The Quest for England
A more personal set of videos exploring England, it’s towns, villages and countryside.
Today Robert Croser has joined me to show me around the former market town of Kirkoswald in Cumbria. The village, civil parish and former market town of Kirkoswald lies in the Lower Eden Valley of Cumbria, formerly Cumberland, about 9 miles from Penrith. The village’s name means Church of St Oswald and the parish church […]
Julia and I are in Cumbria exploring the legends and myths of the landscape. Our guide, Robert Croser, has taken us to the beautiful village of Renwick, lost in the rolling hills and surrounded by dry stone walls and sheep. We are here to learn about the Renwick Dragon, supposedly escaped in the middle ages […]
The lovely Julia and I are ‘Up North’ as they say, in delightful Cumbria. The landscape is stunning and the legends enticing. Today we meet up with Rober Croser, local man and regular viewer/supporter of the channel, who takes us to the tint village of Croglin. We are in search of the vampire that inspired […]
Today Matthew Holdsworth and I are exploring the old Christ’s Hospital Reservoir, a Victorian brick edifice positioned on a hill half a mile from the main buildings and buried in a copse of trees. ——————————————————————- PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER My videos are funded by people like you. If you enjoy them, please help me […]
Matthew Holdsworth has invited me to a woodland near Christ’s Hospital, just outside Horsham in West Sussex, to search for bluebells. We don’t have to search hard for the wood is carpeted with the distinct hue and heady aroma. We hope you enjoy our foray. ——————————————————————- PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER My videos are funded […]
I am back in Duncton, a rural village in West Sussex, to explore its heritage and ways of life from the past. Today I am privileged to explore the old water mill on the Barlavington Estate with owner Sebastian Anstruther. The mill is two hundred years old, but on site of earlier mills dating back […]