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I watch them making the in 84 great film.

interesting place, so many legends

I love that area, it's beautiful. I mean to go there for a walk soon, when the weather is nice again!

love this circle, was there in 2023 solstice, fascinating area never got to the church sadly

Visited this lovely little place, i know what you mean about the wood, i was looking over my shoulder a couple of times👍

A lot of stone and debris was moved by glaciers a few years ago, hang around for a while and you might see this in action. 🤔

Looked like a lovely day & lots of interesting facts as usual. Cheers.

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Great watch Dan fantastic scenery all the best Phil 👍

😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 like a portal to my princess origins! This is so gorgeous.

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Hi Dan, great scenes, but the “old language” you refer to is actually alive and well and is called Welsh. The ancestors of those ancient Britons are now found in the margins like Wales (Cymru to us) and Cornwall but once of course were across all of Britain.

Great stuff Dan but...I have heard....that previous geo-physics has detected medieval plough workings underneath the fold. Which sort of blows a hole in the pre-Christian aspect but who's to say it wasn't an ancient site of some significance anyway. I'm in Bishops Castle and there's potential video content stuff all round South Shropshire. A bit further out we've got the grave of the Last Sin Eater in England near Rat'chope or possibly John Osbourne's {Look Back In Anger} grave in Clun. There's loads!!

great watch dan as always Phil 👍

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Absolutely fascinating, loved the church carvings, great commentary as usual. Don’t think I ever went there as a child. Greetings from NZ.

I was born in that region. 1950s, Meifod. Isolated churchyards are beautifull. Religious beliefs for me growing up in a rural ancient area, were not really Christian but Deist. Plus Nature was even more profound. Even without folk tales, that countryside is full of atmosphere. It evokes connection to Life....fertile soil, lush oaks, spring flowers, birds nesting, ancient monuments that resonate with the locals ancestors. The Old Ways are still alive within some locals as a human not restricted by things like consumerism can tune in to the living countryside. Early Christianity mixed with local religious beliefs. Some Christians are about shame and creating a monopoly on religious connection to Creation. The Folklore is often pagan filtered through Celtic , Roman Catholic and then Anglican Christianity. The Marches region has refuges where a sensitive person can connect to creative energies, within themselves and outside themselves. Its an experience that often gets lost in talking. Those isolated churches are a goldmine of knowledge.

It is indeed a magical kingdom Dan. I doubt if there was any 'Pagan' tradition attached to the Circle, more likely it was bound up in Christian morality like the Devil's Chair. For me the story of the cow is a morality tale from maybe an animistic morality, but mixed with Christianity. It's very pertinent today, that we have been provided with plenty, but some want to hoard it for themselves. However, there is some controversy regarding dating of the Circle. Medieval plough marks run straight through it! Could it be a Victorian hoax? Possibly even inspired by the Rev. Brewster? It became even more magical when Ronnie Lane moved into the area. There were his infamous parties, jams with Eric Clapton at the Drum and Monkey and his ill fated Slim Chance tour. The tour included a Circus Tent in the Quarry and a rather lovely eclectic show.

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I press notify me, does it notify me, oh yes it does, but I'm either driving, an important, meeting that could have been done in an email, in the pub, having lunch, even when I'm in morrisons buying them pecan pastry bakes (only a trace of palm oil), have them with homemade vanilla custard (granny used to make style 🤜🤛) speaking of granny, I still got my crochet knit orange pullover she made me in 79, I was dancing to blondies "dreaming is real" o, o, o, o dreaming is real,. When when I was your deputant, dreaming is re... Where was I, oh yeah, so nan asked me if I could administer this enenema, I obviously said no 🤷‍♂️, der. Beans have gone up in Tesco again, I'm going to expose Tesco again, Right I got loads to do, gotta catch up with your last prem, will do my best to get to this one, I've have 2 pedicures last month and sometimes I get the urge (these cuticles need to stay angelic and crisp an white, I'm sure I could be a hand model, (I will do a short) catch ya later, oh I'm back in shropshire next week, I think you live near that county 🤔🍻

Another interesting film Dan

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GREAT WATCH DAN ANOTHER SUPER PRODUCTION FLOUNDERS FOLLY GOOD NAME FOR A MUSIC CUE THAT LOL. BEST WISHES PHIL 😎

Despite knowing the area well, this was completely unknown to me. Any idea why the forestry sign was also in Welsh? Further west towards Clun and there could be Welsh speakers, but surely not here!

Far easier path to the left at the end of the track where you park.and I nice way back down is passed the folly and to the right

I’d imagine the fire insurance was mandatory for 16th century landlords 😊

I thoroughly enjoyed this, thank you from Maryland, USA. Big history fan here, especially early Britain. The transitional periods between dominant cultures, like this of Romans and Anglo-Saxon, really capture my imagination. It is fascinating to think about what they imagined the extensive Roman ruins to be (Giants! Who left us some amazing building materials! Thanks!). I look forward to watching more of your videos. I just subscribed.

Wrought iron was useless to new technology,the ripping up of iron work in the two world wars was shear vandalism.

Dan it is my understanding that we have got the stories of fire insurance marks somewhat wrong. They were literally marks to show that a building was insured should it burn down. They were made of metal so that they didn't melt in the fire. Certainly, insurance companies had their own fire brigades, their purpose being to salvage some of the property they had insured. In general, these brigades would fight any fires, not solely those of the insured. Especially in urban areas where fires could quickly spread causing damage to many properties, both insured and uninsured.

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Great watch Dan very informative and celtic cornovii tribes in Shropshire what a time to of been born stunning have a great week Phil 👍

great watch dan didn't realise there was a lake in condover beautiful place for a picnic best wishes Phil 👍

I don't know why I am surprised but it has changed so much over the last 55 years, when I used to cycle to the Pool as a child from Condover. If anything it is much less mysterious, then we believed the Pool to have a monster like the Loch Ness Monster, which was the legend of the fish. The stories of the fish appear to be related to Asrai (mermaids), I personally believe them to relate to an animistic allegory of attempting to control nature. A few years later, when living in Bayston Hill I remember a BBC production of Precious Bane (I am sure an earlier production to the 1988/9 one and later than 1957, by 1988 I was living in Manchester, but then my memory of the Pool is clearly clouded), which I erroneous believed to be set in Ellesmere, when it was actually Bomere.

Subscribed and can’t help but binge so many videos lol! Ludlow is my surname but I go by another. Very cool.

My grandparents live in the Arms houses! 👍

Another great video, lovely old churchyard. Excellent viewing.

Great watch dan very informative as always tfs phil 👍🙏

Had tennis lessons with Mr crook. No Wimbledon success however

Great watch dan just catching up tfs keep up the great content phil 👍

Pitty you didn’t include the row of very old cottages just off the centre on Old Whittington Rd

I was born in England (of English parents) but have lived in Australia for years. My Australian husband, (retired English/History teacher) and I enjoy your videos. We have a passion for English History. Thanks for your narrations and videos! 😊😊(By the way, at 18:45 you can here a background noise like a 'wooooo...', is that from outside?)

Cracking video. I spent my childhood there in the 1960s. Mum pioneered pub food at the Bowling Green Inn on Whitcliffe. Just north of Ludford Bridge is a world class site of geological interest. England's most beautiful town.

I lived in Borth for 4 years - 1996 2000... I still holiday there most years, I live in Herefordshire originally. It is a wonderful place to visit. There are some really good walks around Borth too. I used to live at Cambrian Terrace almost next door to the railway station (which is another short cut to the church)... So, I could visit St Matthews Church quite often with my then partner. Thank you for posting this video, Third Rate Content.

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Looking forward to Gone to Earth Dan. I moved from Condover to Bayston Hill when I was around 14, both former coal mining communities. Lyth Hill was a regular visit for me (often chasing Julia Langford) as was Bomere Pool.

Really interesting Dan, learnt alot. Thanks 😊

Bomere pool, in 1981/2 when we had minus 27 temperatures that winter, I walked with John Davies the owner and a few others out to the ski jump on the ice, we cut into the ice and it was 9 inches thick. That was a cold winter, snow filled the lane down to the farm and the only way to the ski club at bomere pool was to go through condover the back way. How time has moved on.

About 30 years ago myself, my brother and my stepdad went fishing there. When we were fishing, and it was getting pretty late at night, I believe it was something like 9 pm. summers evening, while we were fishing, we heard noises coming from the thick growth and where the Reeds are growing, and what appeared to be three or four monks dressed in robes appeared , carrying a very old looking coffin. at that point I just felt my stepdad grab me threw me inside the car and he and my brother basically left all of the fishing gear there and we drove off. Believe it or not that’s a true story.