A Walk Around Avebury in Wiltshire
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- čas přidán 14. 07. 2024
- Today I am in Avebury with Marq English. Avebury is a small village set inside the mysterious stone circle and earthworks built by our prehistoric ancestors. In this episode Marq and I are exploring the grounds of the old manor house, the National Trust property, the church and church yard and some of the fabulous buildings to be found there.
In our next video, we shall look at the magnificent standing stones.
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Lovely video, I get homesick for Avebury! Can’t wait to get back ❤
Hi from Tasmania Australia, 🙂👍 I am so envious right now, you are so amazingly lucky to be surrounded by so much history, I seen a picture of silbury Hill in a book and stared at it for the longest time, but it was Avebury I yearned to learn about, any of the oldest houses in the area, I keep expecting to see a tall red brick house, it was a dream I had once, almost like a hostile. I won't fly, I will ever get to stand where you are, but I feel like I have. I feel like the stones were an idea someone learnt from travelling, I don't think there's anything supernatural about them, I think they would have been so proud today to see people being drawn there. I love it so much. Thank you for sharing you travels 🤗🙂🍀🍂🍁🌾💞.
Thanks so much for watching
@@RichardVobes thank you so much for sharing 😀👋🙂🇦🇺.
One of my favourite places
A correction. That is not a tithe barn. It was erected c.1690 by Sir John Stwell, then lord of te manr of Avebury, presumably to house the produce from what was then known as Avebury Great Farm. Most of the tithes then had long since been sold off to laymen.
Avebury is awesome.
When Christianity first came to England, the early missionaries were instructed by St Augustine to build churches on top of pagan sites because people already worshipped at them, albeit to pagan gods, and would, therefore, be more likely to accept them. Knowlton church, for example, was built in the middle of a, still extant, henge monument. Other churches, such as at Barnack, have circular church yards, which could denote the boundaries of other circular, prehistoric monuments.
It is all fascinating stuff, isn't it?
Thanks for this video, i drive through Avebury to work every day for the past 8.5 years and i have never actually walked around all the stones only been to the pub. When the hayfever stops i shall take my daughters there. Cheers
Blimey - never walked round ? You must - Hope your daughters love it!
Dave. That utterly mindboggling, 8.5 years you never visited the Standing Stones at the Greatest Stone Circle & Henge IN THE WORLD! The Neolithic people who built this laid the very foundations which made our own civilisation possible.
@@Foxglove963 im a busy man, on my 3rd child since and a stressful job.
Came for a walk round Avebury on a university trip a few weeks back and it was very different to the experience you had here 2 years ago. Not only was the weather dreadful, but most things were shut and it was very quiet...
Poor you - when everything is shut, it is a very different experience.
Thank you Richard and Marq, a lovely enjoyable walk
So pleased you enjoyed it, Ann.
Fantastic video - looks like a place to spend many happy hours exploring - so much history from different times there!
It sure is!
Lovely video x
You are so kind
I find I find circle stones really fascinating because they are mystical can't wait for the next video
Thanks George.
Well done another awesome video
So thrilled you enjoyed it.
A correction. The church is St James not St Marys as stated in the video.
Why not join The National Trust or English Heritage Richard, they are both well worth joining for the historical conservation work they do and some of the houses they operate are simply amazing places to visit. You really are missing out on some treats by not entering these places.
It's all a question of getting permission to film and not paying media fees of £500 a day!
That refers to professional film companies if you just use a go pro or other small dslr camera filming is allowed as well as photography in many but not all of the NT and EH houses. The pro film costs apply to Dungerness but there are numerous photography and wild camping youtube videos based there.
But apart from that just to be able to see the stunning interiors of some of our most beautiful stately homes whether your film or not. You are missing out Richard, trust me.
Sid Bonkers - Marq English has recently filmed inside Polesden Lacey in his vlogs so it can be done... :)
English heritage is a government organisation, like we need to pay the government money to see our own history..........ffs.
Some research before setting off is always a good plan so if you are going to talk about for example a dove cot you know a little about it.
Archeology some thing I like.
It's fascinating what is underground to be found.
Beautiful day. When was this filmed?
Lou Duva - only last week I think - sometime between 09 and 11 October
Yep, I just got to the bit where they mention it being October--and 23 degrees! It was miserable where I am...
We had the luck of the devil with the weather!
If you have ever seen Tony Hancock in the film The Rebel,you would know what all those stones were for!! Well that’s one answer!?!
A great film!
Poor doves :(
It's not a museum anymore now.
They built it for God, The Sun behind the sun. How else could you get all those participants over hundreds of years. The serpent and the egg is why they built it! It is all about going within - gettin in the mix with your opposite divine nos in the egg The egg with a serpent a spiral)--going through the process of love - becoming a Vitruvius LIGHT man with the female head on it as well and becoming God's vessel for His Design!
Ok I gotta admit I was looking up anything you had on Wiltshire hoping you mighta passed through Longleat, Wraxhall or Draycott Cerne area & came across this one. Wasn't familiar w/ Avebury so looked it up while you were doing your vid. Even though no ancestors lived here I still felt a personal connection as it was bought by William Dunch in the 1500"s, then passed down to his son Walter. Walter was the father of Lady Deborah Moody (who grew up in this house) who went to America & did not like the harshness of the Puritans in the Church of Salem (Mass Bay Co). So she (along w/ many others she took) moved to Long Island, where she bought land from local Indians (after getting permission from the governor of New Amsterdam, New Netherlands - now NY,NY) & started her own colony where people were free to worship as they pleased. The church she built had 3 separate services on Sundays - 1 for Puritans, 1 for Baptist & can't remember right now - which really ticked off the governor of New Amsterdam. But she basically told him tough it's my colony & you can't tell me what to do in it.
The reason it has such meaning to me is Thomas & Elizabeth Applegate (my 8x ggrandparentsq) were some of those that went w/ her. Thomas Applegate being descended from a long line of Knights & Elizabeth being granddaughter of Sir Walter Long & Catherine Thynne, Maid of Honor of Elizabeth I & gggranddaughter of Sir John Thynne.
😮😮😮😮!!! I just spoke to soon! Found the list I have been making of my ancestral homes. Avery Manor was home to Long's & Jenner's ancestors to the Applegates. Which means this would be one of my ancestral homes.😍🤗💗
I guess if you go back far enough we are all related to everyone. :)
You should ask to move in! Sounds a lovely place.
@@RichardVobes hahaha! Though if I ever come to England I'll have to go around to all these houses & castles (the ones my relatives lived in) , knock on the door & say "Hi! I'm your cousin!" Think they'll invite me in or have me escorted off the grounds?!?!🤣😂🤣😂
It's not just a "ditch" it's a ring ditch aka a henge.
Stonehenge is not a hence , believe it or not !