The romance and beauty of Britain is real my friend. There is an Australian KZreadr that lives in England and she said whilst walking round the armoury in the tower of London she realised that fairy-tales are real. I loved that she felt that because that is exactly how i feel and why i love my country so much 🇬🇧🙂 really enjoy your channel

@13aBOC

6 ай бұрын

Yewtube is censoring comments. So it is bollocks,wake up idiots!

Britain isn’t all like this, obviously, but it also IS like this. Particularly in the countryside

There were no Alligators in moats, although there were some quite aggressive goldfish.

@MrDaiseymay

6 ай бұрын

OVER THE YEARS, WE WERE ATTACKED QUITE OFTEN BY FULLY ARMED ''FROGS'.

@Peterraymond67

6 ай бұрын

The worst things in moats was the flushings out of the toilets, it was the nearest thing to a sewer!

@cleopatra5682

6 ай бұрын

There be dragons in them moats me lad 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@stud105

6 ай бұрын

I've been to that castle with the moat. I live in Hastings not far from Bodiam. I can confirm there are 50lb size carp fish in there. Huge buggars, but not life threatening..

@stud105

6 ай бұрын

Probably traps were laid and wet clothes make you heavier so in combat they would be weighed down. Ready to have a medieval sword in the throat.. Standard.

Britain is often romanticised when it’s not being demonised for its history but what you saw was the gorgeous National Parks areas and landscaped gardens. We no longer have swathes of forests or wilderness like the States. I loved visiting the States to head into woodland so vast that you can wander for days without coming to the edge. You have so much varied terrain and wildlife, I think I’ve romanticised North America! I’m proud to be British but I wish we weren’t so densely populated that we no longer have large forests.

If you'd walked around Stourhead you wouldn't say a bird's eye view is better! It's a sublime place.

I live in a village in Gloucestershire which has a manor house which still owns many of the houses and farms, and land. It is quite feudal, but means new building is limited, and rents are kept low as they only want tenants who live full time in the village, not weekenders. It is a living, working village, full of involved people . I love living here.

@marvinc9994

6 ай бұрын

"It is quite feudal" But 'feudal' in a _modern_ sense - and no bad thing: England is - for the most part - more about Evolution than Revolution. Give me a member of the Landed Aristocracy ANY day over a London-based firm of property speculators or (even worse) some jumped-up ex-politician in the House of 'Lords' (yeah, thanks for that, Tony)!

I was born and raised in a small village and I had freedom to walk along the lanes and cross the farmers fields, I now live in a town and want to move back to the place I grew up.

@mothmagic1

6 ай бұрын

I'm with you on that. It's probably why I would rather countryside than seaside at the end of my garden

also hever castle is the best castle in the UK by a long margin. its peak tudor design so ascetically pleasing and not really built for defense, but visually stunning.

@MrDaiseymay

6 ай бұрын

My favourite is Warwick Castle, it's huge, undamaged, and lived in. A typical ''Hollywood '' castle.

@robinhooduk8255

6 ай бұрын

@@MrDaiseymay i had to do a delivery there at 8am on winters morning with heavy fog, and the guy working there was saying someone a ghost the night before, im sure he was winding me up, but still i was creeped out.

I live not far from Bodiam Castle near Hastings in Sussex, love it ... we have 4 old castles nearby and Battle Abbey.

Buildings, Parks, Woodlands etc owned by the National trust are generally open to the public. You pay either a fee per visit, or about £84 as an individual member per year or £140 as a couple. There are discounts for under 25s and children. Membership allows unlimited visits to all National Trust properties when they are open. An individual visit e.g. to Bodiam Castle or Corfe Castle costs £11 as a comparison.

The gardens are actually more stunning from ground level. That's what they were created for and seeing them as they were meant to be appreciated is breathtaking.

Alligators only live in Southern USA and the Yangtze river. As far as I know there are no castles with moats in those areas. You are more likely to find them in water hazards on golf courses.

@pem...

6 ай бұрын

Or having a drunken fight with Florida man in a Walmart carpark puddle 😅

Smoke from the chimneys - The first time i was in the Cotswolds, was one year in late autumn (fall), with all the colours of the leaves, the green grass, and smoke coming from the chimneys of the cottages. Dusk comes earlier in the fall and that also added to the magical touch. The scene was the nearest image of a Magic Kingdom that I can remember, in all my travels round the UK.

no therewere no animals of any description in moats, most toilets would overhung to drop into the moat, they were basically sewerage for the castle, makes sense as to stop people swiming.

You have to come over for a few weeks dude & ypu can fully enjoy your experience. To truly enjoy Britain & Ireland. So you're not rushing about to each place.

I’ve visited three of the castles in this video, St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall and Corfe castle in Dorset while on family holidays, and Bodiam castle in East Sussex which is around an hour’s drive from where I live. I’ve also visited Harlech and Caernarfon castles in Wales. The one I visit regularly is Arundel castle in West Sussex which is about 7 or 8 miles away from my house. We really do take it for granted!

@carltaylor6452

6 ай бұрын

I've been to all of those, too. 🙂 There are some beautiful castle ruins in Scotland, as well - very atmospheric.

I’m pretty confident in saying there were no alligators in moats 😆

@Thursdaym2

6 ай бұрын

Actually they are crocodiles. 😂

@oufc90

6 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@Thursdaym2I don’t think there were any crocs either, however cool it’d be. Imagine how freaked out a sieging army would be seeing these living dinosaurs, although having said that, I doubt they knew the existence of dinosaurs in that era either

I enjoyed your reaction to this video, especially as I once romanticised about the beautiful St Michael's Mount. I now live a few hundred yards away from the causeway and when I look across at the island every day, fog permitting, I still feel the same! 🙂

You can buy membership to the National Trust for £84 per year, which gives you fee entry and parking to over 500 of their properties, including all the places you just saw. So if you ever came over for a decent length of time, it's something to consider, and an incentive to plan different areas to visit.

The Tower of London had a zoo at one point, so there may have been hippos and polar bears swimming in the thames 😅

LOL! Connor, we don't have alligators in England.

Nothing - and I mean, really, absolutely nothing - is more extraordinary in Britain than the beauty of the countryside. Nowhere in the world is there a landscape that has been more intensively utilised - more mined, farmed, quarried, covered with cities and clanging factories, threaded with motorways and railway lines - and yet remains so comprehensively and reliably lovely over most of its extent. It is the happiest accident in history. In terms of natural wonders, you know, Britain is a pretty unspectacular place. It has no alpine peaks or broad rift valleys, no mighty gorges or thundering cataracts. It is built to really quite a modest scale. And yet with a few unassuming natural endowments, a great deal of time and an unfailing instinct for improvement, the makers of Britain created the most superlatively park like landscapes, the most orderly cities, the handsomest provincial towns, the jauntiest seaside resorts, the stateliest homes, the most dreamily spired, castle strewn, cathedral-rich, abbey-bedecked, folly scattered, green wooded, winding laned, sheep-dotted, plumply hedgerowed, well tended, sublimely decorated 50,318 square miles the world has ever known - almost none of it undertaken with aesthetics in mind, but all of it adding up to something that is, quite often, perfect. What an achievement that is. Bill Bryson - The Road to Little Dribbling (more notes from a small island) “This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.” Well known Tudor Playwright.

Castles ! Just up your street Connor 🙂 I'm glad you enjoyed the video.❤ It's no use, you'll have to come to the UK, buy a National Trust subscription and go round all the castles !

Bodiam castle is in the computer game 'farm simulator ' and is on the court farm map👌 shout out 'Scroft'👍

Thank you for your videos Connor, I’m from South West England, loving videos like these. Makes me proud to live here.

One thing you always have to remember is you don't see rubbish from above or when people are touring places. Also, tourists doing vlogs don't go to all the run down, poorer areas of Britain. All the same the historic features of the UK are so awesome. You really must try and watch and react to some of the Time Team videos.

Drones are an absolute Godsend for programmes such as this (and much cheaper than helicopters)! I consider myself - quite literally - one of the luckiest people on the Planet to have been born in the British Isles: anyone who can't sense the MAGIC of these islands needs to get himself off to the nearest Soul Surgeon, for remedial therapy. You can keep your $100,000,000 yachts, your high-performance sports cars, and your gold-plated loos; for MY money (of which I have very little) THIS is REAL wealth!

You are so right, they didn't have drones. We appreciate it a lot more than even they did..

There are two guides by the former Editor of the Times, Simon Jenkins. One is 'Thousand Best Churches' [it doesn't include cathedrals], and the other is called something like 'Thousand Best Stately Homes'. And there are two main institutions who run the stately homes, English Heritage ( or its equivalents in the rest of the UK), which is linked to Government, and the National Trust. ( But some are still owned by their families.) Both of these institutions tend to have good gift shops and tea rooms - never forget the tea rooms - and you can have yearly memberships, which cut down the cost considerably if you're visiting a number of sites. My country really can be very beautiful.

I have learned Connor that you really love castles, and you also love well trimmed grass. Hope one day you can acquire a castle of your own. No, there were not any crocodiles in moats* *centuries before they did not use this word.... the water around a castle was known as "the flood"

@Ionabrodie69

6 ай бұрын

Not in England it wasn’t..🤷‍♀️

Whats really cool is when you visit a Castle and they have mock battles and Jousting competitions (usually put on by an organisation such as "The Sealed Knot".) The Black Knight always makes an appearence.

Connor, if you're going to spend time in the UK and want to visit castles and mansions, it would probably be worth you joining the National Trust as you'd then get both large discounts on entry fees and a list of their properties. They do have some which they rent out for holidays too. There's also English Heritage, Cadw, Historic Scotland, nidirect and other organisations.

We joined the National Trust in 1980 at St Michael’s Mount and have since visited many castles. Particularly enjoyed Bodiam, those in Northumberland and the Welsh borders.

I've just realised why this is such a strange collection of castles, because The National Trust doesn't own any of the big famous castles. Here in Wales, all noteable castles are owned by Cadw (Welsh for Keep)

I think I've mentioned before that I go to Corfe Castle in Dorset loads and those steep slopes you said about sledging down .... well I haven't done that, yet, but rolled down them hundreds of times. I do appreciate where I live so much and have the Jurassic coast next to me too. You can go to both in a day, easily as they are just down the road from each other. If you do ever decide to visit you will be more than welcome ( if you have a spare your or so), to mow my lawns. Smallish one in the front and big one in the back garden. ( only joking), it's because you seem to really like our grass.✌

@emmafrench7219

6 ай бұрын

P.S Don't worry, I'd leave you to it. I've got a son your age with anxiety and he prefers being away from strangers and lots of people too. 😊✌

I tend to find that there are 2 types of people city folk and country folk. In the country section that can be divided into countryside and sea side. I’m a countryside girl who was brought up by the sea. I can see the sea from every room in my house. When I travel the UK I find it extremely beautiful, lush green fields forests and pasture land. What I do miss is the sea, so I’ve moved to an island where I have the best of both worlds and am only 15 min drive from the sea where ever I am. I honestly hand on heart don’t think I could live in a city of any kind. I miss clean fresh air when I go to built up places.

When younger, we used to go sledging from the Copper Horse statue at the top of Windsor Great Park Long walk, the local kids would wait for park staff to go pass in there cars before we continued sledding down the hill. 😂 fond memories

No Alligators in Moats, just a myth!

Bodiam Castle at the beginning is 5 minutes from my old house.

Corfe is typical of Dorset countryside. It's full of rolling hills and deep valleys. It's one of my favourite counties.

Drinking game: take a shot every time Connor mentions the nice grass🤣

Take a look at Leeds Castle in Kent, it's absolutely stunning.

The national Trust has alot of holiday cottages etc for rent as holiday homes some are amazing like light houses, expencive but for you to stay in a cottage older than your country is very doable. I used to live in a house in deepest darkest Shropshire near a castle, and the original part of our house was in thr Dooms day book so it was around before 1066. We had a couple of Canadians stay (family of frends) in the morning we asked did you sleep ok? No they didnt because they were freeked out at how old my bedroom wax, i had never thought about it apart from ducking to get through the door i am 5'2" and I still ducked. It was a stunning room huge beams and tiny window, it had a huge Croch (a thing they did with beams)!!!

Just imagine the Walmart and Target stores you could build in all that wasted space.

I'm from Dorset and grew up in Poole with my mum and in Corfe Mullen with my dad. Used to work at the tea rooms at Corfe Castle with my ex girlfriend 😊

Are you gonna roll around the grass when you come over lol😂😂

If you are in to castles and history these small islands we have our fair share and if you are like me i imagine myself back in those days ,fighting with swords and slaying dragons but that’s enough about my ex wife ?

Alligators were not in moats, they didn't need to be. Those moats were so infected with all sorts or crap if you touched the water it was a potential death sentence.

You’re the most entertaining person on KZread.

Ive been to st michaels mount

Corfe Castle: No, that hill wasn't built up to build the castle on, it's a natural hill, the castle was built there because it was easy to defend. I l8ve 7 miles away from Corfe.

Don't think we had stolen an Alligator in the 13th Century yet. To be fair moat were full of human shit and waste so you wouldn't want to go in anyway

Really enjoyed this one Connor.

Lovely 😊 thanks Connor for reacting to this ❤

Regarding ''GARDENS'', when you are fabulously rich, and own thousands of Acres, having your ''GARDEN Lanscaped , bears absolutely no comparison with a plebs little patch.

Penrhyn Castle in North Wales was built by locals, and they were paid tiny tiny wages, as little as a penny. Many locals still refuse to go there, I think it costs quite a bit to enter. Lord Penrhy owned nearby quaries. Horrible man.

Petworth park is stunning used to take my dogs on walks there

I have walked across to the Mount many times beautiful place to visit ❤

I'm glad this film acknowledges that not all castles are particularly ancient, nor were they all built for defensive purposes, as I get the impression this confuses quite a lot of our American and other friends and visitors! I am in agreement with you Connor - the castle in every little boys' head is surrounded by a water-filled moat and has lots of battlements and towers, from which many a sow had shot many an arrow, in its' day! Caerphilly in South Wales is a particularly memorable one for me as it has the added feature of a part of such a tower leaning outwards as though caused by some explosion near the bottom of the once tall and straight building, as well as a watery moat - and I could hardly believe my eyes when I first saw it - sitting rather incongrously in the middle of this modern Welsh town!! Its unlikely to have been warm enough for alligators to survive in the UK, but the local rat population will most likely have ensured the waters were never very healthy and, if having been in them you didn't die in battle, there's a pretty good chance that Weil's Disease would have got you sooner or later in the absence of any antibiotic medicines! The one you mention looks like it is built on an articial hill probably is exactly that - or a built-up hill anyway. These are called Motte and Bailey Castles, by the way, and are quite an early type that were common around the time of the Norman Invasion in 1066. Another fine example is Clifford's Tower, within the City of York. There is a separate (but related) National Trust for Scotland, which also owns a number of broadly similar properties, estates and villages - and there are other, government agencies that manage many more of the larger ones such as castles and historic palaces and parks - English Heritage, Historic Scotland and their partner agencies covering Wales and Northern Ireland. And many more are privately owned - whether or not they're publicly-accessible. They naturally all use the romanticism to their full advantage: that's what they market and use to attract members of the public as well as tourists, in... And if you happen to live in country or even with a climate that doesn't support what is just unremarkable, everyday scenery to most of us, then I can appreciate that it must be very hard not to be swept away with such false ideas! But that's the beauty of having online friends who live in those places you want to visit, Connor! Alllow some of us to be your guides and see how they all fit into the reality of our everyday lives - or not, as the case might be! Were you familiar with the American TV series "Overlander," at all? Many of the filming locations were in Fife! Check out Dysart Harbour and the Pan ha', Falkland, and Culross, if you want, and see what you recognise!!

I mean, I think I may have seen alligators in moats as an obvious joke in a cartoon or children's picture book, but I've never ever heard of that actually being a thing.

Many of these places are designed according to the earth energy and it really does feel like your in a fairytale when you visit 🙂

We live close to Bodium and walk there often.

I was fortunate to work on the re-roofing of Penrhyn Castle.

Aaaaahh Scunthorpe by moonlight😂😂😂

@alanmawson9601

6 ай бұрын

Yup, looks like 'Spoons is getting classier 😂

Our islands are beautiful honestly nothing to do with history it is history of our green and pleasant lands fabulous

They talked about the national Trust but there is also English heritage and Scottish heritage.who all open places to the public and restored them.

I live about 5 miles from Clitheroe castle.

no, No alligators or crocodiles. Penrhy Castle, built on the fortune made from the local slate quarry, but the workers were paid a pittance for a short life of backbreaking, dangerous work and lived in hovels while the mine owner pandered to his whims and built his castle. That's capitalism for you.Textiles = cloth products predominantly wool but also linen and cotton.

Well Connor, we don't have Alligators here my friend, and as far as I know, never have.

It's not "Dunster-bur Castle"! It's Dunstanburgh Castle in Northumberland, pronounced the normal way: Dunstan-burra".

It would be nice to walk across that grass field

Alligators??? In an English Castle moat?? We don't have Alligators or Crocodiles in England lol.

When you come here don’t go to the village in the Cotswolds, lake Windermere in the Lake District, Edinburgh in Scotland or any of the other main tourist areas where everyone else goes. Go to the lesser know places! Instead of London go to Manchester, there’s a far better vibe and energy there and you can go to the football, to the theatre, have great food and have a fantastic time meeting friendly people. Instead of Windermere go to coniston, buttermere or any of the other lakes, go to the Yorkshire dales, visit the cairngorms and the moray firth in Scotland, go to pembrokeshire in Wales, basically go the less walked path and you won’t regret it.

@gillianrimmer7733

6 ай бұрын

Yes, I live on the border of Rutland and Lincolnshire - the The villages here, and the countryside around, are just as old and pretty as anything in the Cotswolds - but it's practically tourist free. You can walk around the villages and public footpaths across the countryside without seeing anyone apart from an occasional local.

@valeriedavidson2785

5 ай бұрын

The Cots wolds are the most beautiful on earth. To tell somebody not to go there is wicked. There is nowhere else like it.

@valeriedavidson2785

5 ай бұрын

​@@gillianrimmer7733You could not even begin to compare Lincolnshire with the Cotswolds.

@gillianrimmer7733

5 ай бұрын

@@valeriedavidson2785, you've obviously never been to Rutland and the villages around Stamford.

@valeriedavidson2785

5 ай бұрын

@@gillianrimmer7733 Oh yes I have. I come from the south west but had to live near Cambridge for several years. Stamford itself is pretty but that side of England is so flat. I cannot stand Cambridgeshire. It is desolate. Once you get out of the city it is depressing. It does not even begin to compare with Gloucestershire. It is unfortunate that so many visitors crowd the villages in summer but it is so beautiful (the largest designated area of outstanding natural beauty in the country) that it cannot be avoided. .

No harm in being grounded, but add Castell Coch on to list for fairytale moments!

We have nice places up north too.

Don’t get fully drawn into the romanticism. There are undoubtedly beautiful areas but equally there are a lot of depressing areas! What this country should be doing is supporting , encouraging and treasuring the heritage skills and arts. King Charles is a massive supporter of this. As with buildings … just because it’s a new build, it does not have to be ugly.

You have some amazing countryside too.

I've been to Stourhead many times, it is stunningly beautiful.

Ahh Northumberland, by home county. Pity I took it for granted when I still lived there. But please don’t let it become too popular.

We don't need Alligators when we have Jabberwocks!

No Alligators in premodern Europe.

No aligators ever in moats in the UK. We have no crocodilians here.

Great video...

And remember any trees planted then are now mature 200 year old trees

Very wise to avoid being overly romantic. With an intensive industrial past and a large population on a small island there are many shocking areas and architectural abominations. A lot of us are very poor at disposing of our waste and some decorate our roadsides and hedgerows with an assortment of litter and unwanted objects. Good point about the imagination of planners without easy/any access to ariel views. They planted trees with future generations in mind. The sites would have probably looked far from beautiful for some years after construction.

Apparently, Britain's countryside is sited entirely in the south of the country.

We dont have alligators here dude :)

Ok so castles must’ve been drafty, freezing, spooky and probably stinky places to live but a game of hide and seek would’ve been off the scale!

In the UK we sledge not sled. Just so you know 😊!

A lot of stately homes , country estates,castles etc ,have been given to the nation in lieu of death duties / taxes , ❤.

It's good that they don't show how littered the UK is with all kinds of takeaway plastic . Bolton near Manchester looks like one big garbage dump spread by seagulls and crows. For this view of the garbage, the town hall wants a council tax fee of £150 per month for a 30-square-meter apartment.

So many of the Big Houses lost or sold out after the WW1 /WW2. They provided jobs, homes & bought wealth to the local area. It was a time when the aristocracy & the working class held each other is high respect & trust. Mainly..

No need for alligators my friend the turds thrown into the moat every day from the castle would've made the water far more dangerous...

Never been Aligaters in Britain. Might have been at least 65 million years ago but there were no Castles unless Dynosaurs could build Castles .! .

In Britain we all have a castle or two in our back garden.

@carolineb3527

6 ай бұрын

And a stately home or three. Plus a couple of cathedrals, ye olde guildhouse, and a privy. 🤣🤣🤣

@neilgayleard3842

6 ай бұрын

All of the above.

Yes that's true but Britain also has a heavy industrial and some of the towns and cities around the the north of England are not so pretty. Vets outside the big cities we do have pretty little villages.

A 999 yr lease isn’t that long when you’re families been there for 300 years. 😂

The saying is you don't make a garden for yourself you make it for 100 years hence.

I’m never convinced that a post-medieval castle built in the ‘style’ of a medieval defensive castle is really a castle. They’re impressive and usually beautiful and sometimes historical but they’re sort of plastic castles. I’m always a little disappointed. That’s only my opinion though.

No Alligators over here 😂