The Quest for England
A more personal set of videos exploring England, it’s towns, villages and countryside.
The spooky location in today’s video is a churchyard with no church. I am joined by local historian Andrew Shaxson who explains the incredible and baffling history of St Peter’s church at Treyford in West Sussex. Little remains of the commodious Victorian edifice that was erected to replace three so-called ‘mean’ little churches. Although new […]
I am exploring the delightful Saxon church St Mary’s at Elsted in West Sussex. My guide is the ever enthusiastic local historian, Andrew Shaxson. Elsted is a village in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It lies within the civil parish of Elsted and Treyford. The village is on the Midhurst to South Harting […]
The lovely Julia and I are out exploring another quintessentially English village, Fittleworth in West Sussex. Our walk starts at the two sixteenth century pack-horse bridges, both of stone construction and originally built narrower and widened more recently for modern day traffic. The first bridge crosses the river Rother, while the second, Clappers Bridge, gives […]
Today I have teamed up with Cynthia Julian to explore a short piece of woodland that leads to a manicured golf course, hidden away from sight in this area of West Sussex inhabited by large houses and millionaires. We are in Monkmead Woods in West Chiltington where soldier camped in the second world war and […]
This not so serious walk finds Marq English and I taking a walk up an ancient hollowway up to Netley Woods in Surrey, near the lovely village of Shere. Up there we find the first of a series of Pill Boxes built as part of the British defense against Hitler’s potential invading army during the […]
Continuing my exploration of the beautiful village of Shere in Surrey, I turn my attention to the parish church of St James. Once again my guide is Marq English, friend and fellow youtuber. The church of St James is in the Early English style, most being 12th, 13th and 14th century. It replaced an earlier […]