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Very interesting! And the graphic showing the scattering of salterns and a quay and the church on their own little island just across from the promontory of Bramber Castle is fascinating. The future King Charles had a very narrow escape on his journey E through Bramber & Beeding then across the Downs to Brighton. Apparently, as he and his small party were proceeding through Bramber there was suddenly the clatter of hooves behind and a party of Roundheads came galloping towards them. The story goes that his companions wanted to flee but Charles urged calm and they maintained the same slow pace towards the bridge. Whereupon the Roundheads went thundering past and on towards their eventual goal... As Charles was said to be extremely tall by the standards of the day it seems remarkable, and especially in broad daylight, that he still escaped detection despite Parliamentary troops scouring the countryside for him.

With regard to the old Sussex accent - you can hear similar, but not identical, accents in some of the recordings from WWII, for example of troops coming back from Dunkirk. My Paternal Grandfather, a Plumber from Worthing, who grew up on a Downland farm, also had more than a trace of it.

Thanks for writing this, this castle and the family have long needed a book written about them ❤

We have many places which end in eye meaning Island. I live in a place called Langney (Eastbourne) which meant Long island - in the sea, it is now surrounded by marshy land and the sea is now 2 miles away from where I live but the far end Langney Point is near the seafront. NB Cinque pronounced Canque..French for five

Been to Rye countless times, there is or was a scale model of Rye in the Heritage Centre which had a 30 minute show depicting a potted history of Rye with a light/audio and sound FX show with narration. Tiny lights would come on in various little houses & inns as the stories unfolded. My kids loved it years ago. I seem to remember Gregory Peck walking up Mermaid street in the film Captain Horatio Hornblower. And the creator of Captain Pugwash lived next to Ypres Tower/Gun Garden.

Fascinating - thanks for posting!

This Sir John de Braose, Sr., Lord of Stinton Is my direct 20 great grandfather. Male line all the way. So doesn't seem correct that he had no continuing heir. A few generations after this Sir John, the family name slowly morphed to Brewer. And stayed Brewer till now. Thanks for making this video, I was just looking for something like this after discovering the De Braose was my ancient family name. :)

Very enjoyable and detailed review of Burpham. May I suggest that you also visit Chichester Harbour which has great history and stunning beauty?

Milligan didn't live in Rye. He lived across the Brede valley from Winchelsea, the neighbouring Cinque Port and that is where he is buried.

One thing you missed at the church was the grave of author and artist Mervyn Peake who wrote the Gormenghast trilogy. Very nostalgic to see the views of the beautiful countryside that I remember from maybe forty years ago.

A very interesting and exhaustive discourse on a village known to me (I don't recall visiting it) - but then I'm merely a peasant living to the east of the county...... Thank you!

Everyone enjoys a yank in sussex ,

That was very interesting, thankyou! Presumably, as the estuaries of rivers like the Arun, the Adur and the Ouse were once wide expanses of water reaching far inland to the castles at their head, back in Alfred’s day that spit of land at Burpham would have been a very noticeable promontory jutting out into the water?

Thank you for another enjoyable and historical video 👍 love the scenery shots too, very picturesque.

Thank you, that was very interesting and informative. You have an amazing gift of narration.

Great content. Since January '24 I too can see the Castle and St Nicholas from my back garden. What on earth was I doing in Brighton for 20 years?! Many thanks for the videos

Just to be picky it's Fal mer not Fall mer. Fal rhymes with pal.

Thank you for this informative and helpful video!

Very interesting! It’s curious what has happened to the accent of us native Sussex folk over the decades. But within what might now be called a general SE accent there is the effect of class too, and also the migration of many Londoners down into Sussex, generally roughening and degrading local language. Along with it now seemingly being fashionable to sound rough & uneducated amongst some people, with deliberate use of the glottal stop and the consequent banishment of the letter ‘t’ from their vocabulary. American actors sometimes get flak for their attempts at a British accent, but for a view from the other direction there is probably no finer example of terrible American accents than the hilarious romp Carry on Cowboy, with many cringeworthy attempts at ‘American’, along with some real US accents for comparison…

Absolutely fascinating! Sweet little villages tucked away in lovely surroundings and, whilst on my doorstep (well, almost), I’ve never visited them. But I will now…

I Used to cut the grass at Bramber Castle, and still live within 10 miles or so of Bramber.

I used to live in Liskeard...just a few miles north of Looe...so we were there pretty frequently. It's absolutely BEAUTIFUL !

Thanks for this video. Very interesting & very illuminating. Look forward to a video on the Cuckmere which, being in a quite remote part of the county, had a very interesting smuggling background back in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Thank you! Brilliant!👍👏

How wonderful it was to discover a channel of actual tours - well prepared and lovingly presented. Such a difference to the soulless and, in fact, useless recordings of some people's walks - polluted with all sorts of nonsensical noise and bad quality recordings, which occupy a significant part of TH-cam space. Many thank you for your great videos!

Sorry to say but there is no evidence that the river arun has ever had its mouth anywhere but at Littlehampton, much research has been done on this subject but no evidence has been found. The old name for the River Arun is believed to be river Tarrant. People born in Arundel have the title mullet after the fish that swims in the river, I hold this title.

Many thank you for a lovely video: really enjoyed it. I've got some technical questions to ask you. What is the best way to contact you, if I may, please?

A lovely educational narrative enjoyed it very much and learned all I needed to know.

Thank you, the amount of research you put in is amazing. Do you happen to know why a lot of the roofs in the town have gone 'rusty'? Are their ferrous elements in the local clay?

Another very interesting video but I did notice one curious error. I am not sure whether it is your error or the eatery. The sign for what you said was the Boathouse Restaurant clearly says Boathoise. What an odd name if genuine. (I decided to Google, you are correct, the sign isn't.)

As a Rye I have to say its a real wonderful place

Another fascinating video. Thank you.

What an amazing history lesson. That must have taken a lot of research. Thank you.

The most famous Chine is Black gang a Smugglers One It has a brilliant museum, if you go back stay a while & visit Osbourn House it will take a day Queen Victoria's Italianate Palace where she Died & Carisbrook Castle where King Charles 1st was Imprisoned & tried to escape but got stuck in the window?? IT also has a novel well that it's water is drawn up using a wheel driven by a Donkey,!!

Well done

This is a great video and accurate to. Well done

Really enjoying your history lessons!!

Fascinating as always - I look forward to your next video

A very interesting video and history lesson. You deserve many more subscribers. You have me wondering about that boulder now. Certainly, ice sheets never got that far.

Interesting and picturesque, you obviously do quite a bit of research for each video, and from the intro music to the end music it's all very calm relaxing and very well put together.

Wow, the facts and your narration made this a very interesting video. Subscribed.

The 'Domesday Book' (despite its spelling) is correctly pronounced as the _Doomsday_ Book. (And, as to a previous video of yours - about the Rivers of Sussex - you incorrectly pronounced 'Pulborough' as 'Pulburrow' but _borough_ here is pronounced 'Burruh' hence (despite the spellings) Pulburruh, Peterburruh, Marlburruh, (Pulborough, Peterborough - Cambridgeshire, Marlborough - Buckinghamshire? Or Berkshire? I forget, which, sorry) 😊 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿♥️🇬🇧🙂🖖

I love the Roseland peninsula. St Just in Roseland Church is my favourite place, it’s in a beautiful setting on the edge of the creek and the churchyard is a wonderful subtropical garden.

What I like about the US is that the woodland area can be huge and expansive in some states. Take, for example, the maple forests of New England and Virginia, which give rise to beautiful reds during the Fall (or Autumn). Or the conifer (fir, spruce and pine) forests of Montana.

I hope that there are initiatives under way to increase the wooded area of the Weald, for the sake of the wildlife and ecology. I know that the remaining pockets of beech, oak and hornbeam woodlands in the Weald comprise of ancient woodland, which has unique ecology that cannot be instantly replicated just by planting some trees: it takes many, many years for woodlands to become ancient and to be able to support the rich variety of plant and animal life associated with ancient woodland.

A witty and erudite film, impressive in the detailed background to a largely lost historical fortification and the village that it takes its name from.

By 1066 England was called England, the 'Angles' actually called themselves and their language 'Englisc ', with the final C pronounced as SH. Angles is direct later (mis)translation of the Latin 'Angli'.

'I am going up the downs' . Not a sentence to say to visitors who may just think you are referring to your current state of mind 😂

The classic Roadstead in the U.K. is the famous Scapa Flow just off John o Groats. It was the home of the British Grand Fleet in WW1 and where the captured German High Seas Fleet scuttled themselves rather than be incorporated into the British Fleet.

Cornwall in Sussex ??????