VAN LIFE UK~ Abingdon On Thames History and secret tunnels! Oxfordshire
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Todays van trip was an interesting walk around Abingdon on Thames in Oxfordshire. I share some of the history of the Abby, buildings within the town and secrets hidden under the roads!
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greetings sis, was a blessings watching your share, thanks, have a restful and peaceful Sunday
Thanks my friend. Glad you enjoyed it xx
How nice to get out and see some new sights.
Can you tell I'm desperate to get out for some adventure!
@@WormsEyeView I feel exactly the same. I found a new graveyard today and I felt the most excitement I’ve had in ages!!
Interesting local history Pip. 😃 Trev
Thanks. I've missed sharing the world from my van.
Pip and lee do Abingdon , looks great.I love the stone bridge,
Thanks. It was nice to look at Abingdon through historical eyes
Also love that arch ceiling.
Why don't we build with that skill anymore?
I really enjoyed this vlog.
Thank you xx
Loving your daily trips. I love old museums and libraries. Xxx
Thank you. I love finding something new and interesting x
Hi pip some great history there!! Maybe you could go to goring on Thames would love to see that area again.
Yeah that's that's not far from me. 20 mins or so
Great video!!
Thank you xx
Pip and Lee Spoggin' !!! Yay!!! SPOG ON!!!! Looked like a great time!
Thanks Breezy! I can't wait for some long trips.
Love the van trip videos and English history! Happy to see Lee was able to join you! I really enjoy all of your videos myself. I love watching the kiddies as well as van trips.
Aww thank you. It's so nice to hear tha muly videos have become part of someone's day and brought them joy. X
Whoa, you guys went to Abingdon? 😳 That's like, only 13-14 miles from us here in Bristol (Abingdon, Virginia anyways😜), you shoulda stopped in for some hotdogs or burgers!😂 Our Abingdon is close to water as well, South Holsten Lake 😊 Your Abingdon is a truly beautiful place to visit, my friend! 😊✌
Lol. Yes a lot of the names got taken over to America with the first people that traveled over. I guess it saved thinking up new ones!🤣
@@WormsEyeView thinking up new ones is a lot of work 🤔 🤪
Loved “Pip & Lee van day” 😁👍 ... like it when you point out nice little shops as well 👍 ... the initial connection was van life 👍 but since the beginning of November you have been my motivation, I can’t start my day without a “good Morning, good morning, good morning you lovely lot 😂 it’s either look what Pippa managed to achieved = get a wiggle on or Pippa had a recuperation day = it’s ok to chill 😊👍 ... it would be good for you to arrange a half way point to meet up with our lovely Mr Womble that would be wonderful to watch 😉👍 he needs dragging out of hibernation 🤣👍 ... take care guys ❤️👵🏼🐾🐾🤠xxx
Awww thank you. Its lovely to hear that you watch regularly! 😘
I checked up on womble last week. He seems to be well. I'll certainly drag him out! Also another friend in Birmingham area has said we can have a night on his friends land again soon! So certainly some travels being penciled in!
@@WormsEyeView good news 👍 xxx
Thanks for the tour Pip! It'll have to do until I can get back there :)
You are so welcome xx
yay pip and lee 😊 cant wait for the trips x
Me to. I need so roaming time!!!
I find it cool that if you follow that river all the way east you'll end up in London :)
My sister and I are going to walk from the source of the Thames to london, following the river, once we are more free to travel.
Such a lovely day trip. The architecture and engineering behind those beautiful old buildings is amazing. Those times is when math really came into play, as they didn't have computers to help sort out angles, heights etc. I can't imagine having all that wonderful history within hands reach and not get out and enjoy it. But I guess it's like anywhere, we get used to our surroundings and only realize it when it's pointed out to us. I can imagine the stink from that little river filling the town from the sewage that got dumped into it. Sometimes the farm fields around here are ripe with having assorted manures spread on it, and thankfully it's only for a few days that our senses get assaulted. Can't imagine day after day of that happening. Guess we are kind of lucky being born in these times eh?.. haha. Thanks for sharing, and it was nice to see Lee along for the ride too.
See ya later.. 💖
I am reading a book that is based in the time just after the great fire of london. Its shocking to think that people just deficated where they were. That all of that was just in the street. Oh yes we hsbd the same thing with the muck spreading in the fields. It is a bit stinky!
Oh dear. TH-cam sutched your comment on the new video. Were you writing rude things again 🤣🤣
@@WormsEyeView .. hahaha.. There must be "key" words that set them off.. I dunno.. 🙃🤣🙃
Really enjoying these vlogs, Pip's Tour Of Oxfordshire! Don't need Morse and Lewis when you have Pip and Lee!
Nope. Where you find Morse and Lewis you find murder. With Pip and Lee you get cake!!
Awesome video ❤ i live in abingdon
Thanks for watching xx
what a amazing town with beautiful buildings and a great history
Thanks. There is still so much I didn't cover. I could probably do another video some time.
I love that broad face pub sign!!
Very arty isn't it.
Very interested place visit lot old building
Yes some of them are just crazy old!!
See you tomorrow! x
See you then!
yorkshire its beautiful up here
It really is. But that is more of a 4 day trip at least. For weekends I need something a bit closer to home!
Did the doctors think the teachers were saying
Listen to me, we're suffering Listen to me !!
Instead of
Distentry, we're sufferng...😉
Lol probably!!!
Shakespeare's county would be nice
*PipaXplores* in playlist
Oxford to Stratford
1hour or 54mile approx
Oh yes! That's not yoo far. I did a very quick visit to Stratford but it was cut short by a partridge rescue!
I want those cakes!
They were beyond tasty. We shared them with the boys. A slice of each. Polish cakes are mow a favourite!!
That must be one uppity squirrel if he uses a fork to eat is nuts LOL
Oh yes. Posh squirrels round here 🤣
Nice tour. Yes, things were built to last back then. I think it was a great idea for the baddies to have to build their own prison. Wouldn’t it be great if all prisoners had to build homes and shelters for the homeless people? 👍💕😊
It would give them a trade as well that they could use once they are released! Win win
Forgot Saxon rd love
Lol. Yeah I didn't bother with that end! 😉
must be a little strange living in a jail, but I bet its really cool
Especially with bars on the windows!!
Pitty you never did the real Abbey building that are still in Abingdon? And the whole old Abbey is marked out in brick on the Abbey meadow, also missed the plan next to Queen Victoria statue witch would of Explained the layout of the abbey which was in comparison to St Paul’s Cathedral in size and you would of also found what still exists of the original Abbey checker buildings. Maybe another visit Morlands Brewery The MG Car club, all MG FROM 1929 -1979 was built on the site of police station McDonalds and abingdon business Park.”The old malt buildings was for malt for brewing not vinegar .
Yes we have family thete but we never spend much time exploring Abingdin. I really need yo go back and find more. Thank you for ghe heads up. My other half did say about thd politics station being the old MG site. Do they still do yearly MG shows on the meadows?
Oh good to know about the malt building too. Thank you xx
Not as much since morlands brewery closed that’s my opinion Since Morland is closed and connection between old speckled hen in the Brewery ceased .Even though Green King market it as moorlands old speckled hen, Wedt gate street Bury st Edmunds.
The MG car club has got their headquarters in Cemetery Road one of the old exits from the original factory they still do a lot of shows in and around Abingdon and on the Drayton Road roundabout there are boards inside their explaining most of the history and all the models they made I never nice visit maybe.
Oh I'll have to look out for that. Thank you x
Not one place but why not explore the Thames from source to as close to the estuary as you can find park ups
I am actually doing the walk with jacky. It was ment to be last years walk. We had the map book and info guide ..... then covid hit. So as soon as we are able, we will be walking it in stages.
Ah the memories of Covid😅
What a time that was.
its amazing the inmates didnt build a secret passage way out of the prison for a night pub crawl
These show, we dont have travel to find fab places, just open our eyes
Or
have a worms eye view from home
They missed a trick there didn't they! Building an escape hatch! I'm glad I can share some of these interesting places with you all. Xx
I want cake !
Oh my goodness..... they were tasty!
Nice video. Need to have this on properly. will do the lot, a bit of a rushed go through as doing job web sites with a bit of YT as a distraction. Did local history videos on old TH-cam that went in a temper in May, So much lost, not on computer, lost when YT went!. Did now and then pieces on things on Facebook, drone stuff and old aerial photo web site photo shameless steals!, not anymore (shut that), Railway. will link a railway video at the end of the line, old photos links in the words of that, Old TV antenna tower by the abbey meadows, old railway site land. Now all gone but photos of how things where. link at end of this, in the video words old photos. 6:23 video time, Stert stream. Goes all the way back to Tilsley park. A long old stream. Not notice the bridge evidence before. Well spotted or researched, could have put in geocaching listing, Cant now as not mine but was. a GPS game (hidden boxes) I gave up doing locally. Had many of them I owned. To the point of writing, the round drain cover, stream under that. Only bit can see daylight when down there. th-cam.com/video/H3BMyeyROpQ/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/zI-XVQErGo4/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/jrqduZZntJQ/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/play/PLjnWEfscb9aMnCLRwyxeabM1pNs0dK1t_.html coord.info/GC4T7NM