The curious graveyard with two churches and the Villain buried there ?
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- In this video we visit Heptonstall in Yorkshire. We take a look at a very old church St Thomas Beckett now lies in ruins replaced by a second later church. The old ruined church is wonderful. The village of Heptonstall is very beautiful full of old Yorkshire stone cottages. In the old graveyard is a grave of David Hartley the main culprit associated with the Cragg vale coiners. We tell the story of the Cragg vale coiners also a famous American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. We take a look around this quaint old English village. Famous people in graveyards.
Another quality look into English history. Thanks so much!!!!
I actually live in this village, the amount of tourism and filming that goes on here is amazing.
Its very beautiful
Please help to keep the beautiful old pub open 😉 🍺
It's a bonny village.
Do people look in your windows?!
@@nanaingallswilder7363 constantly ! its a past !
Great guys, Martin you're video"s are very interesting and informative 👍 good to see our uncle john with you both 😀.
Wow, that was fantastic Martin, very interesting
Good timing as Sylvia Plath was buried here on the 18th February 1963. Ted Hughes was actually Poet Laureate and for me one of our finest nature poets. The family home, where his parents lived is on the outskirts of Heptonstall and is called The Beacon.
That’s interesting,I’m sure they briefly showed Sylvia Plath’s headstone in the recent Happy Valley tv series when Catherine was visiting her daughter’s grave.
@@jamie7056 They did yes 🙂. I was there last week and one of the village pubs, The Cross, had a sign outside giving directions to 'Sylvia Plath's and Rebecca Cawood's' graveyard'. 🙂
Cheers Chris
@@ChrisJB My eyes weren’t deceiving me!Thanks for the info,will have to visit.
@@jamie7056 I highly recommend a visit, there is so much history. There is an interesting Methodist Chapel too. 👍
100% agreed with James. It looks so nice as if time stood still 👍🙌
Superb filming and commentaries as per usual.
Thank you very much both.
Great video Martin and James really enjoy them thanks.
It's like stepping back into time stepping into that Village brilliant
Top video and interesting story about that gang too👍
Goodday Martin no its dam hot in February. 37 and up just looking at you, and your surroundings make me feel cooler top job on the videos stay safe
Wonderful to see England with its historic buildings.
An interesting story about the counterfeiters.
Another wonderful video from a beautiful part of the world! Thank you
That longing to see things as they were i always get when i watch your vids Martin. There must be a word for that feeling.
Really enjoyed this Martin & James, excellent. Thank you. Great info.
Awesome video Martin, the coiners all new to me and so interesting. Agree with Chris JB the timing perfect with Sylvia Plath. Thanks for posting.
Lovely video. It really captured the atmosphere of the church and the town…..nice to come along on a wee explore.
Wow wow wow this is incredible explore. Absolutely brilliant. You had me quite emotional in the graveyard. Excellent information. Loved this wee village. Somewhere in time.
Thanks Shirley
Bloody brilliant, as always Martin. Cheers from Oz.
Thank you for your very interesting video and thank you both for spending your time and expence making these for all to enjoy.
Hi Martin great video. There is a BBC drama coming out about the Cragg Vale coiners this year. It's called the Gallows Pole. It was filmed last year and should be out soon. My friends Husband plays the brother of King David. Thought you might be interested 😉 😀
Thank you, Martin, for nice video. See you next time
untainted piece of England. cant believe how quiet it is there, no bugger about. nice one lads cheers.
What an amazing little place that is, totally untouched right down to the cobble streets 🤩🤩🧱👍🏽
Thanks Martin, that was a great investigation and brilliant documentary. Take care and all the best. Stevie
Amazing. My family inhabited the farm owned by the coiners in the early 20th century.
I spent many a fun day here where a friend of the family lived. I have a picture somewhere of Dad, his friend and I playing guitar in the square. Stunning place.
Very interesting and well done young men
Puts me in the mind of Godricks hollow! 😳🤔😎great episode
Very interesting stuff, Martin. Thanks.
Love the way James couldn't think of the word 'cobblestones' - "pebble stone ground"!
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A great video. Fascinating.
When you were stood by Sylvia Plath's grave, the grave over James' right shoulder with the large bush in it was my grandma's grave.
I wish I'd known you were gonna be there, I'd have come and given you a hand, I did a video a couple of years ago which followed the history of the village of Heptonstall.
Heptonstall is my home place, I lived there for many years and now live in Mytholmroyd just 3 miles away.
Weirdly, today we were in Halifax looking at the Wainhouse tower (Well worth a look) and it was near a graveyard, so I googled up where Sylvia Plath's grave was. It wasn't where we were going so we left it for another day. We then went to the Piece Hall and in a bookshop I picked up that book "The Gallows Pole" and thought it looked interesting. We return home and find you've just added a video talking about both of those things!
I'd love to see Martin and crew do a video on the Wainhouse tower - I've been up it on an open day, and it's impressive!
Spooky !!
What a quaint little village
Amazing place and great video, this is a place now on my bucket list to visit, thanks guy
my goodness amazing . regards liz x
Visited that church and Heptonstall a good few years ago now. There used to be a guy ride around there dressed in full Civil War cavalry get up, and he used to go into that church, saw him on telly a couple of times, one I think was That's Life, and thought it looked a nice place to visit [never saw the bloke though!]
Visited here again a couple of weeks ago. Such a fascinating village.
I'm going to visit I remember going when I was ten years old, we went with school and I still remember the story about the coin
This was fascinating and lovely Martin. And I do love that you try to link up the people of the past with the area's past history, to feel how life was for ordinary people. I just love old graveyards. The older ones are a history lesson in their own right and we can find out so much about the ordinary everyday detail of the lives of the people of the past. What a lovely little place Heptonstall is too. It's a little bit of living history. And aren't we lucky to have so much history at our disposal in the UK? Loved the pub! and it made a change from your usual brew. Thanks to you both (and to John), for a great outing and some cracking information about the past!
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James has melted my heart a little bit this time. His awe is great! 😇
The Bell Jar is an incredible read. Well recommended (if you're in a happy and stable place anyway lol)
Lovely little place. So close to where I grew up across the border, but I've been!
There's another ruined church very much like that were my parents live now, outside Carnforth, Warton Old Rectory. Great visit, and surrounded by old steel and railway industry history 🙌🏻
the older building is much more appealling IMO, despite being smaller. great video as always, Martin, cheers, have a good'un!
I know just what you mean about wanting to see places as they were. It was lovely to see Heptonstall as i havnt been yet and the lack of traffic noise was fab.....took me back to lockdown, no cars no planes but more birdsong. 🤔🙂
What a delightful place is Heptonstall. Thanks for the tour and for showing the grave of Sylvia Plath, as well as the ruined church of St Thomas Beckett. Obviously the Cragg Vale Coiners have their supporters by the looks of it! Thoroughly enjoyable video.
cheers for that guys...I live in Peru now but I used to live on a narrow boat down "int" valley...loved/love the place
What a beautiful place. My type of place to live
Another fascinating and thought provoking delve into the past. Thanks Martin, James and John.
Thanks for this. Totally fascinating!
Great video this Martin keep up the good work.
Great upload. What a place!
Awesome video I love watching your great videos I live in Market Harboorough in Leicestershire every some good history in our town come and have a look
There's another churchyard with two churches, down somewhere near the border of Sussex and Essex. Unfortunately I can't recall its name, but think it's because they were once two adjoining parishes that were later amalgamated. The one church has a very peculiar war memorial window; etched glass scenes of the Western Front with Bible verses attached, which are horribly taken out of their original contexts. As for the coining trade, the village of Flash, up on the Staffordshire Moorlands was also infamous for counterfeiting - hence the name 'Flash money' and several villagers were hung for the trade at Stafford. Fascinating film - thank you very much
Brilliant video guys. Really interesting.
Loved that 😍
Feel like I'm back in history class at school, only this time, rather than being bored rigid at 14, I'm fascinated and hanging on to every word ! Wish I was there to read all those headstones, I do the same as you, I imagine what the world was like when they were alive and wishing I could bring some of them back to tell me tales of their lives.
Then watch their faces as I show them the modern world of television and central heating and mobile phones .......that would be amazing 😊
Loving your videos Martin, I was up till 3am last night watching and this looks like another late night 😄
Glad your enjoying Carol 😀
Just viewed your video, “The curious graveyard with two churches and a Villain buried there”? A fabulous journey back in time. Very interesting to view. Thank you Martin for your journey. Cheers Martin. 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸
Thank you Martin
Awesome thank you 🙏
Aww man its a dream of mine to live somewhere like this. So peaceful and steeped in history.
I was born and raised there. It was a wonderful place to grow up but I wouldn't want to live there now - There's nowhere to park and it's fearsomely expensive !
The graveyard is also full of friends and others I knew well, so for me it's a heartbreaking place.
Hi Mz,James and crew, that cozy pub was meggga, not many pubs left like that, reminded me of TV series Last of The Summer Wine. Cheers DougT
Yeah thats definitely how it felt, thanks very much
Wow.
Highlight for me here,
Was Martin talking from the heart, walking through the church ruins,
Talking about the feelings it musters when we look back on these peoples lives,
As far back as the 12/1300s in this case.
If we research, and understand, imagine, concentrate and simply think hard enough,
You can pull out a rough incling of how we used to live in our daily lives, in these beautiful, simple surroundings.
The thought of English settlements peoples way of life, way before the industrial revolution,
Then living through the turmoil of it all....
Its absolutely haunting.
Great vid again,
Thankyou lads.
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Had to report another scam comment in here just now martin.
We dont need there sort eh.
I bet they dont appreciate a nice brew with a custard tart, or an eccles cake.
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Cheers Bob, appreciated. Unfortunately they keep coming back like weeds
Just watched this Martin ,I remember going in a pub in cragg vale Hebden bridge area nearly 30 years ago called the hinchcliffe next to St John’s ,they had a collection of the forged coins on display and I think stamps and metal working tools which the forgers used ,if your in the area pop in and check it out ,brilliant vlog cheers 👍👍
Great video, no concrete, so much great stonework everywhere. Churches and Cemeteries make for an enjoyable watch. James, need to see more narration from you. Thanks Martin, James and John for all your walking and hard work.....
We only really had concrete in one video 😀 But yes a highly recommended visit
Really Interesting vlog. Not been there since I was a kid but remember the road up was really steep
I so wish I could retire to a village like this. I love reading about (and viewing) all the small ancient places all over the UK.
Loved your video. Loved the history lesson. Meriden, Kansas
I’ve had a walk around here,very quirky place.
Pint was good in the nearby pub too😉
Your right Martin - a very worldly old Village!!! 🤔🚂🚂🚂
Fascinating video Martin as usual. Looks like a lovely village. We have a similar surviving town water pump here in Sandbach.
What a great place to live,,no rubbish on the ground,, people must have a secret car park,,was there any street lights?? When things were built then they were built to last ,, really enjoyed it 🙂 and the history,,walk through brilliant stuff ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️ from northern Ireland
very enjoyable video
Cracking video Martin, My dad's from heptonstall so it's nice to see round the place, I need to explore it more myself
Great video Martin.
I hope that you guys make money out of these videos, all the work involved in planning and filming, you’re bringing history to all of us in an honest and easy to watch way, thanks
That was a very good film with so much history enjoy it very much its a beautiful place thanks for sharing it keep up the great work that you do your's mick
Great video!!!
Pebble stones. James you’re a star 👍🏼😂 That village is stunning. There’s lots of places in that area oldy worldy around there 😍
I’m not religious but I do appreciate the work that must’ve gone into construction of old churches. We’ve one in Leyland that had the fist but built in the 14th century and there are some very old graves.
I remember cragvale vid. The coiners was an interesting story.
Then a nice pint. 👍🏼
Very interesting video as always Martin! Plenty of Google searches on the way for me.
Another 48 hours at work and another video to get me through it cheers Martin 😊
What a cracking place Martin, I'd be there all day, I love checking gravestones out! 😊😊
Thanks so much for sharing - this church (the ruins) survived through Henry's reign, only to be destroyed by a storm? What a shame. I envy you to be living with so much history at your doorstep. I can visit one of the oldest places in North America (old Montreal) and its still only about 500 years old!
Great vid,cheers👍
Brilliant video Martin, good to see David being being more active and telling us his version.
Regards from the Philippines.
Yeah he's a good guy Dave
Brilliant.Thanks lads.
Thanks Ste
amazing piece of history, even the old church stunning.
Tremendous 😊
Now that was REALLY FASCINATING. Loved this one very much. Cheers
The Bell Jar was required reading in college. Really sad stuff. So surprised to see stones laying flat. Great video.
I need to have a look there
Another great video Martin and James
Thank you
Another great video Martin this is a must visit for me cheers guys
Great stuff again Martin - proper history and fascinating places again. I never knew any of this. Thanks for widening my interests and things I need to research - it's why your channel is important.
I've been wanting you to do a video on this for time Well done for spotting King David's grave and telling his story keep up the good work and keep the videos coming thanks mate
Hope your well mate 👍
@@MartinZero yep all is good mate I hope everything is good your end take it easy pal👍
Wow what an amazing place, love to visit it!
Well worth a visit
Nice beard James - that's why I (almost) didn't recognise you at Beamish the other weekend!
Awesome Martin .. A total change from the norm, rivers, culverts mills and the like, but what a fascinating vid. Your research is incredibly revealing and I have learned so much from your videos, thank you
Thank you
Your videos are always interesting but this is one of my favorites. I could live in a town like this one.
Very “All Creatures Great and Small” vibe.😊
Love every video you put out Martin! Great to have someone who shares the same interests and you always provide a great amount of history.
Thanks for another great video!
What a great location to pick. It seems they're filming or have done the book, 'The Galloew Pole.'
cracking video , great story about the counterfeiters
Good video Martin, I've spent many happy hours exploring the hills above Todmorden and Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall is one of my favourite places. It's utterly unique.