Never been there before. Your lovely,excellent filmed video has given me a great preview of the pretty town and now I know what things to look out for and where best to have a walk. However I'm not there as a tourist,not this time. Next day true 8th I'm getting the bus to the little rural town of Holsworthy to deal with some family business. I definitely want to visit Barnstaple in the summer as a tourist and do a stretch of that Tarka walk. I discovered The Dark Lantern by Henry Williamson when I was 17 and it was compelling reading . I tried to work my way through his entire Chronicles of Ancient Sunlight but I have missed a few. He got cancelled of course before that term was even invented as he had some dodgy political ideas.
In 1990-1991, I worked at what then was the Whitechapel Manor Hotel just outside South Molton!
I've driven through Barnstaple more times than I can remember but only actually walked about in the town just a handful of times. Thanks for this!