That has brought back memories of my visits there. Some years ago, before it was tidied up, it felt other worldly, few visitors, the grounds overgrown and like the forest in a Grimm's fairy tale. The wild blackberries grew everywhere, and had the most gorgeous flavour. The last few years has seen the loss of the ghosts of the wilderness, but it is now easy to imagine the more civilised ghosts of the family that lived there, and their guests at sumptuous parties. I'm so glad that they have restored the fountain, it was a wonderful sight on my last visit. It's truly a magical place to visit. Unfortunately, I am no longer unable to walk far enough, so my next visit will have to wait until I succumb to a mobility scooter

@Jane-gt6ef

Жыл бұрын

The fountain is really charming... The Kraken, the bewildered horse, brave Perseus and sweet Andromeda...

oh how I wish I could magically blink myself there, thank you for sharing this so beautiful!

Remember going there over 15 years ago. More. It was a decent walk from the car park and entrance, down a path, round the lake and up to the house. Always thought it was a shame a few rooms couldn’t have been restored or even walkways inserted into the ruins with pictures of each room and better information boards than they had at the time.

Oh wow, this is delightful! It looks so quiet and peaceful. I'd love to walk around this area and take it all in.

my new favorite ambience video! thank you. it was really beautiful.

I wonder what Mrs.Crocombe has cooking for all of us for Thanksgiving!!! I have to finish my shopping today

@theythemgae9025

Жыл бұрын

Do they do Thanksgiving content usually? We don't celebrate it in Britain but if they do make content for other countries that's cool!

@holloweyes5209

Жыл бұрын

The British don’t celebrate thanks giving

@xr6lad

Жыл бұрын

Thanksgiving is purely USA my dear. She won’t be cooking anything for you.

I'm always impressed by the variety, ingenuity and care taken for both these videos and the properties. The next time I return to England, I'll have several more dozen places that I'll want to visit!

Thanks for this wonderful experience !!!🌹♥️

Beautiful! And it all belongs to birds. Thank you!

Beautiful. So relaxing. Thank you!

Beautiful, and so relaxing. I imagine how serene and peaceful it must be to personally walk those grounds. Privately, of course, perhaps with a significant other, family member or friend. Not with a bunch of tourists around; having lots of other people around always ruins such experiences.

@Paul2377

11 ай бұрын

Yeah I went here last weekend and it was really busy despite being a wet day. I enjoyed myself but I found myself wishing it was a little quieter!

European style it the greatest style of ever

This is very relaxing and stunning. Love it ♥️♥️

Such peace and serenity.

It's so delightfully! I wholeheartedly hope and love when such pearls of culture and art are restored. It was the property of the rich, it became the property of society.🤩😍🤩

Excellent video with relaxing pace!

Lovely!

I wonder why it was allowed to fall into disrepair. It’s so beautiful!

@Paul2377

11 ай бұрын

There was a devastating fire here in the 1930s and the insurance wouldn't cover it, so the owner had no choice other than to sell off parts of the house, so anything of value was stripped away. The waterfall was offered for sale, but thankfully no one bought it, so it still remains there today and has been fully repaired.

life version of the castle that some handsome duke own in manhwas 😂 it's so pretty 😍

These videos are so much more pleasant without that canned, public-domain music. (:

@Lucinda_Jackson

Жыл бұрын

They just traded the music for cheap, canned recorded loops of phony bird and water sounds. Oh, and the occasional sound of someone deliberately stomping on gravel. I’ll take the music any day.

@ardiris2715

Жыл бұрын

@@Lucinda_Jackson Doesn't matter. I usually watch these videos muted at 2x speed anyway. LOL

@Lucinda_Jackson

Жыл бұрын

@@ardiris2715 I do that with many, but for these I don’t. I like to actually visualize myself walking around and taking in the beauty and peace. It’s a chance to relax for 10 minutes. Fake bird calls isn’t very relaxing! 😂

LOL---It's all gutted; a shell 2:15

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Looks like one of the buildings was restored. I wonder how it would have looked like before it was abandoned.

@hogwashmcturnip8930

Жыл бұрын

I think you may be looking at the church. That is the parish church for the village of Great Witley and as such, is a separate entity to the Court, although it actually 'belonged' to the Court when it was functioning. It was miraculously untouched by the fire and is unbelievable, with a Baroque interior and ceiling paintings by a famous Italian artist (so famous I can never remember his name!) It was just a simple church, until one of the Court owners salvaged the interior from a building being demolished in London and had it installed at Witley. It is like walking into a Wedding cake, and everyone who doesn't know about it is surprised. It is lovely to hear the 'Wow's' as people come through the door for the first time. It is said to be the finest Baroque church in England. It also gives you a clue as to what the house must have looked like in its day

@nunyabiznes33

Жыл бұрын

@@hogwashmcturnip8930 I'll go check if there are images of it. Why did they not try to rebuilt the Court when it burned down? The masonry seem to be strong.

@hogwashmcturnip8930

Жыл бұрын

@@nunyabiznes33 It's all a bit sad. The then owner had just lost his wife, and it was her favourite place. When it went up in smoke, it was more than he could take and he kind of walked away from it.The contents were sold off and the house was sold to a scrap dealer who stripped it of everything saleable, leaving just the shell we see now. The ironic thing is, the fire actually did not do much damage and it Could have been saved at that point. But it was worth more disassembled, as this was the 30s and the financial situation was not good. We nearly lost the fountain too. Legend has it that a Big Hollywood star (I have heard the name Bing Crosby) wanted to buy it, but when the number crunchers worked out the logistics and cost of shipping it and rebuilding it he backed down and it stayed where it was, neglected for decades. A charity worked to raise the money and put in the manpower to get it cleaned up and working again. It is not Full On here. When it is, it has a jet that resembles that thing in Geneva rising above the rest. It is fed by those lakes and there are miles of tunnels and pipes underground to get the water to it. That is why it takes a while to fire up, I believe it is the 2nd largest of its type after the one in Rome. I have never actually seen it working. I know the first time I saw it, it Freaked me out. I had come across this place without even knowing it was there, I went up that huge stone staircase, and there was this enormous scary thing on the other side. It looks a lot creepier empty,. as does the still spooky Persephone(?) one . That is mainly because most of her is missing; Perseus is all there, or has been replaced.

@lemorab1

Жыл бұрын

@@hogwashmcturnip8930 You would be interested in reading "The Bolter," a biography of Idina Sackville by her great granddaughter, Frances Osborne. Witley Court is where, just after WWI, Idina's husband Euan Wallace met and fell in love with fortune hunter Barbie Lutyens, at a house party given by a Ward daughter. Idina's jealous sister, Avise, engineered the meeting between Euan and Barbie. This group of flaming youth were known as the Black Gang for playing pranks on the local landed gentry. The book gives an intimate portrait of what a house party in the lap of luxury was like at one of the most opulent homes in England, back in the day.

@hogwashmcturnip8930

Жыл бұрын

@@lemorab1 Thanks. I will look for it.

Burnt down on 8th September 1937.

I miss the usual opening melody

Are they planning on restoring the buildings?

@hogwashmcturnip8930

Жыл бұрын

No, it is financially impossible to do that, just maintaining it at its present state costs a fortune. And believe me English Heritage Have restored it quite a lot. Parts of it were quite unsafe and bits would fall off when I first encountered it. I didn't even know it was there. I was looking for the Church, and set off up this grass covered lane, went round a bend and WOW. It became very special to me, and my mother, but after English Heritage took over, we could not afford the entrance fee. We preferred it 'forgotten' and spooky anyway

Sad to see the erosion of the unroofed fabric.

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Couldn't the fountain sculptures have been treated with any preservatives or antiseptics so that any growths would not develop on them??🤨🤔

Oooh, no sorry. Not my thing. I have hyperacusis and find the exaggerated sounds in videos like this or ASMR videos very painful. I’m not even 30 seconds in and it’s already causing pain. Shame.

@theythemgae9025

Жыл бұрын

"Shame" I'm assuming your tone is like "that's a shame" not that you're saying shame in a way that implies they should be ashamed? I'm not trying to be rude I just want to know. Also your condition sounds very frustrating! I have a simular thing visually, certain lighting is unbearable. I hope that there's lots of other things you find relaxing rather than asmr type of things

@moniquem783

Жыл бұрын

@@theythemgae9025 yes, that’s a shame, not shame on you lol. I would’ve loved to go on that little tour around but it’s just too risky. Especially as I have another huge day ahead of me with another trip to the country to bid on a small property. I can’t cope with the noise in the suburbs anymore so have sold my house to find myself a few acres where if my neighbour plays music I won’t hear it, surrounded by farms so I’ll have the odd tractor and some cows mooing nearby but no doof doof doof or constant hum of traffic from the new highway they built a few doors down and other people’s dogs barking etc. Those sounds generally don’t hurt my ears as it’s only certain pitches that do, but they drain me and increase my sensitivity to those noises so when there’s a noise in a painful pitch, say the neighbour’s dog barking, the pain starts within a few seconds, whereas without all of that constant noise I might get 30-45 seconds before it starts to hurt and he might have shut up by then. Or maybe not. He’s not the sharpest tool in the shed. He barks when his own family get home 🙄 The smallholding/homesteading thing is kind of a necessity with the move to the country, but I’ve embraced the idea fully and am really looking forward to it. Fingers crossed I get this one today as it’s just about perfect for me. Just the right size for a milk cow and a few sheep, and plenty of flat area for raised garden beds. I find pottering in the garden very relaxing if I’m not hearing a constant traffic hum and being barked at for daring to be in my own garden. So I will relax a lot more at the next place. I think cooking will become relaxing once I have a kitchen that’s a better layout than my current one too. I’m sorry you have visual issues like these. That must be very difficult. I struggle with glare sometimes so I understand how much it impacts when it’s your eyes. I can at least stick my finger in my bad ear if there’s a long noise to get through. You can’t exactly do that!

@moniquem783

Жыл бұрын

@@jennil7797 it’s not that simple. I would have to mute it completely which makes it not as nice to watch. I think there’s something with the microphones they use for these kinds of videos. It makes certain sounds sharper. Not necessarily louder, but they cut into me more than just walking in a garden. There are birds outside chirping now and I’m fine with those, but the bird calls in the video went right through me.

@Lucinda_Jackson

Жыл бұрын

@@jennil7797 It IS exaggerated and faked. It plays on a loop! It repeats a couple of times at the beginning with no changes, then they take some of the elements and just layer them differently. It’s annoying.

@Lucinda_Jackson

Жыл бұрын

I don’t suffer from your condition, but I dislike phony, canned sounds like these and repetitive audio loops. This combined the two. I love actual birdsong and water sounds, but these ASMR recordings make me want to scream. I turned the volume down for a bit, but after the second or third run of the loop with the owl calls, I turned it down further and it was bearable. I actually rewatched it, though, with the sound completely off because I realized that my brain was so busy dissecting the mixing and layering of soundtracks, I had missed some of what I was seeing. It was far more enjoyable in silence.