In Search of Sussex - In Which I Find the Source of the Poynings Stream
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- I am following in the footsteps of Arthur Stanley Cooke, author of Off The Beaten Track, a book about Sussex published a hundred years ago. In this episode I am approaching the rural village of Poynings from Devil's Dyke. I seek out the source of its water, look for the old water mill and mill pond, have a stroll around the church and gaze lovingly at the old houses in the village.
You can download the text from the book and follow my journey: archive.org/de...
A video I made about Poynings Church: • Exploring Churches - H...
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I know from my own experience the joy of finding evidence from written accounts of features still existing in the landscape. Well constructed and well paced video. Thanks again, Richard.
There is something magical about finding these things. I remember the video of the house in your village with the wall paintings and how it was moving thinking of all the generations who lived there.
Thanks Andrew. I often make mistakes though, but not from want of trying to get it right. :)
Michael Angel Thanks, Michael, magical is the word, touching too. I’ve made a couple of videos of these wall decorations. Sadly one design, and for me the cleverest, has gone but I was so fortunate to record it before the rains washed it away. In another video, I was not so fortunate as the floor gave way and I ended up in the basement, camera still rolling the whole time!
What wonderful weather, somewhere between late spring and early summer, in the idyllic Sussex countryside. Masterfully presented and so well captured and filmed. Thumbs up.
Really enjoyed this one. So interesting to trace the stream and the location of the two mills. Thank you.
really pleased to hear you enjoyed it.
Another fabulous episode Richard. Thank you for all of your work and efforts in sharing this journey with us.
:)
My pleasure!
In that drawing of the church, looks like he drew the same Yew you saw. On a side note, we share an interest in plant ID. It can be an overwhelming subject but great advise i got, was to focus on five plants each year, and to learn everything you can about those plants within each of the four seasons. Then move on to five more the following year. It's helping me. Hope it helps you 🍀🌻🌳 Nice to wander with you in this series. Thanks Richard.
Great idea about the plant ID - I will try that.
Wonderful. I've never walked in the area myself. You always 'do' churchyards so beautifully. Shame about the ubiquitous recycling and rubbish bins everywhere in these beautiful places
I wish I could airbrush the bins out! :)
Amazing work, i can really see the effort in storytelling you have put in with all the different shots. Its noticed and appreciated 🙌🏻
Thank you very much.
Thank you Richard for another fantastic presentation. Poynings holds special memories for me as back in the early 70s our Cub Pack held our summer camps at the village hall with some of us actually sleeping in the hall itself and some in tents to the side of the hall - happy days.....
Glad you enjoyed it
cinematographic and perfection in editing - well done Sir
This leg of the journey to Poynings was just so lovely! Loved all the lushness of the green & the spring water looked so refreshing & clean! I loved the wild roses at 6:40!🌸 Lovely old church. Absolutely loved those carved arched windows - gorgeous!😍 Poynings is a beautiful little village. I especially liked the cottage w/ the blue door & climbing roses🌹 & the Royal Oak.
Btw...I couldn't believe you went down that steep embankment, set up camera, crawled back up embankment, just to film yourself going back down again, & then having to climb back up yet agian w/ all your equipment in tow!😆 Your Awesome!👏👏👏
Lovely scenery. Well done Richard. 👍👍👍👍👍
I know the area very well which you traversed. I'm very much enjoying this Richard. I'm looking forward to the next episode when you will get to Fulking and to the spring there and the Shepherd and Dog pub! Shame it will be closed! The pub that you passed in Poynings is a favourite it does amazing food. Hope that the all those pubs survive!
The family were called De Poynings as displayed by the coat of arms.
Michael De Poyning, yes. As you saw I have already been to Fulking.
Always a great episode!Thanks much!🤠🐴
I very much enjoyed this. Thankyou.
you have been very lucky to have nice weather. thanks for the great work and all the history you give.
It has been a great spring weather wise.
Nice one, Mills are fascinating, but most are burnt down! I liked that good one 👍
Lovely Weather, great film, very enjoyable thanks. Water mills are generally of 3 types, Overshot Wheel, Undershot Wheel, or Turbine. From that gap and the grooves for a sluice gate I'm guessing it was an Overshot Mill. Overshot has pockets that contain the water and gravity provides the energy. Undershot has paddles and the flow provides the energy.
Thanks for the info!
Well done Richard. All those camera setups must be raising your fitness level!
Another lovely video. I've only driven through Poynings but I will have to stop and explore the area. Apart from Covid, I hope the lingering memory of this Spring is the beauty of the English countryside in May. Your videos have been a pleasure to watch.
Thank you so much.
Beautiful area to get out and explore👍
You could use a walking stick! Love your walks, it is wonderful to see parts of England you’d never see as a tourist. Would love to come to England but not seeing that in the future, however I’m there when I take these walks with you. Thank you so much for the walks and the history. It’s so enjoyable
I really like this one. Must have taken some time to make so thank you. I come back and rewatch it from time to time :)
Those wild roses are so pretty.
Lovely roses
And i really have to go to the poynings it looks stunning!
Lovely video. Thank you for showing us.
My pleasure 😊
"Mill run" - I don't know if terms were same or different between US and UK, but I think over here, 'mill race' was the term used for the water path to the wheel here in US. Now to look online to check!
And checking online shows it is a term and can be written different ways, two words; hyphenated, 'mill-race'; or, one word, 'millrace'.
I may well have mixed up the proper terms.
@@RichardVobes Eh, 's'okay, just part of being human. :) But, honestly, British English and our American English do employ a number of different words and phrases, even for train parts and operations; so, since British English is not my native language, how will I know if you make a mistake? :) My brain will just go, "Oh, guess the Brits do that differently too."
@@scottfw7169 we have a "millrace" here in Eugene, Oregon. Of course we were once a huge lumber town. It is now a stream that runs parallel w/ the University of Oregon and then flows back into the Willamette River.
The word I'm more familiar with as a right ponder is "leat" which I think is the word for the stream that diverts water to the mill...whilst I always thought "race" to mean the narrower channel of water (concentrating the force) from the leat to the wheel...the poets always called the whole thing a mill stream anyway...Nellie Dean has a lot to answer for!
5:30 i gotta admit Richard, I do wonder if you have any outtakes of you slipping down that hill :D - not that I want you to fall or anything lol
Sounds great through headphones, Thanks
Good to know.
Loving the new look of your shows! Musics brilliant.
Thanks so much, Chris.
Very nice.
Very interested about downs going in woodland and millpond nice place thack you Richard good see map
You made a comment at about 13:40 in regard to the trees. At the end of the Victorian era, the north and South Downs were mostly denuded of trees and most of what you see have grown up over the last 100 years or so. Loved the video :)
The Neolithic people, according to Oliver Rackham, denuded much of the trees, well before the Romans and Saxons, and the Tudors used much of the rest in their forges. So yes, you are right about trees in the 1900s. Much has grown since Arthur visited, thankfully.
Fabulous video. 😊👍
Lovely video once again Richard some really lovely shots. And made me chuckle at the shoes stuck to a tree haha what's that all about ?
Thanks, Charlie. :)
Looks like a great day to be outside. :)
Have subbed you. When we film we walk with the camera but you walk past it. That is a brilliant move. Love your content 🌈👍
I do both techniques for different styles. Welcome aboard.
Richard, I think you can teach us a thing or two. It’s good to support those who want to produce good content 🎥👍
Wonderful! - Great to see the shorts and short sleeved shirts back on too Richard - Summer's coming!! atb snack.
When I was a child & lived in Crowborough we used to visit a watermill that was reputed to be that which milled the flour for Queen Victoria's wedding cake. I loved clambering around the massive grey stone ruins & looking at the ferns etc growing out of the walls. The fallen blackened wooden beams leaned at all angles & the old wheel was still there but laying somewhat rotten round the edges & askew in the slot in which it had operated. There was an aquaduct which brought water across the river for some reason with water gushing out making a fine noise & sparkle. I was impressed. It was a very evocative location. Have you been there?
Sounds like fun.
Spring Mill (the southern mill) had a very short life - built in 1860 and burnt down in the 1870s.
That was a short life - thanks for the info.
Nice. From Texas. 👍
His coat of arms has a bar sinister, which means that Thomas and the offspring of the succeeding generation were illegitimate. John's mother was Elizabeth Paston, a member of a family whose letters to each other have remarkably been saved all these many years.
Nearby at Saddlescombe there's the remains of a lime kiln.
I must go and have a look.
What a great film Richard. Any chance of resuming your journey, “In Search of Sussex”?
Yes! You're going to follow Arthur to Fulking...one of my favourites with the spring, the Ruskin memorial, (lovely, though I'm a little suspicious of the man himself), and the Shepherd and Dog...When I first visited Fulking as a child of five or so, I had the impression that the stream from the spring ran right across the road...it's a strong memory...yet I've always been puzzled since to discover that it doesn't...perhaps it's a false memory, or perhaps something unusual had happened that day I went there back in the fifties...it was after the connection to mains water, and so the old ram pumps had ceased working so it shouldn't have been anything to do with that but who knows...an odd thing but I suppose I shall never know!
I can also recall I was also told there used to be another pub at the other end of the village (quite remarkable of such a small place if true) ...most remarkable of all to me is that aside from Fulking I can't remember a thing about that whole day...the place must have made an impression on me though!
I shall look forward to it!
Dave
I had no idea that Ruskin designed the memorial from which the spring comes forth. Yes he was a strange man with some very dubious qualities. However, without his patronage there may not have been the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood and the Arts and Crafts movement.
@@claire76leach I think it's a memorial to Ruskin rather than actually designed by him given the date of its erection.
I wonder why nobody rebuilt it?Think about how much old technology is mostly lost,and could still have been used.Many villages used to be self sustaining.
You've shown a lot of churches recently. To me they all look alike. Do you know why?
They can look alike, but really they are very individual, but there are basic patterns they most adhere to.