Lovely walk Richard. As a disabled person who uses a mobility scooter, I really miss visiting the countryside. Your walks and the information you give on the way really cheers me up. Thanks, Richard.

Fantastic little church and a great Walk too

7:55 is this some kind of "green manure" crop of legumes - which looks like it has peas and something else mixed in. This is because the legumes (the pea family) have nitrogen fixing bacteria on their roots which add nitrogen to the soil.

The tower holds three bells. One cast in 1603 by John Wallis, and two cast in 1885 by John Taylor & Co. The frame is made of cast iron and was built and installed in 1885 when the bells and fittings were was restored.

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

I knew you would know - Doves Guide, I suspect :)

That was just so enjoyable! From the lovely old church to the beautiful rolling hills of the farmland & countryside. Loved how you felt to moved by it too Richard! Knowing that you are just east of where my ancestors once lived I couldn't help but imagine that perhaps they rode their steeds over those hills!

Lovely stuff Richard- so nice to see the Wiltshire countryside.

Stunningly beautiful!

That opening shot of the church roof was glorious. I've got you up on my 70" TV screen. All the filming is just stunning. Thank you for sharing. I can only imagine my British ancestors out in those country type fields and paths. 🇺🇸 Eaglegards...

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much.

What a pretty little church. Pity could not go inside...

Walking in the field is definitely a refreshing experience in rural West England for me. Great job!

Richard , hindsight is a wonderful thing ! Good vid 👏👏

You're on the road to ancient settlements and graves, where our ancestors lived, died and worshipped their Pagan gods. I don't believe that I have ever walked that path you took, excellent video !

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much

Always looking out for your daily Vobe Roams. Greetings from Melbourne, Australia were it's cold and windy unlike your walk.

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

Yo are very kind.

Lovely little church.and excellent video Richard. you are doing a real top job showing our county.I'm really enjoying watching the videos

Good video Richard, Richard vobes will be the man that saves our countryside haha :)

Well done Richard, loved that church and grave yard. It’s nice to see it is being looked after. Thanks again.

Hi Richard. That crop you were looking at appeared to be peas. When they get dry, they are cut with a combine harvester and used for animal feed. The reason so much downland was ploughed up during the Second World War was to enable this country to produce more food to feed the population. Our merchant ships, which brought various food stuffs from Canada and such like were being attacked and often sunk by enemy action. Without the extra efforts of our farmers, the country would have starved.

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

That is true, but after 1947 the War Ags and the Government continued to insist that farmers grow more, and the subsidies started to be paid to farmers to tear up the species-rich pasture that had lain untouched for thousands of years (or farmed in small ways with crop rotation and mix farming that worked with wild life. ) Now we have monoculture.

@lionelmarytravels6003

3 жыл бұрын

Richard Vobes Yes. But after Brexit there’s even more need to be self sufficient. Plus, people need to pay the farmers a fair price for all their hard work, not go into Tesco etc. just because it might be cheaper. It’s the likes of Tesco and the other major supermarkets who control the price paid to the growers. We buy our meat from the local butcher and veg from an independent greengrocer.

Fantastic 👍

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 👍

Amazing place be happy mister Richard vobes.

Great wander, and yes, let’s save our precious nature now, to undo the much damage to beautiful nature and wildlife. Your walks and comments very important for this awareness. And thank you for bringing peaceful beautiful walks and adventures into daily life...

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. I get the impression many want to bury their heads into the soil.

Very interested place to visit lover old church with past nice walk up to transmitrs hope u enjoy it at Wiltshire

I don't know whether or not you have a smartphone Richard, but there is an app called PlantNet. Take a photo of a flower, bark, leaf or fruit, and it will tell you what it is.

@fastsetinthewest

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you tectorama.

Thank you for the video Richard, my husband and I have thoroughly enjoyed watching you on your journey round Wiltshire. It's on our doorstep as we live in Swindon, we're often visiting Calne. Cherhill we have walked up to see the monument. We often get Red kites in the countryside in Wiltshire.

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Even people who don't believe in God are missing the churches. It would have been a perfect opportunity to use your drone, Great views though.

You are working your way into Wiltshire like a native Richard. It was interesting what you said about the destruction of downland as I can recall reading about how the South Downs were as remote and uncultivated as the northern moors before the First World War.

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

It's a dreadful thing, the pillage of our countryside.

5:40 is there a pun intended with "I've got a bit of a beef about that"?

@fastsetinthewest

3 жыл бұрын

Davydh 👍

The lack of mobile internet up there is probably down your service provider not using the facilities there and the inverse square low or EM propagation meaning their nearest site is out of range. However there is historical interest in those radio masts (at least for nerds like me!). The site was one of Marconi's original "Wireless Stations" at the turn of the last century and formed part of the Imperial Wireless Chain. It was later taken over by the GPO and inaugurated the worlds' first long range maritime radiocommunication networks by operating as a receiver site paired with a transmitter facility at Leafield, Oxfordshire. It was also used during WW1 by the military as an intercept or 'Y' Service station with received messages ending up at 'Room 40' in the Admiralty In the 1960's and 70s it formed part of the MoD project "Mould" (allegedly because that's what the network links looked like when drawn out on a map!) providing VHF and UHF communications particularly for the Territorial Army and other land-based units in the UK. More recently the "twin-tower" backup a configuration was created by the Home Office Directorate of Telecommunications in the 1980s for use mainly by Wiltshire Constabulary and the county Fire Service (like the Truleigh Hill, Beddingham and Burton Downs sites in Sussex). Currently, lots of commercial users along with the emergency services' digital Airwave network which will change to the 4G-based Emergency-Services Network run by EE over the next few years.

Churchyard isn't walled so it's not surprising there are no yew trees. They could plant some now that the metal fence has been put up though.

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

Excuse the ignorance, but what difference does it make whether a churchyard is walled or not regarding a yew tree.

@andyalder7910

3 жыл бұрын

@@RichardVobes Yew leaves are deadly poisonous but the best wood to make longbows out of so grown in walled churchyards.

Congrats on your channel. I'm a fairly recent viewer. Fantastic One Man Band film making.....can you hear a but coming? I'd rather not have music than that rather insipid stuff, a couple of really good narrowboat vlogers use the same. Anyway it won't stop me watching. Cheers Steve.

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Lovely church, roof with lychens and views..glorious! They really must fine those people who grow monocultures..make it illegal!

Shame the church was locked, if I recall correctly, there is some graffiti scratched into the inside of the porch that goes back to the 1600s

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

A shame not to have seen the graffiti.

@retroactivejealousy-worldl1805

3 жыл бұрын

Richard Vobes A good excuse for another visit, maybe?

That wasn't a bean, it was a pea pod, the peas are inside. Legumes include beans, peas, clover, alfalfa and soy beans. They take the nitrogen they need from the air and store it in their roots. When the plant dies in winter the nitrogen is in the soil, this is why legumes are used in crop rotation instead of just letting the field go fallow (unused). In America Soybeans are the preferred crop, harvested early the beans are used to make soy oil, or later dried; as cattle feed. The English countryside has always been agriculture land since the neolithic age. The early Britons are really responsible for the way England looks now!

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

The neolithic's cleared the forests and woodland, the Saxons and Normans farmed with mix farming. We have been doing that until 1947 - then mechanization came and farm subsidies, and the EU, and now we have monoculture.

@bullettube9863

3 жыл бұрын

@@RichardVobes Yes, monoculture is a problem in America as well. But if you were a farmer and you needed to make a profit rather then go bankrupt, you would go with whatever the market is paying the most for. We have a few controls, like the soil bank, to prevent over saturation, but it doesn't help much. And with the stupid tariffs we now have, China has retaliated by not buying as much soy beans which squeezes farmers even more. What do you think will happen when Brexit kicks in? Will farmers in Britain lose their markets?

Sadly modern farming, that is based on mass production, mechanisation, pharmaceutical and chemical use, is destroying the countryside and it’s ecology. Ironically in their quest to make bigger, and bigger, profits the farmers are actually destroying the soil that they (and ourselves) depend upon for survival. These rural communities have been depleted of agricultural workers and their families. Utter ecological, economical and sociological madness 😳🤭☹️

@cogidubnus1953

3 жыл бұрын

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with profitability...It pays our wages and pensions, the farmers wages and pension, provides for reinvestment in plant/materials, pays taxes and hopefully incentivises the expansion of the workforce etc ...It is a matter of defining what may or may not be excessive... Let's put it this way...a 25% profit margin on a small turnover may be needed for a small shop to clear it's costs and pay a family to run it whilst...a 2 or 3% margin may be sufficient for a huge supermarket chain with a vast turnover... So how do you define "bigger and bigger profits"?...In the case of agriculture, for many farmers it's a case of making any profit at all...we've been through this with the sheep conversation, and since then with an arable farmer...and any form of profitability is often possible only through subsidy...and sadly this is a pattern which will continue until we manage to balance the needs of dearer prices to be paid by the supermarkets (and therefore the consumer) versus keeping the price of healthy food down to affordable levels. We've fudged that so far with subsidies, which cost everybody in their taxes anyway. Over-simplistically we'd cut out the subsidies, raise farm prices and compensate everybody by cutting taxes and raising benefits - but how well do you trust any government or local government to return money they can take off you so easily? I fear you and I and Richard will be long gone by the time this particular conundrum is solved... Dave

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

Have a look at this: farmsubsidy.org/GB/ subsidies paid to farmers - ok, a few year go - but drill down. Farmers have been paid to NOT farm certain sensitive land (and call it a loss of profit) yet, a firm looking for planning permission to expand a factory on similar land is told simply no, and not paid a loss of profit sum. I agree with Graham Harvey, Marion Shoard and Colin Trudge, who say that farming is not a business like any other business. Farming is different because it is about biology, and human need (in food) not desire, the health of the countryside and its animals it shares. Subsidies have skewed the incentive of farming. The process of growing food has become a factory, heavily industrialised process, a cost-cutting, labour-saving enterprise, with little respect for smaller farmers/families, agricultural workers, community, nature and people of the country. Instead of supplying locally, surviving farmers supply and compete with the global market at the cost of the landscape, food quality and heritage. We have paid for this in our taxes, farmers (who on the whole I don't blame) were forced into this.

@cogidubnus1953

3 жыл бұрын

@@RichardVobes Absolutely, but how to break the cycle...would YOU trust the politicians to cut the subsidies if it effectively meant returning such sums to ordinary people to help buy dearer food? Could you trust supermarkets to pay more realistic prices to farmers and recoup the loss by selling to consumers at dearer prices than their foreign based competitors? Could you trust consumers to pay higher prices for UK sourced food rather than three tins for the price of two at Lidl? And in enforcing all this, how much extra power would you be prepared to give to the government of the day?

@deniseg-hill1730

3 жыл бұрын

Yes true. I grew up in Wiltshire. We moved there in 1958. There used to be hundreds of small farms. We could buy produce from them. Food tasted a lot better. All free range meat and poultry, smaller fields, loads of hedgerows and trees. Loads of insects and birds and blackberries bushes and wild parsley and wild garlic and wild flowers and field mice