Wistman's Wood, Dartmoor: Grove of the Druids.

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  • @donnaribotto2651
    @donnaribotto2651 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a magical walk. Your editing and photography is outstanding. I will be back to walk this way again and again. Thank you for putting this out.

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you.

  • @alcatraz3539
    @alcatraz3539 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fantastic filming of a truly fantastic place!

  • @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars
    @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Absolutely glorious, thank you so much for filming this and doing it so magically as well ❤

  • @downinthemuff
    @downinthemuff 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Live quite near Wistmans wood, such an amazing place, has an atmosphere like nowhere else.

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I lived in Ashburton back in the early 1960's. Loved it around Dartmoor.

    • @rayswoop4947
      @rayswoop4947 ปีที่แล้ว

      God, what a magnificent blessing to be able to see this beautiful, enigmatic place in person....I'm from across the pond lol hope to see this magical place one day.

    • @Sean2002FU
      @Sean2002FU 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@arcadia449 I know this is an old video, but I could not help myself....In 1992, I was a young Marine stationed at RAF St Mawgan. When we did our field exercises we often went to Dartmoor. What a beautiful and history laden place!! We were doing land navigation near Prince Town and we got lost on the moors. After many hours, we ( myself and another) came across a paved, yet narrow road ...we decided to go right. Lucky for us, it eventually led to Prince Town. There is a pub there in the main round about, we walked in with our weapons asking if we could use the phone...Everyone was looking at us like we were an alien species, quite funny looking back....
      One of these years I'm going to fly back across the pond and spend a week or so in Dartmoor......The subject of this video is indeed a beautiful place, again ,swamped in history!! THANK YOU for this video, it brought back many memories! 😊

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Sean2002FU Thank you, Sean. When I was a kid I lived in Ashburton, just on the edge of Dartmoor.

  • @clarehatcher760
    @clarehatcher760 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Lovely ! Thanks for posting. I feel like I've been there!

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Go there for real. It's amazing, but please don't climb over the rocks like some people do.

  • @combatduckie
    @combatduckie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    what a beautiful scenery....

  • @joyglasspool7493
    @joyglasspool7493 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Lovely footage, beautifully edited.

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you. Joy.

  • @ChrisLonsdale67
    @ChrisLonsdale67 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Went there on a school field trip in, I think, 1984. Still remember it vividly. Magical place.

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I lived in Ashburton, not far away, back in the 1960's.

  • @MrSpoonage
    @MrSpoonage ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a beautiful place. Absolutely breathtaking. We love Devon so much and makesure we take the kids there every year. Thank you for sharing, as this is now on our never ending list of things to do.

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  ปีที่แล้ว

      It's well worth the walk to get there.

  • @luv2luv720
    @luv2luv720 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What a beautiful walk! Thank you for sharing the web also. I Love Everything about nature. Would really enjoy to walk where the druids also did! Edit: I typed to soon! Wow! It is beautiful there. I definitely would've had my feet bare feeling the soft moss! I'm so glad I found your video! The music with it is perfect! Sorry about all the exclamation but it's Breathtakingly Beautiful

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you ever go to Devon it's worth a visit.

  • @lynniejenkins2079
    @lynniejenkins2079 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Many faery folk live here. Go carefully, silently and with respect.

  • @davidmorgan984
    @davidmorgan984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So beautiful moss covered rocks, amazing video. Background music is so relaxing as usual. There is no commentary I miss your informative description in this video. Although it's a beautiful video, I like most the village videos as you uploaded earlier in Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. I'm waiting again another beautiful video of plane fields and villages. Keep entertaining.

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      More coming up.

  • @trashmammal4986
    @trashmammal4986 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    it's so beautiful and eerie, one day i'll visit for sure!!

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The fog really added to the atmosphere that day.

  • @ivyzombii
    @ivyzombii 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is absolutely magical; thank you for this!

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's well worth a visit.

    • @ivyzombii
      @ivyzombii 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s on my bucket list. I live in the US but England has always been my number one place to visit in my lifetime. Some day..

  • @lindadobson9854
    @lindadobson9854 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wish I was there. No covid there!

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's right. Not much down that part of the country.

  • @viktoria7939
    @viktoria7939 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very mystical place

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It has a great atmosphere when it's misty.

  • @itchycooable
    @itchycooable 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Was there last wednesday , no mist though , there are signs asking people NOT to walk through the woods , but to walk around the edge (northern edge) , and that's what people were doing .

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's a shame, but I hear that people were damaging the woods by being irresponsible?

    • @itchycooable
      @itchycooable 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@arcadia449 to preserve the rare mosses and lichens i think

  • @Wotsitorlabart
    @Wotsitorlabart ปีที่แล้ว +1

    'Legend has it the ancient Druids frequented Wistman's Wood'.
    Or probably not.

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  ปีที่แล้ว

      I would imagine there were many places on Dartmoor frequented by Druids?

    • @Wotsitorlabart
      @Wotsitorlabart ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@arcadia449
      Supposedly.
      I doubt there's hardly a rock formation on Dartmoor that doesn't go by the name of 'Druids' this' or 'Druids' that'.

  • @scorpio19771111
    @scorpio19771111 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Magick!

  • @Dainjamouth
    @Dainjamouth 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice

  • @OliverHollingdale
    @OliverHollingdale 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    we are doing a short film, is it far to walk to get to the woods say from a carpark?

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's about 1 mile from the parking area.

  • @Grandmastergav86
    @Grandmastergav86 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Inspiration for the short story "Whisper In the Woods" an "anonymously penned" tale which some have attributed to Charles Dickens' son.

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's interesting?

  • @hell0hkitty
    @hell0hkitty 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hauntingly beautiful! Where are the elves?

  • @nilkamalsarma5561
    @nilkamalsarma5561 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    feels like something from lord of the rings or hobbit

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It has that atmosphere about it.

  • @water9584
    @water9584 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've been there. It's magical. But my hike was a real one, through the dirt and not on roads. With no one around.

    • @caysonreign2079
      @caysonreign2079 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I guess it's pretty randomly asking but does anybody know of a good site to stream newly released series online ?

    • @larryalan3078
      @larryalan3078 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Cayson Reign i watch on Flixzone. Just search on google for it =)

    • @ralphjagger3813
      @ralphjagger3813 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Larry Alan yup, been using flixzone for months myself :D

    • @caysonreign2079
      @caysonreign2079 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Larry Alan thanks, I went there and it seems to work :) I really appreciate it !

    • @larryalan3078
      @larryalan3078 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Cayson Reign you are welcome =)

  • @bazza12121
    @bazza12121 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A good place for a mushroom hunt too and from there. Not on the paths thought. Better cutting across country. Much more productive

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've been mushroom hunting back here where I live in Hertfordshire. It's not a good year so far?

    • @bazza12121
      @bazza12121 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@arcadia449 no not here either.. I’ve had some chicken of the woods, some chanterelles… but none of the magical ones so far.. too early really though and too dry.. give it a week or two and after some rain and they will come up

  • @loudoret353
    @loudoret353 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is a small woodland, and one of the last remnant wildwoods of Dartmoor. The last thing it needs is further visiting pressure.
    If you care about the impact you have on nature, then the kindest and most responsible thing is to remove this video.

  • @SenorTucano
    @SenorTucano 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice video but the music is too loud and overpowering

  • @juliagroom2027
    @juliagroom2027 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There are signs warning you not to go into this protected site. I don’t understand how anyone can wilfully destroy these remarkable places and encourage anyone else to copy them. Shame on you! There are plenty of surrounding rocks to sit on and contemplate this beautiful site. This is Dartmoor, not Disneyland.

    • @arcadia449
      @arcadia449  ปีที่แล้ว

      There were no signs?

  • @Hhhjhjjjjjkvddckgdszbbnmk
    @Hhhjhjjjjjkvddckgdszbbnmk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Please remove this video. Enough destruction and advertising of the wood has happened and caused untold damage.
    The wood has suffered and changed due to much heavier footfall in recent years. How does this video help or respect the wood?

    • @Grandmastergav86
      @Grandmastergav86 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Please remove this comment, how does grandstanding help anyone? Does your ego the world of good though, eh?

    • @Hhhjhjjjjjkvddckgdszbbnmk
      @Hhhjhjjjjjkvddckgdszbbnmk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Grandmastergav86 it’s hardly grandstanding, it’s just a video on TH-cam amongst millions and I’m not likely to win any favour or popularity here at all, for saying what I did.
      I believe that this video and the others on TH-cam have had a direct impact on the known and very real damage to the wood. There’s a comment I just saw below saying something like ‘I’m definitely going to visit and walk where the Druid’s did, barefoot in the thick moss’.
      That thick moss has shrunk away very obviously in the last few years because going from maybe a few hundred visitors a year to thousands, in what is actually very small area, will take its toll. The hanging rare lichens of scientific interest that take many many years to form have been taken away, and some of them are extremely rare. I’ve seen photos of wheee someone has carved some kind of crappy ‘spiritual’ symbol on one rock by scraping off the ancient moss on one rock. Can’t you see the irony of that?
      Rather than assuming I’m grandstanding, how about considering that in terms of those who share videos like this, showing the world special and little known places on the planet, for their own kudos and hits, that will create much more human traffic and threaten their uniqueness. That’s the consequence whether intended or not.

    • @mythtree6348
      @mythtree6348 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Hhhjhjjjjjkvddckgdszbbnmk bless you sweetheart. There is now a book locating all such woodlands. i agree that it was better when the only people who found them were the intrepid type who researched for themselves but i guess the world moved on.. ive seen such wreckage in recent years but the hope is by putting them on he map we will conserve them :( sigh. i dont know :(

    • @mythtree6348
      @mythtree6348 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Hhhjhjjjjjkvddckgdszbbnmk how about people only get to visit these places if hey are actively involved in conserving and restoring them ?? thats kind of how i've lived ..

    • @rog5963
      @rog5963 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Hhhjhjjjjjkvddckgdszbbnmk Great comment. There are signs up around Wistman's Wood asking people not to walk through the trees due to the damage that has been caused. Clearly the people involved in this video took no notice of them....