I took clarinet lessons in one of the houses at age 9, was baptized in the chapel at the top end of the Close, and spent 2 years living in Shrewsbury House, one of the Cathedral School's boarding houses. Lots of memories ❤
I used to walk up this street with my sister when we were younger and she was genuinely scared of it because there was always some creepy clarinet music coming from one of the houses. I can now tell her I have found the culprit!
The men who build those cottages have achieved a kind of immortality. The product of their craftsmanship and hard work has survived for centuries. Truly remarkable.
I live about 5 minutes walk from here. Wells is officially England’s smallest city. The cottages in Vicar’s Close had their facades ‘modernised’ in the 17th century, although one was restored back to its 14th century appearance in Victorian times. Wells is one of the most beautiful towns (city) in the UK
Thank you for that context, I was wondering why the facades looked more Georgian than Medieval! Wells is lovely. My half-great-aunt used to live in a top floor flat in the courtyard facing the cathedral with roof access, amazingly beautiful views from up there!
@oliver5976 The whole street is owned by Wells Cathedral, which is located opposite it. In fact there is a beautiful medieval bridge over the road that runs beside the cathedral, connecting Vicars’ Close directly into the cathedral. The cathedral rents out the cottages; in summer 2019, there was a cottage put up for short-term 6 months lease for around £1,500 a month, if I remember correctly.
According to the youtube video "Vicar's Close: A medieval street singing through the centuries" they are working towards not only restoring the houses, but also opening some of them to the public for guided tours. They are trying to secure funding for this. In the video you get a little sneak peak into what they look like right now (not that great, but more spacious than I expected). Edit: For those on pc, here's a direct link: th-cam.com/video/ZT7C5qrVDdc/w-d-xo.html
Four shorts came up when I looked. All worth seeing as they have different views and weather conditions. Cathedral staff and a dozen choir members seem to live there now. Glad they never came onto the private market and risked losing their character. On the outside, they don't appear to have been touched since the Georgian windows and doors were installed. Thanks for the heads up.
My great x 5 or so grandpa was the arch Bishop of Wells. We see his grave inside the cathedral often. I live in Weston-super-Mare nearby. Very pretty place. My ancestor also taught the swans to ring the bell in the moat next to it.
@@ambermyers1330 History is history. Sensible people keep it that way. English visitors are more likely to die of alcohol poisoning than to run into any trouble.
I was just there a couple of weeks ago, it's an incredibly lovely little street well worth the visit to Wells (and the cathedral isn't too shabby, as well). Beautiful little city.
Britain has more past to present than most other countries. But British people are strangely numb towards this. They sort of take it for granted. Like a 300 year old pub gets demolished and people are like "oh well, sad, but what can you do about it...?"
I am so excited, I knew where it was before I clicked! I have walked on this street. 🥰 I absolutely loved visiting Wells. Thank you for this sweet video.
Same here! What a stunning city as a whole. I love also the bishop's palace, its swans' bell (is it still there?) and promenade. The cathedral is my favorite in England without a doubt. I would love to go back, this video made my day.
@@MichaelPunished Office buildings put up by billionaire investors are a little bit different to houses put up by local builders and bankrupt councils.
@@captainadequate3951 Nope. Looks at examples like Poundbury and Nansledan. Tasteful architecture for the masses is possible were it not for tasteless architect’s egos
Not the easiest of houses to live in or maintain though. Often damp, (no damp course) cold (very little insulation allowed other than temporarily putting up plaster board inside with a gap for insulating materials, which would have to be removed when the property is sold,and makes the small rooms even smaller than they already are) Windows are small, stone takes a long time to heat up(though once heated it retains fairly well). Materials for maintenance must match those originally used, slate/quary tiles for the roof etc. (Expensive, often difficult to obtain, needs builders with experience to install) A little easier to replace the original lead pipe work nowadays, as you don't replace, you use 'Polypipe' and insert this plastic pipe within the original pipes (just hoping it's not too tight, narrow and 'bendy' so the Polypipe won't go in 😑) My nephew is a builder ('chippy'/carpenter), and has dozens of friends in the trade, he has worked on grade 1 listed buildings. When l asked him about it "Never, ever again. Too much hassle for the money l got!" 😁
I’m really curious with Grade I listing, how did residents go about expanding the internal plumbing and adding kitchens? Would love a tour inside one of the cottages.
Being American where not much old is left, certainly not in my podunk town, this is why I loved visiting Europe and the UK. So many incredible, preserved historical buildings and grounds. I absolutely love it.
Ah yes we've moved on since then so very much. A latrine that runs into a gully flowing directly behind the houses is now a latrine that runs directly into the nearest river. Thanks privatised water companies for advancing us back 6 hundred or so years.
"what is thought to be" implies that there could potentially be another older medieval street somewhere else in the UK that I guess people have just been overlooking all this time.
I've been here quite a few times. I love Wells. Shame about all that gun violence in and around the town in 2007. Fortunately the crack team of Sergeant Nicholas Angel and PC Danny Butterman, a real Hot Fuzz team, were able to deal with it 😊 !
@@budd2ndmight be able to find some on online real estate sites if they've ever been for sale. Could Google Maps/earth street view the addresses and try googling lol not sure if y'all have UK versions of the sites here in the States like Zillow but these would probably have more specialty realtors anyway
@@budd2nd it's possible you might get invited in by an owner. I've had this happen to me a couple of times in places like Canterbury. ❤ + people do sometimes open their gardens for charity (the National Garden Scheme/yellow book scheme is the biggest umbrella event, though there are often other,local events during early summer)and sometimes you can get a glimpse instead an owners house as well at the same time.
We visited Wells and went to this street. It's truly beautiful and made more beautiful with a woman singing by an open window there. Her voice was that of an angel and we just stood and listened to that remarkable sound.
It has lovely countryside great for walking and dogs . We have some of the prettiest villages. Towns some are nice. Cities some are ok like York but true quirky pretty England are the countryside villages. People claim we have no culture but you see the personality of old Brits in random things like miniature villages and quirky craft the humour the pagans farmers and craft is everywhere in villages. Hats on post boxes 😊
I am German and fell in love with England. I have been there twice and I love especially such things as much as your whole country side. Most brits are lovely people.
If only we kept building beautiful traditional houses like this. Architecture is something we could be really proud of as a country... Instead we build ugly cheap estates these days):
Please don't post these beautiful places on the Internet. The result is they get trampled over, gardens looted, the residents are burgled and their quiet lives are disrupted. You know what it's like sitting down in your nightshirt for a cuppa in the kitchen and you jump out of your skin because a tourist wants to take a picture? It feels like a violation. So just stop this - allow these communities and people their privacy and safety.
Everytime I see one of your videos I am like " oh ! I want to go there on my next day off !!". When I am off, I am like " yeah I am too tired to go anywhere, let's just watch the video again 😅!" Thanks for the travels !!
@@GrooveSpaceArk it’s useful to ask question and tell it to organize information for you. Plus I can ask multiple things and ask it to structure it a certain way so I can make a decision
People often miss out on Wells when they head to that part of the country and instead just visit Bath or Bristol. There’s places worth skipping between them like Peasedown St. John, Clutton (Sorry Maisie), Radstock, Midsomer Norton, Farrington, and a few others, but if you go that way then don’t miss out on Cheddar Gorge, Wookey Hole, and if you love the beautiful countryside, Priddy and Ebbor Gorge are also lovely.
I agree with you as I thoroughly enjoyed visiting those places, except for Priddy and Ebbor Gorge of which I had no knowledge. Hopefully I might find a way to get there one day. Worth remembering.
@@nct948 If you find yourself on the A37 from Bristol heading to Wells you can turn off to the right just before Penhill transmitter and head to Priddy. Unless you're really into walking I suggest using a car! Ebbor Gorge is past Wookey hole caves, just keep heading along that road
I'm Italian, my holiday house dates as far back as the XII century. Basically the place where I spend my holidays started out as just a fortification with towers and a keep, then it started expanding down the cliff it was based on and my house was one of the first constructed outside the castle. It supposedly was a blacksmith's house who had the shop on the ground floor and his quarters upstairs. We recently completely renovated it after my grandmother's death but we kept a bricked arch on the ground floor that is the only remnant of my house's past
Thank you. I love seeing these videos. I’ve been obsessed with England since I was a child. My Ancestry DNA came back 46 percent England and 24 percent Irish. I had a great, great, great, great, grandmother from Kent, England named Lady Sarah Percel!
Incredible beauty, communal living, religious unity, community. All the great things about the past, that we have lost today and desperately need back again.
I love these shorts, Kind of makes me wish I lived in London for all the history. Finding these little hidden jewels must be positively fun. Thank you for the great mini tours.
@@hollyn8470London is like the world's ghetto. Never going there again, it's a cesspit of foreign criminals, either asking you for money or attempting to take your watch and phone. Britain is a mess.
Fantastic! ❤ This explains why Britain became the leader and the super power of the world a few centuries later! They were more advanced than any other nations at the time.
uh.. but nobody wants them back? very very very very few artifacts have even been asked for you do know only 1% of artifacts in the british museum are of foreign origin?
I really had to look into London being the smallest city in England… but it is! (By size at least). That’s a new one to me, fascinating! Thanks for the great video. This is indeed one of the nicest things about Britain, the history dotted about everywhere.
Haha no you might be misunderstanding quite a bit, London is definitely the LARGEST city in England, the CITY of London is the smallest, it is seperate from London whilst being inside it. Sort of like how the Vatican is its own country while being inside Italy. The City of London is defined by the old Roman borders.
I took clarinet lessons in one of the houses at age 9, was baptized in the chapel at the top end of the Close, and spent 2 years living in Shrewsbury House, one of the Cathedral School's boarding houses. Lots of memories ❤
I was in Shrewsbury house too, but as a daybug. Old wellies represent! :)
Hi from a fellow clarinet player 🙂
I used to walk up this street with my sister when we were younger and she was genuinely scared of it because there was always some creepy clarinet music coming from one of the houses. I can now tell her I have found the culprit!
@@folland1841
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
That is fantastic!
I love this kind of architecture, it's so pretty
It's so pretty. I love going to the uk. America is so... boxes with zero interesting facades
AGREED 100! Long live Catholic Church!
@@fernandaabreu5625 Wells cathedral, like so many, was pinched during the reformation.
@@fernandaabreu5625 umm no... i don't want the religion, i just want the architechture style lol, i admit it's very beautiful.
@@fernandaabreu5625funny how britain hasn't been under the catholic church since the early 1500's. church of england is the leading church in england
The men who build those cottages have achieved a kind of immortality. The product of their craftsmanship and hard work has survived for centuries. Truly remarkable.
yes theyre so immortal that they are all dead.
@@23gtrh2_02 you are pretty shallow. Ever heard of Exegi monumentum aere perennius? Horatius Flaccius.
Their achievements will outlive them all. Admirable.
@@23gtrh2_02are you tarded
I live about 5 minutes walk from here. Wells is officially England’s smallest city. The cottages in Vicar’s Close had their facades ‘modernised’ in the 17th century, although one was restored back to its 14th century appearance in Victorian times.
Wells is one of the most beautiful towns (city) in the UK
Thank you for that context, I was wondering why the facades looked more Georgian than Medieval! Wells is lovely. My half-great-aunt used to live in a top floor flat in the courtyard facing the cathedral with roof access, amazingly beautiful views from up there!
Do people own these properties or do they belong to the city? Thanks
@oliver5976
The whole street is owned by Wells Cathedral, which is located opposite it. In fact there is a beautiful medieval bridge over the road that runs beside the cathedral, connecting Vicars’ Close directly into the cathedral. The cathedral rents out the cottages; in summer 2019, there was a cottage put up for short-term 6 months lease for around £1,500 a month, if I remember correctly.
Couldn't agree more. I hope tourism won't spoil it,
@@Aussiemarco many thanks for your answer!
Beautiful, although I wouldn't mind having tour inside one of the cottages. So glad they are listed.
People live in them lol tho if you ask someone will probably let u villages have kept community and the people are friendly
@@Emilyb21-dm3bfI live in a grade 2 listed village and if anyone knocked on my door asking for a tour I’d tell them where to go 🤣
@@samw1937 my house is too messy lol
@@Emilyb21-dm3bfclean it then you slob
@@Emilyb21-dm3bf
Unfortunately, some listed buildings you can demand entry to!
According to the youtube video "Vicar's Close: A medieval street singing through the centuries" they are working towards not only restoring the houses, but also opening some of them to the public for guided tours.
They are trying to secure funding for this. In the video you get a little sneak peak into what they look like right now (not that great, but more spacious than I expected).
Edit: For those on pc, here's a direct link:
th-cam.com/video/ZT7C5qrVDdc/w-d-xo.html
Four shorts came up when I looked. All worth seeing as they have different views and weather conditions. Cathedral staff and a dozen choir members seem to live there now. Glad they never came onto the private market and risked losing their character. On the outside, they don't appear to have been touched since the Georgian windows and doors were installed.
Thanks for the heads up.
@@anoldewoman lol most likely
@@anoldewoman In 1348? Very doubtful.
@@anoldewoman It doesn't have to be true. But at the very least it has to be plausible...
@@AD270479 Plausibility? You're clutching at straws now 😀
My great x 5 or so grandpa was the arch Bishop of Wells. We see his grave inside the cathedral often. I live in Weston-super-Mare nearby. Very pretty place. My ancestor also taught the swans to ring the bell in the moat next to it.
Are u by any chance talking about Arthur here?
@@DiSWRwow77 possibly, it's been a while since I learned about it.
@@cupidwxings If the crypt has angels & a little lion or tiger head on it, then it is.
My ancestor was the baby-eating Bishop of Bath & Wells.
Wells Cathedral is just stunning and beautiful
I'm Irish, I live in a medieval burgage property beside the castle in my town. It's full of quirks. 👍🇮🇪
Sounds beautiful. It’s a dream of mine to visit Ireland, is it rude of me to ask if the English are welcome?
@ambermyers13 Of course the English are welcome 😂
@@mikekelly5869 considering our history, I could understand hard feelings
@@ambermyers1330 History is history. Sensible people keep it that way. English visitors are more likely to die of alcohol poisoning than to run into any trouble.
Can you share the story of these quirks?
How gorgeous! Those cottages are stunning.
I was just there a couple of weeks ago, it's an incredibly lovely little street well worth the visit to Wells (and the cathedral isn't too shabby, as well). Beautiful little city.
Oh I thought Wells was just a subtitles error for Wales 😅
@@chillmemes5865 😅👍 I just tried to squeeze the word “well” as often as possible into my comment
This is absolutely beautiful. I love any country that preserves its past. I would love to live on a street like this. ❤
Britain has more past to present than most other countries. But British people are strangely numb towards this. They sort of take it for granted. Like a 300 year old pub gets demolished and people are like "oh well, sad, but what can you do about it...?"
@@CristiNeagu. You are mistaken. We fight for our heritage. Where did you get your strange impression? 🇬🇧
@@torfrida6663You are a very small minority.
@@CristiNeaguthere was a pub that was destroyed a while ago without permission and people were up in arms. It was literally on the BBC news.
@@wolfzmusic9706 A handful were, yeah. Anything came out of it? As far as I know the place is still a ruin.
I am so excited, I knew where it was before I clicked! I have walked on this street. 🥰 I absolutely loved visiting Wells. Thank you for this sweet video.
Same here. I grew up in this area and recognised the street instantly.
same here
Same here! What a stunning city as a whole. I love also the bishop's palace, its swans' bell (is it still there?) and promenade. The cathedral is my favorite in England without a doubt. I would love to go back, this video made my day.
@@nct948 yes! The bell is still there. Such an amazing place.
Remember when architecture used to be tasteful?🙃
Remember when the country had money with which to build tasteful things?
@@captainadequate3951 ah yes I forgot all the horrific glass boxes are super cheap to knock up
@@MichaelPunished Office buildings put up by billionaire investors are a little bit different to houses put up by local builders and bankrupt councils.
@@captainadequate3951 Nope. Looks at examples like Poundbury and Nansledan. Tasteful architecture for the masses is possible were it not for tasteless architect’s egos
Not the easiest of houses to live in or maintain though.
Often damp, (no damp course) cold (very little insulation allowed other than temporarily putting up plaster board inside with a gap for insulating materials, which would have to be removed when the property is sold,and makes the small rooms even smaller than they already are)
Windows are small, stone takes a long time to heat up(though once heated it retains fairly well).
Materials for maintenance must match those originally used, slate/quary tiles for the roof etc. (Expensive, often difficult to obtain, needs builders with experience to install)
A little easier to replace the original lead pipe work nowadays, as you don't replace, you use 'Polypipe' and insert this plastic pipe within the original pipes (just hoping it's not too tight, narrow and 'bendy' so the Polypipe won't go in 😑)
My nephew is a builder ('chippy'/carpenter), and has dozens of friends in the trade, he has worked on grade 1 listed buildings.
When l asked him about it
"Never, ever again. Too much hassle for the money l got!" 😁
I’m really curious with Grade I listing, how did residents go about expanding the internal plumbing and adding kitchens? Would love a tour inside one of the cottages.
Listing generally came out after WW2, so I'd assume they'd been modernised in the early 1900s.
You would have design around it. Any repair work would need to match the original is design
Being American where not much old is left, certainly not in my podunk town, this is why I loved visiting Europe and the UK. So many incredible, preserved historical buildings and grounds. I absolutely love it.
To think these buildings were siiting there over two hundred years before the British landed and invaded the North America.
This is also the town where the majority of the film ' Hot Fuzz ' was filmed. 💯 worth a visit if you are considering it. Beautiful town 😊
“For the greater good…”
Hot fuzz was a great movie👍🏽
It became Sanford in Hot Fuzz?
@@anthtan Yarp!
@@audionmusic2787 The greater good
Totally charming !!
Ah yes we've moved on since then so very much. A latrine that runs into a gully flowing directly behind the houses is now a latrine that runs directly into the nearest river. Thanks privatised water companies for advancing us back 6 hundred or so years.
"what is thought to be" implies that there could potentially be another older medieval street somewhere else in the UK that I guess people have just been overlooking all this time.
I'm sure there's plenty
Where?
I've been here quite a few times. I love Wells. Shame about all that gun violence in and around the town in 2007. Fortunately the crack team of Sergeant Nicholas Angel and PC Danny Butterman, a real Hot Fuzz team, were able to deal with it 😊 !
It was for the greater good.
@@ElementalWhispers
The greater good.
Yarp!
Morning angle👮♂️
By the power of greyskull!
It would be lovely to see inside and have a tour.
You can't go inside the residents would get upset if you tried!
@@richardsinger01 Yes I figured that. But it would still be interesting to see.
@@budd2ndmight be able to find some on online real estate sites if they've ever been for sale. Could Google Maps/earth street view the addresses and try googling lol not sure if y'all have UK versions of the sites here in the States like Zillow but these would probably have more specialty realtors anyway
@@budd2nd it's possible you might get invited in by an owner.
I've had this happen to me a couple of times in places like Canterbury. ❤
+ people do sometimes open their gardens for charity (the National Garden Scheme/yellow book scheme is the biggest umbrella event, though there are often other,local events during early summer)and sometimes you can get a glimpse instead an owners house as well at the same time.
I'd love to see inside one & I'd love to live there.❤
I have been there many times and the houses and cathedral are stunning. It is like stepping back in time 🙂 Xxx
We visited Wells and went to this street. It's truly beautiful and made more beautiful with a woman singing by an open window there. Her voice was that of an angel and we just stood and listened to that remarkable sound.
As a Dutchman, England is absolutely beautiful!
England is a Dutchman?
Lol jongen
As an Englishman, I agree.
It has lovely countryside great for walking and dogs . We have some of the prettiest villages. Towns some are nice. Cities some are ok like York but true quirky pretty England are the countryside villages. People claim we have no culture but you see the personality of old Brits in random things like miniature villages and quirky craft the humour the pagans farmers and craft is everywhere in villages. Hats on post boxes 😊
@@Emilyb21-dm3bf that claim always felt weird to me, England has tons of culture. By the way, I just planned a trip to Harwhich > Cambridge > London
Undoubtedly one of the most attractive places. The cathedral itself never fails to impress me whenever I have the chance to travel that way.
I am German and fell in love with England. I have been there twice and I love especially such things as much as your whole country side. Most brits are lovely people.
If only we kept building beautiful traditional houses like this. Architecture is something we could be really proud of as a country... Instead we build ugly cheap estates these days):
So quaint and beautiful. Would love to visit.
Beautiful.
Please don't post these beautiful places on the Internet. The result is they get trampled over, gardens looted, the residents are burgled and their quiet lives are disrupted.
You know what it's like sitting down in your nightshirt for a cuppa in the kitchen and you jump out of your skin because a tourist wants to take a picture? It feels like a violation.
So just stop this - allow these communities and people their privacy and safety.
Fantastic, I’m putting that one on my list. Thank you !
Norwich cathedral is another example!
Storybookesque Street!
Love ♥️ hearing your narration.
Thanks 😊 for sharing your Treasures.
Imagine if this had been repeated systematically for all? Housing should be a right extended to all citizens.
What a beautiful place.... 😮
On my wish list to visit. Thank you 👍
You’re welcome!
Everytime I see one of your videos I am like " oh ! I want to go there on my next day off !!". When I am off, I am like " yeah I am too tired to go anywhere, let's just watch the video again 😅!" Thanks for the travels !!
That’s why you have to pack plan and prep before your day off and leverage ai to help and then the day of it’s all ready packed in the car
I'm like that too, but the difference is that there is 11 hour flight included in this for me 😂
@@DaveE99leverage ai?!?!?! What??
@@GrooveSpaceArk it’s useful to ask question and tell it to organize information for you. Plus I can ask multiple things and ask it to structure it a certain way so I can make a decision
Incredibly atmospheric street which I've walked numerous times - fantastic!
Amazed that the cathedral is in pristine condition. What a fascinating time capsule.
I don't understand why you don't have more subscribers. Your historical content is fascinating and insightful.
You took the words right out of my mouth😂😂
Just subs.
Lovely town....Bath is lovely too.
City....
@@sylvester-jb3ljit's technically a city but will feel way more like a town. Population is only 12.5k I think
Wells is a city!
Wow! Absolutely stunning, so magnificent and utterly beautiful!! 😲🤩🏴
Stunning. British cathedrals always had some of my favourite architecture. Wish we still built stuff like this today. Hope to visit one day
I am the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells!!
Gawd bless ya!
People often miss out on Wells when they head to that part of the country and instead just visit Bath or Bristol. There’s places worth skipping between them like Peasedown St. John, Clutton (Sorry Maisie), Radstock, Midsomer Norton, Farrington, and a few others, but if you go that way then don’t miss out on Cheddar Gorge, Wookey Hole, and if you love the beautiful countryside, Priddy and Ebbor Gorge are also lovely.
I agree with you as I thoroughly enjoyed visiting those places, except for Priddy and Ebbor Gorge of which I had no knowledge. Hopefully I might find a way to get there one day. Worth remembering.
@@nct948 If you find yourself on the A37 from Bristol heading to Wells you can turn off to the right just before Penhill transmitter and head to Priddy. Unless you're really into walking I suggest using a car! Ebbor Gorge is past Wookey hole caves, just keep heading along that road
@@joxidearmageddonator882 thank you for your advice. I'll try and get there someday. 🤓
That's a grate name , Ralph of Shrewsbury .
It is wild that bit of Olde World that is so well preserved is extant.
Fabulous! I Thank ye heartily for sharing this gem of olde withe us, deare Sir!
It gorgeous thank you for this, it will go on my to go list 🙌🏾
They are so beautiful ❤
I'm Italian, my holiday house dates as far back as the XII century. Basically the place where I spend my holidays started out as just a fortification with towers and a keep, then it started expanding down the cliff it was based on and my house was one of the first constructed outside the castle. It supposedly was a blacksmith's house who had the shop on the ground floor and his quarters upstairs. We recently completely renovated it after my grandmother's death but we kept a bricked arch on the ground floor that is the only remnant of my house's past
That Cathedral was painted with all kinds of bright colours we hen it was built and it's a shame they don't paint it again??
We have been there, loved wells. Thanks for posting ❤
Stunning
I hope the village hasn't suffered due to the problems we face today. It looks beautiful so let's keep it that way 😊
For the greater good
@@brunhildevalkyrie of?
@@brunhildevalkyrie SHUT IT
Must have loads of stories about the naughty priests behaving badly and midnight private clarinet lessons 😂
i wish the whole of the uk looked like this
We have allowed our country to become a third world dump.
Open piss ditches? Oh ok
Instead we have communist flats housing Pakistani people
Blame the world wars and the kind of people who make such things happen
@@Luke-McMahon look at you being a insecure nothing racist. Poor baby . When u go nobody will miss you or even remember your name
Absolutely fascinating ✨
I went here recently it’s so interesting how they’re all so well intact! 😀
I lived in Wookey, and alot of my friends and brothers went to Wells Cathedral however I went to Milfield School in Street. Memories hey!!
so beautiful
I went to Uni with a Ralph of Shrewsbury.
We had a Huey of Bristol. I blame the Buckfast.
Wow, the Indians and blacks will love to own this in 100 years.
Thank you. I love seeing these videos. I’ve been obsessed with England since I was a child. My Ancestry DNA came back 46 percent England and 24 percent Irish. I had a great, great, great, great, grandmother from Kent, England named Lady Sarah Percel!
That's simply beautiful
Nearby is bath which is beautiful and full of amazing old houses and of course the Roman baths
Have been, as we made a deliberate trip to Wells and to this medieval Close. Stunning and so beautiful.
Incredible beauty, communal living, religious unity, community. All the great things about the past, that we have lost today and desperately need back again.
Love Wells Cathedral.❤
So beautiful ❤❤😮!
1398 was Catholic Architecture. Definitely the best of all ages.
It's absolutely stunning, That's going on my bucket list to visit. Thankyou for sharing this beautiful vlog
I am very fond of everything British.
❤🇬🇧
They did a documentary in Christmas 2021 about the people who lived here, can’t remember anything about it though 😂
@Gate-of-DawnChristmas is for getting drunk, no shame in it. Learn to let loose and have some fun
I love these shorts, Kind of makes me wish I lived in London for all the history. Finding these little hidden jewels must be positively fun. Thank you for the great mini tours.
This isn't in London
@@hollyn8470London is like the world's ghetto. Never going there again, it's a cesspit of foreign criminals, either asking you for money or attempting to take your watch and phone. Britain is a mess.
This area is really pretty. ♥️
Beautiful
So beautiful. Love to see it one day.❤❤❤
Beautiful, we must keep our history! 😍
It’s on the bucket list ❤
Glorious!
Medieval Condos. Groovy. Is there a Home Owners Association Fee to live there, too? : )
Probably a ppercorn rent. It's still used to house the Vicars Choral, the organists and vergers to the Cathedral
The home owners association is the relationship with the cathedral
That would be historic England. And God help you if you broke one of their rules and it ended up with a fine…
@@blindbrad4719 🤣
Fantastic! ❤ This explains why Britain became the leader and the super power of the world a few centuries later! They were more advanced than any other nations at the time.
Oh dear, you have just made a right fool of yourself and obviously haven't studied any history.
i love how each house has a unique character
Beautiful 🩷🏴
Beautiful England ❤❤❤🇬🇧
It was.
Wells is magical.
You should check out Eyam. It's a whole village frozen in time by the plague. Went with my school as a kid, it's a very memorable place.
That's amazing that they all have chimneys, because chimneys did not come into general use until several centuries later
The chimneys were a later addition
use your brain 🙄
@@SRBCG but when? That would be really interesting to know
@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 Do you like being insulting or is it something you just can't help?
@@yippee8570 I just can't help🫣
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Been there as a young adult while living in Bath. Pretty area.
I've seen this place the feeling being there is like you have found yourself in a movie set
Amazing! I've seen a few even older residential streets in Italy, but none in Northern Europe that still have all their original houses.
Fuggerei in Augsburg, Germany. It is social housing since 1521.
A place full of history.
It sooo beautifully English
WOW! I love when videos like this pop up on my recommended feed. Thank you!
This is just beautiful and amazing, it's like going back in time, love it.
Tell the English to give back the ancient artefacts they stole and put in their museums.
uh.. but nobody wants them back? very very very very few artifacts have even been asked for
you do know only 1% of artifacts in the british museum are of foreign origin?
and then these countries are not gonna protect them as it happened before.
You're thinking of Lord Elgin?
That's beautiful! So well kept.
I really had to look into London being the smallest city in England… but it is! (By size at least).
That’s a new one to me, fascinating! Thanks for the great video.
This is indeed one of the nicest things about Britain, the history dotted about everywhere.
Haha no you might be misunderstanding quite a bit, London is definitely the LARGEST city in England, the CITY of London is the smallest, it is seperate from London whilst being inside it. Sort of like how the Vatican is its own country while being inside Italy. The City of London is defined by the old Roman borders.
It is a very nice thing about Britain, we ve got some nice museums with a whole bunch of things too, if a little dusty.
@@db5094 Oops! Little (huge) type omission on my behalf there!
Absolutely breathtaking, what a beautiful place and the architecture is second to none.
Thank you for sharing.