Why 10 Villages in Oxfordshire Vanished!

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  • čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
  • Welcome to this weeks offering. We explore a number of Abandoned settlements in Oxfordshire and try and piece their disappearance together. What linked them all?
    As always, we are not historians, we just enjoy learning about routes, transport and such, and sharing our journey of learning with you. These videos are not specifically there for educational purposes, more so for you to learn a little (and maybe a lot more thereafter) and join us on these adventures.
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  • @stephennutkin2477
    @stephennutkin2477 Před 8 měsíci +159

    For those who come across land owners who have made it impossible to use a perfectly Legitimate footpath then the first thing is to contact your local council department which over sees public rights of way etc . To be annoyed and remain quiet or think someone else will report it is not good enough. Keep footpaths open by using them and reporting obstructions it only costs you your time.

    • @RichardWatt
      @RichardWatt Před 8 měsíci +6

      Then you've got councils who will bend over backwards for landowners because of the amounts of corporate rates they pay.

    • @SciFiFemale
      @SciFiFemale Před 8 měsíci +6

      What about places people have walked and used for at least 40 years, but are not on the public right of way maps? The land owner has closed them recently.

    • @martinday2815
      @martinday2815 Před 8 měsíci +7

      @@SciFiFemale happened where I am. Field used for walking for a number of years. Then planning position applied for lots of housing. This was turned down. Out of spite, owner put a bull with sheep in it. Now unusable. Yes owners can do what they want but means less open land to enjoy. Or, owner 'keeps' the footpath open but makes it impossible to use by placing big styles in the way.

    • @nigeltift6335
      @nigeltift6335 Před 8 měsíci +7

      Wonderful response!
      I do it all the time!
      I like to also revisit the areas & tell the landowners it was me who got it reopened!! (When they question why I'm walking there)!!

    • @Simon_Nonymous
      @Simon_Nonymous Před 8 měsíci +2

      Quite right. Photographic evidence always helps, and ask for your rights of way officer. If you get stuck, the Ramblers' association are usually keen to help and advise. If there was no right of way, then it's tough, there's no right of way. However removing or covering up rights of way signs, or putting misleading or false 'no right of way' signage falls under the RoW officer's remit.

  • @TalesOfWar
    @TalesOfWar Před 8 měsíci +96

    To all the private land owners who put up signs discouraging people from using the legal, public rights of way through their land... jeff off! It's scummy behaviour.

    • @monkehbitch
      @monkehbitch Před 8 měsíci +1

      It's my land and you can't use it! Ahem, sawed off!

    • @Simon_Nonymous
      @Simon_Nonymous Před 8 měsíci

      And to all the ones who put up signs to guide the wandering trespassing public away from private land, well done.

    • @mbak7801
      @mbak7801 Před 8 měsíci +3

      @@Simon_Nonymous People should have the right for small gardens yes. Anything larger or commercial maybe a compromise. For being able to keep people from wondering over the land hand it over to the local authority and lease it back. After all it was stolen in the first place.

    • @jeffsuter344
      @jeffsuter344 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Right to roam NOW.
      Restore Rights of Way (footpaths, trackways and bridle paths) NOW.

    • @intractablemaskvpmGy
      @intractablemaskvpmGy Před 8 měsíci +2

      I just bought two "No Trespassing" signs for 2 acres and cabin bordering a national forest. You can go in the NF all you want. But stay off my property if I say to do so. The boundary is well marked and visible (no fence). The law is on my side and you have no rights to it whatsoever. Different cultures have different rules and they are as serious as you take yours. So have fun! I enjoyed hill walking in the UK

  • @kalvaxus
    @kalvaxus Před 8 měsíci +10

    Nothing in the Netherlands is ever abandoned for long. Every inch of this tiny land is always accounted for. So I'm glad I can enjoy such hidden secrets on your channel!

  • @SimonPass230267
    @SimonPass230267 Před 8 měsíci +10

    I grew up in Evenley (near Astwick). My Dad was a keen member of the Bicester Hash House Harriers and he spent many an hour working out trails for the next run and poring over OS maps. That got him interested in Astwick and the history of it. He would have loved this video, sadly no longer with us. 'On On Silver fox' (his Hash Handle).

    • @robinhillyard6187
      @robinhillyard6187 Před 8 měsíci

      Excuse my ignorance but what exactly do these hash house harriers harry?

  • @t.vanoosterhout233
    @t.vanoosterhout233 Před 8 měsíci +42

    Very well done once more. I found the link between present-day land owners shutting off public right-of-way paths and medieval land owners kicking tenents from their lands so they could keep more sheep there, quite ironic. A rich owner may thus destroy a community amenity or, indeed, the community itself. Perhaps a deeper dive into enclosures, new land ownership laws and eviction of tenants would be fruitful?

    • @jointgib
      @jointgib Před 8 měsíci +1

      bloody normans, coming over here

    • @Johnketes54
      @Johnketes54 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@jointgibAt least we got some decent Christian name like the saints Matthew Mark Luke and John otherwise saxon athalsten athalstein

  • @watcher24601
    @watcher24601 Před 8 měsíci +10

    Great video, in addition to plague, I thought many villages were 'abandoned' when landowners got more value from sheep than people. Shame some habits haven't changed!

  • @charlesmoss8119
    @charlesmoss8119 Před 8 měsíci +6

    I find the ordinance survey mapping app gives me great confidence in using paths that are discouraged - the red arrow giving me a clear position and removing doubt (I’m lousy with a map). I find it incredible how in one walk you can go from a landowner who is accommodating and helpful to another who treats you like a trespasser, though presumably still taking whatever subsidies are available!

  • @user-cm3op8bt7s
    @user-cm3op8bt7s Před 8 měsíci +4

    If you read some of Maurice Beresford's books ("The Lost Villages of England", for example) he confirms that the plague isn't the primary cause of desertion of villages in medieval times - it was landowners and pasturage primarily. It was cheaper to have a lot of sheep and employ one shepherd than to employ a large number of villein landworkers, particularly when wool was more profitable than crops.
    Tilgarsley is an interesting one, as it is one of the few villages that was wiped out entirely by the plague (Tusmore, which you mention, is another). Many historians have debated where Tilgarsley lies, but it hasn't been definitively tracked down, as far as I'm aware.

  • @GregosLEGOFairground
    @GregosLEGOFairground Před 8 měsíci +3

    There’s also Hampton Gay, just north of Kidlington. Derelict Manor House and a nice little chapel you can go in.

  • @TheHaighus
    @TheHaighus Před 8 měsíci +2

    I grew up near Caus Castle, which is a great example of a lost settlement on the English-Welsh border in Shropshire. Would be a good place for one of your videos actually- could walk along Offa's Dyke before moving around Long Mountain into Caus. There are some other interesting landmarks nearby like an old drover's mark (Bromlow callow).
    It began as a Norman motte and bailey in the dangerous Welsh marches, midway between Shrewsbury and Montgomery. The settlement was a full town by the mid medieval period, with a market charter, status as a borough, and several hundred people living within the walls. The original wooden defenses had been fully upgraded to stone, so this was a substantial investment.
    By the English Civil War, Caus was a ruin with a single family living within the walls. It was held by a token Royalist garrison, but apparently had been neglected for decades by the lords of the manor. It is probably this neglect that killed the community.
    The castle was "made safe" following the war, and today little of the stonework remains. The earthworks are fairly well preserved and you can walk through the copse on the hill today. A single farm is present on the edge of the site.
    Many of the local buildings were constructed with stone pilfered from the ruined castle in the years following the civil war, including the house I grew up in (built around 1650). There are a few pieces of well-cut stone in the oldest section which were clearly nabbed from a different building!

  • @rileyuktv6426
    @rileyuktv6426 Před 8 měsíci +10

    Excellent content - having lived in Oxfordshire for 50 plus years ❤

  • @Hairnicks
    @Hairnicks Před 8 měsíci +13

    The moated area inside of the wood reminded me so much of Penhallam in North Cornwall which has been excavated and is now very visible and was a fortified manor house. Good images on Google Lovely filming and excellent research. Really enjoyed it as always.

  • @frankgulla2335
    @frankgulla2335 Před 3 dny

    Paul, thanks for this insight into the English hinterland and "lost" villages. On a trip to Ireland, I was stunned to come across a small Norman chapel in the middle of nowhere, with a sign that said, "Norman Chapel 1200AD", no gates, no locks. and no signs saying "Do Not Touch" just sitting there waiting for people to rediscover it. Here in the USA, the only thing that is nearly that old are from the original people living in North America and most of what they left behind was very ephemeral. Only things like "Mounds" and Cliff dwellings and the ruins of the Anstazi are left to investigate, though the oral traditions do tell compelling stories.

  • @hubertvancalenbergh9022
    @hubertvancalenbergh9022 Před 8 měsíci +6

    Those ancient churches and chapels are a delight! They remind me of M.R. James stories like "The Uncommon Prayer-Book" and "A Neighbour's Landmark". Good to see Rebecca again, however briefly.

  • @AmblingMan
    @AmblingMan Před 8 měsíci +3

    there are a couple more between Old Chalford and Lidstone

    • @pwhitewick
      @pwhitewick  Před 8 měsíci +3

      Yep, I had feared I may have missed half a dozen

  • @neiloflongbeck5705
    @neiloflongbeck5705 Před 8 měsíci +4

    Whilst the Black Death did destroy the economic viability of many places the shift to raising sheep for their fleeces did for many many more. And unlike the Scottish versions it all took place long before a large number of people were literate.

    • @pwhitewick
      @pwhitewick  Před 8 měsíci +1

      This is where my knowledge falls down because I assume there is must less work available for pastures?

    • @neiloflongbeck5705
      @neiloflongbeck5705 Před 8 měsíci +3

      @@pwhitewick between the famines of 1315 to 1317 and the arrival of the Black Death there was a gradual shift away from crop farming to sheep farming. This was coupled to another couple of trends: the increasing number of lords of the manors who were farming out their demesnes and the growth in the proportion of villagers who did no feudal services in the fields of the lord of the manor (ie a rise in the number of freemen and a fallin the number of villeins). After the Black Death this meant that there were fewer people who had to harvest the lord of the manor's crops for free making it more expensive to run the manor even taking the labour controls imposed in 1351. Sheep, on the other hand need less labour to rear than crops and the absentee lords of the manor preferred the money without the bother of the feudal obligations so got rid of their villains for sheep.

    • @neiloflongbeck5705
      @neiloflongbeck5705 Před 8 měsíci

      @@pwhitewick I've been looking into the sheep issue. In 1194 there were about 6 million sheep from which 50 000 sacks of wool were collected, mainly for export. By 1315 there were about 10 million sheep. During the reign of Edward I London alone exported 14,500 sacks of wool a year. Most if this wool went to Flanders.
      In 1390 an Italian merchant, Francisco Balducci Pegolotti listed 185 monasteries of which 66 were held by the Cistercians. Fountains Abbey produced the most wool with74 sacks, but their abbey at Tintern and Dore got £18 13s and 4d for each sack of wool. England's nobles were not slow to copy the monasteries in switching to sheep farming. The Duchy of Lancaster had 2 sheep ranges in Yorkshire, managed from Pontefract and Pickering, and other in the Derbyshire Peak District.
      After the Black Death the cost of labour was much higher than before (think of today's inflation after Covid as an equivalent) and the lords of manors across the country switched from keeping peasants to keeping sheep.

  • @davidberlanny3308
    @davidberlanny3308 Před 8 měsíci +5

    I'm relieved ..... Rebecca has found the come out of the bush sign at last!!
    I guess there are no remains of the villages because they weren't built of stone?
    Well worth a visit to St Huberts at Idsworth, its known as the church in the field. It has similar style paintings on the walls too ..... and no village nearby!!
    Great video, well done!!

  • @ArcAudios77
    @ArcAudios77 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Thanks Paul & Rebecca.
    Regards sent from Western Scotland.

  • @MrGreatplum
    @MrGreatplum Před 8 měsíci +12

    Great stuff, Paul. There’s two main reasons why villages became abandoned in lowland Britain in the Middle Ages and later - plague and pestilence (that’s one 😜) and landowners (often because the villages spoiled their view!)
    The Black Death should not just be taken as 1348; waves of it continued for the next 150 years.

    • @mothmagic1
      @mothmagic1 Před 8 měsíci +2

      I get the impression that COVID is going to come back in successive waves for a good many years yet as well.

    • @stuartbridger5177
      @stuartbridger5177 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Albury in Surrey (not to be confused with the one in Oxfordshire) is a great example of the latter. The whole village was moved with the exception of the church and a new village established with a new church a a few miles west.

    • @MrGreatplum
      @MrGreatplum Před 8 měsíci

      @@stuartbridger5177 not far from me and a great example - I need to explore there

    • @mbak7801
      @mbak7801 Před 8 měsíci

      @@mothmagic1 Yes but the IFR is only 10x of seasonal flu (which is a horrible infection in its own right). If we get something with an IFR of 50% (50x Covid) then things get wonderfully interesting.

    • @louisesouthgate5231
      @louisesouthgate5231 Před 8 měsíci +1

      ​@@stuartbridger5177we've just spent a lovely afternoon walk round Albury!

  • @pdxyadayada
    @pdxyadayada Před 8 měsíci +2

    Yay! Rebecca’s back.

  • @lordbungle6235
    @lordbungle6235 Před 8 měsíci +2

    As you mentioned the Black Death I really think you should visit "The Village of the Damned " Eyam in Derbyshire.
    You will have just missed "The Burning of the Rats" on bonfire night or there abouts.

  • @chrish5319
    @chrish5319 Před 8 měsíci +3

    Thank you, love the changing/unchanging landscape stories. I also love the fact that all over the UK you can walk into isolated buildings and find images from several hundred years ago, cared for but not needing any protection.

  • @zworm2
    @zworm2 Před 8 měsíci +9

    Enjoyed that, Thanks1 I also enjoy Jack Hargreaves and he did a similar description of the loss of local villages. As happened in Scotland with the clearing of the Highlands, the same happened earlier in England with the Black Death which led to a severe loss of labour and the demand for wool and textiles caused the land owners to drive off or relocate whole villages to make sheep farming more profitable.

  • @martinmarsola6477
    @martinmarsola6477 Před 8 měsíci +6

    Another interesting video today. A real walk “back in time”. Appreciate your time and labour in these videos. Glad to see you both today. Cheers mates!! ❤❤😊😊

  • @davie941
    @davie941 Před 8 měsíci +7

    hello again Paul and Rebecca, i love the history and mystery of these old settlements , great video , really well done and thank you both 😊😍

  • @barryballard1408
    @barryballard1408 Před 8 měsíci +2

    A really fascinating subject Paul, which must have taken up a lot of research, walking, and travelling time. Well done. Nice unexpected appearance by Rebecca at the end, whose shadowy presence I notice slips through the frame at 1:39!

  • @bobsrailrelics
    @bobsrailrelics Před 8 měsíci +2

    I see pictures of villages in Wales that don't exist anymore and often wonder why. This is fascinating to see so many in one area. Thanks both.

    • @invokalink162
      @invokalink162 Před 8 měsíci +3

      So much rich history in Wales and being more sparsely populated, there is so much left and not lost under housing/industry etc. May i recommend the Elan valley and the Cwmystwyth lead mines. Incredible place to drive and so many amazing things to stop off and see. Like travelling through the past.

    • @bobsrailrelics
      @bobsrailrelics Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@invokalink162 Thanks. Been to the Elan Valley on many an occasion, a fascinating place with so much history . I will look up the lead mines.

  • @stuartbridger5177
    @stuartbridger5177 Před 8 měsíci +5

    Nice one. Obviously you couldn't have covered every abandoned village in big county like Oxfordshire. We have walked through Nether Chalford near Chipping Norton. Shifford near us also has an isolated church. Despite working in Eynsham for a number of years, I have only recently heard of Tilgarsley.

    • @eddielay2937
      @eddielay2937 Před 8 měsíci +1

      There is Tilgarsley Road up by the traffic lights, near The Evenlode

    • @stuartbridger5177
      @stuartbridger5177 Před 8 měsíci

      @@eddielay2937 Yes, that was my only reference to the name, I didn't know its context until recently.

  • @annenewton5403
    @annenewton5403 Před 5 měsíci +1

    That was a really interesting story especially the moat.

  • @gudbo
    @gudbo Před 8 měsíci +5

    Thank you guys for the incredible work

  • @smallsleepyrascalcat
    @smallsleepyrascalcat Před 8 měsíci +4

    Very interesting video again. I suppose the plague/black death or however they call it seems to be the biggest destroyer of villages thrughout Europe. Though the 30 year's war left a lot of abandoned villages in Germany too. I love those lonely churches in the countryside. I wish I could visit England one day and see this all for myself.
    PS: she's alive! 🤣

  • @AquarianStarr
    @AquarianStarr Před 8 měsíci +2

    Wow, you pack a lot of excellent historical knowledge in your vlogs in such a short video. I love watching them as someone who is studying (as an amateur) archaeology and history. There is another deserted village that is on the Oxfordshire, Warwickshire boarder (not exactly sure which county it’s in but I think now it’s Warwickshire ). Wormleighton Deserted Medieval Village is viewable from the Oxford canal, that I have been navigating for 20 yrs, and the earthworks are interesting and very prominent on the landscape.

  • @Johnnyg53
    @Johnnyg53 Před 8 měsíci +1

    I really enjoy these, I hated history at school but these videos whet my appetite for more.

  • @tardismole
    @tardismole Před 8 měsíci

    Where I was born and grew up there were stories about houses being on the site before our house was built. Digging the garden in the spring always brought up bits of broken plates and glass. In the rubbish pile at the far end of the garden was bits of brick and roof tiles. I have wondered for over fifty years what stood on that site before our brand new house was build in 1966.

  • @li2uo
    @li2uo Před 8 měsíci +1

    Fab video. It's great to know that there's so much to see and find in the English countryside. A lot of mystery and a lot to learn too. That church is a gem!

  • @johnp2106
    @johnp2106 Před 8 měsíci +1

    There are plenty of remains of medieval villages here in Lincolnshire. It is said that whilst the black death reduce the population it was the movement of the population away from these villages to work for larger land owners who needed them close at hand to work for them.

  • @ZiggyDan
    @ZiggyDan Před 8 měsíci +2

    Great stuff, Paul and Rebecca. A modern day Domesday Book.

  • @michaelmiller641
    @michaelmiller641 Před 8 měsíci +3

    Fascinating video, thanks for that.The abandoned chapels are particularly fascinating!

  • @EGDD-42
    @EGDD-42 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Near Tusmore & Astwick (to the NE) you have a farm called Wilisden (woolisden) & there is another village there (just north of 'eath - use drops ure h's in N'or Oxfordshire).
    I can't remember if it was the enclosure act or death of the wool trade that closed it.
    A touch further to the N you have Shelswell, and a village was cleared to gentrify the landscape for the big 'ouse. The estate farm house has the remains of a moat around it.
    Of course Fringford, Heath & Tusmore is Flora Thompson country, with Lark Rise to Candleford
    By Bicester you've got Wretwick which was a plague village & Alchester a Roman Town - Bi-Cester apparently two camps??
    At one stage the area was the border with the Danelaw

    • @SimonPass230267
      @SimonPass230267 Před 8 měsíci +1

      We used to explore Shelswell park's abandoned manor when we were kids in the early eighties before they demolished it.

  • @karenmusilova3772
    @karenmusilova3772 Před 2 měsíci +1

    There's also Wretchwick and Alchester on the edge of Bicester. 😊 But thanks, I really enjoyed the video!

    • @pwhitewick
      @pwhitewick  Před 2 měsíci

      Yep. Every time I make these, I then find a handful more!

  • @StickPeopleAndPuff
    @StickPeopleAndPuff Před 8 měsíci +2

    As an America, this still fascinates me how old Britain is. Almost feels like a lost history for me.....

    • @bobroberts6155
      @bobroberts6155 Před 8 měsíci +2

      When I was a kid in 1968 we had a party at school to celebrate our village being 1000 years old and that was just our recorded history. When you grow up in the UK you are surrounded by ancient churches and castles, centuries of history both remembered and forgotten. I grew up loving that deep connection to my country and hugely appreciate the work Paul and Rebecca do to bring the past alive for the CZcams generation, of all ages!

    • @StickPeopleAndPuff
      @StickPeopleAndPuff Před 8 měsíci +1

      @bobroberts6155 it's similar in the USA but all of the ancient villages and such are Native American. I don't need to explain why there's only a handful of those left.....

  • @DS-xg9kf
    @DS-xg9kf Před 8 měsíci +3

    Beautiful video. Again. Thank you.

  • @Jimyjames73
    @Jimyjames73 Před 8 měsíci

    Akeman Street also goes through Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire @ 6:28 (Now the A41!!!) - Thanks for sharing Paul 🙂🚂🚂🚂

  • @shahad_alsayed
    @shahad_alsayed Před 8 měsíci

    Talk about the romans..I like it when they wear toga..describes eliteness and luxury..anyway always interesting journey, thank you for sharing 😃

  • @phillwainewright4221
    @phillwainewright4221 Před 8 měsíci +2

    The lost villages of Dorset (there are dozens) were because previously wooded areas were cleared and were more suitable for farming than the chalk uplands where the villages had been.

    • @pwhitewick
      @pwhitewick  Před 8 měsíci +2

      Ah yes, have you been watching Jack H?

  • @robertallen8715
    @robertallen8715 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Excellent work. Again. Thank You Both.

  • @paulinehedges5088
    @paulinehedges5088 Před 8 měsíci +1

    And as if by magic...there was the actual video! HOORAY, really interesting and makes you think about all those places still to be discovered. Thank you, as ever.

  • @williamlee1703
    @williamlee1703 Před 8 měsíci

    That was really good very interesting , thank you for putting in the time and effort!

  • @calebwright6151
    @calebwright6151 Před 8 měsíci

    Another Fine Production Paul & Rebecca

  • @StormwatchDruid
    @StormwatchDruid Před 8 měsíci

    Fantastic video Paul and Rebecca, really enjoyed watching and very interesting.

  • @BarneyLeith
    @BarneyLeith Před 8 měsíci

    Fascinating video. Thank you both for offering such interesting insights into the history of abandoned settlements.

  • @jb-zr4ez
    @jb-zr4ez Před 8 měsíci

    Great video, really interesting. Thanks.

  • @shirleylynch7529
    @shirleylynch7529 Před 8 měsíci

    Another very interesting tale. Great explore and info. Thank you. Scenery amazing.

  • @chrisb012
    @chrisb012 Před 8 měsíci

    Again another great video exploring our history, in a way I hadn’t thought about. Thanks for scratching an itch I never knew I had!!

  • @robinjones6999
    @robinjones6999 Před 8 měsíci

    Expertly presented as always

  • @michaelmalone9062
    @michaelmalone9062 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I find your videos amazingly interesting. Thank you both for your good work and historical information.

    • @pwhitewick
      @pwhitewick  Před 2 měsíci

      Our pleasure! We appreciate the watch.

  • @user-jg4ej9qx8n
    @user-jg4ej9qx8n Před 8 měsíci

    Greetings from Western Canada. I really enjoy your views. Thank you for doing them.

  • @memofromessex
    @memofromessex Před 8 měsíci +2

    Thanks again!

  • @sophie1913
    @sophie1913 Před 8 měsíci

    Loved it, great video

  • @Sim0nTrains
    @Sim0nTrains Před 8 měsíci +1

    Brilliant video the Church look nice as well.

  • @iansteel5569
    @iansteel5569 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Love your work, really interesting, I should look at OS maps of my area.

  • @LKBRICKS1993
    @LKBRICKS1993 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Excellent very interesting thank you.

  • @lindamccaughey6669
    @lindamccaughey6669 Před 8 měsíci

    That was really fantastic. What history. Very sad about the chapel it is beautiful. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care

  • @gertrudehustenpust
    @gertrudehustenpust Před 8 měsíci

    There are two more abandoned settlements south of Ilmer near Thame. I camped there this summer. (Coldharbor and Lockington)

  • @richmiller7834
    @richmiller7834 Před 8 měsíci +1

    90K+ subscribers! well done you two 😀

  • @tomlee812
    @tomlee812 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Another fascinating video. Thank you so much for the work you both put into making these.

  • @hedleythorne
    @hedleythorne Před 8 měsíci +2

    AGHHH! You released the video at the same time as the Grand Prix started! How on earth can I watch both at once? ;-)

    • @pwhitewick
      @pwhitewick  Před 8 měsíci +2

      .....and work!? ;-)

    • @hedleythorne
      @hedleythorne Před 8 měsíci +2

      Ah yes, that. Oops. Great film by the way!@@pwhitewick

  • @nilo70
    @nilo70 Před 8 měsíci

    Good to see Rebecca again ! I would like to see Time Team do their thing there !
    Cheers From California 😊

  • @timtaylor8406
    @timtaylor8406 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Absolutely fascinating - I'm so glad I've found your interesting channel, so well presented.

  • @roderickmain9697
    @roderickmain9697 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Fascinating. Especially since I grew up in Witney and I had no idea of these places until I saw this. Well done. (PS. Always enjoy seeing Rebecca in front of the camera too)

  • @gobears6487
    @gobears6487 Před 8 měsíci +1

    One more comment! You were so close to the abandoned rail line that joined up at Kings Sutton! (See my comments in Geoff's Least Used Kings Sutton video?) Worth checking out!

  • @52memor
    @52memor Před 8 měsíci

    GREAT have you ever considered putting out a book of your travels. The painted walls was good but you didn't really show them long enough so I could appreciate them.. Many thanks

  • @8teillumin
    @8teillumin Před 8 měsíci

    What a brilliant video. Would make a great new Timeteam dig

  • @davidf6326
    @davidf6326 Před 8 měsíci

    Technically speaking the sign at Bowles Farm is kinda correct. Yes, a bridleway runs to the left and right from that point and a path bisects the field to the east (running roughly NE), but straight ahead towards the large white barn (ie the other side of the sign) is not a public right of way. The fence around the field should be moved or have access gates, as it's blocking the bridleway, but the sign, though vague, is arguably correct.

  • @cerealport2726
    @cerealport2726 Před 8 měsíci +2

    I wonder if the villages abandoned due to the plague, were just left empty as residents died, if they were deliberately "evacuated" with things left more or less intact, or if they were deliberately burned down / demolished. I guess whatever the combination of events, they were clearly not seen as nice places to live again.

  • @mothmagic1
    @mothmagic1 Před 8 měsíci

    Nice to learn more about the county i've lived all my life except for my time in the army

  • @andykopgod
    @andykopgod Před 7 měsíci

    What an amazing video paul, that church in middle of knowhere, gladly not vandilised either 👍

  • @invokalink162
    @invokalink162 Před 8 měsíci

    Great vid guys. The conclusion was beautifully written. Bravo for your continued efforts regarding both recording and presenting such important history.

    • @invokalink162
      @invokalink162 Před 8 měsíci

      PS - Those painting are incredible eh? Coombe Church on the south coast (now tucked in a corner of a farmstead, but the rest of the medieval village presumably long gone) has similar imagery on the walls. Worth a visit if you're ever near Chichester/Brighton.

    • @invokalink162
      @invokalink162 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Oh, and have you ever thought of moving over the boarder into Wales for more content? So much rich history and so much to see and discover. May i recommend the Elan valley and the Cwmystwyth lead mines. Incredible place to drive and so many amazing things to stop off and see. Like travelling through the past.

  • @christopherbutler7588
    @christopherbutler7588 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Very interesting thanks 😊

  • @punkinholler
    @punkinholler Před 2 měsíci

    These videos make me jealous in numerous ways. For one, it's so cool that y'all can just wander across people's feilds and farms without worry. I know its because you don't have much public land and that landowners are still assholes about it sometimes, but it's still really cool. I'm also jealous that you can just personally investigate your history like that. We don't have anywhere near as much to see here, and the history that goes back more than a couple hundred years is... Uncomfortably complicated

  • @Peter4MedicalEnglish
    @Peter4MedicalEnglish Před 8 měsíci

    Great. Thanks a lot. There are so many moated sites in central England and I find them very evocative. Wheatfield church is interesting, having arched windows and a Venetian window at its West end ... 17th century?

  • @zacandmillie
    @zacandmillie Před 8 měsíci +1

    This looks like an opportunity for Time Team to explore and they've only got 3 days!

  • @richieixtar5849
    @richieixtar5849 Před 8 měsíci

    Again very interesting. And nice to see Rebecca there at the end :)

  • @paulwhitehouse3690
    @paulwhitehouse3690 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Really love your videos Paul (& Rebecca). Are you able to "cross reference" your work and that of Time Team? I would think you are highlighting several potential sites that a "dig" would add to the pool of archaeological data? Paul, Johannesburg

  • @angelaknisely-marpole7679
    @angelaknisely-marpole7679 Před 8 měsíci

    The last village, Astwick, certainly shows up well on the LiDAR data, as does the moat!.

  • @robertmaitland09
    @robertmaitland09 Před 8 měsíci

    Excellent stuff, so many places like this around the country. Proper psychogeographical research.

  • @fredbrackely
    @fredbrackely Před 8 měsíci

    Very interesting. I grew up in a village called Long Itchington (Warwickshire) the original location of the village was a mile or two further down the river Itchen than its present day location. Its abandonment was also caused by the black death.

  • @allanchurm
    @allanchurm Před 8 měsíci +1

    do so love this channel

  • @BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne
    @BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne Před 8 měsíci +3

    Was beginning to think Rebecca had gone the same way as Vicki Pipe....

  • @Johnketes54
    @Johnketes54 Před 7 měsíci +1

    As soon as this video started I thought of the black death, A bit out of your jurisdiction and like you at your age tried and still do with Google find things out, But some years ago my favourite park museum had a refit and it was revealed it was a priory a bit obvious it being Priory Park originally home of the Cluniac order, We have Cluny Square a children's playground and jokingly mentioned building on it, Apparently it was a mass burial site for the Black death which is spore and can lay dormant for centuries and can easily kill to day's local population

  • @WILLIAM1690WALES
    @WILLIAM1690WALES Před 7 měsíci

    Even though the small church was sealed up if you ask permission, you can actually arrange for christenings and other services to be conducted. Apparently, of course the site does not have any water or electricity, and apparently repairs are being done to improve the condition of the building.

  • @brianwoodbridge88
    @brianwoodbridge88 Před 7 měsíci

    As an American it’s absolutely wild to me that there is just a building in the middle of a giant field, completely abandoned, with a 700 year old painting in it. Just there. Ignored. For anyone to walk up and see or touch or vandalize or anything

  • @robertdonaldson6584
    @robertdonaldson6584 Před 8 měsíci

    I am fiddling Swinging on a Gate on my violin.

  • @flashman4571
    @flashman4571 Před 8 měsíci +2

    `bout time you got a drone, Paul.

    • @pwhitewick
      @pwhitewick  Před 8 měsíci +2

      Haha.... Thanks, I mean I have had one for 6 years. LOL

  • @sirridesalot6652
    @sirridesalot6652 Před 8 měsíci

    Yet another quite enjoyable video.
    Just wondering about the sign DANGER DEEP TURNING. What is a deep turning?
    I also wonder if wars or even skirmishes caused so many deaths that the rest of the villagers abandoned their homes to move elsewhere that was hopefully safer?
    Or perhaps it was a fairly sudden change in climate/weather that caused crops to fail and then t he abandonment of the villages?

  • @beardysam2052
    @beardysam2052 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Interesting how many of these are nearby ‘fords’ over the river Isis as with oxen-ford. I wonder if the Black Death meant people and buildings clustered around fewer fords/ crossings with more importance

  • @richmeister1960
    @richmeister1960 Před 8 měsíci +1

    I love this.

  • @Simon_Nonymous
    @Simon_Nonymous Před 8 měsíci +2

    I'm not totally convinced that sign was anything more than asking people to stop wandering through the farmyard from the way it was placed, but it seems to be a bit of a hobby horse for you Paul.

    • @pwhitewick
      @pwhitewick  Před 8 měsíci

      Agreed, I guess the point here is that it's not clear. There was no obvious route and this sign very much gave the impression there was now no way through. Genuinely, we turned around.

  • @adamedwards1937
    @adamedwards1937 Před 8 měsíci

    Nice GIS/LIDAR work

  • @a11csc
    @a11csc Před 8 měsíci +1

    nice one