I think the Crossed Keys might be after the church's dedication: St. Peter. Traditionally he was given the keys to the gates of heaven. Saint Peter was also a fisherman. Lovely church and village. Fascinating history and the links to The Magic Roundabout.
I remember reading many years ago that at one time churches were obliged to plant yew trees in order to provide the wood to make the longbows which were the mainstay of English armies at the time. There was never enough, though, and much of the wood had to be imported. It's good that we're still left with many of the trees.
Sounds along the lines of Henry VIII's men planting oak trees in Richmond Park for the future restoration of Royal palaces, some of which are still there.......
Richard do call in for a cuppa, if you require access to both windmills I could sort that for you, another fact for you the yew tree next to the mill in North Chailey is the dead Center of Sussex.
Interesting village, Simon called Peter was the first Bishop/Pope of Rome - hence the crossed keys. He was also a fisherman before being an apostle - hence the ship and nets full of fish.
Oh thanks for that. I got the boat reference to the scripture where Peter wasn't catching any fish. So Jesus told him to throw the nets over to the otherside of the boat. The nets became so full that they were tearing, & they filled the boats up to overflowing. Had never heard the the other in regards to the keys.
I was always amazed how Windy Miller didn’t get pole axed by the sails rotating in front of the windmill door. Hugh, Pugh, Barney, McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub...
Another ancestral village for me. My great grandmother’s Cruse family came from Chailey. My great x 2 grandfather had 12 children and sadly 6 all died before the age of 2. Sadly I think despite being country folk so cleaner air there was a lot of poverty around.
Ah Trumpton, Chigley and Camberwick green! There are episodes on TH-cam to watch :) I used to save the 2p call from the red phone box when I called Dad to pick me up from youth club by pre arranging "two rings". Blimey that were 40years ago now.
Years ago a teacher of mine told me that Yew trees were planted for their wood which was ideal for making Longbows. They were planted in Churchyards because their leaves are poisonous. In ancient villages the Churchyard was the only fenced/walled communal area and that prevented grazing animals from eating the poisonous leaves.
What an interesting theory I loved all three of those children's programs I used to live in burgess hill so know chaily common very well love your blogs 👍
The trouble with Saints is that they often have curious back stories. Peter, who changed his hame from Simon, was a fisherman and later became the gatekeeper of Heaven. So keys are nearly always associated with St Peter, and sometimes fishing iconography, as he was "the Fisher of men", harvesting people into the Church.
@@RichardVobes Your welcome. Could I recommend a read for you? Wandering through many counties by James J Cash, published by Herbert Jenkins first printing 1940.🇬🇧
I believe that the boat with the nets full of fish is a reference to John 21:11: "So Simon Peter climbed back into the boat and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn."
A lovely place - I do like a cat slide roof on a church! I wonder if north Chailey came about because of the railway station that was there (it’s the next one south from Sheffield Park on the Bluebell railway)
Lovely to see this. I was born and grew up in Chailey, was in the choir at that church from the age of 9, married there, and my Father's remains are at the corner of the chancel. There used to be a huge tree in front of the church, came down in a storm in the 70s, and there's the grave of the butcher, who's headstone tells the story of how he died. Definitely go back for more exploration. There's a roman road in south Chailey, also St Peter's school is interesting, there's a story that a sweep's boy got stuck in the chimney and died, his skeleton was found up there in the 60s/70s.
Chailey looks a lovely little village. I only know the village from going down the A275 from East Grinstead to Lewes. Always like going along that road. Nice bit of East Sussex. I must check it out further! Cold! you must have been out early! Really warm yesterday around lunch time. Today I was at Brockham to the East of Dorking - ensuring a road race change was accurate. After I had a nice run East to Betchworth A lovely unusual church there, might be worth checking that out at some stage if you have not done already. Then up to Box Hill and back down to Brockham via Brockham quarry. Very interesting, in fact there was reference to this quarry at the Amberly Chalk pit museum I visited recently and that was brilliant. Really extensive quarry there again might be worth checking out at some stage better in the winter when you can see much more.
Many of the Thalidomide children grew up in Chailey Heritage (childrens home). Had you visited in the late 1970s/early 1980s you could well have encountered them.
A lovely little place Chailey is another place to go exploring, some lovely old properties, and a nice looking church. And amazing old trees. Would definitely like to see what North and South Chailey look like. I actually used to watch Trumpton when I was growing up pugh pugh barney magrew cuthbert dibble and gruff, have no idea if their correct spelling haha. Great video as always Richard. :)
Apparently Pubs with the name "Cross keys" of which there seem to be many round the country ,stand on land owned or originally owned by the church , and there is often a church not too far away from them. I learned that on a ghost walk in York , you actually get some good historical info on these type of walks . ( I also enjoyed it in the Cross Keys ) 🍺
Yew trees were (and still are) sacred to the Pagans because they compliment rebirth beliefs of the old world. They're evergreen, had both male and female and seemingly lived forever. Our descendants could sit under the same tree hundreds of years later and your forbares hundreds of years before. When we decorate the Christmas tree, I think instinctively we are decorating the Yew.
Richard , the fishing image on Challey church sign has several New Testament references - two , I think , of Jesus disciples were fishermen in Galilee.
For those unfamiliar with the children's programmes Richard refers to, here's a one minute excerpt of a typical opening scene from the programme. th-cam.com/video/sdJWQGZlRcg/w-d-xo.html
St Peter was a fisherman. On one occasion after a night of catching absolutley nothing Jesus met him and told him to cast his nets once again into the water. A bit disgruntled Peter does this and his nets come up full to the brim with fish. This was the beginning of an amazing adventure for him with Jesus. Jesus then told to him 'l will make you fishers of men" indicating a new direction for Peters life. Later Jesus also told Peter ..."I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. To bind and loose things in heaven and on earth". Peter is an important member of Jesus disciples and the picture on the church notice board sums up the very heart of his ministry. Jesus builds his church .... casting a net of the good news of the kingdom of Heaven across the whole world. The good news is.... 'God loves, God makes provision for us and God saves us. Peter's encounter with Jesus changes not just his life but countless others through the ages.
Apparently Chailey is considered the very centre of the county of Sussex and I think the other wood used for shingles may be cedar? You were unlucky with the sun . West Sussex had a great day !!
So yews weren’t planted in church yards as a ready source of wood for a long bow back in the day when men were required to practice their archery skills as I had been taught aeons ago? Oh well considering the misinformation about a lot of things that is stuffed in our heads the yew mystery is a topic for another. Day
There was a cross keys at the church and on the village sign so would be interesting to know what that means. I think the boat full of fish was just a bible story of when Jesus told the men on the boat to cast their nets.
I think the Crossed Keys might be after the church's dedication: St. Peter. Traditionally he was given the keys to the gates of heaven. Saint Peter was also a fisherman. Lovely church and village. Fascinating history and the links to The Magic Roundabout.
My nieces friend lives in the existing windmill at north chailey
I remember reading many years ago that at one time churches were obliged to plant yew trees in order to provide the wood to make the longbows which were the mainstay of English armies at the time. There was never enough, though, and much of the wood had to be imported. It's good that we're still left with many of the trees.
Sounds along the lines of Henry VIII's men planting oak trees in Richmond Park for the future restoration of Royal palaces, some of which are still there.......
Fantastic Richard, it was very nice to meet you, thankyou for giving me a mention, keep up the good work.
Regards Peter.
It was fabulous to meet you - must pop over for a cuppa sometime. I want to do some of the walks in the local area.
Richard do call in for a cuppa, if you require access to both windmills I could sort that for you, another fact for you the yew tree next to the mill in North Chailey is the dead Center of Sussex.
Nice to see you out and about again Richard. Thank you for another interesting walk and video.
Interesting village, Simon called Peter was the first Bishop/Pope of Rome - hence the crossed keys. He was also a fisherman before being an apostle - hence the ship and nets full of fish.
That was even more confusing - I assume Simon called Peter using the phone box in the village.
Oh thanks for that. I got the boat reference to the scripture where Peter wasn't catching any fish. So Jesus told him to throw the nets over to the otherside of the boat. The nets became so full that they were tearing, & they filled the boats up to overflowing.
Had never heard the the other in regards to the keys.
I was always amazed how Windy Miller didn’t get pole axed by the sails rotating in front of the windmill door. Hugh, Pugh, Barney, McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub...
Thanks for the video Richard. Loads of questions to be answered, puzzles to be solved and maps to be checked. Please go back and explore some more!
The Rev Edwin Matthias did a history of Chailey that can be accessed on line.
What a nice relaxing time you had. Hope you eventually got the sun to warm you up Richard
I did! As soon as I left! ;)
Another ancestral village for me. My great grandmother’s Cruse family came from Chailey. My great x 2 grandfather had 12 children and sadly 6 all died before the age of 2. Sadly I think despite being country folk so cleaner air there was a lot of poverty around.
Makes you feel very nostalgic to see a working phone box and to think that the yew tree could be older than the church, how amazing. Great video.
Excellent again Richard
Thank you Richard, very informative and entertaining...
Really interesting vlog. Thanks. You do these so well.
Beautiful village and houses. Lovely old graveyard and trees. So much history. Peaceful walk and surroundings. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
Ah Trumpton, Chigley and Camberwick green! There are episodes on TH-cam to watch :)
I used to save the 2p call from the red phone box when I called Dad to pick me up from youth club by pre arranging "two rings". Blimey that were 40years ago now.
Another great video of A Quick Look at Chailey!.✌✌✌
Newick and Chailey station, now closed, featured Mags Bessemer, who was tenacious in trying to keep the line open
And for whom is named the Bessemer Arms on the Bluebell Station at Sheffield Park ...
The old phone box could be the new tardis in dr who lol
Be great to see you and Matthew Holdsworth do another video, I have much enjoyed watching them especially the boxhill walk's and stepping stones.
Coming soon!
Years ago a teacher of mine told me that Yew trees were planted for their wood which was ideal for making Longbows. They were planted in Churchyards because their leaves are poisonous. In ancient villages the Churchyard was the only fenced/walled communal area and that prevented grazing animals from eating the poisonous leaves.
Love that big old horse chestnut and Irish yew.
What an interesting theory I loved all three of those children's programs I used to live in burgess hill so know chaily common very well love your blogs 👍
Thanks so much
The trouble with Saints is that they often have curious back stories. Peter, who changed his hame from Simon, was a fisherman and later became the gatekeeper of Heaven. So keys are nearly always associated with St Peter, and sometimes fishing iconography, as he was "the Fisher of men", harvesting people into the Church.
What a lovely churchyard. I remember Chiggly, Cambelwick green and Trumpton : pew pew barny McGrew, cuthbert dibble and grub.
Perfect start to a sunny bank holiday.🇬🇧👍
Thank you
@@RichardVobes Your welcome. Could I recommend a read for you? Wandering through many counties by James J Cash, published by Herbert Jenkins first printing 1940.🇬🇧
I believe that the boat with the nets full of fish is a reference to John 21:11: "So Simon Peter climbed back into the boat and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn."
A lovely place - I do like a cat slide roof on a church!
I wonder if north Chailey came about because of the railway station that was there (it’s the next one south from Sheffield Park on the Bluebell railway)
Lovely to see this. I was born and grew up in Chailey, was in the choir at that church from the age of 9, married there, and my Father's remains are at the corner of the chancel. There used to be a huge tree in front of the church, came down in a storm in the 70s, and there's the grave of the butcher, who's headstone tells the story of how he died.
Definitely go back for more exploration. There's a roman road in south Chailey, also St Peter's school is interesting, there's a story that a sweep's boy got stuck in the chimney and died, his skeleton was found up there in the 60s/70s.
Oooh how interesting!
I think graveyards are wonderful too Richard.
Chailey looks a lovely little village. I only know the village from going down the A275 from East Grinstead to Lewes. Always like going along that road. Nice bit of East Sussex. I must check it out further! Cold! you must have been out early! Really warm yesterday around lunch time.
Today I was at Brockham to the East of Dorking - ensuring a road race change was accurate. After I had a nice run East to Betchworth A lovely unusual church there, might be worth checking that out at some stage if you have not done already. Then up to Box Hill and back down to Brockham via Brockham quarry. Very interesting, in fact there was reference to this quarry at the Amberly Chalk pit museum I visited recently and that was brilliant. Really extensive quarry there again might be worth checking out at some stage better in the winter when you can see much more.
Many of the Thalidomide children grew up in Chailey Heritage (childrens home).
Had you visited in the late 1970s/early 1980s you could well have encountered them.
A lovely little place Chailey is another place to go exploring, some lovely old properties, and a nice looking church. And amazing old trees. Would definitely like to see what North and South Chailey look like. I actually used to watch Trumpton when I was growing up pugh pugh barney magrew cuthbert dibble and gruff, have no idea if their correct spelling haha. Great video as always Richard. :)
Apparently Pubs with the name "Cross keys" of which there seem to be many round the country ,stand on land owned or originally owned by the church , and there is often a church not too far away from them. I learned that on a ghost walk in York , you actually get some good historical info on these type of walks . ( I also enjoyed it in the Cross Keys ) 🍺
Irish Yew, the Policeman's tree? (Irish Yew in the name of The Law!). (OUCH!) 😂
Took me a bit of time , but I got it 😂😂😂
Another great video,
I went to a Junior school that was connected to a St Peter's Church and our School badge was 'cross keys' ...... keys to the gates of heaven.
As least they use the South East Coast ambulance service. So there you have it. Great video. 👍, Eaglegards...
Yew trees were (and still are) sacred to the Pagans because they compliment rebirth beliefs of the old world. They're evergreen, had both male and female and seemingly lived forever. Our descendants could sit under the same tree hundreds of years later and your forbares hundreds of years before.
When we decorate the Christmas tree, I think instinctively we are decorating the Yew.
Not Wivelsfield, but Wivelsfield Green ;) One is next to the other.
England is very nice.
Richard , the fishing image on Challey church sign has several New Testament references - two , I think , of Jesus disciples were fishermen in Galilee.
You were being optimistic there Richard when you said as it’s a Sunday morning you expecting parishioners to turn up to that church.
They all went to Newick I believe.
You look good in yellow mustard with the blue check shirt
For those unfamiliar with the children's programmes Richard refers to, here's a one minute excerpt of a typical opening scene from the programme.
th-cam.com/video/sdJWQGZlRcg/w-d-xo.html
Irish yew in the name of the law
St Peter was a fisherman. On one occasion after a night of catching absolutley nothing Jesus met him and told him to cast his nets once again into the water. A bit disgruntled Peter does this and his nets come up full to the brim with fish. This was the beginning of an amazing adventure for him with Jesus. Jesus then told to him 'l will make you fishers of men" indicating a new direction for Peters life. Later Jesus also told Peter ..."I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. To bind and loose things in heaven and on earth".
Peter is an important member of Jesus disciples and the picture on the church notice board sums up the very heart of his ministry. Jesus builds his church .... casting a net of the good news of the kingdom of Heaven across the whole world. The good news is.... 'God loves, God makes provision for us and God saves us. Peter's encounter with Jesus changes not just his life but countless others through the ages.
I wonder if Timpson's the keycutters can cut me a set of keys for the Kingdom of Heaven?
@@RichardVobes ha ha....from the kiosk up at Sainsbury's. They'd be too expensive Richard :O
@@RichardVobes of course they can. All you have to do is give them your key to the kingdom of heaven and they’ll cut you one.
@@RichardVobes Perhaps you should have asked Peter when you met him in Chailey!
Apparently Chailey is considered the very centre of the county of Sussex and I think the other wood used for shingles may be cedar? You were unlucky with the sun . West Sussex had a great day !!
It seems to cheer up greatly when I left! :)
Dr who , tardis you would be a fab dr who
Why are we letting our lovely red telephone boxes go to rack and ruin?
Pew , pew , barney , magrew , cuthbert , dibble , grub.
did you find out the reason for crossed keys ? really like the background music
Matthew 4:19 Then He (Jesus) said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” 20 They immediately left their nets and followed Him.
I hope they packed their nets away so that they didn't pollute the sea!
Chestnut are the palings that some old church towers adorn..
Churches that were standing there 'fore anyone here was born..
know it well as far as I know the link to Trumpton was true camberwick green being wivlesfield green
Keys on the chruch sign represent the keys to the presithood that he held as an Apostle of Jesus Christ. The other part has been answered.
You dress as though you have just jumped out of an Enid Blyton story 😀
Act-Chailey!
So yews weren’t planted in church yards as a ready source of wood for a long bow back in the day when men were required to practice their archery skills as I had been taught aeons ago? Oh well considering the misinformation about a lot of things that is stuffed in our heads the yew mystery is a topic for another. Day
There was a cross keys at the church and on the village sign so would be interesting to know what that means. I think the boat full of fish was just a bible story of when Jesus told the men on the boat to cast their nets.
It's all about Peter, the disciple who was a fisherman, and Jesus said he would give him the keys of heaven.
@@foodallergyfriends235 aghh yes. Blimey I wonder why it needs more than one key to get in I think I might need a locksmith when it’s my turn.
You look good in shorts with the tank top
Thank you very much
I was referring to the comments about sock being offensive
Pew crull barney mac hue hufford chifford and crubb
Huw, Pew, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub
Still feel socks with shorts is an offence to the senses....
I used to agree but I've realised the offense was in my perception. We often ascribe to the view that which is in the lense.
I must socks and short more often!
@@RichardVobes Ahhhh the big old socks with sandals debate, that's caused border wars in the past!.
This is what I ment about socks don’t let people judge your fashion statement lol
You need to wear sock or you will get blisters
I was wearing socks!