Exploring One of the First Norman Stone Castles in England

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

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  • @sabbyd1832
    @sabbyd1832 Год назад +45

    I love Ludlow castle. You can almost feel the hustle and bustle of the people who once lived there

    • @sthompson1000
      @sthompson1000 Год назад +4

      At least they weren't bloody weekenders.

    • @sabbyd1832
      @sabbyd1832 Год назад +1

      @@sthompson1000 😂

    • @EnglandVersus
      @EnglandVersus Год назад

      ​@@sthompson1000Blame "death to Europe" multiculturalism, cities used to be exciting places to be, now they are the sewage of humanity.

  • @Go-Dawgs
    @Go-Dawgs Год назад +25

    I love this series & I am jealous England has So Much History!!

  • @Sjs1-9
    @Sjs1-9 11 месяцев назад +3

    Ludlow is still my favorite town and castle 15 years after first time going there.

  • @Imagicka
    @Imagicka Год назад +20

    As a fan who has studied castles, this video has been more informative and visually educating than anything I've encountered before .

  • @Mysticflower._94
    @Mysticflower._94 Год назад +156

    Please, please, please keep doing videos on castles and their history. ❤

  • @alemar1122
    @alemar1122 Год назад +11

    Being a member of the Fraternity that uses Lewis stones as a badge, I got a big smile when they started talking about it on the program!

  • @rickypound2441
    @rickypound2441 Год назад +16

    Great video. I grew up in Ludlow so know the castle well. The castle has such an illustrious history- home to Prince Arthur, the two Yorkist princes and a border castle involved in actions in the war of Stephen and Matilda (The Anarchy), the War of the Roses and English Civil War.

  • @PinnedonPlaces
    @PinnedonPlaces Год назад +4

    Absolutely fascinating. Love how you bring the heritage to life! Ludlow is a gorgeous castle, we loved our visit there. Full of such important forgotten history, thank you for sharing with us!

  • @DavesGarden1714
    @DavesGarden1714 Год назад +9

    Love this channel its all about our proud history and culture

  • @catspaw3815
    @catspaw3815 Год назад +24

    Some of the biggest and best castles are along the Welsh March. Longshanks built some great ones there

    • @patriciajrs46
      @patriciajrs46 Год назад +2

      The Welsh seemed to be really good for that.

    • @EnglandVersus
      @EnglandVersus Год назад

      The main architect was actually David of St George, he was a Frenchman that Edward I befriended while he was on crusade in the middle east, David gained a great reputation from his time being employed in Germany and Switzerland and no doubt the French wouldn't have been happy with him following Edward back to England.

    • @catspaw3815
      @catspaw3815 Год назад

      @@EnglandVersus yes, i've heard of him. lol, i wonder what he would think of the Space Needle or some of that stuff going up in Dubai

    • @kanto2281
      @kanto2281 Год назад

      Wow so Longshanks was involved with castles too. I'm familiar with Longshanks due to his connection to the Scottish wars of independence but I never knew he was involved with castles as well.

  • @kristopher1799
    @kristopher1799 Год назад +5

    The spouse and I visited this castle almost 2 years ago. A fascinating exploration!!

  • @eyeintheskydrone4k
    @eyeintheskydrone4k 11 месяцев назад +1

    Absolutely Stunning production. Love the narration it just adds so much. If it has Castles I just have to subscribe. Its my passion flying over Castles and Historic abandoned buildings. Loved every minute of this. Gets a massive like from me well done

  • @bigoldgrizzly
    @bigoldgrizzly 9 месяцев назад +1

    As a kid I had a the same fascination with a similar 'grilled hole in the floor' at Pevensey Castle. That one was in fact an oubliette - where prisoners were thrown and literally forgotten. Oubliette translates fro old french as ' place of forgetting '
    Enemy or malefactors, were literally dumped in and forgotten - left to starve to death with the rats and foul water

  • @joshschneider9766
    @joshschneider9766 Год назад +6

    The question is how did they build these crazy structures while defending from enemies. I'd like to see some study on the wooden defensive structures built to defend the building process myself.

  • @isthisdom
    @isthisdom Год назад +4

    Been here twice, coming from Oklahoma. Still so cool even in videos

  • @Mrrossj01
    @Mrrossj01 Год назад +8

    The Norman castles in Britain should be recognized as a military means to dominate and subdue a conquered people, not as a defense against an outside enemy.

    • @Mask60YT
      @Mask60YT 6 месяцев назад +4

      Granted it should also be noted that this happen in a different time period where the survival of your rule and your way of life required subjugation, war back then was as necessary to survival as a predator killing its prey. It was either conquer or be conquered, and given a different set of circumstances those the normans conquered would've done the same to the normans. In modern times we have more wealth and structures to prevent countries from simply conquering each other constantly, so small nations like Lichtenstein can simply exist without worrying about being conquered or being too poor to not survive on its own.

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 Год назад +6

    A wonderful historical coverage video about that attention-getting matter stoned castle 🏰 constructed in medevil periods....thank you (history Hit) channel for sharing 10:59

  • @theparkourlady894
    @theparkourlady894 Год назад +1

    Really enjoyed this one. As someone who has never seen a real castle in person, I've always been fascinated by them. Would love to see a recreation of this castle complete with working yard, floors, etc. Could easily spend a week just immersing myself in that and fleshing out the huge gaps in my knowledge ❤

  • @jayneymaccarrie5672
    @jayneymaccarrie5672 Год назад

    I went here for school day trip over 20s years ago, it was great hearing the history of the place! I love castles, like to learn more and visit load more

  • @voraciousreader3341
    @voraciousreader3341 Год назад +1

    I really like Matt Lewis, and I hope he’s given the chance to make more documentaries!

  • @sputumtube
    @sputumtube Год назад +3

    Not too far away from me here in Cheshire - I'll have to visit. Thanks for posting.

  • @peteranderson4285
    @peteranderson4285 7 месяцев назад

    Thanks

  • @rl3293
    @rl3293 Год назад

    We were just there in March. Loved Ludlow and the castle.

  • @claudiamann7111
    @claudiamann7111 Год назад

    Thank you so much for another wonderful video. Very interesting. Please show us more Norman castles.

  • @fierceperedur
    @fierceperedur Год назад +1

    That was so cool watching them lay that block.

  • @harryhames1
    @harryhames1 Год назад

    I'm from Hereford and have always been fascinated by Ludlow Castle. Great video and this guy looks like Guy Richie lol.

  • @MultiSirens
    @MultiSirens Год назад

    My Mum was from Shrewsbury so I I know ludlow castle thanks so much!

  • @VeroniqueAiyacs
    @VeroniqueAiyacs 6 месяцев назад

    Nice video, thank you, but I wish we could have had a look at the fireplaces and kitchen to ascertain whether this was a sumptuous residence or a garrison.
    Thank you, Veronique.

  • @Wotsitorlabart
    @Wotsitorlabart Год назад +29

    'Skilled craftspeople'.
    I think we can safely say that the people who built Ludlow castle were 'skilled craftsmen'.

    • @mattr543
      @mattr543 Год назад +3

      They were actually skilled unicorns and at least 6 of them were confirmed moons.

    • @blitzroute66
      @blitzroute66 Год назад

      ​@@mattr543that's no moon!

    • @sthompson1000
      @sthompson1000 Год назад +1

      @@mattr543 I doubt any of them "identified" as cats though.

    • @jordan3405
      @jordan3405 Год назад +1

      it was women that built the castle

  • @Jay-ql4gp
    @Jay-ql4gp Год назад

    I loved this one. Thank you!

  • @justawhisperintheuniverse8257
    @justawhisperintheuniverse8257 Год назад

    Very cool to see. I'd love to see more about British castles, but really anywhere in the world that they exist.

  • @patriciajrs46
    @patriciajrs46 Год назад +1

    Louis pin? Three legged louis pin? Interesting stuff. Wow!
    How did they drill the holes?
    Lime mortar mix, a lime putty. I loved the demonstration of the mortar.

  • @JamesBarry-j7m
    @JamesBarry-j7m 3 месяца назад +1

    I used to ski in the Ludlow Vermont😅

  • @joshuasjericho3915
    @joshuasjericho3915 Месяц назад +1

    ❤❤❤❤❤ Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 from Tiny Tim 😢

  • @griefjunkie
    @griefjunkie Год назад +31

    The Normans certainly knew a thing or two about building castles...

    • @cyan1616
      @cyan1616 Год назад +4

      Viking ingenuity combined with Roman engineering. 😺

    • @jordan3405
      @jordan3405 Год назад +2

      yes, they had to survive. no one liked then

    • @dondevice8182
      @dondevice8182 Год назад +3

      And Cathedrals!

    • @EnglandVersus
      @EnglandVersus Год назад +1

      ​@derrickbridges2611The Normans never called themselves French and didn't see themselves as French. Even the French at the time didn't see the Normans as French.
      This whole reinventing Normans as "French" is born out of the humiliating defeates France has suffered agaisnt England for the past 300 years.

    • @m.a.i7324
      @m.a.i7324 Год назад

      @@EnglandVersusagreed

  • @antoniosingson1791
    @antoniosingson1791 Год назад

    I was here last April of 2019, impressive Norman feat..

    • @Back2TheBike
      @Back2TheBike Год назад

      Their hands were impressive too.

  • @judycorbett4462
    @judycorbett4462 Год назад +3

    I am in awe of the size and craftsmanship of the castles But I wish they could tell me more about the families that lived there . Without the human aspect they are just bricks and mortar But still amazing

    • @voraciousreader3341
      @voraciousreader3341 Год назад +1

      There are books written about these families, you know! Documentaries are nothing but “fast food” for your brain….they’re full of bite sized factoids which are easily digestible and necessarily very brief (this one is only 14+ minutes long). You get *A* picture of the subject, but not *THE* picture, whereas reading books activates and invigorates many areas of the brain, making it much healthier by causing many new neurological connections, in addition to giving you a much fuller perspective of whatever you’re learning. *AND* you can get books for free at your local library, and if they don’t have what you want, they’ll request it from another library. But most people would rather put their brains on a starvation diet of fast food.

  • @y_ffordd
    @y_ffordd Год назад

    Really interesting, I even learnt how to build a castle, superb thanks.

  • @deniseroe5891
    @deniseroe5891 Год назад +2

    My ears perked up when you DeLacy. Hugh DeLacy is my 24th great grand father. It is wonderful to put a actual place with a name, and wow, what a place. Thank you, I am a bit of a English history and ancestry nut, especially medieval history.

    • @pageharris5693
      @pageharris5693 Год назад

      He was friends with my 29th great, William the Conqueror.

  • @tktk5443
    @tktk5443 Год назад

    Excellent, just excellent!!! ❤

  • @stephenwright414
    @stephenwright414 Год назад +1

    Can you guys make a Playlist just for castles?

  • @Bloomcycle
    @Bloomcycle Год назад +2

    Could you imagine living near here. 🏰

    • @sthompson1000
      @sthompson1000 Год назад +3

      I do, You don't notice it.

    • @tansyhawksley9988
      @tansyhawksley9988 Год назад +2

      I grew up in Ludlow. Should revisit really, it is a pretty special place

  • @glenpovey1297
    @glenpovey1297 Год назад +1

    Hmm! No mention of egg whites, one of the prime ingredients of medieval mortar for bonding. The pipe rolls that detailed the accounts of castle building always mentioned large sums paid for poultry which was used to lay the required eggs. There would always have been a large poultry farm attached to the construction site.

  • @ramthian
    @ramthian Год назад

    Thank you ❤😊

  • @54mgtf22
    @54mgtf22 Год назад

    Love your work, HH 👍

  • @denisephillips2337
    @denisephillips2337 Год назад +3

    ❤Ludlow Castle

  • @CLaFong
    @CLaFong Год назад +1

    How long did it take to build from the first stones being laid in 1085ish until what we see the remains of now?

  • @debbralehrman5957
    @debbralehrman5957 Год назад

    Thanks 👍🏼💐

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Год назад

    Kings & Queens of England since 1066.
    Our Longest Regining Monarch.

  • @townview5322
    @townview5322 23 дня назад

    I have this data - I think I was told in school - that the original wooden Norman castles were sent to England in Kit-form, ready to assemble. Or did I dream that?

  • @noneofyourbusiness2997
    @noneofyourbusiness2997 Год назад +1

    Sorry to be pedantic but a gatehouse is not a keep. The keep is an area for the family to live in and last defense; a gatehouse does not have the room for that and is the first line of defense.

  • @mikeedwards83
    @mikeedwards83 Год назад

    There was a lot of generic castle info. Would be good to have more on Ludlow specifically.

  • @patriciajrs46
    @patriciajrs46 Год назад

    Why were they called Baileys?
    This is a great video. Thank you.

  • @timothywebb5100
    @timothywebb5100 Год назад

    Brilliant 🙂

  • @cheekychap8998
    @cheekychap8998 Год назад

    i love ludlow castle

  • @will-i-am-not
    @will-i-am-not Год назад

    Indeed, they built the Tower of London, with stone brought over from Williams lands in Normandy

  • @peterjorgensen1086
    @peterjorgensen1086 Год назад +2

    Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's interested in Norman and Medieval siege warfare in general I advice Schwerpunkt's work

  • @Mish_Da_Mash
    @Mish_Da_Mash Год назад

    Please do Oxford

  • @alexpartridge7113
    @alexpartridge7113 Год назад

    I've been to Ludlow castle

  • @Back2TheBike
    @Back2TheBike Год назад +4

    I too played in Ludlow Castle in the mid 1960s.
    Undoubtedly the finest in England.
    St Lawrence Church too is worth a visit, the largest church that's not a cathedral and home of Prince Arthur's heart, interred after succumbed to fever. This made his younger brother Henry (VIII) next in line.
    PS 'tradesman', NOT 'tradespeople'. No wokism please, it's history.

  • @Theshropshireratter
    @Theshropshireratter Год назад

    Amazing castle from my home town if any one from history hit reads this I have footage of the civil war reenactment from the 70s that took place at ludlow castle

  • @megsmysteries8968
    @megsmysteries8968 21 день назад

    Here for more adventures💀👻💀

  • @marksimons8861
    @marksimons8861 Год назад

    I like to take my Norman conqueror chain mail outfit when visiting such castles. Still to convince my lady friend to bring her Maid Marion outfit.

  • @MeRe52
    @MeRe52 Год назад +1

    If you want this castle to be new just ask Dan from Escape to rural France.

  • @paulmcdonough1093
    @paulmcdonough1093 Год назад

    i worked in muncaster castle that was creepy as hell i seen a few spirits there we all did.

  • @firstchoicetuber3757
    @firstchoicetuber3757 Год назад +1

    Braveheart a very nice movie describing how those times were williak wallace fought hard

    • @Bella-fz9fy
      @Bella-fz9fy Год назад +1

      Only the English get the blame,when the Normans had subjugated them and moved on to neighbouring countries!

  • @jess-oc9me
    @jess-oc9me Год назад +1

    Happy to b a local lol

  • @hungrybirds2433
    @hungrybirds2433 Год назад +1

    Im serious about medieval history

  • @rhondascraftobsessions5817
    @rhondascraftobsessions5817 Год назад

    Could that kind of pin have been used to build the Pyramids but on a grander scale? Oooh! Stonehenge?

  • @golgumbazguide...4113
    @golgumbazguide...4113 Год назад

    Explore Golgumbaz

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Год назад

    🏰👑⚔️🇬🇧⚔️👑🏰

  • @christiansmith-of7dt
    @christiansmith-of7dt 8 месяцев назад

    You know how it is for me its just too much too late and I can't handle it

  • @leod-sigefast
    @leod-sigefast Год назад +3

    Normans out!

  • @aaronsaunders6974
    @aaronsaunders6974 10 месяцев назад

    Lewis pin: thanks. They cost $600 😮

  • @travisbickle2715
    @travisbickle2715 Год назад

    Nice reminder the Royal family haven’t been British for a very long time.

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Год назад

    Fancy having a watch of a Robin Hood Movie?

  • @dizzy6277
    @dizzy6277 Год назад +2

    They don't build castles like they used to.

  • @robbieg416
    @robbieg416 Год назад +3

    This is the kind of documentary that I dislike. A 14-minute video, with a 2-minute introduction. Just get to the information.

    • @keeperMLT
      @keeperMLT Год назад +6

      Ask for your money back!

    • @dantredogborsa7048
      @dantredogborsa7048 11 месяцев назад +2

      You must be nice at parties

    • @kevfit4333
      @kevfit4333 3 месяца назад

      You need to work on improving your attention span...or realise that you can skip the introduction. Just sayin😅

  • @thenoworriesnomad
    @thenoworriesnomad Год назад

    ..👍👍

  • @Cymry-Am-Byth
    @Cymry-Am-Byth Год назад +2

    The irony is. This so-called historical video conveniently overlooks that Ludlow use to be part of Wales before it was annexed by England. You know, think of Ukraine. In fact. The real Welsh name of Ludlow is Dinam, and it used part of the Kingdom of Powis where Welsh King Caradog (Caractus) made his last stand against the Romans. But hey, let's whitewash this fact and allow historical & cultural appropriation.
    )

    • @Bella-fz9fy
      @Bella-fz9fy Год назад

      Blame the all conquering Normans!

  • @bobbyunavailable
    @bobbyunavailable Год назад +1

    Ughhh “craftspeople”. 🤨

  • @DeathsHeadNihilism
    @DeathsHeadNihilism Год назад +1

    HIIIISTORY!

  • @petrapetrakoliou8979
    @petrapetrakoliou8979 Год назад +1

    This would have been a nice video on Lodlow castle if you hadn't shown the unnecessary mistaken building scene. Indeed, Ludlow castle's walls like most castle walls are not made of ashlar but by smaller stones that you can handle by hand and the uncut rubble stones were built as frames incasing concrete with rubble inside - a most common technique of wall building since the Roman period... Unnecesseray mistaken explanation is unnecessary. Ashlar stone building was used in the medieval era, primarily on high status churches, and in later castles, not like this one. I recommend you read a basic book on medieval castle construction before presenting falsehoods on the Middle Ages.

  • @mjribes
    @mjribes Год назад +20

    The use of the term "craftspeople" is a bit ridiculous. The craftsmen who built Ludlow Castle would have been men.

    • @tah2606
      @tah2606 5 месяцев назад +7

      If he hadn’t said it, someone else would have commented. woke nonsense considered

    • @ellenjonasson94
      @ellenjonasson94 4 месяца назад +3

      Men are people?

    • @mjribes
      @mjribes 4 месяца назад +3

      @@ellenjonasson94 They are. And craftsmen did all of the work here.

    • @Briselance
      @Briselance 3 месяца назад

      ​@@tah2606
      Man, bugger the woke.

    • @kevfit4333
      @kevfit4333 3 месяца назад

      The language of Ingsoc. It's insidious.

  • @dorianleakey
    @dorianleakey Год назад

    How does a town shelter the castle? Thats a stupid claim, the opposite is true, the castle protects the town, it also protects the river, not the other way round, it was placed there to protect the river, not to be protected by the river. this level of incompetence is insane.

    • @dorianleakey
      @dorianleakey Год назад +1

      The other rivers arent even near enough to be defensive, aaaahhhh.

    • @larryfroot
      @larryfroot Год назад

      The river is small, but quite fast flowing and has cut a natural culvert into the land around it, a feature the Welsh call a nant. It, together with the steep slope up towards the castle, does form a natural barrier. And the river also helped to create that slope. Like a lit of rivers along The Marches, it's fed by waters coming down from the hills and so can be fast flowing and, in inclement weather, very difficult to cross without a bridge, which forms a defensible bottleneck.
      I do agree with you about the town, though. Unless it's fully fortified a la Conwy or Tenby then it's not exactly going to stop an advancing army.

    • @dorianleakey
      @dorianleakey Год назад

      @@larryfroot Rivers tended to be tranport routes, are you saying it would be too fast flowing? they would likely have slowed its flow.

    • @larryfroot
      @larryfroot Год назад

      @@dorianleakey I saw it last year, although there was some management of the water, there's no way it is a navigable waterway. It's simply too narrow, too rocky and too fast. One similar river in Gwent (also fed from nearby hills although on the other side of the Black Mountains) was once called the Torfaen - Rock Breaker in English.

  • @voodoochile7581
    @voodoochile7581 3 месяца назад +1

    Ads in the middle of a video. I find that very RUDE indeed. Get some manners!

  • @pietsjok4236
    @pietsjok4236 2 месяца назад

    Factoria.

  • @piplee1439
    @piplee1439 11 месяцев назад

    Which Africans built it ?

  • @aaronsaunders6974
    @aaronsaunders6974 Месяц назад

    Lewis pins cost $600 😢

  • @speakupriseup4549
    @speakupriseup4549 Год назад

    Gloves to operate a block and tackle.? Soyboy

    • @kleinweichkleinweich
      @kleinweichkleinweich Год назад +1

      as soon as the stone block sees the hi viz vests it will hit the brakes like there is no tomorrow.
      Master glovewearer does not wear protective boots though.
      master mason does not wear gloves although he probably gets into contact with the mortar
      workplace safety looks impressive but is actually useless in this scene

  • @Briselance
    @Briselance 3 месяца назад

    01:20
    Man, that's a big one.😮

  • @Mr100741
    @Mr100741 Год назад

    It just boggles the mind when one thinks that this castle was built 937 yrs. ago. No modern technology, nothing available to the builders and engineers that we take for granted today.