The Quest for England: Around Amberley Castle
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Today, Cynthia Julian and I are taking a stroll around the back of Amberley Castle, in West Sussex, on a public footpath towards the river Arun and the railway crossing.
Amberley Castle stands in the village of Amberley, West Sussex. The castle was erected as a 12th-century manor house and fortified in 1377. It has high curtain walls, internal towers in each corner, a hall and a gateway. It was used as a fortress by the bishops of Chichester. It is a Grade I listed building and in use as privately owned hotel.
Adjacent to it are the Sussex Wildlife Trust Wild brooks, a flood plain and favour place for birds and bird-watchers.
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How beautiful! Thank you Richard.
Thank you.
Lovely to see Cynthia , a very squelchy walk , well done for keeping upright.
Thanks, Ann
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Made me smile-lovely to see Cynthia. I drove past a couple of weeks ago and the fields were flooded and the Arun was swollen. I also drove over Bury Hill and the valley was a spectacular site-more so than usual with the flooding.
So much water at the moment - but hopefully it is reducing.
I've been into Amberley Castle for my mum's 65th birthday back in November. It was lovely in there.
I confess I have never been inside.
I was born and raised in amberley, lived there until I was 18 years old! Moved myself up to Bristol and regretted it ever since. Hope to one day make my way back. Lovely video x
Hope you make it back.
Beautiful example of an English village. I have visited the Amberley Castle Hotel, church and museum but never taken the walk you took but will try it out ASAP 👍
It is a quiet little back water walk - with pleasant views.
Amberley Castle looks great - I think you can get a fine cream tea there!
The James Bond that was filmed partly at Amberley museum was ‘a view to a kill’, Roger Moore’s last outing as 007. ( I may have looked that up!)
I remembered it was a Roger Moore film, but couldn't think of the title. Cheers, Matthew.
Yes, the footage was intercut with the San Francisco footage in 'A View to a Kill' (1985). Bit of a Bond fan is me.
Well you tease! You did walk around the castle (at least the one wall!😄). Can't wait for you to come back & do a walk of Amberly - very lovely cottages!😍 That was a very pretty stroll - wonderful historic buildings & beautiful scenery. Amazed the next village was so close w/ it's own church. As large as the one at Amberly was, I'm surprised they were not expected to attend there back in the day.
Btw...felt like you needed a black cape, top hat & pointy mustache threatening to put sweet Cynthia on the tracks! images.app.goo.gl/66wxEFKxPXWDpitt7 😂🤣😂🤣
It was a manor house really with a large curtain wall, now a hotel.
@@RichardVobes oh I had already read up on the history of it since your Sunday Chat!🤣 Though called a Castle it was always Fortified Priory built for the monks of Chichester (told you cause of you I'm learning more about England than I ever thought I would!😅). Was just really hoping you were going to take a closer walk around for a better view - & you did!😁👍
Another place to put on my ever lengthening to visit list! Thank you for a very interesting video.
Always a pleasure.
Great video as usual, Richard. It was nice to see Amberley from that angle as it takes on much more the appearance of a serious castle. The exterior walls are pretty impressive, but very overgrown with ivy.
Lovely wild walk, you pick the best places.
Thanks so much, Kathy.
Lovely to see Cynthia again! Back in the 1980's the Wildbrooks were so flooded that the trains made a wake as they swept along. It was like crossing an inland sea, by train!
Heavens - wasn't the electric current dangerous?
Richard really nice video... the ladies that own the cafe are, to the best of my knowledge at least four generation of Amberly .. the stores is a wonderful shop which has won awards. The owner of both have good knowledge of the local area and history. The store has many many old photos of the village of my memory serves me correctly in addition to some super products ..
I must go back and quiz them on it then.
It looked and sounded like you had a great laugh with Cynthia. I like Amberley, been the lots of times but not recently and I’ve certainly not been along that path. There’s a lovely tea rooms in the village, we’ve stopped off there a few times on our way back from Kent. The Amberley chalk pits museum is really worth a visit Richard. Great video as always.👍🏻
Oh yes, I must visit the chalk pit museum again soon.
I love these surreptitious encounters with random people on walks, one of the pleasures I encounter whenever I come back to England and that I miss when I’m not here.
He was a good sport and didn't mind being filmed either.
Great castle 👍🏻
Sorry to correct you and Cynthia. You were looking west towards the Southdowns and you spotted Bury church,which is on the other side of the River Arun and not Houghton Church,which is south of Amberley.On a good day, when the brooks are not flooded, it's possible to cross the railway line and carry on the footpath towards the river and follow it round back towards Houghton bridge.There used to be a ferry crossing between Bury and Amberley. It was just a rowing boat,but it linked the two villages.On the 4th August 2007, TV presenter, Holly Willoughby, married Dan Baldwin at Amberley Castle.Up until four years ago,I used to be the postman for Bury village.
I bet that was a lovely job in such lovely countryside.
Fantastic views & scenery, did not realise that Houghton was so close. Almost had the Perils of Pauline.
It is just over a stones throw. :)
Just before I started watching this, and you talking about crows. I was listening to my first dawn chorus, but now just hearing the planes on their way to Heathrow.
What a shame the planes have taken away the dawn chorus.
Steve Gee .
Gatwick ?
@@orlas5861 i am under one of the flightpath of London Heathrow. also i have a app that follows planes.
Interesting vlog and fascinating to learn the history of the castle. If I may take an opportunity to preach safety on the railway. To use a FP crossing safely, stand at the "stop look listen" sign which is positioned 2 metres from the rail. Look carefully both ways, if safe cross the line immediately. After watching your vlog Amberley will be in our visit list.
We did actually keep well back from the track!
Oh yes Richard I wasn't having a pop, sorry. Just thought I would take opportunity to spread the word (bearing in mind the amount of viewers) I work with NR and see some scary things. Look forward to your next vlog (that's if you don't chuck me off 👀 Appologies once again.
Love that castle always wanted to stay there though very pricey . As ever loving the vids
I can see you Lording it up there!
If you see a lot of crows then they are rooks. If you see a single rook it's a crow. These were neither. These were jackdaws also known as greypoles.
I wonder why they are called greypoles?
I think the term Greypoles could be a local one as I heard an old countryman use that term and I asked him whats a Greypole, then he said Jackdaws! It stuck with me ever since
By the railway gate, you were standing next to a WW2 Pillbox atop the natural wall you described.
Great video ma frend
There you go Richard, Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. In common English, they are known as the crow family, or, more technically, corvids. That should keep everyone happy......
Thanks, Jon. One learns very quick in this medium.
Lovely to see Cynthia again for an interesting video on a walk I've done a couple of times, but in drier weather! Cream teas in the castle mmm. Lovely tearoom and pottery in the village.
If there's more than one crow they are rooks, if there is only one rook its a crow 😊
Richard, the saint you were thinking of re The Ancient Fig Gardens in Tarring, Worthing was St Thomas a'Becket.
You know I can't get anything right.
Great video, there is more to Amberley that I thought after all I haven't been there since I was about 8. Nice to have a bit of a run in to some trains! Great video.
Thought you might like that.
THE DUKEDOM OF SUSSEX. (verse 3 of 4).
Come inspect your county Sir
you'll find most things in order
From aspects of its coastal fringe
to a northern Surrey border
Of grand castle magnificence
Our county is not short
At Camber and at Pevensey
was fray and skirmish fought
So forget not little Sussex Sir
when tending greater things
This southern place has warmed the hearts
of English kings and queens. JB18
Where is Amberley? I had to look on a map. Never heard of it. Fascinating. Eaglegards...plus, editing to correct spelling of Amberley.
Amberley is in West Sussex - put into a map search and it will pop up! :)
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