My great, great, great, great grandfather left the Sussex area and emigrated to the western United States back in the 1800's. As I've done genealogy for my English ancestors this channel has been a wonderful resource giving me an idea of what their homeland was like. A thousand thanks for your efforts.
Yes this how I came across him too! And it has been a great help to me too in discovering where my ancestors lived before emigrating in the 1600-1700's. Now I am hooked on him!😄
Richard, thank you for posting this video. I live in America but my mother is descended from immigrant Diana Skipwith of Virginia, daughter of Sir Henry Skipwith, 1st Bart. and Amy Kempe whose great grandmother, Lady Eleanor (Browne) Kempe, was a descendant of Richard Fitzalan, 3rd/10th Earl of Arundel and of the old family at Clun. I visited England in 2017 to see some family sites but never went to Clun or Arundel which I intend to do. My Kempe relatives from this family were Sir Edward Digges, Sir Henry Chicheley who were colonial governors of Virginia as well as Cecily Shirley, wife of Thomas West, 3rd Lord De la Warr, colonial governor of Virginia.
Lived in Clun in the fifties lived over the road from the castle left in 59 when I was 7 great younger years, on the top was held Clun carnival every year, remember it very well
I've visited clun and clun castle...a wonderful little town...i'm curious the mound on which the castle is built as it been defined as a natural or man made mound yet....myself i think it looks man made, my opinion..
Down by the river Clun, I stopped & ate a bun. While we were having fun........ Da da, de de de dum...... .What comes next? Thankyou for showing us. P.s. Atomic Shrimp on RUclips has a musical friend who could make you a theme song. (A good one.)
I knew I recognized the name Fitzalan and when you mentioned Arundel I was certain. These are the lords of Arundel castle and I believe still are living in Arundel. I guess the more you study English history the more you begin to see connections.
That was very interesting. Didnt recognize any family names on this one, but did leave me feeling a bit conflicted. Do I root for my Norman ancestors & their conquests or my Welsh Royal family members (whom I was told it os rare to actually be descended from, but here we are) who were conquered??? Can't wait to get to vids on Wales. Hope you did some w/ castle (or even castle ruins) there!
The more you dig into the written Histories of Great Briton the more you see anomalies that place the common line of supposed History into question. Clun is a great example of loose grouping a place to fit a narrative as Richard explained the founding fathers of Clun as a settlement gets roped in to that loose term The Saxons when extensive research uses the term Walhea or foreigners and in some cases are actually called Frenchman. So from recent research I have read and treble checked the Clun Saxons were probably Normans 300 years earlier than the supposed Norman Conquest. This has been noted at other Welsh Border Castle sites like Eywas Harold and Clifford in Herefordshire and goes a long way to explaining why Doomsday Book entries missed so many known settlements of the period.
Not to speak ill of other RUclipsrs but you can see how professional Richard's videos are produced when comparing this video to this other video of Clun Castle ruclips.net/video/4p_fBJeG67E/видео.html (Don't watch if you are prone to getting motion sickness)
Great video! Having seen the steam loco No. 7029 Clun Castle many times it was great to see the castle she was named after.
My great, great, great, great grandfather left the Sussex area and emigrated to the western United States back in the 1800's. As I've done genealogy for my English ancestors this channel has been a wonderful resource giving me an idea of what their homeland was like. A thousand thanks for your efforts.
GhostCubic How fascinating. It is my pleasure!
Yes this how I came across him too! And it has been a great help to me too in discovering where my ancestors lived before emigrating in the 1600-1700's. Now I am hooked on him!😄
my local castle. I've learned more about it watching this video , thank you for visiting Clun !
Wow - thanks so much for watching.
Bleak October days are the best kind of days for this kind of thing. Another great video.
vintagecreativemedia Thank you Vintage!
Richard, thank you for posting this video. I live in America but my mother is descended from immigrant Diana Skipwith of Virginia, daughter of Sir Henry Skipwith, 1st Bart. and Amy Kempe whose great grandmother, Lady Eleanor (Browne) Kempe, was a descendant of Richard Fitzalan, 3rd/10th Earl of Arundel and of the old family at Clun. I visited England in 2017 to see some family sites but never went to Clun or Arundel which I intend to do. My Kempe relatives from this family were Sir Edward Digges, Sir Henry Chicheley who were colonial governors of Virginia as well as Cecily Shirley, wife of Thomas West, 3rd Lord De la Warr, colonial governor of Virginia.
A favourite place of mine, lovely to be able to see it through your video without the travel 🧳😅
Glad you enjoyed it!
Lived in Clun in the fifties lived over the road from the castle left in 59 when I was 7 great younger years, on the top was held Clun carnival every year, remember it very well
Mo middleton do you watch RUclips?
Clunton and Clunbury,
Clungunford and Clun,
Are the quietest places
Under the sun.
Oh yes - lovely places - I must return soon!
Ah so someone else felt the urge to rhyme with Clun.
I only knew the other more common use of "slighting" , interesting. The width of the walls is impressive!
Julio Tijuana They loved thick walls!
You’re the king of the castle videos. Thanks. 👍
Thanks Simon - will have to find more castles to explore.
Liked the cutaways of you without the camera - felt they were a nice moment with the static background - gave better sense of terrain...
Bev MARKS Thanks Bev. I used to do that all the time. These shorter impromptu walks it is less easy alas.
Just visited today
Very cool 😎👍🏻
I've visited clun and clun castle...a wonderful little town...i'm curious the mound on which the castle is built as it been defined as a natural or man made mound yet....myself i think it looks man made, my opinion..
Man Made
Another fab video
philip naylor Thank you Philip.
How long would it take from Shropshire to Sussex. Probably a few days
Have you done a video on Ironbridge?
Andrea Molloy Not yet. And now it is being repaired!
thanks Richard :)
My pleasure, as ever.
Nice and quiet, when i went a few weeks ago it was full of school kids. Nice video though.
Peter Williams Thank you. Yes I bet kids love it!
Down by the river Clun, I stopped & ate a bun. While we were having fun........ Da da, de de de dum...... .What comes next? Thankyou for showing us.
P.s. Atomic Shrimp on RUclips has a musical friend who could make you a theme song. (A good one.)
I knew I recognized the name Fitzalan and when you mentioned Arundel I was certain. These are the lords of Arundel castle and I believe still are living in Arundel. I guess the more you study English history the more you begin to see connections.
That is true - it takes a while to start to understand how few families there really were back in the day.
That was very interesting. Didnt recognize any family names on this one, but did leave me feeling a bit conflicted. Do I root for my Norman ancestors & their conquests or my Welsh Royal family members (whom I was told it os rare to actually be descended from, but here we are) who were conquered???
Can't wait to get to vids on Wales. Hope you did some w/ castle (or even castle ruins) there!
I haven't done much on Wale yet - but I will.
The more you dig into the written Histories of Great Briton the more you see anomalies that place the common line of supposed History into question. Clun is a great example of loose grouping a place to fit a narrative as Richard explained the founding fathers of Clun as a settlement gets roped in to that loose term The Saxons when extensive research uses the term Walhea or foreigners and in some cases are actually called Frenchman. So from recent research I have read and treble checked the Clun Saxons were probably Normans 300 years earlier than the supposed Norman Conquest. This has been noted at other Welsh Border Castle sites like Eywas Harold and Clifford in Herefordshire and goes a long way to explaining why Doomsday Book entries missed so many known settlements of the period.
Great video Richard but have you so soon forgotten your promise to young Brady Ells to stop sub dividing the ancient county of Sussex ;)
Sid Bonkers Lol Thanks Sid. But I made no promises!
Haha thats OK then, I won't tell Brady if you won't
Not to speak ill of other RUclipsrs but you can see how professional Richard's videos are produced when comparing this video to this other video of Clun Castle ruclips.net/video/4p_fBJeG67E/видео.html (Don't watch if you are prone to getting motion sickness)
Every video from you is absolutely cracking!
Thanks Rafjay - this is one of my better ones. I wish I had more time to really do some of the places I go justice.