Great walkthrough. I always sort of laugh a bit when people consider these renditions of more ancient architecture as 'film sets' or 'toy model' versions of a town. People forget that a Georgian town would have looked realitively new and clean when it was first built, like our new hosing developments do. Its only time that really ages things. The limestone in Bath, would have been polished and shiny when built, not aged like we see it today.

Modernity doesn't have to be ugly. ❤

I'm a Brit who grew up in the Netherlands. Looking at Poundbury and why it's so quiet I would hazard 2 guesses. It was designed to be a traditional, walkable village but ran afoul of regulations requiring large amounts of parking. If you compare it to a Dutch town or village where cycling is the preferred mode of local transport, the Dutch streets have far more life and activity in them. Second guess would be Poundbury is an expensive place to live so you have two commuting parents who work fulltime out of the village. There aren't many attractions or free entertainment places for kids (like mini playgrounds that you find everywhere in Dutch towns) and the prices aren't attractive for pensioners.

@elizabethrowlands9419

Жыл бұрын

also , no parking restrictions at poundbury , no yellow lines , meters , wardens !

@dittikke

8 ай бұрын

I'm a German who grew up partly in Dorset. Your second guess is accurate. Most villages and towns in Dorset have a lot of community and are community driven, but Poundbury doesn't have any of that, at least not yet. It also has a bit of a sad reputation as being Prince Charles's vanity project. I used to live in Dorset and drove past Poundbury quite often on the A35, but I never saw any reason to stop there. I regret that now, I think I should at least have taken a look at the place. Dutch towns are really awesome!

@edwardmiessner6502

4 ай бұрын

So it's a suburban development with the architecture and layout of an old English/Cornish village.

@ric4397

3 ай бұрын

​@@elizabethrowlands9419 yeah and look at the two main squares, filled with cars, and the other a waitrose car park. So much wasted potential allowing cars all over the place, and I haven't been there but judging from videos, not a single bus so very poorly connected by public transport.

@NorthPoleSun

19 күн бұрын

@@dittikke It's growing

3:21 Welcome to Pined Brie. You're already halfway settled in cos just here you called it Poundland. Bravo!

A lot better than all the new builds going up in the rest of the country.

I remember when poundbury was a field

Thanks Oli, had never heard of Poundbury, looks quaint. Love the balconies.

@WendallExplores

2 жыл бұрын

Faux quaint

1:00 That must have been the window tax of 2018.

@saharatopaz558

24 күн бұрын

Yeah so weird - ??? - but I'm an Aussie/ Scot ...so Brit culture is a mystery ...

The City is beutiful, I like it, greetings from Croatia 🇭🇷🏙🌆🌃🌇🌉

Looks like a decent town 👍- I like it😊 I like the balconies too 👍

@WendallExplores

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I liked the balconies

Looks lovely and the properties looks very beautiful but I must admit I prefer the look of Nansledan as I absolutely adore the colours of the buildings, even if the sun ain’t shining the colours of Nansledan will brighten your day x

@WendallExplores

2 жыл бұрын

Im obsessed with these SimCities!

@dawnbroadhurst5112

2 жыл бұрын

@@WendallExplores it’s extremely interesting to see buddy ….. this one is lovely and the building look almost period type properties….. the style they were going for I guess and they r lovely x

Beautiful town so much better that the usual soulless brick box estates love it

@mrdog2019

9 ай бұрын

It’s soulless because they are mostly not Dorset people, second homes, a right dump.

Love Poundbury and Nansledan. You can find a similar new town at Tornagrain, near Inverness.

Dorchester is lovely, trains to Weymouth, Bournemouth, Poole..and Waterloo ... I love how clean the air looks.

Hi Wendell Explores, Thank you for sharing another one of your exploration or shall I say another one of your strange journey! I had been to UK many times but the places in UK that I had been to was never so deserted as this. Now I know why. I found out it would only be fully completed in three years time. This is a place I must visit when I get back to UK!

@WendallExplores

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a strange must visit, but a must visit nonetheless!

@wendylim1936

2 жыл бұрын

@@WendallExplores It looks a bit like a deserted town in Iceland, if you watch one of Gabriel Traveler’s journey to find a laundrette in Iceland. First I have to get over my fear of flying. I never have this dread of flying. I used to like just get on a plane without thinking twice. Anyway, look forward to visiting Wigan and London, places that i used to live with my husband and where I am familiar with. Anyway, hope everything is well with you in Cornwall - a place I wish to visit too.

@WendallExplores

2 жыл бұрын

@@wendylim1936 love Gabriel Traveler, think I watched that episode.

Hi there. It is an intriguing place - we visited there sometime ago. It was a bit busier but still had a relaxed atmosphere 👍😀

@WendallExplores

2 жыл бұрын

I wish I’d had more time to explore more

Poundbury looks a lot better in my opinion. Great vids Wendall.

@WendallExplores

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Pounce!

Can you visit the main square soon? As you can see, I'm binge watching your videos at the mo 😊

Crikey wendall, I thought you was in Brighton 🤔 mate you do get about 🤷🏻‍♂️ but you put me in a positive mood for places to visit 👍🏻 thanks Ollie 😎

@WendallExplores

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta keep exploring mate

I live close to poundbury. Its plagued with second homes bought by city dwellers and left empty much of the year. The remainder is retirees from the rest of of the uk and yummy mummies parked there while the husband commutes from the city. Very few Dorset people live there nor can afford to live there.

i think they could have squeezed the buildings tighter together and made a few more car free zones, with more trees.

Looks alright, not many People though, half expecting Zombies to turn up for an English Fry Up. Cheers Wendall.

@WendallExplores

2 жыл бұрын

Bacon and eggs

@evarosex3539

Жыл бұрын

poundbury isn’t that bad 😂

If businesses were encouraged outside of London and around certain areas in the uk i feel like places like these would be amazing to live in :D

“Poundland” 😂

Like the balconies. The buildings look in Good nik after 20 years, never been there considering the amount of time we have spend in Dorset visiting Weymouth and Portland. It Totally reminds me of some towns in the states.

@WendallExplores

2 жыл бұрын

Real near Weymouth, check it out, it’s way bigger than the part I filmed

@clives344

2 жыл бұрын

@@WendallExploresI must admit its quite a nice town not too big and some nice Pubs by the harbour. In the summer while sitting having a beer by the harbor you always see people climbing the draw bridge when its up and jumping off it. Looking forward to watching your video.

Fairford Leys in Aylesbury is very similar to poundbury. You should check that out if you are un Buckinghamshire one day!

everywhere should have to be built like this in the uk

@malcpaul996

10 ай бұрын

No thank you, it's horrible

Town looks beautiful, glad people are fighting back against the mafia of modernist architects and town planners that ruined many British towns and cities. Only problem with it is that it’s too car focused, they should’ve made it more transit, cycling and pedestrian oriented

Poundland is like Ashbourne meets tunbridge wells..

lol Poundland, cheers Wendall

@WendallExplores

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn’t stop myself from saying it

@wladniem

2 жыл бұрын

@@WendallExplores Prince Charles won't find Poundland funny, didn't he have something to do with the town?

@WendallExplores

2 жыл бұрын

@@wladniem yeah I think it is/was his land

You missed the best bit up by the garden centre the pub and Sainsbury and Waitrose

I think Poundbury is more like a Cities Skylines 1 city than a Sim City city because only in CS1 are you able to download and use British assets.

This is interesting. I still think it looks a bit eerie and quiet for a normal town. But perhaps people were at work or at school at the time of your visit? And the trees still need to be a lot taller... 😊 I have heard they have built numerous of cities like this - and bigger - in China and no-one has moved in. So they just stand there as ghost towns.

@WendallExplores

2 жыл бұрын

… Wendall goes to China ✈️

@TravellingTorunn

2 жыл бұрын

@@WendallExplores 😎🤘🤣🤣

When the trees grow, it’ll look a lot better.

There’s one in Newquay in Cornwall..

I’m not keen on these Truman show style towns! All a bit ghostly to me 🙈 There’s one just on the outskirts of Plymouth called Sherford, all made with good intentions of adding a school, surgery etc but still, when you walk around there’s just no soul to these places! Strange 🤷‍♀️

@WendallExplores

2 жыл бұрын

I’ll go and check out Sherford at some point

Where’s all the people ? I remember stopping off here on the way back. It was quiet then.

@WendallExplores

2 жыл бұрын

I think they have cardboard cut outs of people for important events

@sadaasdafa8635

6 ай бұрын

It’s not officially finished yet and won’t be until 2025, at which point there should be enough homes for 5 times the present population.

Poundbury needs some double yellow lines…

Not enough greenery that you would see in traditional villages.

Sure you did call it Poundland @3:29 😂

Talk about ghost town . Where is everyone ? .

Where is everyone? It looks like a film set, not real.

There are cars but where are the people?

Poundland LOL

Id say you would need to have a lot of cash to live there ?

"Poundland" 😅

The sunshine over poundbury glowing it's buildings,I am thrilled and want to have seen the town again,it has caste a spell on me,to move on and see time and again

sorry Wendall ..but theres something ...wrong...with that place a Replicant town a synthetic copy of somewhere else theres no soul there its a dead place and the name..poundbury...eeeeugh the place gives me the creeps

@WendallExplores

2 жыл бұрын

I think the desolate strangeness of it also draws me to it. I wouldn’t want to live there but it fascinates me.

@accountreality1988

Жыл бұрын

i know right it needs a huge massive glass and concrete skyscraper for it to feel less eerie. if it does not look like a pound shop version of dubia i am not interested. how dare they build something that looks british in britian!

Where are all the people, it's errie

You are looking at the newer part, go to the original which is better. Italianate in Dorset does not really work.

Trumpton lmao

I go through Poundbury very often. It is completely soulless and I can't think why anyone would live there.

@JustMe-nj6dp

5 ай бұрын

The wealthy are only ones who can afford it, they like it because it keeps the riff raff out.

@AtlasofInfo

5 ай бұрын

Glad to know you only go through Poundbury and don't darken the place permanently with your soul.

@malcpaul996

5 ай бұрын

@@AtlasofInfo ha ha

The buildings are beautiful but the area is soleless

I would move there if I could. It probably is the best thing King Charles has done.

Poundbury is not a town if you can’t get that right what a waste of time.

@WendallExplores

Жыл бұрын

Waste. Of. Time. 🕰️

No black people from caribbean?no pakistani?no chinese ?no nigerians?......only white, anglosaxon and protestant?