The Quest for England - A Look At Ferring in West Sussex
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 เม.ย. 2020
- Today I have cycled to Ferring, an ancient village that dates back to the Saxon period. A farming community close to the sea with some wonderful houses old flint buildings.
The site of the village is an ancient one: the name itself is Saxon; it is mentioned in the Domesday Book; the parish church is Norman, and is dedicated to St Andrew. In the churchyard are buried the ashes of Major John Bigelow Dodge (1894-1960), veteran of the Great Escape of 1944, and there is a Commonwealth war grave of a Royal Sussex Regiment officer of World War II.
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Thanks Richard. A breath of fresh air, whilst time travelling from ancient to modern.
I love these stepping through time walks.
Lovely village. Many thanks Richard
Glad you enjoyed it
Both my grandparents are buried in the grave yard. they lved in the village on the sea front in a massive old house for 40 years. The village is magical to me and always will be. i still have family in the centre of if truely amazing find well done sir!
What a gorgeous village! Loved the cottage w/ the Wisteria on it & the huge Victorian!!!😍 When the lockdown is over you will have to come back & revisit the church so we can see the inside. As well, I want to see where that footpath would lead you too!!!🤗
I may venture down that footpath much sooner! :)
Lovely little spot-it would indeed be lovely if all houses could be built to resemble the old ones-rather than the box like houses that exist-having said that, many have to live in inner city areas and those bungalows would be a dream home for many. Great stuff Richard.
I totally agree!
As Ferring is my neighbouring village I know it well. As you say the old buildings are lovely and has a great community feeling. The house with the slate roof is actually a new build so it can be done! But of coourse it is a Conservation area. You probably walked past the memorial of the WW2 chap, not a grave but where his ashes are interred
And there was me looking for a tombstone! :)
Such beautiful old houses and I spied the bluebells in full bloom. Thanks Richard.
Wonderful! I am missing my trip to the bluebell woods.
Many thanks for this vlog Richard! I first discovered you through Sean James Cameron but, as a busy person, I didn't properly investigate what you do on TH-cam until recently when considering moving to either Worthing, Goring or Ferring. A TH-cam search for Worthing stuff and I discover a familiar face - IT'S YOU! 😀 So clearly nice people live in Worthing. But from that experience, perhaps collaborations with more TH-camrs might help boost your numbers? It's a thought. Thanks also for the Ilex Avenue walk! That's right opposite Fernhurst Drive where I was looking at the particulars of a house. Seems like a nice neighbourhood. All the best, David
Cracking video Richard , what a beautiful village 👌
Thanks 👍
Interesting church, great looking architecture throughout the village.
It is lovely!
Lovely little romp through what looks like a lovely village
I remember back in 1989 with a German girlfriend walking through South Ferring. The prices were so much cheaper than Worthing and at about a 60% discount to Sutton in Surrey. She asked if the prices were so cheap because the place may flood. The real reasonn as we know now was that nobody felt the country was full and overpopulated. How times change. South Ferring only has a limited amout of land, the roads are unadopted with no street lights and minimal population in one's living area is now the most important aspect of life. I live in Goring and it's pretty much the same. You can keep our town and live with the masses if you wish but I'd rather the quiet life. Great vid's Rick, keep them coming
How fascinating - thank you.
Thank you for showing us around Richard.
My pleasure
Thanks sir
Welcome
The large Victorian house, I seem to recall was once ‘The Greystoke’ which was a hotel in the 70’s as I and my friends used to frequent it and the Henty Arms in our teens! That was where the action was in those days!
Another fantastic video Richard
Thanks so much.
Utterly charming place. It seems so well hidden, and well preserved. And especially beautiful in the morning light.
Couldn't agree more!
Thanks for a great walk. Yes you must go back to the church. Nice sunny day love the flower pots. only 3 miles from home nice pick.
A short cycle and a lovely village.
Thank you for an interesting tour. Loved that big Victorian house, wondering if it was the old vicarage as it seemed to be quite close to the church? That footpath sign looked intriguing. You will have to explore more when the lockdown is over!
Good question about the possible vicarage.
Lovely houses they don't make them like that anymore especially the ones with a fatched roofs which are lovely, I actually don't mind bungalows I think they're lovely little houses. I also noticed before you got to the park they're was a palm tree or something that looked like a palm tree. Another great video Richard well done.
I live in a terrace, so I shouldn't be so snooty! :)
@@RichardVobes haha. I don't think your snooty at all Richard it looks like you live in an old Victorian house I see alot of brick. I live in a new estate kind of house where you would walk past and say i dont like any of this area hahaha. But it is a house and I love it lol I do live in the countryside though which i love i love the countryside and walking in countryside. Keep making these great videos Richard.
Maybe that pipe was formerly a public fountain from a spring
Cave Weta That’s my guess but I can’t see any reference to it online 🤭
Yes, that's what I thought.
Lived in ferring from 4-8 years old went to ferring primary and then went to chatsmore(St Oscar romeros) and about to go to collage
it must be difficult finding interesting places when you cant travel far from home but you seem to manage it, thank you.
It really is! But I do my best. Thank you for watching.
Hi Richard another great video from you again.
Please tell me what is the most beautiful and quiet place that you have visited in England until now ?
Oh my - that is a very hard question to answer - so many candidates.
Very peaceful. If you did that walk before the lockdown the road noise no doubt would have been dreadul.
Sadly true!
A village through time, very nice as well. Well done nice one
Glad you enjoyed it
I have seen so many videos but you are best proper knowledge thank you sir once again respect
Thanks and welcome
What a beautiful place! Incredibly interesting to see the buildings, old and new.
A beautiful village. The development of bungalow central that is almost the whole of the south coast from Bognor to Brighton was only really stopped by World War II. Great to see bluebells as well!
Very nice church nice house round place very quite place good weather ride bike thackyou
Quintesentially English! You ended your walk just 30 yards short of Landalls Cottage, that was once the village bakery and the secret 'look-out' station for the Ferring arm of John Olliver's smuggling operation.
Ah yes, I am always going to miss things, sadly.
Most enjoyable - thank you Richard. Keep forgetting to as you how your back is?? atb snack.
The back is very much back to normal. Thanks for asking!
What a lovely village. Thanks for the quick tour. The flint and thatched cottages are beautiful, and probably eye-wateringly expensive. Much more attractive than the "kit" homes which alas are what we ordinary can afford.
I would love to have one of those lovely flint and brick houses.
My grandparents Charles and Catherine are buried in that graveyard
So the cottage by the church gate used to belong to the grave digger, the footpath across the road takes you about 50 yards to the glory of the football field, that barn there used to be home to Lucking's Theatrical Movers, can't remember what that big house used to be but the old "manor house", Ferring Grange, burnt down in the 1950's I think, bits still survive, you could see the old chimney stacks. The old school survived the war, my dad went there and it had a bomb shelter. I think it closed late 50's,early 60's...…. Across from the war memorial used to be Cooper's Garage as in the famous John Cooper. There are some lovely old flint cottages down Sea Lane, my best man lives in one of them! The local village Bobby had a house and office nearer to the railway and the village green we generally didn't play on as kids as it was covered in dog, erm, stuff. Nice video stirring many memories :)
What a lovely village, great architecture! Yes a walk down the public footpath would really be nice! Any plans on going back to the church once it's open again? It looks rather interesting. Thank you Richard for the lovely walk...stay safe, take really good care of yourself!
I will have to visit the church when we can go inside.
We live about a mile from there and we did one of our Covid 19 exercise cyles round those roads last week. I think you cheated a bit with those cloned bungalows. Now quite Ferring Village. Thanks for the video. I might go back tomorrow, if its not raining.
A fantastic looking village. Love the look of the houses .By the way what are the name of the birds i hear at around 3.50. I have heard them in a few videos and remember their sound when l was in England.
So pleased you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching. I am not good on birds, sadly. Maybe someone else can help on that one.
@@RichardVobes I could hear seagulls!
I imagine the walk along the path from the bottom of Sea Lane at Ferring towards Littlehampton would make a good video. By the way, can you recommend a very basic editing programme, nothing complex, easy to use for short film taken with GoPro 7?
I use DaVinci Resolve, but it is a high-end programme. I think there is Windows Movie Maker built within Windows, but I am not familiar with many others.
@@RichardVobes Thanks, Richard. 😁
I would quite like to make some film of war ruins in Hong Kong where I live. I have used Go Pro for skiing and hiking but not yet mastered editing. I think your movies are great. So what about doing one from Ferring towards Littlehampton - sea views to left and seaside houses to the right and no road (as far as I can see in Google Street View). Best wishes.
Unfortunately Movie Maker is no longer included with later versions of Windows 10.
I don’t know the old church area of Ferring. I will have to explore it, and walk up that footpath, upon the lockdown being lifted. I suspect the pipe was a communal water tap/pump but I can’t find any reference to it online. The Old Barn is now valued at £950,000! 🤭
I figured the pipe must have been a water pipe perhaps pumped from the spring or rife.
Is it a bullet mark on trafic sign on 5:23?
I wouldn't have thought so.
The Trafalgar tree was an oak then. You would need a forest of those to build HMS Victory.
You certainly would. Never seen an oak that grows like a poplar.
You missed the whole of south Ferring, Richard! :) p.s. the identikit bungalows are only in that Goring / Ferring border. The houses in north and south Ferring, although bungalows too, are different and each has it's own character.... Blimey, I really have gotten quite defensive! :) ......... can you tell I live there! :)
Yes I did miss it out. I will no doubt return.
Very nice United Kingdom.
I'll stick my historic oar in here and say that Ferring in the 13th century was owned as with other vast areas of the south coast
by the bishop of Chichester. He was fined by King John for abusing some tenants at Ferring. I must point out John did a lot of
this sort of thing a lot of the time without testimony. Judicial penalties have always been good for royal coffers.
are the toilets open ??
No idea.
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