Essex Village Walks. Part 10: Great Chesterford to Saffron Walden
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2022
- This episode takes us back to the county of Essex where Sylvie and I walk from Great Chesterford, in the far north west of the county, to the lovely market town of Saffron Walden.
Filmed with the Sony FDR AX100.
All music licensed through Artlist.
Lovely walk. Thank you 😊
I just found your channel the other day and am so enjoying it. I like that you also narrate it and give little bits of information as you point out various buildings and historical facts. You are both so lucky to have found your kindred spirit in each other so that you can share these delightful walks. Thank you for sharing them with us as well!
Thank you.
beautiful. I find North Essex and Suffolk the most beautiful of all.. Picture Postcard Perfect. Thanks for the upload
We've done a few in North Essex so far but I'm looking at Suffolk for a few walks too?
@@arcadia449 I live on the Shotley Peninsula. It has Walkers Welcome awards and hundreds of foot paths and between 2 beautiful rivers the Stour and Orwell
how lucky you are to live in such a beautiful place. i miss your metal detecting and historic digs!
Don't do much detecting in the summer months as it's too dry and hot, plus ground's too hard. Will get back to some at some point.
Wow again back to the lovely Essex. It is once again a refreshing walk and it is always relaxing to watch the videos on this channel. Lovely walk from Great Chesterford to Saffron Walden. I remember there is also another video in Saffron Walden on this channel.
We did a walk from Newport to Debden, not far from Saffron Walden.
Hi dave,just watched this walk no 10,that you and your lovely wife did,its nice seeing over part's of the uk,that even in my life time,would never get the chance to visit,and see,i've alway's had a great interested in history,looking at medieval property in village's,like the one's you passed in this video, with watching the nice view sun falling away at the end i think if you played johnny pearson's sleepy shore's,a very nice piece of music to end a very nice walk......john flood-davis
Cheers, John. Got loads more walks planned.
Great relaxing video with wonderful scenery and that pub food looked delicious 😋
You and Sylvie must get as much enjoyment from the interesting walks as your viewers do watching them.
Keep up the good work 👍😀
Cheers, Tony. Walking is great for mental well being as well as physical health. We see so many interesting things while we walk. More people should do it.
Wonderful video, that was so relaxing and a great bit of filming. Thank you David and Sylvie.
Thank you.
Saffron Walden Castle dates back to the time of the Norman Conqest.
The Battle of Hastings in 1066.
In 1849 on the 31st October. One of Essex's most notorious unsolved murders took place in Bridge Street.
The victim was Walliam Campling, the Chief Constable and Borough Surveyor of Saffron Walden. He died on 9th November 1849, aged fifty - three, some nine days after he had been shot in the legs. At his inquest, Campling's neighbour, Mary Brewer, stated that she was upstairs with Miss Campling and saw him come home after he'd been at the Eight Bells pub. They heard a gunshot and found Campling downstairs lying by the front door. Several other witnesses all heard the gunshot and Campling cry out 'I'm shot, I'm shot', but no one witnessed the shooting. Campling received at least sixty shots from a shotgun to his right leg and forty shots in his left leg. He died nine days later, in tremendous pain, from gangrene and shock. The chief suspect was Benjamin Pettit, a painter aged twenty - one, who had fallen out with Campling some months earlier. Before he died, Campling gave a statement in front of Pettit and Mayor Nathaniel Catlin, stating:
[Pettit] had threatened me at other times : the last time I heard him threaten me was when I met him in the passage down by the Abbey Lane Chapel, in Saffron Walden; I think his expression was in a short of wrath 'You old you *****, I'll do your business for you one of these times.'
At Pettit's trail in Chelmsford at the assizes of March 1850, despite plenty of circumstantial evidence indicating that he the murder, he was found not guilty. Inset: Memorial to William Campling on the wall next to the entrance to Bridge End Gardens.
I have a dreadful murder in my own family history. I made a video about entitled 'The Child Killer of Westmill', which you can see on my channel.
Thank you.
Saffron Walden Railway Station opened in 1865.
It Closed in 1964.
The King's Arms Pub.
My Aunty and Uncle lives in Saffron Walden.
I envy them. Lovely town.
Thanks.
Old Medival Buildings.
Audley End Steam Miniature Railway.
Robin Hood.
Prince of Thieves 1991.
Sean Connery as His Majesty King Richard the 1st. The Lionheart.
He's in a 1960s movie, which was filmed at Audley End House.
Victorian Buildings.
Audley End House.