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Thank you for a wonderful video. My wife and walk from the dock and around back to the dock many times a year.

love your vids gt so informing and educational please keep up your excellent work thank you.

Nice were flint livers like down hete

Thank you GT. The sailor that you mentioned in your narration (James Thomas) was my great uncle. Lest we forget.

absolutely wonderful about rhyl i personaly knew nothing about . because of your poignant video i will visit that garden of remembrance . a beautiful but sad reminder of the wars . thank you gt please if you can keep up your very good work .

I've left a link in the video description to a page on my website where you can find useful related information!

lovely and informative g t please keep up your excellent commentaries. like the rest of your vids.

I will be visiting Rhos on Sea next year and will pay a visit to Bryn Euryn . Thanks again 🥲🥲👍👍

Thanks for your video and the History lesson well done 🥲👍

I work on the estate there and that is my lunchtime walk!

Thank you.

I walked that hill many times in my youth but not any more It is steep. Your pronunciation is ok even with your accent and I must say that you make Grand videos .

Another place close to mine, thank you for these tours, very enjoyable.

Getting the pronunciation of Pen-y-Ball correct or even somewhere near correct was quite a challenge. After asking the advice of several local friends, it turn out that "say what you see" is in this case the most correct. Goooogles suggestion of "Pen i Belle" seems to be far from correct. I do know that my Yorkshire accent will prevail, but I've overdubbed with my best effort!

Thanks for another interesting & beautifully shot post of Lesser Spotted North Wales.

I like your videos and have subscribed. In particular, I enjoy the background history you provide on the subjects of your videos. It keeps me having to flip back-and-forth between a video on the site and Wikipedia to get the history. A suggestion: I prefer your videos in which you do not appear superimposed on the screen as the narrator. That cuts back on the full display of the subject of the video and you have most certainly picked scenic and picturesque locations that deserve a fullscreen for the viewing. Thanks and keep up the good work.

I am here to answer all questions

Im from flint and have spent lots of time around the castle. I can see it from my bedroom window. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 great vid 🍻

Thats pretty much the theorys on how they got there name. Also been called the P stone as its labelled as such on some old maps. Good video about them.

Great video

That was very interesting. Thank you very much. It was also nice to see you again.

GR8 wee video - loved it.

The strategic position of Rhuddlan was previously acknowledged by the earlier motte and Bailey castle close to this castle

Haha…Bagchchchlt…

I would convert it into flats.

Champion! Da iawn!

I used to live just 5 mins walk from there, it certainly looks a lot tidier now than what it used to.

A splendid place!

As an American I visited England once, but that was 4 decades ago. I would like to return soon as I am interested in the history of castles like this one and the cathedrals.

I've been through Flintshire loans of times over the years, and I never thought of visiting the castle.

Great used to ride around there On a trial bike, worked in courthalls As well 1976

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very in formative

Thank you for highlighting this. Castles weren’t always for strategic strength, but stopover towers and in places where there were natural fortresses such as dense forest, water, and steep escarpment.

Thank you for this, I enjoyed your informative tour of Flint Castle and its history. Your enthusiasm for this topic shone through and I learned a lot from your (especially neat to learn about the donjon). I have limited time to visit North Wales on an upcoming trip, but I think you may have swayed me to find a way to squeeze a visit here into my itinerary!

Due to accelerated corrosion this ship will never be able to be moved. She has asbestos and is an environmental time bomb waiting to happen. If she caught fire, depending on the wind direction, the Dee estuary towns of North Wales and the Wirral will be covered in asbestos fines. She's owned by a £1 overseas company so her removal will be at public expense, not much FUN for the taxpayer!

been there very impressive good walk

very interesting

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bettisfield? ive never heard of it , but thanks to your excellent vid i will certainly explore .please keep up your wonderful work.

There’s been a petition to save the ship for a while. I do hope it happens as ships built by Harland & Wolff are my favourite.

Dear Sir, Many thanks for doing this video. I am wondering though if Edward I of England actually betraying the Welsh had also tried to bring all these people (staff) working at Rhuddlan castle to his cause as he had protected the town where they lived. Of course one may say that protecting the town meant a first barrier before attacking the castle + to protect its people Edward ensured his castle kept running even under threat. However do you believe that one can argue that to keep the castle 'staff' happy, they would be faithful to him and to England? Perhaps to sustain this argument, it takes to understand whether that 'staff' was originally welsh or were they people from Chester or elsewhere in England? I would not believe that at that time, in the thirteenth century, people would leave their village in England wherever it was just to go live in a remote castle, but I don't know?

Great video, thanks!

Thanks GT! Very interesting! Any plans to do a video about the Loggerheads area? Or Buckley?

Very very interesting information and I enjoyed this video a lot.

So much history on the Dee estuary. I love it. :)

You're a good man, but it's a mountain get over it , you only need to feel the wind up here to know it!

You are quite right, mate. Flint is still a tremendously industrious place. The river mud waxes and wanes, there is no way to tell when a new channel might arise.Many Have Opened And Closed During My Life. The big chemical works was called Muspratts, the other works was in Widnes on the Mersey, they produced a by product that is known AS Galligu, there is no known use for galligu, bu the hills near your stand point are made of gallugu, thousands on tons of it.Only silver birch trees and grass can grown on it. You will still find flocks of sheep grazing on Flint marshes. The canalization gave idea to the term 'off flint'. People of Flint are said 'by themselves' to be off flint. Once the canal was real, only one ship at a time could reach Flint, hance ships had to queue 'off flint', until time and tide and queue conditions permitted further progress.

totally enjoyable and informative please keep up your excellent reporting of my adopted area. many thanks gt.