Our visit to Battle Abbey, East Sussex
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- Опубликовано: 12 июл 2024
- A video on the English Heritage site at Battle in East Sussex. Home of the 1066 Battle of Hastings, Abbey & Battlefield.
Filmed on a sunny day in late September, pre-Covid-19.
You can now pre-book to visit the site, but check out the English Heritage website for more details, including the current pricing. www.english-heritage.org.uk/v...
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⏱️Timestamps⏱️
00:00 - The Intro
00:16 - Where is Battle Abbey?
00:32 - The Great Gatehouse
01:14 - The view from the rooftop
01:26 - Battle Abbey School
01:56 - The Precinct Wall
02:06 - The Abbey Ruins
02:58 - The Abbot's House
03:20 - Where King Harold fell in battle
03:40 - The Crypt
04:16 - The Dairy
04:24 - The Walled Garden
04:50 - The Battlefield
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Visiting Battle later today, your video was most helpful and informative
🙏 Thank you Brian, I am pleased you found it helpful. I hope you have a pleasant visit and you are blessed with the best of British weather 🌞 Do you have anywhere else in the region planned to explore on your visit?
Nice video I''ve worked at the school for 6 years, I've seen spooky monk figure on top of the Monk Bording, many sprites in the school I've seen. There is rumors in the battlefield about sprites doing a reenactment. I know this is more of a history side of the site but cool. Them sheep are the farmers in the next fields and they sometimes escape. Once or twice a year they wil come up to the Abbey grounds I love seeing them when they come up. Some are sheepish "Eh hum" :D but most don't mind walking around humans.
Wow, what an experience. It must be a lovely place to work. We love the town of Battle, and you're lucky to be in a beautiful part of the country.
Thanks for the comment,
Take care, and enjoy the autumn,
Gary & Janis
@@OurWorldForYou Thank you yes apart from when it's raining it's a nice place 6 years and I haven't seen all of the grounds yet, one day. It doesn't matter what season it is great for photos all year round. I live 6 miles away near Hastings so it's a bugger to get to when public transport is not running but other then that not a bad place to work
I know about the weather, I'm about 30 miles due north of you, and it's constant at the moment.
I imagine there are some beautiful views over the battlefield on a misty winter's morning.
We had promised ourselves a better look around east susses this year, but we missed out, guess it'll have to be '23 now.
@@OurWorldForYou It really is horrible out there still wet from walking 5mins out in it. And yes explore more in Spring/Summer Battle Abbey/grounds had a light show/playing for a thew days at night of course took some photos of it after work. It's gone now but was pretty busy something to keep an eye on in the future
Thank you for your beautiful video. We are planning a trip to England next spring and now Sussex and Battle Abbey are definitely on our radar.
Hi Ginger,
Thank you for your lovely comment. Where are you coming from? There's plenty more to see and do in the area. Make sure you check out Rye - ruclips.net/video/sgqEnWJ5xUQ/видео.html If you like a literary connection, Rudyard Kipling's home, Batemans, is around 10 miles away - ruclips.net/video/S7D_neCXm24/видео.html We have a little road trip planned around the county for later this year, or early next so keep watching.
Thanks again, take care and safe travels,
Gary & Janis
I have seen a few of your videos, excellent, Battle Abbey, Hastings, will definitely be visiting, I have many ancestors who were at the Battle of Hastings, including many of the French and William the Conqueror, been researching my ancestry, amazing the things one finds out...take care
🙏Thank you Linda - The good news is there are plenty more videos to come, and we are about to start work on our next one on what looks to be a sweltering in Kent.
Battle Abbey is a fabulous experience, as is a stroll around the town of Battle, too (I think that'll make another video at some point!)
Thanks for the comment,
Stay safe, stay well, stay cool.
Gary & Janis
I have been through Battle by car via somewhere else, gateway looked magnificent, I think your video is the first comprehensive tour I have seen, excellent work and trip@@OurWorldForYou
Linda,
Thanks so much.
We are working on a miniroad-trip in the area, aiming to join the dots to some of England's history around Battle. Just trying to create something that works for all. Early days of planning for us, but a few ideas floating around. Stories to be told.
Thanks again,
Janis & Gary
Very Nice historic place .
Thanks, it is - looking forward to spending some more time exploring the town of Battle and the surrounding area - I just need a little bit of normality. 😀
I believe the real battle was fought at Crowhurst
Hi Michael,
I believe there is some conjecture over the site of the actual battle, and where Harold actually fell. All I can say with any certainty is that I wasn't there.
There may have been more than one actual battle, smaller skirmishes, and this has muddied the water in folklore.
Either way, the Abbey, and the English Heritage site, are great places to visit if you have the time.
Thanks for taking the time to comment,
Gary & Janis
I enjoyed your video. Thank you .
It didn't happen in battle, the monks decided to build a bigger Abbey on the main trade route to London, tax free, the real Abbey where Harold fell is in crowhurst,
Thanks Martin, the Crowhurst theory is an alternative, but there are several. Until the majority of Historians agree it was not the currently identified site of then, I think, Battle Abbey will be remembered as the site of the historic defeat. Whichever way you look at it, a day out at Battle is nice enough.
@@OurWorldForYou battle Abbey is a nice day out, at least it keeps people generally away from the true site preserving it.
@@martineleven8179 I believe it is in Crowhurst as well, but conclusive evidence has to be found first.
@@williamcarter361 crowhurst does play a part in some boat landings as its close to the bulverhythe sea inlet back then, BUT personally I honestly think that anyone in fighting &battle terms gain high ground where there's a natural water source, especially on or near to the old London Rd. The ridge has to be the place, you have old st helens Church & St helens holy well, also in ore the place redlake (senlac/blood lake/river of blood) . Hastings is on ironstone hence the senlac/ bloodlake/river of blood term. An old man once explained to me that in the early 1980s in the redlake area of ore , when building new housing development 1000s of old bones & skeletons were dug up, way too many to be an old graveyard, but apparently nobody made the connection, maybe it was the developers nightmare, but it happened. You need to study St helens nature reserve tbh. It definitely didn't happen in battle, but crowhurst was definitely near to a landing point.
@@OurWorldForYou As you say there are a number of alternative sites for the Battle. Crowhurst, Black Horse Hill ( latest as of March 2024), Battle Abbey, t'other end of Battle High Street ( New English Heritage thinking, Recent book from Pen & Sword and the opening skirmish from me), Caldbec Hill, Beechdown Wood, Beech Farm ( Ed the Con coin found plus part of a Saxon stirrup), Just past Netherfield and finally a ridge just inside Ashes Wood with the Malfosse 150 further into the wood( my considered opinion for what it's worth). BTW, the monks themselves acknowledge they didn't raise the Altar where Harold fell but where one of his Standards fell to the ground ( The Chronicle of Battle Abbey translated by E Searle for OUP Page 44 for the Latin and p45 for the English).