American Reacts to English Villages in the Summer
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As an American I have never experienced an authentic old English village. Today I am very excited to check out some beautiful English villages in Northamptonshire and Rutland. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Old English villages are the most beautiful in the world. Who else agrees?
Villages are one of my biggest fears 😅, Id dread to live in one. I just don’t like the idea of everyone knowing each other and being a part of such a small group. Dunno why, it’s pretty weird
If you want to see moor like this watch daydreamers barn,
@@louisstratton9156I lived in Steyning (Sussex) for much of my life and loved it. Having people know me, having friends stop me in the street when I went shopping, being responsible for looking after one of the local churches and maintaining its history while keeping it relevant and useful to the community, was all real joy. Now I live in Ontario, in a small village with its own history, in a house that dates back 200 years, and I'm glad to say the community here is just as strong. Canada Day is just a few days away, and we're all coming together to celebrate it. We have a long way to go to recreate the solidity of old English villages, but we're on our way there.
@@louisstratton9156I love living in the city, and being able to have day trips to the countryside 😊 I agree, it's quite 'intrusive' living in a little village
Those who live in a traditional picturesque village it is assumed people would take pictures, as long you adhere of the principles of British decorum.
England is full of villages like this; they're everywhere. Absolutely, people live in these villages - they are not exhibits, but they live a slower pace of life, so people are off doing their own thing, pottering in their gardens or walking in parks. These villages are EXACTLY why people visiting England *NEED* to get outside London - London is not representative of England as a whole.
There are nearly always strictly enforced rules about how houses in these villages must look - for example, roofs may need to be local slate instead of say modern tiles, and there may be restrictions on the colours that can be used for any painted surfaces, etc.
The roof at 12:00 is called a thatched roof - they're made from straw or reeds and require a specialist to install. They're expensive, but when done right, they last for ages. In many places, if you look closely, you will see animals (dogs, foxes, rabbits, owls, etc.) made of the thatch material somewhere on the roof; these are called finials and are the trademark of the thatcher that completed the work.
Na they need to stay in London places like these don't want busses of tourists wondering around their gardens thinking its some sort of theme park 🤣
There are only restrictions if the house is a grade 1 or 11 listed building for inside or outside … and then there is conservation areas where the outside may need planning permission otherwise you can do what you want… I doubt that Tyler even reads any of the comments
This is why we call them gardens rather than 'yards'
I wouldn't be surprised if he thinks that we call them meters, but only if he knows what a meter is.
Indeed, a yard is where you keep your trucks and equipment for work.
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And a meter is what records your electricity use.
@@JP_TaVeryMuch ...and not only electricity usage. Any device designed to measure is called a meter. i.e. gas meter, water meter, pedometer, parking meter, barometer, to name a few.
INTERESTING FACT: Did you know that's why taxis are called taxis?
The device the driver uses to measure and calculate passenger fares is called a... taximeter.
@@TheWebcrafter So what is the going rate for a taxidermist 🤔
Oh Ryan! So naive and 'merican. You make us appreciate even more what we Brits take for granted, Thank you. ❣
Oops, wrong twin - it's Tyler! But hey, it's easily done! 😉
@@Masque54 Yes, Ryan has a brain, learns things and makes mostly sensible comments unlike this gnat brain. I must admit I use these videos to learn more about my own country but this person is so repeatedly stupid that I can seldom get to the end.
Ryan is the smarter one.... Tyler is the one who fake laughs at everything and constantly says "We don't have anything like this in America!"
Thatched roofs are a beautiful and ancient way of roofing cottages and houses.
They are all sitting in their back gardens sipping tea or more likely slaving away in their gardens, mine consumed most of the weekend, mowing the lawns and trimming the edges, weeding, watering, endless jobs, painting the windows, repairing the outhouse door, you name it, it all takes time. These villages look like this because of centuries and centuries of care and love.
Damn right, in the shade. Hotter 'n hell in that sort of place at the weekend.
This German couple are lovely. They make such gorgeous videos of the UK. Villagers are probably at work or indoors.
I love their videos.
England is full of villages like this, I lived my childhood in such a place.
Yep. It's hard to find villages *not* like this to some degree.
I watch this couple, they are really good. Tyler, stone fences are called walls
I'm glad that you pointed that out to him. I did laugh out loud at his "... stone fences..." comment.
Sadly, Tyler never reads comments or engages with his viewers. It's why he repeats the same mistakes over and over.
Made me laugh
Tyler: "Walls? We don't have anything like that in America!"
A stone fence is commonly called a "wall", Tyler.
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A "Wall?" We don't have anything like that in America!
The 'funny' roof was a thatched roof, made of straw or reeds or other natural dried plants. These provide insulation in addition to being waterproof but have to be replaced every about 30 years by a 'Thatcher'. The shaped trees and bushes are 'topiary', a skill and hobby that can be taught. There are no HOA's in the UK. We have: restrictive covenants (that may be over a limited time), listed building status and village/town committees for say, Britain in bloom competitions. No-one has to pay like in an HOA, but there is control as what you can do to alter your building by English (or the other countries) heritage, the national trust and the local council. Not all places are picturesque eg Slough near Heathrow airport (see Sir John Betjeman's works).
We have recently moved to the UK from South Africa, It really is like living in a storybook. We live in Amesbury which is one of the oldest inhabited places in England, the villages are so beautiful, the roof that you were amazed by thatch. England is very green because it rains so much. but it is so amazing, you should come visit sometime!
Well thank you for helping to destroy our culture and thank you for having the absolute cheek and entitlement to invite others to invade our country. Clearly you're a stand up person with great morals.
We drive through there on the way to Salisbury to visit family, it is very lovely.
Welcome to Wiltshire. 😊
The couple go filming early in the morning before people are out and about to avoid privacy issues, plus gives clear view of the villages
Unless they want a cuppa in a tea room 😂
Brits are taught how to be cultured, disciplined and respectful and appreciate Ole England 🏴
You've obviously never visited a British "sink estate" with high crime and junkie and alcoholic families from teenagers to great grand parents.
Let's not pretend that anything but a relatively small number of people live in villages like this and while the majority of Brits are respectful there's a significant minority who are not.
Many beautiful places in the UK do suffer from graffiti and litter and Brits abroad are often badly behaved and disrespectful, from football hooliganism to many popular holiday resorts full of drunkenness and anti-social behaviour.
They also respect other people’s heritage , all over the world. It’s lovely to see these places but most places in Britain have old buildings and flowering gardens.
We went to a local beauty stop recently where it’s been common land for at least a thousand years, people take their dogs for a run, fly kites etc and cows are allowed to roam on it, there’s a view of an old mill and the local minister. We drove up to our favourite spot to have a coffee and someone had thrown their families burger wrappers etc all over, my husband picked it all up and we took it home, can’t tell you how upset and angry this made us feel, not just because it looked over but the danger to the cows.
In my youth in the 50's that was still prevalent. Nowadays not so much. Vandalism and idiots are a constant.
Yes, we 50s kids remember life before front gardens were turned into car parking spaces, when people spent weekends keeping their homes and gardens well tended and had pride in preserving old things.
Pre IKEA, pre a desire for wall to wall entertainment via electrical means or flying off elsewhere at every opportunity, home was king, no matter your income and whether you rented or owned it. The aristocracy had their orangeries, the less well off their smaller formal or tiny cottage style gardens. Tgey frequently repainted or wallpapered interiors too. That were a matter of pride and self respect.
Few garden much now. The Cotswold home owners often commute to London for work and a gardener is employed to keep things well tended, it is the province of the stockbroker and bankers with great incomes now. There are planning rules that mean you can't just build where or what you want and you can't add extensions that don't sit well with the existing house in most cases. So at least some building integrity is maintained in most places.
Stone fence almost killed me, choked on my dinner.
You'd love the Dry Stone Walls of Yorkshire.. literally hundreds of miles of them ❤
The ultimate jigsaw puzzle.
@@TheLampini I wonder if a castle would be a tent made of stone too :/
The 'stone fence' is just a wall, Tyler.
We have green lush plants all the tims cos we have 'rain'. We NEED it !!
An orangery is a greenhouse specifically for growing oranges in the UK where it is normally too cold to grow them.
And, of course, any Mediterranean plants that require lots of light and a temperature of 0 to 15 C.
I hope it's true because it would be wonderful to have the tree back where it belongs.
@@caroletraynor8763 Why would it not be true? Marmalade has been a British staple for many centuries.
@@wessexdruid7598 This comment was for someone else, not sure how it ended up here. I was talking about the tree in Northumberland that was chopped down by vandalism.
@@caroletraynor8763 Ah - no worries. YT sometimes does that - it's a 'feature'... 😗
It's not only Americans that might mess up, vandalise, desecrate places like this. Look up Sycamore Gap on Hadrian's Wall, where a couple of vandals cut down the famous tree growing there. But the British character shows up in the outcry against such vandalism, and the way the Police have taken their responsibility seriously in bringing the miscreants to justice. That single tree meant so much to so many people.
They have manage to strike some new trees from the old one. They gave one to his majesty, King Charles III.
Yeah, just last week they vandalised Stonehenge. You get disrespectful idiots in every nation.
The tree is still alive and putting out new branches, but it'll take a while to grow back to what it was.
Thanks Tyler, for reminding me to appreciate what we tend to take for granted. But bare in mind, if I came to The US I would be in awe of the differences you guys have.
Our villages and smaller, unspoilt towns, are the direct result of a couple of thousand years of History, from , The Roman, Invasion, and Empire , the Germanic influences of the Vikings, followed by the Norman/French invasion, resulting in , huge Castles , being built during the 11th Century. The `strip Farming, the Enclosures, plus the , influences of the then. Land owning super rich , who acquired miles of prime land on which to build, Stately ? Homes…. The villages are where the poorest of labourer’s lived, together with the village craftsmen, the carpenters, smiths, thatchers, wheelwrights , etc etc…. Sadly many villages have lost their shops, pubs , schools and sometimes medieval churches… They’re now lived in by the moneyed class , with the old locals being priced out….
Yes, and the local work (such as farming) is underpaid / underfunded so the people who would have lived there can't afford it.
The Cotwolds is an area consisting of very many beautiful and ancient villages.
Cotswold stone runs out in Northamptonshire around Wansford. The stone roofs are made from Collyweston stone which is dug out and left to freeze in the winter which splits it into thin slabs. It's still very heavy though and needs strong roof supports.
@@sheilagalvin9342 👍I believe it was also exported abroad. It’s just beautiful and makes for the remarkable looking buildings. Quintessentially English.
Yes people live in the houses. Rich people, looking at most of these. There is no HOA but the local council will have fairly strict planning rules so there are limits on what you can do with it. The plants are optional but a lot of English people are keen gardeners and like that sort of thing.
Tyler, you had me laughing out loud: those really old buildings are still in use, bc why not?
in usa can not because houses dont last that long
@@Gamepak That's not true. The oldest house in the U.S. that is still lived in is the Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts which was built c. 1637. It is the oldest timber framed house in the U.S. still standing. There are quite a few houses from the 1600s still standing, some are timber and others are stone or other materials. Some are still occupied and others are historic homes open for tours. The adobe houses of the Acoma Pueblo and Taos Pueblo are the oldest buildings continuously occupied (in the U.S.) since around 1000 AD. There are also Missions and government buildings still in use from the 1600s in New Mexico. There are houses in Missouri dating from the French Colonial era, around the mid-to later 1700s.
I was born in a beautiful little village in Northamptonshire. We are very lucky to be surrounded by so much loveliness.
Me too 😂
Brixworth?
Me too, Kettering.
I lived in Empingham in Rutland for about 20 years - we moved into town (Stamford) when we retired. I still miss the rural life.
Pity starmer is going to ruin
The villages are all inhabited. There is nothing on earth like an English/British village. Some of them are so beautiful it is hard not to become emotional when visiting them.
The roofs you were confused by are called thatched roofs. They are crafted from water reeds, combed wheat or straw. They are made by a thatcher. Thatching is a bit of a dying art. England has the most thatched roofs in the world. Some properties still have their base thatch from 500 years ago.
The Cotswolds is a beautiful area covering several villages and towns and hills in the south west and central England. Characterised by the houses made from a creamy coloured Cotswolds stone.
The COTSWOLDS is an area of England that has many lovely villages and towns.
I live in Northamptonshire and some of our villages are stunning. Northamptonshire has lots of historical homes. It's known as the county of SPIRES AND SQUIRES.
I live not far from all these villages. They are, what is known as " sleepy" villages. Quite places ,off the main roads, with very little traffic.
The rooves are " THATCHED ROOVES". They are covered in THATCH. Made from straw or reeds. It takes a very skilled THATCHER to repair or recover them.
Have you never heard of TOPIARY ? The art of shaping bushes into shapes.
This is why we call our outside space THE GARDEN and not THE YARD in the UK ! A mixture of flowers , plants and vegetables.
IVY clings to the stonework on the buildings.
The roses have to be trained along wires to grow over the doors etc.
When we drove through England and Scotland, we loved going to the smaller towns and villages, especially in the Cotswolds. The thatched roofs were especially lovely. I loved also the Wisteria (I think) spreading up the fronts of the houses.
Rooves ?roof or roofs
Thatched rooves are mostly made of reeds but they also use straw
They often have "best garden" competitions in country villages.
yeah they also have best looking home or best looking Village competitions.
There are no Home Owner's Associations, but often a strong sense of community in English villages. Especially when families have lived in them for generations and grown up together.
yes there are - many places have neighbourhood organisation
@@papalaz4444244 I’ve never encountered anything like a HOA.
A village or parish council perhaps but definitely nothing like the US HOA’s which enforce sometimes very strange rules like not allowing washing lines.
English ones exist but don't have legally enforceable rules like many US ones do. An English village may have regulations that have to be adhered to if part of a Country Estate, like the colour of the doors and windows or no TV aerials and satellite dishes, a cable service usually available. Some local Councils and planning authorities in AONB also have tight regulations.
Most people visiting England tend to home in on London and other tourists centres and miss out on the countryside which is arguably the best in the world- these villages are pretty typical and could be anywhere in the U.K. as there’s 1000s of them and mostly pretty quiet compared to towns - and most have free access to historical places- sometimes you come across home grown vegetables or fruit in a basket on a wall which you help yourself to and leave a donation in the box next to them ( called an honesty box).
I lived from the age of 4 until 35 in a very rural Lincolnshire village that was surrounded by a mixture of fields, woodland and soft rolling, green hills.
A small river runs through the village and it's a very quiet, peaceful place where there's a slow pace of life and even now, on a nice summer's day my partner and myself will take a short journey from where we now live to the river and feed the ducks and just sit on a bench beneath the weeping willow trees beside the river bank eating an ice cream and breathing in the fresh air.
The local parish church is grade one listed and dates back to around 1069.and still holds services to this day.
There is literally history all around you right across the UK. Not just in the big cities and towns but even right out in the countryside you can find history wherever you look.
Whereabouts in Lincolnshire? I live in Sutton-on-Sea and have done for 12 years. I never want to leave this wonderful County.
@@suzanne386Scotter.
@@suzanne386Yeah it's beautiful. I could never leave it either. I'm rural Lincolnshire born and bred.
I’m near Metheringham in the middle of nowhere, half way between Sleaford and Lincoln . I’m born and bred Lincolnshire. We have a waterfall and beautiful stream right next to us. On quiet evenings I love to just sit and listen to the waterfall.
This is kinda what i was saying when you mentioned the age of the church. I left a comment saying i hate to tell him but 1800s is practically modern here 😂
Many years ago I visited southern England... in every village there where baskets around the street lamp poles high up with blooming flowerpots in them. Well maintained by someone with watering them daily! Was talking with one of these mostly elderly gentleman... and you cold see that he was very proud of the work he could provide for the community!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
An orangery or orangerie is a building where orange and other fruit trees/tropical plants are protected during the winter, as a large form of greenhouse or conservatory. Most commonly built next to large older houses from 17-19th Century, but you can have a more modern orangery now if you wanted one.
I’ve started to appreciate just how beautiful our countryside is, especially our multitudes of picture perfect villages, by watching the amazed reactions online from people who simply aren’t familiar with them.
You can drive around Norfolk (my home county) and every village has a 700, 800, 900 year old church which is open during the day and deserted, except on Sundays or if there’s a wedding.
I was Christened and married in one of the oldest Saxon churches in Britain.. and it’s in the North of England.. Escomb 👍
Yes an orangery was a large greenhouse where fruit was grown. Long before the days of imported fruit.
English country garden is a stye of gardening. Climbing plants grow up buildings usually roses, ivy and wisteria
It's so well-maintained because any vandals are immediately mulched and used to fertilise the flowerbeds. It's a win-win situation.
There's lots of "trespassers will be composted" signs in our pretty village 😂 🇬🇧
The roofs that you asked about are made of thatch, which are a range of straw, rushes, or marram grasses that are laid in courses, this is how many houses and cottages were roofed in the past, there are still quite a number of these in the U.K. particularly in villages.
Also in germany but they are more common or natural to the area in Northern Part of germany . Love those villages there , you see a lot of Rose gardens.
My grandparents also had a roof made of straw. Problem is that birds steal these branches to build their nest. Therefore it has to be covered by a net
In Scotland they also use heather to create the thatch.
Strangely enough the word thatch in the British vernacular can describe someone’s unruly hair and sometimes the description fits.
Thatched roofs are known to last a long time maybe 15 + years be for repairs are made. It’s also one of the traditional countryside skills as well as drystone walling and hedging. It’s still alive in the UK but it’s slowly dying out through lack of apprentices willing to take up the trades.
My Dad used to thatch roofs. It’s called thatching.
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ORange ORangery just like my Conservatory at the back of my house only posher.
Cots-wOlds not cozzwolds...
It has Floweres and plants growing because we have Gardens not YARDS...
It's a Thatched Roof, you employ a Thatcher to thatch your roof with Straw, Rushes or Water reeds. Rather than a Tyler to tile your roof!
Topiary, trees, shrubs cut and shaped to delight or annoy your neighbours...
We know about how trustworthy Muricans can be, even in a foreign country, watch The Kings Horseguards in Whitehall, London
I just can't get the picture out of my mind of Tyler in a dress in a carriage!
Pronounce it properly - Nor-thamp-ton-sheer (don't argue, I was born and grew up there).
Some orangeries have been turned into stunning places to go and enjoy hot or cold drinks ,hold wedding or celebratory events.There is one near a place called Rowlands Castle Close to where I came from .Staunton tea rooms .it's lovely .They have a plant nursery too and a fountain with seating and my daughter held her wedding reception there we had an old fashioned band with banjo violin cello and guitar it was a wonderful warm day in gorgeous surroundings my daughter hired a London bus to pick up all her guests it was great
Some of the buildings in the UK are older than the USA, we look after them very well
My son had a friend from the USA visit us in our Somerset village. We popped into the church - she freaked out when she saw the board listing all the previous pastors, and saw that the first one took office in 1189. The church itself was built as part of the penance imposed on the local Le Brett family, for their part in the murder of Thomas a Beckett in Canterbury Cathedral. It took a while to convince her that the film 'Beckett' depicted actual historical events of the 12th century.
Majority are older, as our history dates way before the usa
Many 😉
There are buildings in the USA that predate quite a few in the UK, such as the Pueblos in New Mexico, which have been lived in since around 1000 A.D. And many buildings, some still in use today, and some still occupied that date from the early 1600s.
@@CherylVogler of course US will have some predating newer buildings.. but UK has much more ancient history overall, many sites , structures still standing are BC
You don't need to "do" anything to get ivy growing all over your house. I fight a never ending battle to get rid of the ivy on mine - it damages the brickwork.
oh yes.... 😅
We like to call it 'structural ivy' in our family, because when you get rid of it the fence panel falls over!
10:00 Not just a bunch; they all look like this. Most have grown a bit since the age of these houses and have other housing estates from various times, but every village has old bits that look exactly like this with an old church, the old vicarage where the vicar lived, a few old stone farmhouses that are now occupied by fairly wealthy people, some have an old school. A massive house where the gentry who owned the village used to live. Most of these villages are hundreds of years old.
The Cotswolds is a large area in the Midlands in England that covers a lot of towns and villages. Its the name of our villages that amuse most visitors. I live in a village called Hopton Wafers in Shropshire. We have an Orangery that was built a few years ago. Its a bit like a conservatory but with a brickwork base.
I really loved your reaction to our villages.some villages take part in the uk 's prettiest most well kept village competition .many have quaint very old cottages with thatched straw rooves.They are sometimes referred to as chocolate box cottages as they often featured on boxes of chocolate or fudge especially from Devon or Cornwall .
Some still have the old red post boxes called pillar boxes and old red phone booths ,some of the old phone booths have been turned into places where you can pick up or exchange a book .I've even seen one full of eggs and apples and vegetables with an honesty box for payment .we have so many beautiful villages too pretty to describe .
There are "thousands" of little villages across England and (Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) not just a bunch. Every county has cities, towns, and villages...
It is very trendy and desirable to live in a village and commute by car to a large town or city for work especially in the southern-central regions of the UK as the north tends to be more industrial cities but still has beautiful rural small isolated villages.
The roofs you asked about are called "thatch" basically straw, different types of grasses woven together to make wet proof roof, they are very traditional and expensive to maintain and keep.
There’s lots of old villages in the UK ! The old houses are usually built from local stone !
The gorgeous Thatched roofing ,have been part of the British landscape for Hundreds of years,as far back as the eighth century AD
They can be constructed from water reed ,combed wheat reed or straw !
The climbing rosesIvy, plants ect, probably have been growing on the houses for many years !
Tyler, I think you need to plan a trip to Britain 🇬🇧 just to see it for yourself!
My home town is in North West England. Its an old town/ village with a parish Anglican church 'St wilfrids' that dates back to 1205ad and its used every day. Its beside a very main road and to us ..... its just a church.😊
I don't live in a village but I do live in a small seaside town surrounded by countryside in the S. West of England. There are areas of town that have this village feel to them and in summer it's a spectacular place. ♥
Are there villages like this all over England???? YES, there are! Do people live in these houses? YES, from the top of these British Isles to the bottom and from east to west. YES, TYLER, YES THEY DO.
I love travelling, visiting other countries and meeting the people but I will always believe that there are few, if any, who can match my home for beauty and history. As far as I wander, it is always great to come home to England.
I was lucky enough to grow up on the doorstep of the Dartington hall estate in South Devon ... the hall and it's extensive gardens and 'tiltyard' were always open to the public and there is a pub and cinema and plant nursery within it's grounds and nearby cafe and college squash courts, and you could go up there anytime and perhaps take a picnic, drink some beers, kick a ball around ... whatever you wanted as long as you respected the place. When i was young the art/music college was based there which produced a thriving arts and music scene in the nearby town of Totnes, and the Dartington village was very pretty in it's own right and all encompassed by the beautful river Dart. There were also 3 outdoor swimming pools on the estate plus the local village outdoor pool.
Lady Dartington was Dorothy Payne Whitney, heiress to the old-money Whitney family and one of the wealthiest women in the US in the early 20th century. Her father was Secretary of State for the Navy - her brother treasurer of Standard Oil.
Dartington estate was used to promote local arts, culture and crafts - but also kick-start local businesses to provide work in the (very poor) South-West. It's legacies include Dartington Glass and Dartington Ceramics. In the past, I worked for Dartington Foods.
@@wessexdruid7598 She must be Dorothy Elmhist then. I didn't mention the Elmhirsts ... too much to explain but they were forward thinking people. I was reading just yesterday that there was a labatory on the estate where they were also reseaching local plants to make dyes for the Tweed mill. Dartington ceramics? I was always aware of Dartington Pottery ... maybe you mean them? Or maybe they've changed their name? Or maybe that was always their 'proper' name? Our house was full of mugs from there. There was also a sawmill and joinery run by the estate back in the day. I never heard her called 'lady Dartington' - was she a member of the house of lords? Dartington foods - are they at Shinners bridge? I remember a food producer at Shinners Bridge. - Thanks for commenting!
@@hardywatkins7737 My error - you're quite right about the Pottery. Forgive an old-aged brain fart. The Food company was based outside Ivybridge - but may have been reinvented, since?
I live in the UK and really appreciate your videos, I think we have a tendency to take what we have for granted. Your enthusiasm for what is just pretty normal for us is refreshing, allowing us to see ourselves with fresh eyes. Thanks…
Our village has been here for over a thousand years
whippersnappers I say.... *you kids get of me lawn
I have roses growing on the front of my house and I live in a city.
In Uk in the summer, you will see a lot of flowers and greenery everywhere.
There are so many villages like this in England everywhere. It does feel like stepping in to the past. I visit a village every so often when I get a bit tired of city life.
Almost all my neighbours have hanging flower baskets.
We love our flowers and trees.
The park 10 minutes walk away from me has a pond, beautiful trees, a huge flower garden and a cafeteria ( the house was built in 1822). The park is absolutely stunning.
The park has a parsonage too where you can go and walk through and sit.
It’s all free.
The peninsula she mentioned, on which Hambleton sits, is part of Rutland Water which is a reservoir, and you can walk and cycle round the entire shore in a day, experiencing the scenery and wildlife conservation, and stopping off for ales at various old pubs. It’s a really lovely place to be. If you do manage to make the trip over here, definitely put it on your list!
These villages are all over the UK, some more beautiful than others. Yes, you can just walk around.
I live near one which has a little stream that runs through which my dog loves jumping in for a little paddle.
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"A stone fence". 🙂🙃Excellent Tyler, you must do more of these..........
Most churches in the UK are open to the public, if they are closed there is normally a note on the door where you can pick up the key. The National Trust ie we the people owns over 500 properties across England and Wales, including historic houses, castles, archaeological and industrial monuments, gardens, parks, and nature reserves. It is one of the largest landowners in the United Kingdom, with almost 250,000 hectors of land to yes they are everywhere. Add to this the thousands of properties privately owned. In our villages we often have Open Garden Days where people open up thier gardens to the public for a day to raise money for charity.
Stone fence lol that's a wall mate
"Look at that a stone fence"... that's called a WALL, Tyler.
These villagers employ gardeners to look after their grounds and surrounding areas. So beautiful. We Brits are taught from a very early age to respect other people, their belongings and the areas where we live.
I lived in an English village in the mid 60s for one year. It was then 90 years old, two story red brick construction. In the main passage stood a grandfather clock that had been made by a local clock maker in the mid 1800s. All of it was handmade, including the clockwork, all hand cut from sheet brass. The front garden was large enough to have a grove of heritage apple trees in one half. At the back of this house was a carpenter's workshop, filled with nineteenth century tools. And stables. It was a magical place set in a very old and picturesque village. It also had 3 pubs, and the best fish and chips shop for miles around. In my personal opinion.
Our fishing villages are unique and beautiful too
Cotsworlds is a massive area of beauty covering 3 counties in the west of England, Northamptonshire is slap bang in the middle of England
Kristin and Jorge make really good videos of the UK! Check out their ones of Cornwall where I am lucky to live.
We do have a ton of historical buildings, gardens, palaces, bridges, castles etc. some you need to pay for but lots are free. I live in Birmingham and like many other towns and cities Museums and art galleries are free. London is very expensive and a few vendors, ice cream vans, hot dog sellers etc can be double the real cost (and even more, so please be aware). We too have vandals and idiots. Most of the houses are lived in. Usually the owners maintain the home and gardens. Thanks Tyler.
Good evening, your channel just this minute turned -up. I was born in from England. I watch this lovely couple, every week, on their channel, you should see all of their content you will love it. They travel all over England, and stay in Castles, also. They moved over from Germany to England over nine years ago. ❤😊😊
We have stuff like this because we have history, and take care of it.
The Cotswolds is an area with small towns and villages within it. It's a thatched roof. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation to shed water away from the inner roof. Since the bulk of the vegetation stays dry and is densely packed-trapping air-thatching also functions as insulation. It is a very old roofing method
11:28 - THATCHED ROOF MATERIAL? The three main thatching materials in use today are water reed (a large amount of which, is imported from Eastern European countries), longstraw and combed wheat reed. Sedge, a grass-like plant is also used extensively. As you know, surnames are derived from a person's occupation. A 'roofer' would be named after the type of material used, i.e. Thatcher, Tiler or Slater.
Tyler?
@@wessexdruid7598 Yes, this is an alternative spelling of 'Tiler', as 'Slayter' is to 'Slater'
@@TheWebcrafter But sadly, Tyler won't read any of this.
@@wessexdruid7598 Wat Tyler? (Geddit?)
Honestly we are priverlaged I'm blessed in my country
Thatch is a very traditional roofing material going all the way back to the iron age. Thatch can be straw from wheat or barley and if more readily available reed straw. However, given that modern cereal crops have been bred to have shorter stems than varieties grown in medieval times based on illustrations of the period reed seems to be the material of choice for the few remaining thatchers (who are in high demand). The down side of thatch is that its highly flammable so buildings that were once thatch have tended to have the roof replaced with either tile or slate in later periods.
The "what's up with this roof" is thatch. Roofs are thatched with either straw or reed. It is a very ancient method of roofing buildings and was commonplace up till the 19th century, so you see a lot of older rural buildings still thatched (though some old buildings have since had their roofs changed to pegtile or pantile.
Thatch is a great roofing material. Well maintained, it is highly waterproof and has great insulation properties.
An orangery is a large heated glass house that was used to grow orange trees or grape vine's for eating as well as pineapples to show how rich you were at the time
The roofs you were asking about are covered in thatch which is special straw, they usually last about 30 yrs before needing replacing, and yes people live in these houses.
What's up with the roof of the house 🏠 or cottage you were asking about is the roof is a thatch roof. This is a roof made from vegetation materials such as straw, water reeds, rushes etc. This is known as thatching.
Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. Since the bulk of the vegetation stays dry and is densely packed-trapping air-thatching also functions as insulation. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates.
My great-great grandparents' late 1700's home is in a small village in the Midlands and still standing and in great repair - even the building that was their stables has been converted to a home. It sold a couple of years ago for 650,000 pounds!
When I was a young man I used to cycle the nine miles to work through the back roads of rural Hampshire . There was a lovely little, single story thatched cottage I used to pass that was built in the 1300s and was still occupied.
You can travel the whole length of the uk.you will find lots of beautiful villages.
It's about time people ventured out and visited the rest of the UK, rather then just going to London. Many places like this in England, Scotland and Wales, such as Beddgelert in Wales.
You should look at Beer and Branscombe in Devon villages that go back pre 1066 with a Norman church, a thatched working Iron mongers, a water powered flour mill, an ancient bakery worked right up to the 1970's by two brothers where the villagers could bring their meals to be cooked free of charge in the bread ovens, all settled in a valley dropping down to the English Channel they still have a small working fishing fleet and on the top of the cliffs there is a second world war air field from which Spitfires flew in the defence of the realm and is now a private air field. Under the cliffs are Beer quarry caves that date back to pre roman invasion they go miles under the sea and the stone quarried from there has been used for housing, building castle's and our ancient churches and cathedrals. Including Westminster Abbey in London where our Kings and Queens have been enthroned. Smugglers lived in these villages along with wreckers who lured ships onto the rocks and their doom so they could steal their cargo's. I could go on but best you find out for yourself.
I walk past a 700 year old church most days and so we do tend to take historical places as a daily part of life. But I do love old architecture. On a 50 mile drive you could pass through 20 villages that all look very similar to this village. We do not have H.O.A. But a lot of villages do have competitions for best gardens and people gemerally want to make their villages lovely and have a sense of community.
It’s a thatched roof, and yes people live in these villages
Britain, not just England has so many of these - all easily visited (don't get me wrong, England has ugly places too, like anywhere). Not all roofs are tiles. Look up Rye in East Sussex (popular, but gorgeous) - always stay at the Mermaid Inn (1400s & haunted) and Staithes, near Whitby is lovely. Near Rye is the wonderful gardens of Great Dixter (wonderful). We are blessed at being to say, this weekend we'll visit xxx.
You don't find those old buildings and villages just in the UK You find them all over europe And not in just small villages but also in places like london
In small villages, there isn't much going on, so people put a lot of time in to their gardens.
These properties are usually very expensive to buy but when you are fortunate enough to own one then an English Cottage Garden is definitely the way to go garden wise. We have a tradition of villages in bloom competitions too so people go all out to keep those gardens looking tiptop! Alot of old stone and thatched properties are grade 1 and 2 protected so there are stipulations when it comes to decorating and you have to keep things as close to original as possible. We also have English Heritage and National Trust who look after old properties and estates and we pay to go in and look around them. Roses are usually trained up the walls on wires :)
A stone 'fence' is called a 'wall'
Roof made of thatch. Think like a roof of straw stems compacted together in bundles. It’s not straw as such but reeds grown for roofs.
The bundles are laid from the bottom to the top and beaten into place and fixed down. People who do this job are called thatchers.
America wasn't discovered until 1492 . And the pilgrim fathers arrived in 1620.
Many of the houses and churches date from the 1100,s. And many of the pilgrims came from villages like those shown. Beautiful villages are in every county of the UK. And all are thriving communities. So we have the best of everything, big cities, gorgeous towns both old and new and awesome villages, plus castles, manor houses and stately homes. Perhaps you should come and explore.
Well, the Vikings "discovered" "America" around 1000 A.D. And a fun fact: the population of the Mississippian Culture at Cahokia Mounds (located just outside of St. Louis in Illinois) in the 12th century was larger than the population of London. It is a fascinating site to visit. And you are right - the UK has many beautiful villages, castles, and everything else you said. We loved our visits there.
Rutland is one of only a few counties that I haven’t visited, looks beautiful
I was born and raised in a small English village. My mum still lives there. There are thousands of them. ❤
I’m lucky enough to live in Suffolk in the UK. Villages like these are all around us. We probably take it for granted how lucky we are.😊
They are called thatched roofs made from straw and reed applied in bundles.
I love seeing the UK through your eyes Tyler, there are so many villages like these all over the country, we tend to take them for granted, just like our history and castles.