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Don’t worry about the few minutes of audio missing, it didn’t affect the video. I guess it was really frustrating though! The Cotswolds are stunning, I have only ever been as far as Oxford. Ideas for other places to visit… The Peak District national park Yorkshire Dales (where my mum was born) Hastings (where my dad was born) Cornwall The Isle of Wight And for a slightly different video, have a look at the Isle of Mann TT, which is the most dangerous motorcycle race in the world (and you get to see most of the island at the same time). Hope you are both well, and have a wonderful day.x 😁
@@BassandoForte Well, it's a destination in it's own right, with its own unique features. Probably, not high on the list for picturesque locations! 😄....Although, Buckinghamshire and it's environs does have some of its own little 'off-the-beaten-track' treasures.
As a retired professional driver my advice to you gals when you visit UK, a rental car is a distinct advantage. However don't rent the largest sedan or SUV they have. A compact car for you two, luggage and shopping bags will make negotiating country roads less of a worry.
Also be aware that most cars in Britain are manual shifts...if you're not careful you could end up with a stick shift by default...also you'll find the advantages of SatNav far outweigh the disadvantages...it's all too easy to get lost while coping with the "wrong" side of the road (for you) and an unfamiliar driving position in the car...
We holidayed in the Cotswolds last year, it’s one of the most beautiful places in England. Can’t wait for your reaction of part II, just you wait and see Bourton-on-the-Water. That’s where we stayed and to wake up to a beautiful village (IMO) every morning made me proud to be English.
Cornwall is beautiful. But if you live anywhere else in the country it takes forever to get too. I used to travel for work to Hyde, Penzance. After the drive from Manchester twice, I decided to fly to Newquay and drive the rest.
@@just4youtube245 Depending on where you live, Cornwall can be a trek that's for sure. I live in the South East and it's a minimum seven hour drive, so worth it though.
Watching your faces during the video was priceless! We certainly have some beautiful places to visit in the UK. I think the Yorkshire Dales (scenery for Natasha and villages for Debbie, including Pateley Bridge with the oldest candy shop in England!) or the Northumberland coast with Alnwick Castle would be great. Thank goodness that progress for us doesn't involve bulldozing what is already there to make way for the new stuff!!
Up until the 1900's most towns and villages were built using the local stone. This gives each area a unique quality with Flint, Sandstone, Granite and Limestone regions. Then modern brick became popular and took over. Remember that many of the structure you are seeing are a few centuries older than the US is ! As for the steps to the river, they served 2 main purposes, 1) so people that fall in to the river can get out and 2) so the weavers can more easily get their buckets of water. This being centuries before plumbing of any type.
Used to live in the Cotswolds in a place called Chipping Campden. If a place has chipping in it, it was a market town. There is a stone market hall from the 14th century still in use!
Hello ladies! To answer Debbie's question, the steps by the river at Castle Combe were to allow the weavers to fill their buckets with the water they needed in the felting process. They were also used to load finished cloth onto shallow-draught boats as the roads back then were, at best, muddy tracks. They're still just as winding and narrow but reasonably solid. I'm really enjoying your travel series because it so clearly shows what a huge range of different types of scenery we have in a relatively small area. BTW, Natasha, our fish and chips are pretty good almost everywhere because the fish is fresh. Nowhere is more than 70 miles (2-3 hours drive) from the sea. Love and best wishes from chilly England........................................aE.
Part 2 seems to have the place I went to a few years ago, Bourton-on-the-Water, considering that's where the motor museum is (which houses children's TV icon Brum the car). The River Windrush flows through the village and is gentle and shallow enough in parts for children to paddle in. When I visited on a lovely summer's day, there were little kids standing in the river with their jeans rolled up to their knees, doing toy boat races. We went to the Kingsbridge pub and were lucky to get some outdoor seating overlooking the river, and it was absolutely idyllic. They have some amazing beer-battered fish and chips, and we enjoyed some nice cider along with it (cider in the UK is alcoholic, btw, and usually drank in the summer). PS the fish in fish and chips is usually cod, and it's safe to assume that's what it is unless specifically stated otherwise. Just a heads up!
Wow I grew up in the cotswolds and I got to bidbury quiet often it’s a beautiful little village with a really beautiful garden and pub would recommend visiting this place
There must be about 50 pubs which claim to be the "oldest in England" - My personal favourite is Nottingham's "Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem" - built into the cliffs below Nottingham Castle
I see this often. My choice would be a pub close to a golf course in Yorkshire, where I once worked, In the guinness book of records as the oldest, DATING FROM BETWEEN 905-53: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bingley_Arms
I have never "binge -watched" anything in my life but I have binge-watched you, both, tonight - well done and thank you - congratulations - great entertainment x
That wall and steps are modern. They were built for the making of the film Dr Doolittle. Prior to the making of that film it was an ordinary grassy river bank. I remember the film being made, I lived there.
I have lived and worked in the Cotswolds for the last couple of decades and even the villages and countryside I travel to the most like Compton Abdale are still impress me with their beauty
First time in commenting and I have to say I absolutely adore you both. I am English born and bred and I love my country good or bad, I have lived and worked all over the place from Spain to Greece Germany and I have travelled extensively I have family who live in Australia and New Zealand and I love Egypt which is my favourite place to visit because Egyptian history is my passion. I have gone to Japan, Singapore and Thailand but no matter where I go or how beautiful these countries are I will always come home. I live in a small village in Norfolk. I can not drive but I can use the train and in 30 minutes I am in Ely then Cambridge then London or I can change trains in Cambridge and go to Liverpool Manchester opposite direction is Norwich. I am surrounded by stately homes. We have castles and castle ruins, were re-enactments used to take place until the pandemic. Royal residences Sandringham house which is owned outright by the Queen but all the grounds are open to the public and so is part of the house for an entrance fee that is then put back into the estate. Prince William and Kate also have a home here as to some movie stars and yes they mingle with us because we leave them alone their just people and because they don't act like prats we treat them with respect and if we see the press hanging around we soon clear them out. one such person was Johnny Depp. Hunstanton a beautiful seaside which is also the only place that the Sun sets in the East. We have the Norfolk Broads we also have 2 American military bases near us as well as our own. London until the pandemic my daughter and I used to hit twice a month in winter and Summer. I love London. We have beautiful areas all over but for me The Lake District and the Yorkshire Moors are outstanding. In our closets town we have Tudor Buildings still standing. It fills me with horror when I see all the damage been done to statues and monuments trying to erase history and you can't no toppling of a statue is going to change what happened.
Mum was from Wales my dad was from Cornwall, and yet I've never been to the Cotswolds !! I'm ashamed!! Virtually passed it every time we went to Devon and Wales. Mind you, Devon and Wales are spectacular too.
Guys, if you like this kind of thing (which you obviously do) watch a video about Lavenham, the most beautiful village in the UK. I know that's quite a claim, but check it out and you'll see why...
TBF we got hamlets like that dotted everywhere in the Uk = you should watch the video in the summer time = the whole place will be in bloom and you will see fields full of wild flowers
Natasha, aunt Linda would love St Ives in Cornwall, it's well known for all its artists, there are many studios and art shops there. On Sunday 7 September 2014, St Ives had a ceremony to make St Ives and Laguna Beach, California, US sister cities. Clovelly in north Devon would be a good place for you to look at.
I am convinced we have the ancient experiences of our ancestors encoded within our DNA, that tie us to our past; I fee that those memories, instincts, feelings are awakened when we enter or see the ancient spaces of our ancestors. Your videos have rekindled my love for my country. I am really excited to see the other countries you explore, places I have never seen, with your wounderful humour.
4:40 A little useless trivia about Castle Combe: in the late 1960s, one of the big movie studios constructed a huge dam in preperation for a movie. So controvertial was this move that one individual - an SAS soldier by the name of Ranulph Fiennes - blew it up with spare explosives that he'd signed for! He was later RTU'd (Returned To Unit) for this. But he went on to become a famous polar explorer.
All I can say is when you come to the UK, you'll have to stay a long, long time in order to see everything..........But it'll be worth it! Great video and thank you.
Great,just home from work so watching with a cuppa in hand,the Cotswolds are lovely but my favourite place is Oxford ,I love the old architecture and just everything about it
I live in Worcestershire and every week my husband and I go out for a day and explore, we always manage to find somewhere different, a village, a medieval painted church, ancient bridges, forests, rivers, stunning views. You could pick any county and spend a lifetime exploring. I would recommend you have a look at Yorkshire next, the Cotswold stone you love is similar to York stone used in Yorkshire buildings, and there is scenery as breathtaking as the Lake District. Whitby is possibly the most famous town in Yorkshire and always worth a visit.
Hi Ladies , another amazing video , i love laughing along with you on these episodes it really brightens my day , have been to the Cotswolds and believe it or not its even better than the video . Debbie your a scream , so funny . where on earth do you get your toys lol . Lots of love .
For travel Wednesday try the village of Portmeirion in Wales, it was used as a location for the 1960s tv show the prisoner, my parents stayed there in one of the properties on vacation 💕
I recommend checking out Derbyshire, where you will find most of the Peak District National Park, as well as the stately homes of Chatsworth House and Hardwick Hall.
Derbyshire is beautiful. So many stately homes, Chatsworth is breathtaking, Hardwick Hall, Haddon, Kedleston Hall. Both Chatsworth and Kedleston were used in the movie The Duchess staring Keran Knightley.
I'm very lucky to live close by the cotswolds, and this was my delivery route, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire countryside, always thought they paid me to go sightseeing, great videos, keep it up.
There was a very popular archaeology TV series called Time Team, they did a special in Nottingham as we have three pubs that claim to be the oldest in England - they tried to determine which is the oldest. I think it’s on RUclips. The Old Trip is still my favourite as it’s built into the caves under Nottingham Castle (which isn’t exactly a castle as you’d think of it, but still)
Nottingham did have a proper castle but the royalists burnt it down in the civil war. Read that Edward the third and a group of men used the tunnels to gain entry to the castle to capture his mother Isabelle and her lover mortimer. They had murdered his father and were basically running the country with the young Edward as a puppet king. Mortimer was killed and Isabelle was kept under house arrest. So many different places in the UK to visit, live near the peak district but I love places all over the world.
Great video ladies. The Cotswolds are lovely, but there are equally beautiful places in Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire too. As for oldest pub, there is a pub called Olde Trip to Jerusalem circa 1187. It's undeneath Nottingham castle in a cave. If you ever go to Nottingham city you must visit the pub. Its so atmospheric.
Great video girls. I’m born and Breed in Chipping Norton. Not far from Burford. Attended that beautiful church many times. Spent many happy hours at Burford wildlife park.. I now live in North Wales and lucky to enjoy the beautiful surroundings here too which are equally stunning. Your right in what you say we do take places where we live for guaranteed and stop to view its beauty. . Take a look at Blenheim Palace. In Woodstock birth of Winston Churchill. . Well done On another great reaction vid. X
The steps were used for many things. They were used by the felt makers as they collected water before they heated it and washed the wool before it was turned into felt. They are many hundreds of years old.
So, having watched the 2nd video where they covered all my suggestions (Bourton on water, Moreton in Marsh and Broadway) I will leave it up to the rest for their ideas. Another great reaction from you both, keep it up ladies.
Devon and Cornwall are pretty places with narrow winding roads that keep them off the tourist trail. there are large estate gardens pretty seaside villages, Clovelly with its narrow street, get out at the top car park walk down and catch the small jeep from by the pub at the bottom.
I live 8 miles away from Castle Combe….it is very beautiful! We are so lucky in this area as we have the city of Bath and beautiful villages just everywhere 😍. I was born and have lived in the Cotswolds all my life and my ancestors before me for many centuries - you could say it’s in my blood! It’s so sweet to see your reaction as it makes us local people appreciate it all the more 🧡💚🧡💚🇬🇧🇬🇧
I'm surprised that nobody mentions Castle Combe race circuit...kind of funny to have this quaint little peaceful village, then have motor racing taking place less than a mile away...
Highly recommend any video on youtube by the memory seekers. Lovely to see your enthusiasm for the Cotswolds. We are so lucky to live in a very beautiful and varied country!
We visit the Cotswolds for weekend breaks a few times a year as it’s less than 2 hours drive. I forget just how wonderful it is … thanks for refreshing my view through your eyes x
I’ve been to the Cotswolds many times, I love it, we have booked Bourton on the water for June this year, can’t wait. Other beautiful places to visit are Northumberland and the Yorkshire Dales xx
Great to see your reaction to the villages and countryside . I have lived in. This area all my life and forget how lucky I am to have all this around me .
Yayy... my home region... the Cotswolds. I now live in the East of england but have family there. I spent my youth cycling miles around the beautiful contryside.
Great reaction to The Cotswolds! As someone who's lived here my entire life is really interesting to see other people's reactions. I'm a photographer based in Gloucestershire and for five years of my career, I was one of the photographers for Cotswold Life magazine so spent my days driving across the region photographing the area and people who live and work here. However, just as visiting London isn't seeing the UK, Castle Combe, Bourton-on-the-Water, Bibury etc are incredibly touristy areas especially if you visit in the summer. At any one time, Bourton-on-the-Water, which looks like it's in part two of this video, has something like five times the number of tourists than it does residents and can at times be like walking around a theme park! Don't get me wrong, these areas of the Cotswolds are incredibly picturesque and worth a visit but it's also worth taking a drive (if you can overcome your fears!) getting lost for a day or two. There are literally hundreds of tiny villages and hamlets here as the Cotswolds covers something like 750 square miles, so there's always something new to see with many a village pub or tea house along the way. P.S. If you don't feel like driving on the left I'll happily be your taxi for the week!
I traveled around England (from New Zealand) and was a member of National Trust, honestly there are 100's of places like that manor and garden some way more spectacular. Seriously , they are everywhere. If you are also into castles (English heritage pass) you would need a couple of years travelling around visiting them all.
I literally live a 10 minute drive from Castle Combe. I also have the villages of Biddestone and Lacock near me which are beautiful too. The city of Bath is a 20 minute drive from me. My home town of Corsham has a stately home (Corsham Court) and we had our own Lord who owned it but he sadly passed away, probably 20 years or so ago and the house is now owned by his relatives. We have many Peacocks 🦚 that roam the town and live in Corsham Court. If you both come and visit, I would be more than happy to be your tour guide 😊
Hi guys, this is where I live and quite often pop up to Bibury (and the trout farm which he didn’t mention) and it is far more beautiful than the video actually shows. My offer to show you guys around still stands if you want a Cotswold personal tour, however I would recommend that you come April - Aug with June and July being the best times.
Ahh my brother lives near here I think. Can't wait to visit him and check out a cool place called Puzzlewood. Plenty of old ancient ruins of all kinds too which adds a super old school magical kingdom kind of vibe 😳
Thank u 4 the shout out. And Debbie u got my surname spot on. Most don't. So thank you again. Lovely video. Never been to Cotswolds but knew from various TV shows. As u can guess it costs loads to buy a home there. Love 2 u guys.😁💕
What you will love about britain, not just the old buildings, but the fact that depending where you are, different types of stone was used in different areas. If you planning to visit the cotswolds, I would recommend you visit the city of Bath, which is not too far away and lovely.
House Prices in Cotswolds Properties in Cotswolds had an overall average price of £424,675 over the last year. The majority of sales in Cotswolds during the last year were detached properties, selling for an average price of £598,733. Semi-detached properties sold for an average of £361,945, with terraced properties fetching £348,620. Overall, sold prices in Cotswolds over the last year were 7% up on the previous year and 15% up on the 2019 peak of £369,100.
Hi Natasha and Debbie as always love your videos. The Cotswolds is lovely. Try my home county of Suffolk, some lovely Tudor towns/villages, different style to the Cotswolds. Also north Essex, lovely villages. Look forward to your next video. We are one of over 50 odd countries that drive on the left, I’ve driven on the right a few times and you get used to it very quickly 😎 take good care x
Many of the older churches in England owe many of their most impressive features to the Black Death. When the plague swept through Europe and England in the Middle Ages millions died. When the plague ended there was an acute shortage of labour. So those that survived were able to demand higher wages. Many then donated a part of that increase to their local Churches. When visiting these Churches it is not uncommon to find the faces of those who donated in the stained glass windows so they could be remembered. Also when visiting it is worth taking either binoculars or zoom lenses because the finest work is often at the top of the Church because people were trying to impress God much more than their fellow citizens with their donations.
I moved to the Cotswolds from the Yorkshire Dales both utterly stunningly beautiful regions in there own right. You should see them both in their full glory just before the back end of spring in May or summer months when it’s gets warm to hot in June, July or August. They are the most gorgeous villages & Towns in the U.K. I think, and I’ve been to a lot of them all over the British isles because of my job as a lorry (truck) driver, now retired. Of cause there are the moor villages in the North Yorkshire moors area which is a national park and has some of the most wild and beautiful land scenery in the U.K. I visit a friend in a town called Helmsley in north east England which is another typical English village town and really pretty in the Cleveland hills which is north of Yorkshire. The river tees has some beautiful scenery near High Force Water falls that feeds the river too. I hope you pay us a visit to the U.K. this summer sometime because your very welcome to the United Kingdom.
for the first 6 years of my married life, i lived in a 350 year old cotswold stone cottage in Sapperton, outside of Cirencester in Gloucestershire. definitely a 'chocolate box' place. it had its drawbacks, a kitchen the size of most half baths...no central heating in the first year and difficult access being some of them. but it certainly was q=an experience. ive lived in the cotswolds now for 38 years and although i love many other parts of the country, this is my home. if part two doesnt visit Cirencester, the capital of the cotswolds...then its a crime! my first love, its is stunning, all my children grew up there and they love it too.
Love this video and your reaction. Also so glad you love the Cotswolds. I live there not far from Castle Combe and Dyrham Park (walked past it on our Christmas walk). My village was built in the 1200, not on the tourist trail but so beautiful and I genuinely feel so lucky to live here. Originally from Edinburgh but definitely feel at home here. So hope you get to visit one day. So so many beautiful places to visit. Must visit out local town Chipping Sodbury 👍.
Hey ladies The cotswolds are amazingly beautiful. There is an issue with the rich and famous though buying 2nd or 3rd homes in some of these places and forcing locals out of the house market. Debbie the National Trust Charity looks after a huge number of former wealthy estates and mansions that have been left to them. They look after them and open them up to the public. The UK is littered with 16th,17th and 18th century estates that passed to the National trust.
Anywhere in Cornwall is beautiful, some of my favourites are tresco abbey gardens on the Scilly isles, st Ives and St Michael's mount which is a castle in the middle of the sea
What a BEAUTIFUL place!!!! Absolutely gorgeous!! Wow! If I HAD to choose which one to go to....I'd choose the Lake District. I really would want to see Beatrix Potter's farm, the Herwyck sheep & Keswick!! Of course, to visit a tea shop & eat scones!!
Lakes are beautiful ( good for walking holidays and not far from Scotland) and spread over a larger area than the Cotswolds so you need longer to see all of the lake district where as Cotswolds main attractions can be done in a couple of days . If you get to the Lakes go to Bowness and get a day boat ticket for Windemere and travel up and down it's 11 miles stunning scenery on any side
Many of our small parish churches are similar to the one in this video. It's just part of our long history. I grew up in a small village of less than 3000 population and it's village church dates back to the Norman conquest of Britain, so around 1066-1070ad. It is grade one listed so its protected as part of our history. It proves that history is everywhere and anywhere you care to look in the UK and is not just in the famous places that are mentioned on all tourist videos such as buck palace, the Tower of London and etc. In many circumstances things like a local village church can have a higher grade listing than a famous touristy building.
We are lucky to be curtain makers covering much of the Cotswolds, so we not only get to make lovely things, but get to spend time in so many of these beautiful homes.
Yeah those are homes, I think one difference in the UK is that old buildings are preserved and used - there’s a cafe in my home town which is in a building from the 1400s, it’s not a museum, there’s no entrance fee, that’s just the building. Whereas sadly in the US most older buildings are torn down to be replaced with strip malls and parking lots - although building protections have improved in various states so hopefully more will be preserved.
My local church was originally built in the 12th century, on a site dating from just after the Norman invasion. As the saying goes "100 years is old in the US, and 100 miles is a long way in the UK".
If you're coming to the UK, consider getting yourselves a National Trust membership. It will save you loads of money and there are so many beautiful places to see.
Centuries ago, most freight would be moved by barge so I would imagine you can dock boats there. The Cotswolds are like walking into a novel like pride & prejudice or sense and sensibility or what have you. I hope I get back there again one day.
The water is too shallow and the bridges are too low to allow any freight to be carried on the water. All of the finished cloth would be transported by horse and cart or even by pack-horse. The carter’s would have brought other goods in to the area so that they didn’t have an unloaded trip.
The steps into the brook are called waterman stairs and were used to pick up or drop off people and things on rivers that fluctuate in depth on a regular basis.
Yes, actually there are villages ( and particularly hamlets ) throughout England that don`t even have street lighting. So when it gets dark, its pitch black. I remember visiting such a place in East Yorkshire a few years ago - for work purposes. I noticed, as the sun began to set, that there were no lamp posts in the street. I mentioned this to my client who said that the Local Authority moved to install street lights, and the residents of the hamlet / village would hear none of it. They flatly refused to have street lighting imposed upon them - and good for them. All the more quaint the lights that burn inside the homes.
Lovely video as always. The cotswolds are one of many jewels in the crown we have in the UK. Not sure if you watched a link to the cotswolds on your face book messenger page last week. If not this video will give you a good idea how beautiful the area is. Next week on Travel Wednesday search for videos of Devon and Cornwall. The counties have such wonderful Scenery small villages with Thatched cottages. Small coves all around the coast with white Sandy beaches and turquoise seas. Wonderful working fishing harbours. I have a holiday home on the North coast of Cornwall which is why I love the place. Love your reaction to our wonderful heritage. ❤️
I love the way you appreciate my lovely little county and the UK too. We take a lot of what we have in the UK for granted, as we are use to seeing it every day. I am so proud of the UK and thank you for your appreciation of my home country. This is such a beautiful Island and a history to go with it. Love your videos.
Where I live in barnsley, yorkshire there’s a place called Worsbrough mill and this was mentioned in the 1086 domesday book and is still a working mill to this day it’s also a museum and backs on to the local reservoir, my kids love to walk inside the mill especially when they are making flour as the workers talk to them about the history ect
The Lake District definitely had more to offer than the video you chose so you might need a do-over. The Cotswolds are one of the areas I haven't explored too much as I tend to head for outdoors and long walks/hiking trips but after watching this I might visit the next time we have some semi-decent weather. For your next stop Cornwall could be a good choice... The places I know people love (but I take for granted) would be Bath, Frome, Glastonbury and Wells which are all in the Somerset area.
It always looks picture perfect but I would always recommend going there in the summer because seeing the trees and flowers in bloom make all these areas look overwhelmingly stunningly and beautiful. I remember the first time I saw these properties framed with lush trees and flowers. It was jaw dropping. It’s like stepping into the pages of a fairytale book.
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That's ok, we understand, must make editing difficult, especially when you want your viewer to enjoy.
@@emmahowells8334 we didn't get the option to edit it. Especially when RUclips waits hours to hit us with the copyright. Very uncool. But thank you for your understanding
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow that's a shame that RUclips hits channels with copyright, bet it's frustrating tho hey. You're welcome 🌹
Don’t worry about the few minutes of audio missing, it didn’t affect the video. I guess it was really frustrating though! The Cotswolds are stunning, I have only ever been as far as Oxford.
Ideas for other places to visit…
The Peak District national park
Yorkshire Dales (where my mum was born)
Hastings (where my dad was born)
Cornwall
The Isle of Wight
And for a slightly different video, have a look at the Isle of Mann TT, which is the most dangerous motorcycle race in the world (and you get to see most of the island at the same time).
Hope you are both well, and have a wonderful day.x 😁
You don't have to choose a part of the UK - it's OK to enjoy the whole of it in it's diversity and uniqueness 😃
Totally agree
Because this area is outstanding, unique and world famous.
Yeah such as the concrete diversity of Milton Keynes... 🤣🤣
@@BassandoForte Well, it's a destination in it's own right, with its own unique features. Probably, not high on the list for picturesque locations! 😄....Although, Buckinghamshire and it's environs does have some of its own little 'off-the-beaten-track' treasures.
It is all great. I am British.
As a retired professional driver my advice to you gals when you visit UK, a rental car is a distinct advantage. However don't rent the largest sedan or SUV they have. A compact car for you two, luggage and shopping bags will make negotiating country roads less of a worry.
Also be aware that most cars in Britain are manual shifts...if you're not careful you could end up with a stick shift by default...also you'll find the advantages of SatNav far outweigh the disadvantages...it's all too easy to get lost while coping with the "wrong" side of the road (for you) and an unfamiliar driving position in the car...
Debbie can drive a manual.
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Well that's one worry abated!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow - Yes - but can she drive it with the wrong hand? lol . . .
Do you ladies use Instagram? If so, I have a few recommendations for the Cotswolds,. Best wishes 👍
We holidayed in the Cotswolds last year, it’s one of the most beautiful places in England. Can’t wait for your reaction of part II, just you wait and see Bourton-on-the-Water. That’s where we stayed and to wake up to a beautiful village (IMO) every morning made me proud to be English.
Your enthusiasm about my country is truly heartwarming. I would definitely suggest either Cornwall or Northumbria for your next travel video.
Cornwall is beautiful. But if you live anywhere else in the country it takes forever to get too. I used to travel for work to Hyde, Penzance. After the drive from Manchester twice, I decided to fly to Newquay and drive the rest.
@@just4youtube245 Depending on where you live, Cornwall can be a trek that's for sure. I live in the South East and it's a minimum seven hour drive, so worth it though.
The lake district is a must see
@@DJ_Shenanigan00 They particular want to go there...
As a Northumbrian I’ve got to agree. But please don’t tell too many people, we like to keep our secret. x
Watching your faces during the video was priceless! We certainly have some beautiful places to visit in the UK. I think the Yorkshire Dales (scenery for Natasha and villages for Debbie, including Pateley Bridge with the oldest candy shop in England!) or the Northumberland coast with Alnwick Castle would be great. Thank goodness that progress for us doesn't involve bulldozing what is already there to make way for the new stuff!!
Up until the 1900's most towns and villages were built using the local stone. This gives each area a unique quality with Flint, Sandstone, Granite and Limestone regions. Then modern brick became popular and took over. Remember that many of the structure you are seeing are a few centuries older than the US is !
As for the steps to the river, they served 2 main purposes, 1) so people that fall in to the river can get out and 2) so the weavers can more easily get their buckets of water. This being centuries before plumbing of any type.
Used to live in the Cotswolds in a place called Chipping Campden. If a place has chipping in it, it was a market town. There is a stone market hall from the 14th century still in use!
Was just there last summer…….beautiful
The city of Bath is magnificent too. The whole city is architecturally stunning and is a Unesco world heritage site.
I love watching your videos as it’s like seeing things through different eyes. We can often take for granted the beauty we are blessed with
Always good to be a member of the National Trust and English Heritage.... Well worth it
Hello ladies! To answer Debbie's question, the steps by the river at Castle Combe were to allow the weavers to fill their buckets with the water they needed
in the felting process. They were also used to load finished cloth onto shallow-draught boats as the roads back then were, at best, muddy tracks. They're
still just as winding and narrow but reasonably solid. I'm really enjoying your travel series because it so clearly shows what a huge range of different types
of scenery we have in a relatively small area. BTW, Natasha, our fish and chips are pretty good almost everywhere because the fish is fresh. Nowhere is more
than 70 miles (2-3 hours drive) from the sea. Love and best wishes from chilly England........................................aE.
Part 2 seems to have the place I went to a few years ago, Bourton-on-the-Water, considering that's where the motor museum is (which houses children's TV icon Brum the car). The River Windrush flows through the village and is gentle and shallow enough in parts for children to paddle in. When I visited on a lovely summer's day, there were little kids standing in the river with their jeans rolled up to their knees, doing toy boat races. We went to the Kingsbridge pub and were lucky to get some outdoor seating overlooking the river, and it was absolutely idyllic. They have some amazing beer-battered fish and chips, and we enjoyed some nice cider along with it (cider in the UK is alcoholic, btw, and usually drank in the summer).
PS the fish in fish and chips is usually cod, and it's safe to assume that's what it is unless specifically stated otherwise. Just a heads up!
steps are for collecting water for felt making
Wow I grew up in the cotswolds and I got to bidbury quiet often it’s a beautiful little village with a really beautiful garden and pub would recommend visiting this place
There must be about 50 pubs which claim to be the "oldest in England" - My personal favourite is Nottingham's "Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem" - built into the cliffs below Nottingham Castle
Agreed, I live down the road and go in there every time I go into Nottingham
I see this often. My choice would be a pub close to a golf course in Yorkshire, where I once worked, In the guinness book of records as the oldest, DATING FROM BETWEEN 905-53: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bingley_Arms
The Dolphin in Derby is really old, nicer than the Trip
I have never "binge -watched" anything in my life but I have binge-watched you, both, tonight - well done and thank you - congratulations - great entertainment x
I wat to revisit the Cotswolds and view it thorough Natasha and Debbie's eyes.
the steps into the river were for the weavers to collect the water needed for the felting process on the wool.
That wall and steps are modern. They were built for the making of the film Dr Doolittle. Prior to the making of that film it was an ordinary grassy river bank. I remember the film being made, I lived there.
@@christinetownsend1205 Wow!
@@christinetownsend1205 Ok, but I live in the Cotswolds and we have those steps in the river near me...
@@christinetownsend1205 That is not true!
To get out if you fall in
I have lived and worked in the Cotswolds for the last couple of decades and even the villages and countryside I travel to the most like Compton Abdale are still impress me with their beauty
First time in commenting and I have to say I absolutely adore you both. I am English born and bred and I love my country good or bad, I have lived and worked all over the place from Spain to Greece Germany and I have travelled extensively I have family who live in Australia and New Zealand and I love Egypt which is my favourite place to visit because Egyptian history is my passion. I have gone to Japan, Singapore and Thailand but no matter where I go or how beautiful these countries are I will always come home.
I live in a small village in Norfolk. I can not drive but I can use the train and in 30 minutes I am in Ely then Cambridge then London or I can change trains in Cambridge and go to Liverpool Manchester opposite direction is Norwich. I am surrounded by stately homes. We have castles and castle ruins, were re-enactments used to take place until the pandemic. Royal residences Sandringham house which is owned outright by the Queen but all the grounds are open to the public and so is part of the house for an entrance fee that is then put back into the estate. Prince William and Kate also have a home here as to some movie stars and yes they mingle with us because we leave them alone their just people and because they don't act like prats we treat them with respect and if we see the press hanging around we soon clear them out. one such person was Johnny Depp.
Hunstanton a beautiful seaside which is also the only place that the Sun sets in the East. We have the Norfolk Broads we also have 2 American military bases near us as well as our own. London until the pandemic my daughter and I used to hit twice a month in winter and Summer. I love London. We have beautiful areas all over but for me The Lake District and the Yorkshire Moors are outstanding.
In our closets town we have Tudor Buildings still standing. It fills me with horror when I see all the damage been done to statues and monuments trying to erase history and you can't no toppling of a statue is going to change what happened.
Nice letter, although I prefer the dales (see debby and natasha, too) in Yorks, to the moors, but it's a matter of taste.
Lived in places like this all my life. Now turning 50, Burford is the next village to me I've been lucky to be a country girl
Mum was from Wales my dad was from Cornwall, and yet I've never been to the Cotswolds !! I'm ashamed!! Virtually passed it every time we went to Devon and Wales. Mind you, Devon and Wales are spectacular too.
Guys, if you like this kind of thing (which you obviously do) watch a video about Lavenham, the most beautiful village in the UK. I know that's quite a claim, but check it out and you'll see why...
TBF we got hamlets like that dotted everywhere in the Uk = you should watch the video in the summer time = the whole place will be in bloom and you will see fields full of wild flowers
Natasha, aunt Linda would love St Ives in Cornwall, it's well known for all its artists, there are many studios and art shops there. On Sunday 7 September 2014, St Ives had a ceremony to make St Ives and Laguna Beach, California, US sister cities. Clovelly in north Devon would be a good place for you to look at.
I am convinced we have the ancient experiences of our ancestors encoded within our DNA, that tie us to our past; I fee that those memories, instincts, feelings are awakened when we enter or see the ancient spaces of our ancestors.
Your videos have rekindled my love for my country. I am really excited to see the other countries you explore, places I have never seen, with your wounderful humour.
4:40 A little useless trivia about Castle Combe: in the late 1960s, one of the big movie studios constructed a huge dam in preperation for a movie. So controvertial was this move that one individual - an SAS soldier by the name of Ranulph Fiennes - blew it up with spare explosives that he'd signed for! He was later RTU'd (Returned To Unit) for this. But he went on to become a famous polar explorer.
All I can say is when you come to the UK, you'll have to stay a long, long time in order to see everything..........But it'll be worth it!
Great video and thank you.
The Minack Theatre on the cliffs of Cornwall is a must !
Great,just home from work so watching with a cuppa in hand,the Cotswolds are lovely but my favourite place is Oxford ,I love the old architecture and just everything about it
Lovely video 😊 the Cotswolds villages are just beautiful! please do part 2 as well sometime. i would also love to see Cornwall or Devon videos too.
I live in Worcestershire and every week my husband and I go out for a day and explore, we always manage to find somewhere different, a village, a medieval painted church, ancient bridges, forests, rivers, stunning views. You could pick any county and spend a lifetime exploring. I would recommend you have a look at Yorkshire next, the Cotswold stone you love is similar to York stone used in Yorkshire buildings, and there is scenery as breathtaking as the Lake District. Whitby is possibly the most famous town in Yorkshire and always worth a visit.
that little rivers great in summer, it gets quite warm and loads of people paddle in it, The steps are there from when the workers were there
Your reactions are just wonderful. As an Englishman it does make me proud of our country. I hope that you get to see it in person at some time.
We certainly do too!
Yes...always very welcome...and I'd love to see New England...more spectacular comparable beauty
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow please react to a vidoe about York
We already have!
Hi Ladies , another amazing video , i love laughing along with you on these episodes it really brightens my day , have been to the Cotswolds and believe it or not its even better than the video . Debbie your a scream , so funny . where on earth do you get your toys lol . Lots of love .
Another great video I love your reaction to the cars driving on the correct side of the road.
For travel Wednesday try the village of Portmeirion in Wales, it was used as a location for the 1960s tv show the prisoner, my parents stayed there in one of the properties on vacation 💕
I agree, absolutely stunning village.
I recommend checking out Derbyshire, where you will find most of the Peak District National Park, as well as the stately homes of Chatsworth House and Hardwick Hall.
As a Derbyshire lass, I agree. Keep saying to check out the crooked spire too x
Derbyshire is beautiful. So many stately homes, Chatsworth is breathtaking, Hardwick Hall, Haddon, Kedleston Hall. Both Chatsworth and Kedleston were used in the movie The Duchess staring Keran Knightley.
I'm very lucky to live close by the cotswolds, and this was my delivery route, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire countryside, always thought they paid me to go sightseeing, great videos, keep it up.
Thank you! ❤️
There was a very popular archaeology TV series called Time Team, they did a special in Nottingham as we have three pubs that claim to be the oldest in England - they tried to determine which is the oldest. I think it’s on RUclips.
The Old Trip is still my favourite as it’s built into the caves under Nottingham Castle (which isn’t exactly a castle as you’d think of it, but still)
I’ve been there. Loved it.
Nottingham did have a proper castle but the royalists burnt it down in the civil war. Read that Edward the third and a group of men used the tunnels to gain entry to the castle to capture his mother Isabelle and her lover mortimer. They had murdered his father and were basically running the country with the young Edward as a puppet king. Mortimer was killed and Isabelle was kept under house arrest.
So many different places in the UK to visit, live near the peak district but I love places all over the world.
Great video ladies. The Cotswolds are lovely, but there are equally beautiful places in Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire too. As for oldest pub, there is a pub called Olde Trip to Jerusalem circa 1187. It's undeneath Nottingham castle in a cave. If you ever go to Nottingham city you must visit the pub. Its so atmospheric.
I have been in one near the Yorkshire golf course where I once worked and in the Guinness book of records, as the Bingley arms and extant since 905!
The steps were for access to get water for the weavers originally. The Ring of Kerry is stunning
Great video girls. I’m born and Breed in Chipping Norton. Not far from Burford. Attended that beautiful church many times. Spent many happy hours at Burford wildlife park.. I now live in North Wales and lucky to enjoy the beautiful surroundings here too which are equally stunning. Your right in what you say we do take places where we live for guaranteed and stop to view its beauty. . Take a look at Blenheim Palace. In Woodstock birth of Winston Churchill. . Well done On another great reaction vid. X
The steps were used for many things. They were used by the felt makers as they collected water before they heated it and washed the wool before it was turned into felt. They are many hundreds of years old.
So, having watched the 2nd video where they covered all my suggestions (Bourton on water, Moreton in Marsh and Broadway) I will leave it up to the rest for their ideas. Another great reaction from you both, keep it up ladies.
Castle Coombe is 5 miles down the road. It is beautiful. On a race day the sounds from the racetrack next door makes makes for quite an odd feeling.
Devon and Cornwall are pretty places with narrow winding roads that keep them off the tourist trail. there are large estate gardens pretty seaside villages, Clovelly with its narrow street, get out at the top car park walk down and catch the small jeep from by the pub at the bottom.
I live 8 miles away from Castle Combe….it is very beautiful! We are so lucky in this area as we have the city of Bath and beautiful villages just everywhere 😍. I was born and have lived in the Cotswolds all my life and my ancestors before me for many centuries - you could say it’s in my blood! It’s so sweet to see your reaction as it makes us local people appreciate it all the more 🧡💚🧡💚🇬🇧🇬🇧
I'm surprised that nobody mentions Castle Combe race circuit...kind of funny to have this quaint little peaceful village, then have motor racing taking place less than a mile away...
@@Penguin_of_Death - I think somebody did on another comment somewhere….
Natasha and Debbie just come to England 👍😃🏴
Highly recommend any video on youtube by the memory seekers. Lovely to see your enthusiasm for the Cotswolds. We are so lucky to live in a very beautiful and varied country!
We visit the Cotswolds for weekend breaks a few times a year as it’s less than 2 hours drive. I forget just how wonderful it is … thanks for refreshing my view through your eyes x
I’ve been to the Cotswolds many times, I love it, we have booked Bourton on the water for June this year, can’t wait. Other beautiful places to visit are Northumberland and the Yorkshire Dales xx
I went there yesterday very busy as it was a sunny day.
Love the energy today :D the chipper moods and beautiful smiles cheered me up; thank you.
Great to see your reaction to the villages and countryside . I have lived in. This area all my life and forget how lucky I am to have all this around me .
Yayy... my home region... the Cotswolds. I now live in the East of england but have family there. I spent my youth cycling miles around the beautiful contryside.
Great reaction to The Cotswolds!
As someone who's lived here my entire life is really interesting to see other people's reactions. I'm a photographer based in Gloucestershire and for five years of my career, I was one of the photographers for Cotswold Life magazine so spent my days driving across the region photographing the area and people who live and work here.
However, just as visiting London isn't seeing the UK, Castle Combe, Bourton-on-the-Water, Bibury etc are incredibly touristy areas especially if you visit in the summer. At any one time, Bourton-on-the-Water, which looks like it's in part two of this video, has something like five times the number of tourists than it does residents and can at times be like walking around a theme park!
Don't get me wrong, these areas of the Cotswolds are incredibly picturesque and worth a visit but it's also worth taking a drive (if you can overcome your fears!) getting lost for a day or two. There are literally hundreds of tiny villages and hamlets here as the Cotswolds covers something like 750 square miles, so there's always something new to see with many a village pub or tea house along the way.
P.S. If you don't feel like driving on the left I'll happily be your taxi for the week!
I always loved the photographs in Cotswold Life magazine.
You are 100% correct. Just in my area you can visit Minchinhampton, Uley, Tetbury and 100 more.
I traveled around England (from New Zealand) and was a member of National Trust, honestly there are 100's of places like that manor and garden some way more spectacular. Seriously , they are everywhere. If you are also into castles (English heritage pass) you would need a couple of years travelling around visiting them all.
Go to the Isle of Wight next. We own an Air B&B there called Harbour Cottage. Come visit! 💕
Highly recommend that you visit Broadway,Worcestershire and then go to Broadway Tower.
A gorgeous part of the Cotswolds.
Highclere castle is another place I'm sure you'd find interesting. A famous drama called Downtown Abbey was filmed there.
My daughter lives and works in the Cotswolds so I visit there quite often. It really is beautiful 😊
In England the default for fish and chips is Cod. In Scotland it is Haddock.
I literally live a 10 minute drive from Castle Combe. I also have the villages of Biddestone and Lacock near me which are beautiful too. The city of Bath is a 20 minute drive from me. My home town of Corsham has a stately home (Corsham Court) and we had our own Lord who owned it but he sadly passed away, probably 20 years or so ago and the house is now owned by his relatives. We have many Peacocks 🦚 that roam the town and live in Corsham Court. If you both come and visit, I would be more than happy to be your tour guide 😊
Well that's surreal, seeing your part of the world on a reaction. I'm watching you, snug as a bug from my Cotswold bed.
Hi guys, this is where I live and quite often pop up to Bibury (and the trout farm which he didn’t mention) and it is far more beautiful than the video actually shows. My offer to show you guys around still stands if you want a Cotswold personal tour, however I would recommend that you come April - Aug with June and July being the best times.
Ahh my brother lives near here I think. Can't wait to visit him and check out a cool place called Puzzlewood.
Plenty of old ancient ruins of all kinds too which adds a super old school magical kingdom kind of vibe 😳
Puzzle Wood is absolutely amazing, really magical place
Thank u 4 the shout out. And Debbie u got my surname spot on. Most don't. So thank you again. Lovely video. Never been to Cotswolds but knew from various TV shows. As u can guess it costs loads to buy a home there. Love 2 u guys.😁💕
What you will love about britain, not just the old buildings, but the fact that depending where you are, different types of stone was used in different areas.
If you planning to visit the cotswolds, I would recommend you visit the city of Bath, which is not too far away and lovely.
Good video,I see Debbie's eyes when you saw the English candy
Have you both tried English sweets(candy)
I love your white chocolate cookie hershie bars
We call them sweets
Think she has a sweet tooth?
House Prices in Cotswolds
Properties in Cotswolds had an overall average price of £424,675 over the last year.
The majority of sales in Cotswolds during the last year were detached properties, selling for an average price of £598,733. Semi-detached properties sold for an average of £361,945, with terraced properties fetching £348,620.
Overall, sold prices in Cotswolds over the last year were 7% up on the previous year and 15% up on the 2019 peak of £369,100.
Hi Natasha and Debbie as always love your videos. The Cotswolds is lovely. Try my home county of Suffolk, some lovely Tudor towns/villages, different style to the Cotswolds. Also north Essex, lovely villages. Look forward to your next video. We are one of over 50 odd countries that drive on the left, I’ve driven on the right a few times and you get used to it very quickly 😎 take good care x
Your reaction is lovely and truly enjoyed watching. Thank you for sharing
I could watch you both all day the way you like things and say things so much fun.
Many of the older churches in England owe many of their most impressive features to the Black Death. When the plague swept through Europe and England in the Middle Ages millions died. When the plague ended there was an acute shortage of labour. So those that survived were able to demand higher wages. Many then donated a part of that increase to their local Churches. When visiting these Churches it is not uncommon to find the faces of those who donated in the stained glass windows so they could be remembered. Also when visiting it is worth taking either binoculars or zoom lenses because the finest work is often at the top of the Church because people were trying to impress God much more than their fellow citizens with their donations.
I think you would love Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. Its a beautiful palace and the grounds are fantastic. Its where Sir Winston Churchill was born.
I moved to the Cotswolds from the Yorkshire Dales both utterly stunningly beautiful regions in there own right. You should see them both in their full glory just before the back end of spring in May or summer months when it’s gets warm to hot in June, July or August. They are the most gorgeous villages & Towns in the U.K. I think, and I’ve been to a lot of them all over the British isles because of my job as a lorry (truck) driver, now retired. Of cause there are the moor villages in the North Yorkshire moors area which is a national park and has some of the most wild and beautiful land scenery in the U.K. I visit a friend in a town called Helmsley in north east England which is another typical English village town and really pretty in the Cleveland hills which is north of Yorkshire. The river tees has some beautiful scenery near High Force Water falls that feeds the river too. I hope you pay us a visit to the U.K. this summer sometime because your very welcome to the United Kingdom.
for the first 6 years of my married life, i lived in a 350 year old cotswold stone cottage in Sapperton, outside of Cirencester in Gloucestershire. definitely a 'chocolate box' place. it had its drawbacks, a kitchen the size of most half baths...no central heating in the first year and difficult access being some of them. but it certainly was q=an experience. ive lived in the cotswolds now for 38 years and although i love many other parts of the country, this is my home. if part two doesnt visit Cirencester, the capital of the cotswolds...then its a crime! my first love, its is stunning, all my children grew up there and they love it too.
Love Sapperton
@@monza1002000 it has its downside...not nice in the snow...but yes we were lucky
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We got snowed in at the pub and needed a tractor to tow to the main road! Pub is now more of a restaurant 🤨
@@monza1002000 i lived just round the corner lol. Its always been a gastro pub
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No it wasn't. How long have you lived there?
Love this video and your reaction. Also so glad you love the Cotswolds. I live there not far from Castle Combe and Dyrham Park (walked past it on our Christmas walk). My village was built in the 1200, not on the tourist trail but so beautiful and I genuinely feel so lucky to live here. Originally from Edinburgh but definitely feel at home here. So hope you get to visit one day. So so many beautiful places to visit. Must visit out local town Chipping Sodbury 👍.
Hey ladies
The cotswolds are amazingly beautiful. There is an issue with the rich and famous though buying 2nd or 3rd homes in some of these places and forcing locals out of the house market.
Debbie the National Trust Charity looks after a huge number of former wealthy estates and mansions that have been left to them. They look after them and open them up to the public. The UK is littered with 16th,17th and 18th century estates that passed to the National trust.
Anywhere in Cornwall is beautiful, some of my favourites are tresco abbey gardens on the Scilly isles, st Ives and St Michael's mount which is a castle in the middle of the sea
What a BEAUTIFUL place!!!! Absolutely gorgeous!! Wow! If I HAD to choose which one to go to....I'd choose the Lake District. I really would want to see Beatrix Potter's farm, the Herwyck sheep & Keswick!! Of course, to visit a tea shop & eat scones!!
Lakes are beautiful ( good for walking holidays and not far from Scotland) and spread over a larger area than the Cotswolds so you need longer to see all of the lake district where as Cotswolds main attractions can be done in a couple of days . If you get to the Lakes go to Bowness and get a day boat ticket for Windemere and travel up and down it's 11 miles stunning scenery on any side
Many many such villages in the UK! Even the smallest have beautiful Churches
and buildings.
The UK is chock a block with these villages and towns. EVERY small village has a
Church hundreds of years old ... and houses the same age !
Debbie, you are becoming more confident I feel it's lovely.
Was just thinking that. 🙂
Thank you both for amazing videos. The view look amazing.
Love your energy guys, you make a real refreshing change on RUclips Reaction channels - thank you so much!
Aw thanks! We appreciate it ❤
Many of our small parish churches are similar to the one in this video. It's just part of our long history. I grew up in a small village of less than 3000 population and it's village church dates back to the Norman conquest of Britain, so around 1066-1070ad. It is grade one listed so its protected as part of our history. It proves that history is everywhere and anywhere you care to look in the UK and is not just in the famous places that are mentioned on all tourist videos such as buck palace, the Tower of London and etc. In many circumstances things like a local village church can have a higher grade listing than a famous touristy building.
We are lucky to be curtain makers covering much of the Cotswolds, so we not only get to make lovely things, but get to spend time in so many of these beautiful homes.
Yeah those are homes, I think one difference in the UK is that old buildings are preserved and used - there’s a cafe in my home town which is in a building from the 1400s, it’s not a museum, there’s no entrance fee, that’s just the building. Whereas sadly in the US most older buildings are torn down to be replaced with strip malls and parking lots - although building protections have improved in various states so hopefully more will be preserved.
My local church was originally built in the 12th century, on a site dating from just after the Norman invasion.
As the saying goes "100 years is old in the US, and 100 miles is a long way in the UK".
@@kevinshort3943 likewise, same for a good proportion of churches - which are often built on sites of earlier Saxon churches. That’s absolutely true
A lot of English market towns were destroyed in the 1960s. Buildings that had lasted since medieval times were torn down to accommodate the car.
If you're coming to the UK, consider getting yourselves a National Trust membership. It will save you loads of money and there are so many beautiful places to see.
You won’t find anywhere more pretty than the Cotswolds. 🥰🥰🥰
Cornwall is pretty damn gorgeous too !!
@@TheCornishCockney - why thank you, kind sir. 🥰
Cornish Maid. Now you have started something! But pretty buildings, scenery, what?
@@cornishmaid9138 I live on Bodmin moor,my neighbours are wild horses and long horned cattle.Although a Londoner,I wouldn’t live anywhere else.
@@TheCornishCockney - Cornwall is full of little gems just waiting to be discovered. I’m pleased you love it.
Centuries ago, most freight would be moved by barge so I would imagine you can dock boats there. The Cotswolds are like walking into a novel like pride & prejudice or sense and sensibility or what have you. I hope I get back there again one day.
The water is too shallow and the bridges are too low to allow any freight to be carried on the water. All of the finished cloth would be transported by horse and cart or even by pack-horse. The carter’s would have brought other goods in to the area so that they didn’t have an unloaded trip.
The steps into the brook are called waterman stairs and were used to pick up or drop off people and things on rivers that fluctuate in depth on a regular basis.
Yes, actually there are villages ( and particularly hamlets ) throughout England that don`t even have street lighting. So when it gets dark, its pitch black. I remember visiting such a place in East Yorkshire a few years ago - for work purposes. I noticed, as the sun began to set, that there were no lamp posts in the street. I mentioned this to my client who said that the Local Authority moved to install street lights, and the residents of the hamlet / village would hear none of it. They flatly refused to have street lighting imposed upon them - and good for them. All the more quaint the lights that burn inside the homes.
Speaking as a village resident
STREETLIGHTS!
Safety, not sanctimony, some of us have kids!
Lovely video as always. The cotswolds are one of many jewels in the crown we have in the UK. Not sure if you watched a link to the cotswolds on your face book messenger page last week. If not this video will give you a good idea how beautiful the area is.
Next week on Travel Wednesday search for videos of Devon and Cornwall. The counties have such wonderful Scenery small villages with Thatched cottages. Small coves all around the coast with white Sandy beaches and turquoise seas. Wonderful working fishing harbours. I have a holiday home on the North coast of Cornwall which is why I love the place.
Love your reaction to our wonderful heritage. ❤️
I love the way you appreciate my lovely little county and the UK too. We take a lot of what we have in the UK for granted, as we are use to seeing it every day. I am so proud of the UK and thank you for your appreciation of my home country. This is such a beautiful Island and a history to go with it. Love your videos.
One of our favourite places to go, spent many a weekend in Castle Combe. The best place to relax and recharge.
Hi from South Yorkshire, another equally beautiful part of the Green Fields of England,
It's not especially noted for its green fields though!
Where I live in barnsley, yorkshire there’s a place called Worsbrough mill and this was mentioned in the 1086 domesday book and is still a working mill to this day it’s also a museum and backs on to the local reservoir, my kids love to walk inside the mill especially when they are making flour as the workers talk to them about the history ect
The Lake District definitely had more to offer than the video you chose so you might need a do-over. The Cotswolds are one of the areas I haven't explored too much as I tend to head for outdoors and long walks/hiking trips but after watching this I might visit the next time we have some semi-decent weather. For your next stop Cornwall could be a good choice... The places I know people love (but I take for granted) would be Bath, Frome, Glastonbury and Wells which are all in the Somerset area.
It always looks picture perfect but I would always recommend going there in the summer because seeing the trees and flowers in bloom make all these areas look overwhelmingly stunningly and beautiful. I remember the first time I saw these properties framed with lush trees and flowers. It was jaw dropping. It’s like stepping into the pages of a fairytale book.
I used to live 10 Mins from Castle Coombe and have visited may times, its even more lovely than in the film