Tour of Trellech Wales Reaction (sent by viewer Pete Dunckley)
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Tour of Trellech Wales (sent by viewer Pete Dunckley)
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that was brilliant,please people send him more historical videos.
I'm not saying wales is not beautiful but would you react to the gurnos estate you will there's some run down shitholes in my area no communitycentre
@@bennypickett147 blame the tory’s for that. Killing all industry in our towns
@@bennypickett147 proper made me belly laugh that benny hahaha thought of estate in bangor soon as read it lol
@@bennypickett147 comma's are useful.
@@bennypickett147 Merthyr ,Tredegar, ebbw vale , heads of the valleys it used to be a lot worst yrs ago Jesus , industry towns and then market towns like Abergavenny etc
Britain is beautiful I love my country ❤️🇬🇧🍻🥃🍷🍾🍹
Wales.. Most haunted part of the UK. Apparently due to all the old celtic druids etc!!
"CYMRU AM BYTH" 🏴❤️👍🏻
The most haunted place in the world is Edinburgh as there are tunnels under the city where there are skeletons inbedded in the walls
York has to be up there apparently.
@@unitedkingdomoffiveeyes9765 gotta say the whole of UK is pretty spooky when ya think about it 🤔👻
england is thats a fact
Plus my grandmother lives here👻👻
When British people say get out of the big cities there's more to see this is what we mean. It's great and there are hundreds of places like this. We just don't boast about it because we want to keep it to ourselves.
Sure is. I live in a village in N. Wales, our church is mentioned in the doomsday book, and the site goes back to pre roman days of the pagan alters.
2 mins up the road we have an old roman bath ruin and 4 mins in the other direction we have a castle and old mint that are dated around 1200.
10 mins away is the folly that hosted im a celeb this year.
I say folly as it isn't a medical castle, it was built in Victorian times by a rich landowner. Untill about ten years ago you could get in it and explore.
I grew up in Cornwall and growing up my dad made a point of taking us to places of interest outside of the touristy areas. Within 20 miles of where I grew up there are multiple standing stones, an Iron Age hill fort, Bronze Age settlements, a Templar church, Civil War sites, umpteen holy wells and the alleged location of the Lady of the Lake where King Arthur went out to receive Excalibur. We also had Cornwall's oldest "road", the Giant's Hedge which is about 4000 years old & more recent tramways which served the mines before the invention of the steam engine.
We really do live in one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
The Black mountains are one of the most beautiful areas of Wales.
Hi Yeh I completey agree I am getting massive amounts of stuff and the Internet is an incredible method of exchange for those of us seeking knowledge.
Love your viewer interactions. Good work Pete Dunckley!
I'm loving Pete's video's, what a great thing to do! Thank you both
Fascinating to see what other people have on their doorsteps here in the UK.
Regarding the bricked up windows due to window tax. We have a saying in the uk which is 'daylight robbery' which comes from this period.
Indeed there are a multitude of sayings that we use every day that the original meanings of have been lost in the mists of time. For instance hundreds of years ago a old English coin called a bean was once a year baked inside a giant cake and the lucky villager who received the piece of cake with the bean in it was made king for the day by the other villagers and that is were the word Beano comes from believe it or not
Say that sometimes but didn’t know that
Cheers
Being British, I think we take for granted our history.
When American friends visited, I gave them the tour of our village, with it's thatched cottages and 12 century priory. They were blown away. Then I took them about 20 minutes up the coast to Harwich, of the mayflower fame. Again they were blown away 😁
Even things like little churches, which we don't even really notice, were real eye openers for them. To me a 500 year old building isn't that old lol
I had a similar experience taking a group of American friends on a tour of a mediaeval castle near where I live. it was a shock for me when I realised they had never seen a building that old before.
Yup theres an Iron age fort half a mile from my house, so my 13th century barn doesn't seem that old.
So true... we are spoilt!
Me too my house is part 16th century part 17th and you forget just how old it is till Americans nearly fall over themselves taking puctures
Being Welsh, the sad thing is that we don't even get to learn our history through the education system. Everything I know about our history has been learned through my own reading, and, quite ashamedly, only within the last few years (I'm now in my 40s!). For example, I'd heard the name "Owain Glyndwr" many times, but knew nothing about him. Even though he was born and lived within 15 miles of where I live. I've since learned a lot about Welsh history, particularly medieval history (which I find the most interesting), and it's utterly fascinating stuff!
Love that you're doing a Welsh tour on St David's Day! :D
hi al, I don't live far from there myself but all of Wales is like that! pete didn't have a welsh accent though! a bit welsh history for you regarding the US, 5 of the founding fathers who signed the declaration of independence were welsh quakers, who waiting to get away from England and everything English briefly toyed with the idea of using the welsh language as a main language, and in the Washington monument at about the 240 foot level there's an inscription in stone that reads in welsh; Fy laith, Fy ngwlad, Fy Nghenedl, cymru am byth( my language, my country, my nation, wales forever). so you could have been speaking in a very different language!
Many Welsh people have English sounding accents, especially close to the borders of England, which this town is.
@@ps5user155 True, but one can often detect a certain flavour to their accents, whereas Peter's sounds more like pure English. Either way, it's a pleasant listen, and I enjoyed his video.
@@ps5user155 that's true. I'm Welsh and can speak Welsh but when I speak English some people think I must be English because I haven't got a broad Gladys Puw accent...
Byddai hynny wedi bod yn wych!
@@ticketyboo2456 No doubt, but I bet I could detect that you were Welsh. Peter Dunckley sounds like he grew up in the Home Counties or South-East England.
800 subs away from 30k subs.It's just insane!!!,you deserve all the subs,likes and nice comments that come your way keep up the amazing content 👍👏☺
Thank you so very much for the kind words.
@@TheEclecticBeard your very welcome ! anytime 👍☺
There are fresh rumours that Stonehenge was first built in Wales, which does make sense as the stone is Welsh in origin but later moved to where it is now
There has been a tv program about this in the last few weeks. I live just down the road from where they were queried.
Only some of Stonehenge comes from Wales, I can’t remember of the top of my head which ones, I think they are what’s called the bluestones, but don’t hold me too that.
But you are right that it was first built in Wales.
Stonehenge was constructed in three stages over roughly 1500 years.
The original inner circle are the bluestones from Wales.
Archaeologists discovered there original site as Waun Mawn, exact same ring dimensions as they are at Stonehenge and a whole filled in which they excavated dated back before Stonehenge and the imprint matched the shape and dimensions of one of the bluestones at Stonehenge.
Nobody really knows why they were taken up and moved from the site at Waun Mawn and relocated to its current location at Stonehenge, some people think that because it was a burial ground that back then, they believed that the souls became part of the stone and the stone circle was like a portal.
They would have believed that there ancestors spirits were in the stones and so maybe the tribe of people migrated and took the stones with them and rebuilt the stone circle where they resettled which was Salisbury plain where Stonehenge is. That’s a theory.
Some people think that it’s possible that their purpose was not just as a physical part of the structure but believe it or not, musical too and during the rituals they would have been hit with some kind of ancient mallet to produce an audible tone, I guess like an ancient form of a chime.
I guess you could say it was the original Rock music and Stonehenge was the original rock concert venue, lol
Whatever the reason it was moved, that’s one hell of a task, having to move those stones from west Wales to the Salisbury plains, like 140miles and the hilly/mountainous terrain, that’s a mission, it’s got to have taken an army to achieve, it’s crazy to think about.
You could also technically say when it was moved it wasn’t moved from Wales because back then, “Wales” was pretty much the whole of Britain, but that’s a whole other story, lol
I do like Stonehenge but if that one mystifies anyone then they should look into Newgrange. 5,200 year old tomb that is set in line with the solar patterns to ensure the main chamber gets flooded with light at the summer solstice.
@@Penddraig7 yes the smaller stones are from Pembrokeshire, the only place where this type of stone is found.
Near to Stonehenge is a woodhenge. I wonder if a wooden henge might have been built to help align the stones? I’ve also heard that the alignment is for the Winter solstice, rather than the summer. To my mind it makes more sense, as winter is when farmers would have had more time to congregate, and bear hopes for the year ahead. Just my suppositions.
The two Ronnie's are top tier
Very clean and full.of inuendo
All the family can enjoy
HI EB, BRITAIN IS A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY WITH LOADS OF HISTORY. IF YOU BACK FAR ENOUGH IT'S PART OF YOUR HISTORY TOO. EVERYWHERE YOU GO IS DIFFERENT BUT YOU CAN STILL FEEL THE HISTORY. YOU CAN GO INSIDE BUILDINGS THAT ARE OVER A THOUSAND YEARS OLD AND THINK WOW THEY WERE CRAFTSMEN. THERE IS A CHURCH NEAR WHERE I LIVE THAT NEARLY 1100 YEARS OLD. IT IS STILL IN USE TODAY. 💯👍
I live just down the road from here, and sometimes I forget just how lovely it is
I live about 30 miles away on the edge of Brecon Beacons (the bit in the haze he showed at the beginning) maybe I should do a video pointing the otherway... ;)
I live in Coventry, UK and loved visiting the castles, beaches of Wales. This was a surprise as never seen the wells. The mountains and twisty roads terrified me as a child sitting in the back seat Often single car lanes and not knowing if anyone approaching ahead. Yet the most idyllic holiday with my parents and will take such happy memories to my grave. I remember at the top of the castle crying for the fire brigade as health and safety in the 70s not essential and my dad had to carry me back down clutching my mum and telling everyone to leave the castle steps as we were wusses. 😆😆😆 🇬🇧
The black mountains and the Brecon beacons are stunning and wales itself is so work and visit !
I used to manage the forestry all around that area many years ago🌲🌳
Lovely video, perhaps we all should start filming our local history so we can send them to our American cousins 👍🏼👍🏼
If you want to know more aboout medieval digs the watch Time Team hosted by Tony Robinson. He was the actor who played Baldrick in Black Adder. Many years worth of programs
Nice one Pete, well made.
And beautifully narrated.
Thanks. Means a lot 👌
Wales is a beautiful country with very friendly people. You should pay us a visit.
Wales is a very beautiful country, especially in the Summer. I am, in fact, English - but have been to Wales many times and have lived there, down in the valleys ( Merthyr Tydfil - which is not quite so pretty, but fine people ).
This is humbling. I remember having a conversation with an American Soldier who had never seen a building over 250 yeard old before leaving his own country for the first time.
That, to a Briton, would be quite inconceivable. To have never seen a building more than 250 years old ?
Yes! I love when you show videos people have sent you. This is some of the best and most unique content, anywhere. I'm Australian so I can't send you anything, but all you Brit subscribers please send stuff, this is, as you say, very cool.
This is a great video. Makes me want to visit Trellech
In my local town, a group of cavaliers were hunted down and killed by the Roundheads inside of the church during the civil war. There’s a bunch of musket and pike holes in the wooden door, that was 1640s so everything’s old
EB the love and respect you display for our heritage it would my honour to show you around the Roman settlements in Cheshire, also Lancashire. Get your self over here when you can and get in touch. Best. Philll
You can be our next Prince of Wales. 🏴
Pete Dunckley thank-you for this it was real interesting, & MR beard you are such a nice genuine bloke :)
You trip up over history, almost everywhere in the UK, like where I take my dog for a walk in the woods, you walk around the earthworks of an iron age hill fort. When I reach the Fort I always have a sense of pride that its just here. For anyone to trip over. History is everywhere in Britain.
Eyam Derbyshire - plague village worth looking up, Very special story and historical importance
Ring a ring of roses always makes me think of Eyam. A favourite trip out when I was a little girl.
Agree 100%, Eyam is an amazing village. Been there a few times myself, heartbreaking!
I very nearly didn’t watch because of the length as I only have a phone no computer . BUT so glad I did that was very interesting indeed. Best wishes
Get yourself over here man! Anglophile Americans always get a great welcome and we'd be thrilled to show you around!
the window tax is why we say "daylight robbery"... the term "taking the piss" is from urine being used for leather tanning... we have a lot of strange sayings that derive from our history... freezing the balls off a brass monkey, ... maybe look into the strange sayings of the english. Lunacy... being Luna , idiocy being id... also if you can get hold of a copy of "rogers profanisuarus.....youll be in tears of laughter... love your channel.... if you get to the uk, visit cornwall !
Thank you. Xxx
Liking the new thumbnail style 👍
Glad you’ve started to look at the other countries in the UK as well.
What people often forget is that the Uk is not England
as a 22 year old brit, thankyou for giving me more ideas of places to go
We take so much stuff for granted. I live near Bath, it was Roman then everything else. I've got Avebury and the world famous Stonehenge not far away. A mile away I've got a 4000 year old longbarrow. I love it.
This is superb - please send The Eclectic Beard more of these! It's a very gentle wander around a very interesting village in this peculiar part of Britain that is not English like England-England and maybe not as Welsh as the really Welsh bits. I have great-grandparents from the area - absolute joy to watch - and thanks for the comments and reactions.
It's not just cool for you, but me also. I've lived in England all my life, and there's always something to learn about other places across the UK and as much as I love world history in general, there's an amazing connection you feel when it's history that exists in your own back yard.
It always amazes me that here in the UK we are so densely populated, but still retain some of the most beautiful countryside and history.
You should do a video on castles in wales. They are amazing
Problem would be, it would be over a six hundred part series.
Could narrow it down to a hundred if focused on the still standing castles.
Lovely to see videos from somewhere fairly local to me.
Enjoyed that. Where I live we have a pub that is 511 years old
It’s 12 months since Iv been to the pub my goodness I don’t half miss it cans at home just isn’t the same
I love stuff like this as well
i really love this video, the best parts of our history aren't the big tourist attractions, but the subtle changes over time and all the little local quirks places developed. and a leisurely walk with a local historian is the best way to really discover it.
Thank you so much for you're reaction to just a small part of our beautiful Welsh countryside... You must come over when you can, avoid the cities, and discover the history of the Welsh valleys, and countryside. I just love historical sites, and the stories they share, and you sir are on a journey, enjoy 👍
Your excitement for this is infectious, thank you for that. When you do come offer here please at least let me buy you a pint!
I live in the country and its all new to me.
You will absolutely love Time Team.
Dude that was wonderful education... thank you beard 😆👏👏
The best inscription was the comedian Spike Milligan - "I told you I was ill".
great job ,pete. i'm glad your bringing part of our beautiful area of the globe (south east wales) to the attention of the world. i lived in america for a while , and have had many of my american friends come to stay with me (newport). it blows their minds when i take them on a tour of our area. i can't wait for your tintern abbey video. i'm sure THE BEARD will be speechless. mr beard, i'm loving your channel.
If you ever get to visit this area, get someone to drive you, the scenery is so stunning its hard to concentrate on the road!!
My home town is Windsor, plenty of videos as it's a major tourist town!!
Used to do a lot of fishing in trellech as a teen,great memories
To walk where people walked 1000 years ago. To place your hand on a building that other humans put *their* hands 1000 years ago, you feel a connection.
Hope everyone appreciates your interest in everything and giving the rest of the world a opportunity to see stuff that only local folk know.
Love this good job. 👍😁
I am loving seeing your channel as most we see of US is not V good. Politics & whatever divide us. With you sharing with us seeing your reactions from The Royal Navy to British comedy is great to see
My nearest city is Canterbury... the history around here is crazy. If you ever come here, i would happily show you all around.
Me too....we could do a group tour😁😁😁
Fantastic video, thanks to both of you
Great reaction video...haven't seen anybody do something like this before! Wales, Scotland, England and Ireland are stuffed full of historical and ancient sites.
I'd love for more folks to do send me videos like this that they've recorded. All of youtube is about views and subs. However when I get sent something like this to react to or vies and then read my comment section, I see that regardless of the views or subs that this might bring, the comments whether it be the amount of comments or the commentary itself lets me know I did right by reacting to or viewing what I did and putting it out. I love reading the comments almost as much as I enjoy recording and uploading videos to be seen. I get to see a wide span of people's thoughts, their own personal anecdotes and extended history bits that they feel want to share.
Loved this, Wales is so beautiful
I come from a town named St Ives in Cornwall (Southwest England). A very popular tourist spot, renowned for its beauty and its history. We have a pub here that was established in 1312 and it still open to this day (of course not while Covid is lurking), Tregenna Castle (Built in the 18th century, now a very upmarket hotel) and some of the best scenery in the world. If you find yourself in the UK next year i would definitely recommend visiting.
Thankyou for this reaction & thankyou to the person making the video great info. I'm British 27 years old and I travel alot across UK to view our history. I hate London but I love places like this!! I will definitely visit this area when lockdown is over it's only about 2 hours from me in car.
There’s so many places like this across the U.K. I used to live in a place called Offenham (until moving back to Gloucestershire due to family issues). My thatched cottage was shown in the Doomsday book of 1066, what was the ale house stood opposite, to the right was the Priory and the grounds were part of an archaeological dig carried out by the Time Team. It had once been the site of a Roman encampment. Right outside my front door is a Maypole (there has been one on that spot dating back to the 16th century. We had some American friends staying with us over Mayday holiday & amongst the visitors were a couple from Arizona who knew our American friends. We invited them to join us for cream tea on the lawn and watched the celebrations together. They were amazed at the history of our little piece of Olde England. Sadly the outskirts of what was once a very special village have been developed into a huge housing development. As an aside, the village has the longest run of cottages under one thatched roof, seven in all. Definitely worth a visit for anyone visiting the Vale of Evesham especially during the Spring when the blossom is out. For me it was the nicest place I’ve ever lived & I miss it every day.
Thanks for sharing another beautiful part of our beautiful country.
I live in a Welsh mining village and where the mine was is now a school. We live at the top of the village so when you go the the shop you can't avoid having to go uphill to get back home.
excellent videos and reaction too.
Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!
Cymru a byth
Loved that
Brilliant video.
It was delightful to watch you so thoroughly enjoying yourself. And I, too, was actually thinking that Pete would make a fine presenter on a TV history programme. 'TimeWalking with Pete Dunckley' has a nice ring to it!
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus 🌼🏴 Happy St. David's Day 🌼🏴 Glad you have video out today on Cymru/Wales patron saint day March 1st!
I could be wrong but wasn’t this what the internet was originally meant to be? The contribution made by your followers is tremendous.
I believe this is exactly what its meant for
Interesting idea!
Awesome, can't wait to see it
Need a big Eclectic Beard pub day when you are allowed to visit! Will be brilliant! Lol
Lovely part of the world.
you can see the stepped fortifications as he pans down the hill ...each step at least 16/20' high all hand made taking the lower part of the slope and making it higher on the backside
Didn't know that. Another cool piece of info.
That view is most of wales! I live in Swansea and I have an awesome view of the Swansea valley
Great content Pete. Interesting stuff. Haven't been to Wales in years. Will be rectifying that👍
Your cool!
We have a natural spring and apparently it takes thousands of years for the rain water to sink down to the water table and then come out the spring again. There's used to be healing indoor baths for people with money, the beautiful building is still there and after many years of deriliction has just re opened as a hotel. The spring is out in the street and the public has full access to it's wonderful mineral water. People fill thousands of containers a week up with it. I actually think it is owned by Nestle?
If he made that Tintern Abbey video I would watch it. A genuinely nice place to visit.
Didn't realise you're a horse lover. I've had them all my life. Used to work as a groom to Prince Phillip back in the 70:s. I only recently sold my last horse - bought him as a 2 year old he grew to 17.2 HH- I'm 5'1".
Great reaction brother 😀👍. Many thanks to Pete for recording the video. I agree about the old grave stones. I sometime enjoy an hour or two checking out the old headstones. In our old grave yard the stones also mention how the person died. Some say poisoning, murder and accident etc, plus many were young. There is one with a thumb print carved into the stone. It is the resting place of of the gent who was the forerunner of either forensic science or he developed the finger printing technique I can't remember now.
You need to watch TIME TEAM on you tube. Lots of History for you.
RUclips can be an amazing tool for educating us all! The more we share, the more we can accept and appreciate our differences!
Very very true.
HEY! I live 10 mins away in monmouth!
Wow, I used to live in Trellech until a couple of years ago (you can see my house from Beacon Hill) and my dad owned the field in which the Stone's are in. I stumbled upon this after watching your football chant reactions. Weird!
Interestingly, the window tax was the reason for the term being coined 'daylight robbery'.
The amount of history that is all around us in the U.K is unreal and most people walk past things every single day and don't even know that it's there, when there is some better weather I'll try and show you a few things if I can, love your interest in everything, stay awesome mate ;-)
The real good thing about the UK and old buildings is the listing system.
I've a small parish church in my childhood village about ten miles from where I now live that dates back to around the age of the norman conquest in 1066. It's a grade 1 listed building which puts it in terms of importance on par with things like the tower of London and houses of Parliament in terms of its valuation toward our history as a country. It means that any repairs have to be carried out exactly to code to keep the originality of it. It also means as a grade 1 listed building that its high up the list for preservation.
All this yet every Sunday it still holds the local parish Sunday service.
That's why I encourage people who visit the UK to travel about whenever they can because you can drive through a tiny village and find a church like ours that's nearly 1000 years old or a local Manor house that's 700 years old.
Thats awesome that it is that old and still holds services
For further mind blowing, many medieval buildings, especially in rural areas, were built from stones robbed out of Roman structures. The Romans tended to build on or near Iron Age settlements. In one area, you can have 4500 years of history. A mile from my house, there is a Neolithic Stone circle dating back to 4000 BC.
In Ireland we have New Grange it is 51/2 thousand years old and still preformed it's perpuse it's older than the pirmids in Egypt.
Hope you can visit wales after covid