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‘’It’s not where you’re from, it’s where you’re at!’’ Ian Brown - The Stone Roses
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I went to Newhaven Fort a few years ago, it was a warm sunny day and I'd just toured the tunnels. My friend and I then looked into the other buildings off the square. One building was rigged out as an operations room, a glass partition preventing the public from touching the mapped table. Two pendant lights hung from the metal beams, very still and one either side of the mock up room behind the glass. One light began to swing like a pendulum, swinging round and round. The other light was perfectly still. I looked at this light and asked ( in my mind) can you swing the other way please, and it did. I thanked it and turned to find my friend hightailing it out the door!
Lovely church Marq.
Lovely old church. Thomas’s wife Elizabeth is buried in London at Lambeth Church- she died 2 years after her executed children in 1538 and a year before Thomas. Thanks Marq.
Thanks Diana, I totally forgot to mention about Elizabeth!
Really beautiful church with a fascinating history. Thank you!
You're welcome.
Lovely church ⛪️ Marq, so much interesting history. Wow huge tomb for a very important man. Thank you for showing us around 🥰
Thanks Lynn x
I love the way the surname Bullen got poshed up to Boleyn when the family went up in the world. Very interesting video as I am interested in Tudor times. Thank you.
@@jeanblemings5352 Thanks Jean,. According to that Wiki - ''Due to the irregularity of English spelling at this period, the name in documents is also spelled Bulleyn or Bullen. It has been suggested that the surname "Boleyn" was originally pronounced as "Boulogne", owing the idea of a French origin for the Family''.
Another good one Marq ....Thankyou
Hever Castle can be seen from Mariners Hill above or near Crockham Hill. Lovely area for walks.
Couldn’t have asked for better weather- it’s what we imagine to be a perfect Summer’s day ( not like now which is too humid & scorchio) What a lovely church and grounds too. Thanks Marq!
Beautiful gardens! Lovey 1940's event too, thank you for taking us Marq!
Thanks Mary.
Hey Marq, great video, my friend. I must go to Hever Castle one day. When we are at an event, it's impossible not to capture the music. The only way around it is to mute our audio on the video and put our own music on. But for me, it takes away from the event what others are enjoying.
Yes good point Kevin although the KZread Gods haven't flagged up any issues as of now.
A strange mish mash of eras though I suspect Hever would have been requistioned in war time. Hever as beautiful as ever. I was lucky to have visited when they used to run coach day trips there.
A fascinating House Jean.
This was so fun to watch! Thanks Marq
You're welcome.
I think I had forgotten what a lovely site Hever is! There seems to be no shortage of 1940’s memorabilia on display including that Spitfire ( not sure if you can make them from kits) - really enjoyed it & will have to look at your tour of the house. Good weather helps! Thanks Marq!
Thanks Diana.
What a GREAT video, a fab day out for you Marq 🥰 loved it 👌
Thanks Lynn.
Now you are in an area I am a little bit familiar with! Very enjoyable- thanks Marq!
You're welcome Diana.
Yes. A lovely churchyard. The flowers make it special.
Nothing beats a bit of reminiscing!
Indeed Sir.
Was Mr Booths father a school teacher at Leigh?
No, he's from Newcastile.
Very enjoyable, Marq - glad you got to see it after all those years!
Yes, finally!
Brilliant video. I been enjoying watching a few of them there great gives me ideas where to go for a walk. Them flowers in the church are lovely.
Thanks Jo.
You can,t beat a good Shag
Looks like the groundsman had just missed you as the grass looked freshly mown. I did enjoy the organ music - it does make you want to sit and listen. I don’t know anything about buildings but did wonder why they had replaced the damaged outside wall with red brick & not the flint? Just looked incongruous.
Lovely walk Marq 🚶♂️ you really enjoyed it I could tell. Beautiful day, blue sky and stunning scenery and cottages. What a beautiful Church. I loved the rose 🌹 bushes along the walkway, it's obviously well cared for, so nice to see. I remember going to see the Windmill with the church below on one of our walks. Such an interesting location. Lunch looked delicious. Thanks for taking us with you 🥰
Thank you Lynn.
@@MarqEnglishand naturally I loved seeing the dogs too 🐩 🐶 🐕
Phwoarrrrrrr 😍
Think of all the historical events since that mural was made.
Indeed..
Thank you for another excellent video! I love this walk and it’s one that I know well. I have recently been watching a lot of your videos, they are so great for discovering new places, and for getting a fresh perspective on familiar ones. I also love all of the little nuggets of information that you share along the way, and trying to guess if you will finish your walk with a steak and ale pie in a cosy pub or not! Looking forward to your next tour around English countryside!
Thank you very much, appreciated.
Thank you for sharing another lovely walk on a lovely day in England. I adore these videos. I find them very calming, and although I can't speak for everyone, I think there are more people than I who need something calm and enjoyable these days. Big hugs! 😘
Thanks very much indeed.
Off Marq goes to visit Buckland, to see a pond which has no ducks. Just a little bit of England, where the houses cost big bucks.
The season of mud is finally over? A lovely little ramble there but you did pass a foxglove rather than a hollyhock as already pointed out!!
Thanks Jean.
Foxglove
I used to live right door to that place, 20+yrs ago. I was the noisy 1 playin music 😂
Stone 89 - should have a name like Clive 😜 Very interesting video, Marq - I’m sure I’ve seen you search for stones by dowsing like this before in Avebury - or am I imagining things?
Or Derek the Stone? Yes, I've done plenty of Dowsing at Avebury which is in the Playlist.
Nice. It is in Wallington London?
Well, Wallington in Surrey but Greater London as well.
Very enjoyable little visit enhanced by the musical content. It is great to hear church music in situ as we also did in Wittering church on one of Kevin's Rambles videos.
Yes, I watched that recent Video you did with Kevin, really wonderful.
Great video and thanks for mentioning my green man post box topper. ❤
You are very welcome Kerry x
It gets a thumbs up from me 👍🥰
From what I can hear, the organs is a tracker type action. The reeds are a little bit out of tune. Thanks for getting a bit of the organ in Marc.
Absolutely brilliant. Cheers Marq.
You're welcome.
Loved the old bridge. Hope the replacement lunch was up to the marq!! I did not realise Leatherhead was quite so interesting...
The alternative Lunch was just fine Jean.
Beautiful old Church, gorgeous river and ancient spring (yes I would drink that water) fabulous bridges and a lovely lunch; what more could you ask for? A really great watch Marq. Glad we came along 🥰
Thanks Lynn, appreciated.
Why have I never explored Leatherhead?!?! Been to countless weddings at the registry office and driven around that damned bypass road a million times.
Leatherhead in the past for me was a gateway into the Surrey Hills.
The Mole loses water due to the river disappearing down very small pipe-like hollows (swallows) in the chalk of its banks. This only occurs in limestone rocks of which chalk is a form. Daniel Defoe observed that the water lost down the swallows returned to the river as it approached Leatherhead in "thousands of little springs". I bet you found one of these swallow springs..
That's really interesting, thank you.
Like you, I also used to live near the Wandle river, but my favourite is also the river Mole, which I also happened to live very near to until recently. Many nice memories of summer evening riverside walks there. Keep up the great videos.
Thank you, lovely memories you have.
Any idea how the town got the name Leatherhead? That is what they called our early US football players as their helmets were made of leather. My very own Grandpa was a leatherhead back in the day in the original Salem Village, now Danvers, Massachusetts.
The name "Leatherhead" has its origins in the Anglo-Saxon period. The most widely accepted theory is that the name derives from the Old English words "leodridan" or "leodrida," which roughly translates to "place where people ride" or "place where people can cross (a river)." The town is situated near a natural crossing point of the River Mole, which would have been significant in the early development and naming of the settlement. Over the centuries, the name evolved through various forms, including "Leret," "Lereda," and "Ledred," before eventually becoming "Leatherhead." The evolution of the name reflects the changes in language and pronunciation over time. Therefore, Leatherhead's name is closely linked to its geographic location and historical significance as a crossing point.
@@markalienhead1944 Thanks for the information as was about to comment too.
That was a lovely walk- chalk streams can’t be bettered! The railway bridge was built to last & take weight! We build cheaply today & know our constructs won’t last! Possibly because the builders expect our tastes to change I suppose! Thanks Marq.
Great place, I used to drive A246 most weekends to Guildford, lovely bit of road that.
Yes, I think you mentioned that before.
Oh! I got interested in this because we went to Polesden Lacey when I was young! (5-8 yrs old)And I remember - well it’s funny what you remember- that it was full of paintings & furniture. ( but not like other stately homes much more Victorian and gilded)And I remember that white tower too! And then you said at the beginning Bookham & I heard my dad saying it- never heard it mentioned before - it’s amazing how 1 word can set your memory off. And I thought Bookham - Dad was always talking about Bookham - to do with his job I should imagine ( have to ask my sister) &Wrotham too. And then in the car you produce our book- well we have a copy too! And then in the church it was the hatchments. I remember going in a church and seeing several hatchments & the explanation thereof. Must have been that church!As we had seen them usually near the main door of the churches on our travels & none of us were aware of their significance. So very enjoyable video - just been talking about yews on site I sub to as well. I was explaining that there is absolutely no legislation to protect ancient yews. They are prob.older than the estimates - they are the oldest still living entities and they seem to be deliberately ignored! They have no protection & Janis Fry et al are fighting for them to be protected - anybody can chop them down like that sycamore last year. And that is why that church has,off their own bat,erected some sort of protection. Apparently if the church wants to cut them down because they think they are dangerous they can🙁 & can employ anyone not even a proper tree surgeon!! They are precious & we have lost so many to ignorance. Thanks Marq.
Thanks Diana for jogging the memories. I think it was you that said before that there is no legislation to protect ancient yews which is really rather sad.
It’s nice you can go to the National Trust for a coffee without having to pay to go in, I didn’t know that. That looks like a great book for you Marq. What a lovely church ⛪️ thanks for showing us around, those stained glass windows are so beautiful. Nice lunch too 🥰
Thanks Lynn. I've done plenty of Videos from Polesden Lacey over the years.
I didn't know that about the Swindon Stone. I seemed attracted to it.
What a special way to spend a summer’s evening