Explore Frome in Somerset NOW | Best day trip from Bath | 4k Walking Tour UHD 60fps
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- čas přidán 1. 04. 2022
- We hope you enjoy this walk around Frome in Somerset - a great day trip from Bath (with subtitles). One of the Times “Best Places to Live in Britain”, Frome is also a welcoming and vibrant place to visit, with its rich history, culture and natural beauty. Full of historic buildings, beautiful independent shops and creative people, Frome is a wonderfully eventful town. It is the perfect destination for discerning tourists looking for something just a little bit different on visits to Somerset.
Frome is a town with a charming historic centre and has a wealth of architectural interest alongside a thriving contemporary and performing arts scene. Frome is also the original Somerset Market Town, a hugely important destination hosting a thriving market since the time the ink was still wet on The Domesday Book. This tradition continues today with regular markets every Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.
It's home to a number of arts venues and galleries in historic buildings, including The Black Swan, Rook Lane Arts, and the Silk Mill. It also has a number of choirs, a symphony orchestra, a Youth Band, two theatres - the Memorial and Merlin, Westway Cinema and the noted Cheese and Grain, a fantastic live music venue often boasting performances and shows from many a headline act, especially during the Frome Festival and on the layover from Glastonbury.
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Ah...Somerset is certainly easy on the eye. Looks a lovely little town.
Indeed so BIAF. I'd certainly recommend it! All the best and thanks for dropping by.
great silent city guide and peaceful therapy, thank you.
Ah you're most welcome rayraybines. Hope you get to visit some day for real, I'm sure you won't be disappointed. Thanks for dropping by.
What a lovely looking old place. It's such a shame it's blighted by that horrible busy road going through the middle.
Quite so Lee, be great to take a leaf out of the 'Dutch' book. Pleased you enjoyed it anyway.
What a lovely town! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you too for dropping by friend.
Wow, I hadn't heard of Frome before you introduced it to me. I can't quite believe that was the case, it's such an interesting place and so close to Bath! Thank you LW.
Funnily enough we hadn't either but discovered it on the way to Bath. We'd certainly return. Pleased to have introduced it to you.
This is the great thing about this channel - I discover so many places I haven't heard of, and now really want to visit.
Well how good of you to say so LY&M, pleased to know the films are of help. Hope you enjoy your trip if you do get to visit.
These places are so exquisite and quaint!
Quite so Teresa, all the best to you and thanks for dropping by.
Really good tour. Frome seems calmer and nicer vibe than some parts of Bath.
Morning @alistairreed3514, ah quite so! Pleased you enjoyed the perambulation, thanks for dropping by.
What a pretty town!
We do rather agree @daydays12!
@@LivingWalks 😀
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My home town!
Hope you're happy there Bernadette.
Thank you so much for this - Frome is top of my list for places to stay when I eventually visit/move to the UK from Australia. I often 'walk' it on Google earth but this has audio too! 🙏❤
Hi there Penelope, it's a lovely little town isn't it and one we too would love to visit again. So pleased you enjoyed it, you might also like to see the Glastonbury walk... another place you might enjoy visiting. All the best with your visit/move.
@Living Walks thank you, I'll check it out! I was able to visit Glastonbury last time I went over there (12 years ago) so I'm looking forward to seeing it again, even if it's only virtual 😆
Morning @@penelopesparrow hope you enjoy the virtual meander, it's certainly a colourful and wonderfully eccentric town. Best of luck with your plans and all the best.
Welcome! Please come and visit your most welcome :)
@@Eddy_Del_Lobo Ah we'd certainly love to return next time we're in your area. Thanks for being so welcoming.
Nice walk!
Thanks for dropping by, so pleased to hear you enjoyed it. All the best.
Love the older towns. I could have a lot of fun photographing all the buildings and people. Love this walk.. Thank you...
Hi from Sandpoint, Idaho USA.
Hi HD, it might interest you to know that In 2010, the Frome Hoard, one of the largest hoards of Roman coins discovered in Britain, was found in a field near the town by a metal detectorist!
More about it in the subtitles.
I love to metal detect. One of my favorite BBC shows is Detectorist.
@@LivingWalks SAFER THAN BANKS, SOLONG AS YOU REMEMBER WHERE, IT IS. SOMEBODY LEFT IN A RUSH.
What a special little place and so smoothly captured by you as always LW. Entering the lovely street at 0:41 was quite breathtaking. The area around 12:24 was lovely too.
So glad you enjoyed it RBS. We were quite charmed by the town too. Happy to share a little bit of it with you. All the very best.
I grew up in Frome many years ago. The area from 0:41 is at Catherine's hill. I remember it being desolate and only a couple of shops open when I was younger. After recently moving back there (staying for a year) it's changed an awful lot. The old poundstrecher is now a fancy wine bar for example. Still blows my mind how much it's changed for the better to be honest!
Thank you for being so generous.
Good to connect with you AT. By the way if you ever feel like doing a footage exchange with us (perhaps a London for Dublin) do message us. We do that on the rare occasion with walkers we value! All the best to you.
Wow amazing friend
So pleased you enjoyed it friend!
Welcome all to my charming hometown, I am what they call a fromey!
Frome (pronounced froome) comes from the ancient Celtic word Frāmā meaning fair, fine or brisk and was founded by St Aldhelm in the mid 600's at the site of our church which sits in the middle of 3 fresh water springs one of which runs through cheap street where the Anglo Saxons drank from it. A later stone church stands here now but! One wooden Anglo Saxon beam survives and is found inside the church
The site of Frome was situated in a dense forest of oak, yew and ash known as selwood forest which was home to a tribes of Celts that settled here from the Cornish coastlines, over the years it became known for its wool trade and has strong links to many surrounding covens during the medieval period, it was near here that king Alfred the Great fled the danish invasion of the great heathen armies and went into hiding on the Somerset levels near Glastonbury before leading the charge to rid the land of all the viking invaders, a tower to commemorate this achievement can be found outside Bruton known as King Alfreds tower
Hello there Ed what a pleasure to hear from a fromey and have a wonderful history lesson to boot. It's much appreciated, I do hope we've done your lovely town justice. We live in Leigh on sea and happily so, but if we had to move somewhere else in blighty, we'd certainly consider your lovely 'Froom'! All the best to you mate.
Indeed i've heard of and seen videos of Frome but have never been there. It has a lot of character and is rich place to be.
It has old world charm and a liberal culture. I'd like to visit someday. Very detailed walk around , i enjoyed it.
It's a grand place for sure and we'd love to go back and explore it more fully for sure. Hope you get to visit too someday. BTW I watched and tried to comment on your March Madness weekend film but at the moment the YT glitch signs me out each time I attempt comment on a page. Anyway you know it was enjoyed!
I am always so grateful to be able to see and feel these new situations thru your work on your amazing channel. Thank you for being so generous.
You are so welcome AW. BTW I watched and tried to comment on your Manhattan film but at the moment the YT glitch signs me out each time I attempt comment on a page. Anyway you know it was enjoyed! Good to see you're out of Singapore finally!!
A very interesting walk around Frome. Old narrow streets are great for shopping and coffee breaks. Thank you for taking me to this attractive town 😍
Thanks for connecting fellow walker. I'll pop by to your channel shortly and take a peek! All the best to you.
TRUE, BUT SUCH PLACES ATTRACT LARGE CROWDS AT WEEKENDS, WITH VILLAGE OUTSIDER'S AND TOURISTS. A FEW YEARS AGO i SET OUT DELIBERATELY TO SEE THIS TOWN, AND ENDED UP GOING HOME BECAUSE THERE WAS NO PARKING VACANCIES. SO, MAKE ENQUIRIES.
it's always such a wonderful experience to watch from some another part of the world in my studio. Thanks so much! : p
Glad you enjoyed it fellow walker, as I too enjoyed your Winter Walking Tour in Midtown Manhattan!
Would like to visit this old market town i live in sundetland
Hope that happens for you Richard and you have a great time there!
Hello LW, you've done a beautiful job of capturing this quaint town, I love the narrow cobbled lanes.
Well good morning to you WW. What a pleasure to hear from you. Hope you're well and still enjoying your walking?
@@LivingWalks Good morning! Yes, all good thanks, I hope you are too. I enjoyed the warm sunny weather we had, not so much when it turned cold again.
I lived there for over a year, way back in the 1980s. It really hasn't changed much, unlike so much of Britain. Your video stops, appropriately, at the Sun Inn in Catherine Street, which was one of my watering holes.
Hello there Nigel, happy to bring back a good memory or two. Next time we'll have to pop in to the sun inn for a crafty pint.
I like the look of the town centre, quite quaint. It looks like somewhere we would like to visit. Thank you for sharing and have a good Sunday.
Thanks for visiting friend, yes it's a lovely town for sure! I do hope you get to visit sometime, I'd highly recommend it!
Very wonderful walking tour, So many beautiful places, well done!
Thanks for visiting TTC. All the best to you and hope to bring you many more.
Thanks for the tour !
Thanks for dropping by, so pleased to hear you enjoyed it. All the best.
I tell people about Frome all the time and now l can show them
Good morning pestopizza, ah I can see why you talk about it a lot, it's charming isn't it. Pleased to bring the walk to you so you can show it around!
Great video.
I'm your fan.
Oh thanks fellow walker. It's a pleasure to hear that and to connect with you.
My Maternal Grandmother had a cafe in Frome, Moons ago! Tell that woman to discourage children in muzzles ruined the mood, Thanks for posting
You're welcome.
very nice tour!
Thank you E, good of you to let us know you enjoyed it. All the best to you and hope to bring you many more.
EXCELLENT---BUT, WHICH IS-IT---FROME, AS IN HOME OR FROOME, AS IN BROOM ?
Ah you're not alone in wondering that @MrDaiseymay. Apparently Frome is the most mispronounced town in England! I it is indeed Froom as in broom.
Where the heck is the microphone!
On the little camera!
Can I ask for Polish subtitles?
Done! :)
I'd live there, but I'm not saying "Froom".
Ahh.. ha ha righto!
Ghost town.
Ah, I'm sure that's not the case in full season!