BEYOND THE MANOR - A very BRITISH country ESTATE TOUR

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  • Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
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Комментарии • 130

  • @CathyMiller0711
    @CathyMiller0711 5 месяцев назад +28

    I enjoyed this SO much. What a beautiful place! I can't get over how emerald green the grass is. I'd love to see the exclosure machine at work. Thanks for this tour.

    • @lianefehrle9921
      @lianefehrle9921 5 месяцев назад +1

      Most Europe is that color. They do a lot of recycling and environmental work all over Europe

    • @CathyMiller0711
      @CathyMiller0711 5 месяцев назад

      @@lianefehrle9921 I watch a lot of French chateau videos and it doesn't seem to be as brilliant green as that part of England though.

    • @PLuMUK54
      @PLuMUK54 5 месяцев назад +3

      ​@CathyMiller0711 A few years ago, a friend came to see me from Spain. It was February, and everywhere I took him, he commented on how green everywhere was. I suppose that I'd always taken it for granted, and it took a visitor to open my eyes.
      We generally have mild winters in my part of England, so the grass is not frost damaged. Most years, I have roses in bloom on Christmas Day.

    • @CathyMiller0711
      @CathyMiller0711 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@PLuMUK54 What a treat to have roses on Christmas Day!

    • @lisalking2476
      @lisalking2476 5 месяцев назад

      Closest I get in Michigan USA 🇺🇸 to rose's on Christmas day is a Christmas cactus with red blooms 🌵 😅😅😅 I love how beautiful your landscapes are ❤

  • @donnabaardsen5372
    @donnabaardsen5372 5 месяцев назад +10

    Absolutely gorgeous, Luke. How blessed you are to live at and oversee Mapperton, as are we as you share it with us!

  • @Andrea-ig2wo
    @Andrea-ig2wo 5 месяцев назад +18

    What an enjoyable video with Luke! Beautiful countryside, thank you for taking us along 😁 🚲

  • @PLuMUK54
    @PLuMUK54 5 месяцев назад +6

    Plague pits are surprisingly common in England (I don't know about the rest of the UK).
    I live on what used to be fields outside the village. The road was originally called Black Pit Lane, a reference to the supposed site of the burial pit of the victims of the Black Death of the Fourteenth Century.
    Local legend has it that my house was built on the mound above that pit. Certainly, my back garden is half a metre higher than everyone else's.
    The village was definitely here at the time of the Black Death. At the time, there was no church, the villagers would have walked about two kilometres to the next village. As a result, there was no burial ground in the village, and, like the Mapperton example, the inhabitants of the village with the church would not have wanted plague victims transported there. If it was a burial pit, then it was certainly in an isolated part of the village, well away from the main routes through the area and beyond the woods surrounding the manor house.
    When I was younger, I used to dismiss the legend. I assumed that my garden had just been the spot where builders' rubble had been dumped. However, when constructing a fish pond, which was about one and a half metres deep, there was no sign of any rubble. Perhaps I should have continued digging - who knows what I'd have found.

  • @jillorca
    @jillorca 5 месяцев назад +3

    Dear Luke, that you had such a wonderful outdoor adventure, is really the cherry on top of the Unmissable Tour. Thank you so much for taking us around with you today 😊

  • @waltercook4868
    @waltercook4868 5 месяцев назад +17

    Love your discussions on British pastoral developments. Please, keep up the great work! I would love to see that machine which sets fence posts and wire in operation. I've never seen anything like it!

  • @debbiemilan2867
    @debbiemilan2867 5 месяцев назад +8

    What stunning views everywhere you go!

  • @mysticmimi3924
    @mysticmimi3924 5 месяцев назад +2

    WOW Luke just incredible. We just can’t imagine the vast lands that you have to manage. What an incredible responsibility and beautiful absolutely stunning. Thank you for touring your wonderful home and lands with us via your bike ride.

  • @cgmchan23
    @cgmchan23 5 месяцев назад +1

    This absolutely beautiful! There is so much you could do with your land. For the 5 farms you could restore them and turn them into research facilities where you could have various projects to restore and repair your buildings, land, and provide learning opportunities to students.

  • @Ana-oc5ip
    @Ana-oc5ip 5 месяцев назад +3

    Wow Luke, I love this tour please do this again throughout the seasons changes. I really enjoyed it and could feel your love and enthusiasm for the land. ❤

  • @janetdoten4489
    @janetdoten4489 5 месяцев назад +9

    This tour was awesome! So much to see and history learn. Beautiful waterfall! Thanks for sharing

    • @dinahakim7114
      @dinahakim7114 5 месяцев назад

      What a beautiful estate I’d love to come and visit and stay in the English cottage that by far is probably the best rest restoration that you guys have ever done

  • @ej12349
    @ej12349 5 месяцев назад +4

    Your family property is beautiful and vast! Have you considered renting/leasing out the 5 farms to inspiring farmers/goat ranchers or to the local schools/universities for agricultural/farming projects?

  • @worldcapers
    @worldcapers 5 месяцев назад +2

    What stunning countryside. So beautiful. Thank you Luke for this beautiful bike tour.😊

  • @patriciararick3245
    @patriciararick3245 5 месяцев назад +6

    Wonderful presentation. Absolutely lovely countryside.

  • @rebphil1254
    @rebphil1254 5 месяцев назад +2

    I very much enjoy watching these tours. I think it’s some of my favorite videos, because it shows the beauty of the land.

  • @kristiLB93
    @kristiLB93 5 месяцев назад +1

    Wow. The landscape is just incredible! It reminds me of my homesate of Pennsylvania. I think it would be very fulfilling to be a caretake of land like that. Hard work. But fulfilling. Great tour, Luke!

  • @Ceelle2
    @Ceelle2 5 месяцев назад +2

    One of the best videos so far on the channel. Nicely done.

  • @longwaytotipperary
    @longwaytotipperary 5 месяцев назад +2

    What lovely scenery!! I hope Luke wasn’t hurt badly from his fall off the bike! Have the beavers come back?

  • @marciaharmon1513
    @marciaharmon1513 5 месяцев назад +2

    suggestion: tilt the camera on your head up so we can see more of the view in front of you instead of the tire. Great video and I enjoyed it

  • @carolbraidwood305
    @carolbraidwood305 5 месяцев назад +2

    This is so beautiful! Thankyou for taking us on this tour! You are doing such an amazing job with the rewilding and looking after the buildings.

  • @lisalking2476
    @lisalking2476 5 месяцев назад +1

    What a ride Luke you must be exhausted 😩 I just love watching you and Julie ❤ thank you for the tour 😊

  • @AtlantaGarden
    @AtlantaGarden 5 месяцев назад +7

    Oh, thank you for the lovely tour of that beautiful countryside! Some of us can't get outside as much in the dead of winter, and this is a welcomed video ❤
    And, never saw a machine like that for putting in poles and fencing - very interesting.

  • @ruthmiller8919
    @ruthmiller8919 5 месяцев назад +3

    Hi all from Springfield Missouri Happy New Year

  • @regina3743
    @regina3743 5 месяцев назад +4

    Beautiful ride, Luke! Thanks for taking us along!

  • @cjp592
    @cjp592 2 месяца назад

    What great fun. You get your exercise in while doing business and enjoy the country side and record content. I mean that bike accomplishes those 4 things easily. 🥰👏👏💯

  • @rodfleck
    @rodfleck 5 месяцев назад +3

    Really enjoy Saturday mornings with these lives in the background.

  • @sylviaroberts5936
    @sylviaroberts5936 5 месяцев назад +5

    I love this, so interesting and informative , it looks a beautiful place 😍

  • @lindafrank8277
    @lindafrank8277 5 месяцев назад +6

    Luke- cut the ivy, it will die & be easier to take down.

    • @ellenanthony8017
      @ellenanthony8017 Месяц назад

      SOmetimes this works, sometimes the ivy cling-ons can gather enough nutrients from the wall to continue to live. I wonder about goats? Would they kill it? Also pulling the live ivy can cause a lot of damage to the wall.

  • @lynndixonsilva9961
    @lynndixonsilva9961 5 месяцев назад +4

    Thanks for the bicycle tour ~ amazing views!

  • @nancycolbert2703
    @nancycolbert2703 5 месяцев назад +2

    That is an amazing bike Luke. Thank you for the tour of your incredible estate. You certainly have your hands full with all the new projects discovered.

  • @eddie97504
    @eddie97504 5 месяцев назад +2

    Stunning scenery and a beautiful day. Thank you for the tour and the update on the re-wilding efforts.

  • @sharongaines3043
    @sharongaines3043 5 месяцев назад +1

    We have wild deer around us and a 4ft fence at the lowest point and the deer still grace us with there visits. My hubby said a second fence at a lower height puts them off jumping. 😮
    We see them often when we close our gate in the open field opposite.
    We live in France

    • @sharongaines3043
      @sharongaines3043 5 месяцев назад

      I did love your tour, im glad you done as I was quite worn out after.
      Thats another project for a cottage. 😁

  • @ThePinkPfeiffer
    @ThePinkPfeiffer 5 дней назад

    I really loved this video!! Thank you Luke

  • @reinapearse9111
    @reinapearse9111 5 месяцев назад

    OMW such Mountain Bikers envy we have now. Gorgeous video. Can venture out happily more often 👍

  • @lisalking2476
    @lisalking2476 5 месяцев назад

    Curiosity woundering how many hours this tour took you riding??? Whew! Love how you enjoy your property and how thankfull you are to be its care taker ❤

  • @janepomfret
    @janepomfret 5 месяцев назад

    One of my favourite episodes. Please can you offer mountain bike tours of the estate?

  • @willem4190
    @willem4190 5 месяцев назад

    This was wonderful! Thoroughly enjoyed it; what a beautiful estate 🌳!

  • @HerAeolianHarp
    @HerAeolianHarp 5 месяцев назад

    Really wonderful balance of journeying and history. This was splendid.

  • @annchisholm2258
    @annchisholm2258 5 месяцев назад

    That was quite the tour of Mapperton. Brilliant! Thank you

  • @spongebobsqueeze
    @spongebobsqueeze 5 месяцев назад

    What an enormous estate and responsibility. I cannot even imagine the multitude of tasks that need to be seen to daily without a bank full of free money and a small army to lend a hand. Congratulations on your socially acceptable mental health. If it were me I would be…not socially acceptable. Lol.

  • @ladysparkymartin
    @ladysparkymartin 5 месяцев назад

    That was excellent and so interesting! Thank you!

  • @annamclaughlin5941
    @annamclaughlin5941 3 месяца назад

    Beautiful countryside!!😊

  • @blakehahn-atlantaga8510
    @blakehahn-atlantaga8510 5 месяцев назад

    That was fantastic! I would so love to bike your estate!! Please do this again! 😊

  • @luciaroslingshaw2112
    @luciaroslingshaw2112 5 месяцев назад +1

    I need that bike!

  • @brittaw660
    @brittaw660 5 месяцев назад

    Lovely tour, Luke! Thank you for that! I really want to exercise outside now 😊

  • @christinayoung6796
    @christinayoung6796 5 месяцев назад

    ❤ awesome video! Thank you Luke for the wonderful tour!

  • @judithmiller5195
    @judithmiller5195 5 месяцев назад

    Wonderful tour!

  • @librarynan4610
    @librarynan4610 5 месяцев назад

    You need to put a basket on that bike so you can carry a thermos and snacks! And dry socks!

  • @jenny4184
    @jenny4184 5 месяцев назад +2

    What a delightful tour! More, please!!

  • @ames0596
    @ames0596 5 месяцев назад

    Wonderful tour! Thank you Luke !

  • @yellowboot6629
    @yellowboot6629 5 месяцев назад

    Thank'YOU ❣️❣️

  • @jolombardi1391
    @jolombardi1391 5 месяцев назад

    Loved this episode Luke on the bike

  • @maryenglish9314
    @maryenglish9314 5 месяцев назад +1

    Hi from Kansas City Missouri

  • @susanfoster4303
    @susanfoster4303 5 месяцев назад

    So much fun loved it

  • @charmainejfritz
    @charmainejfritz 5 месяцев назад

    nice tour luke!

  • @spalmer4609
    @spalmer4609 5 месяцев назад

    This was brilliant! Thanks, Luke.

  • @wendy-moore
    @wendy-moore 5 месяцев назад

    Enjoyed that. Thank you!

  • @carolynpredmore5153
    @carolynpredmore5153 5 месяцев назад +1

    The views are beautiful. When you started 2023 tourist season you wanted 30,000 visitors. How did you do?

    • @PLuMUK54
      @PLuMUK54 5 месяцев назад +1

      I think they answered a comment on a previous video. Numbers were down. The UK has had weather that even we think is bad. Cool. Wet. Cloudy. Windy. I imagine that all tourist sites saw numbers drop.

  • @celiarosser7290
    @celiarosser7290 5 месяцев назад

    Beautiful journey!!!

  • @lynnbfoster
    @lynnbfoster 5 месяцев назад

    Thanks for the tour Luke!

  • @TammyMitchell5
    @TammyMitchell5 5 месяцев назад

    Beautiful!

  • @tracyevans8977
    @tracyevans8977 5 месяцев назад

    Glad you didn't hurt yourself when you went a cropper.

  • @coniwatson9512
    @coniwatson9512 5 месяцев назад

    That was wonderful u

  • @gwenb4531
    @gwenb4531 5 месяцев назад +2

    Have you found the beavers yet?

  • @deirdrecerasa3932
    @deirdrecerasa3932 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you for taking us on a lovely, joyful ride around the estate! ❤

  • @genelane2243
    @genelane2243 5 месяцев назад

    If your green sand is what we use in the US for water treatment you could have a valuable resource there.

  • @mytube-10
    @mytube-10 3 месяца назад

    Interesting trip, thank you!

  • @mynizkatz7465
    @mynizkatz7465 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you for the tour. I love it.

  • @suziesparkle2260
    @suziesparkle2260 Месяц назад

    Enjoyed that! :)

  • @_spartan11796
    @_spartan11796 5 месяцев назад +1

    Gorgeous area

  • @AliWade1971
    @AliWade1971 5 месяцев назад

    I am a new subscriber and booked already. We live on our dairy farm in Pembrokeshire (retiring to a smaller property in the Wye Valley this year). I was lucky to own an Exmoor mare, so excited to see the glimpse of your ponies. Fantastic way to get around the estate. We have a Renault Twizy, which is great for roads/tracks and dry fields. Not so good in mud though 😀. Will watch some older videos to see more of what you do on the estate. My aunt & uncle live in Dorset (near Dorchester), so will definitely p!an a visit to you too.

  • @barbaraknuth8095
    @barbaraknuth8095 5 месяцев назад +1

    Hi from Topeka Kansas. I always love your videos, but this one was really different going from place to place on the estate. I hope you can do this again sometime! Thanks!

  • @waltercook4868
    @waltercook4868 5 месяцев назад +1

    Nice ride. Thanks for sharing! Breathtaking scenery. I must admit, I was rather hoping you'd be trying out one of your son's bike jumps!

  • @Jayhawkga
    @Jayhawkga 5 месяцев назад

    Nice tour. Thanks.

  • @debracole6587
    @debracole6587 5 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for sharing you tour of the countryside. It is absolutely stunning.

  • @kathymcfarland5516
    @kathymcfarland5516 5 месяцев назад

    As I was joining you on your tour, Luke, I kept thinking the best thing to do after this would be a long soak in a bathtub! I am sitting here watching the snow fall, the second dusting of the season, thinking, 'waterfall? THAT'S not a waterfall!!,' because I am about 50 minutes from Yosemite Falls here in Northern California! Yosemite Falls is 2,425 feet tall! We'd call your 'fall' 'water over a rock'! Some day, I will get back to England and visit Dorset. All that wonderful green is so pleasing to see! Riding that electric bike looks like great fun, even if the fat tires slip a bit in the wet! More, please! Hope you can do something to stop the deterioration of the stone buildings... would a university want to use those as a teaching examples? What ivy does to mortar and stone? How to shore up a wall that is leaning? How to build on 'green sand'? An engineering professor's dream!

  • @ericrabinowitz6390
    @ericrabinowitz6390 5 месяцев назад +1

    Great stuff, but in my experience, unless English deer are significantly shorter than American deer, don’t be surprised if they just hop over the deer enclosure fences. Also, as a favor, it would be great to tip the go-pro up a bit. That way we could see more of the country through which you are riding and less of the front tire (though it is a pretty cool tire). Are you planning any projects on these disused farm buildings? They are beautiful and seem worth preserving.

    • @PLuMUK54
      @PLuMUK54 5 месяцев назад +1

      That type of fencing is used all over the UK. It works. Perhaps our deer are too laid back to jump. 😁

  • @baddie1shoe
    @baddie1shoe 4 месяца назад

    I like your bike! Nice!!

  • @rowandowland1391
    @rowandowland1391 5 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you Luke for the tour. The countryside is lovely. You must be so pleased with the progress of the restoration project. I am currently looking to purchase an electric bike but my preference is to purchase a model made in either the UK or EU as a way of supporting local manufacturing. I will have to research where Himiway bikes are made.

  • @floydiandreamscapes5145
    @floydiandreamscapes5145 3 месяца назад

    If you were to tell me this video was taken in Vermont I'd believe it. I see why the first English settlers called this place New England.

  • @LSTEdD1
    @LSTEdD1 5 месяцев назад

    A lovely tour of the estate! So nice that you voice your appreciation of It.

  • @susannortham11.11
    @susannortham11.11 5 месяцев назад

    Stunning!

  • @ktjomeyers
    @ktjomeyers 5 месяцев назад

    Do you rent out bikes for people to use on your estate? That would be a fun activity to do. 💗

  • @crossroadschronicles4647
    @crossroadschronicles4647 5 месяцев назад

    Love the tour

  • @Dextamartijn
    @Dextamartijn 5 месяцев назад

    Really enjoyed the tour of the Estate, you guys are doing such a great job.
    Happy new year

  • @rosemariedeschenes7013
    @rosemariedeschenes7013 5 месяцев назад

    Really enjoyed the tour. What a great bike to tour your beautiful estate. Thanks for sharing it with us 😍😘

  • @CarolSilliman
    @CarolSilliman 5 месяцев назад

    Loved the tour, beautiful landscape!!

  • @klezmersue
    @klezmersue 5 месяцев назад

    Thanks for all that info about the bike! :) Bravo Luke! So well done and well said! Looking forward to next time! Glad you are ok, spills can be bad. Thank you so much for doing this!

  • @nlsellers2
    @nlsellers2 5 месяцев назад

    I thoroughly enjoyed this trip. I just got my first electric bike and I didn't realize you could do so much with it. I hope you decide to do it again soon.

  • @brettanymichellelawson-top5197
    @brettanymichellelawson-top5197 5 месяцев назад

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ happy new year

  • @klezmersue
    @klezmersue 5 месяцев назад

    Excellent music choices again! Beautiful!

  • @hl-hu9ep
    @hl-hu9ep 5 месяцев назад

    Paisagens lindas! Gostei muito desse video!

  • @paulettedekock8523
    @paulettedekock8523 5 месяцев назад +1

    Did the beavers survive the storm?

  • @lianefehrle9921
    @lianefehrle9921 5 месяцев назад

    I enjoyed your outing of your estate you so “gracefully” showed us. 😂

  • @toddrobertson8505
    @toddrobertson8505 5 месяцев назад +1

    I loved the tour but didnt really get a sense of directions or how all of the farms related to each other in the landscape. I tried following along on Google maps but was only mildly successful. Is there an estate map online somewhere?

  • @janinepeckham9925
    @janinepeckham9925 5 месяцев назад

    I am amazed at the size of your estate. It’s all so beautiful. Who lives at Marsh Farm housing-staff?

  • @bevleeming6703
    @bevleeming6703 5 месяцев назад

    Hello from London Canada

  • @user-wx4pv4uc1p
    @user-wx4pv4uc1p 5 месяцев назад

    My grandfather who was a carpenter, hated to see ivy on brick or older houses-because he stated it destroyed the brick or the building itself. It is rumored Queen Mary, grandmother, of late Queen Elizabeth II, would tear ivy off buildings and trees if she saw it.

  • @maryquinn1706
    @maryquinn1706 5 месяцев назад

    The skies are beautiful. I saw turquoise, white, blue and amber. The stream is beautiful too. Is it a natural stream?

  • @nanabananafodor4870
    @nanabananafodor4870 5 месяцев назад

    What a great video! How long was the actual trip, and how many km did you travel?