Lilstock Beach, Somerset
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2024
- I visit and film the rarely explored Lilstock Beach in West Somerset, and uncover some of its geological features.
Link to @SouthWestSundays video about Kilve:
• Somerset Day 2022 Spec...
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Thanks for that. Very interesting. Amazing coastline.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers, Paul.
Really interesting video Paul and the natural sounds were lovely! Thank you so much for the shout out for my Somerset Day video which includes Kilve.
Thank you Louise! Glad you liked the video. Yes, I thought that getting there via Kilve may be easier for people to get there and your Somerset Day video showed the beach there well. Cheers, Paul 🙂👍
Really great video again Paul. Really enjoyed watching and loved the sound of the sea, very relaxing. Regards David 📷👍
Thank you so much David. Glad you enjoyed watching and listening to it. Cheers, Paul 🙂👍📷
thank you paul, very intersting. regards r.
Thank you Richard! Glad that you enjoyed it and found it interesting too - it certainly is a fascinating place. Take care, Paul.
Hi Paul nice video great views and lots of info 👌👌👌
Thank you Roy! Glad you enjoyed it. Take care, Paul 🙂👍
Very impressive, Paul, particularly the audio!
Thank you Michael! Glad you enjoyed the auditory experience 🙂👍🎧🌊
Absolutely fascinating geology. Thank you for a great video, with super sound.
Thank you Faith! Glad you enjoyed it. Glad you enjoyed the audio experience too 🎧🔉🌊Take care, Paul 🙂
Wow. First impressions... cold and desolate... but then I learned something about limestone pavements. Amazing to look at. They look a little like roman roads. Thanks Paul 😊
Thank you Cathy! Yes limestone pavements are rare, especially in the Westcountry - in fact this is the only one that I have seen here. Glad you enjoyed the video. Take care, Paul 👍🙂
What an interesting area!!! We loved learning about the geology!!!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it 😊 Cheers, Paul 👍
Hello Paul - greetings from Poland.
Absolutley fantastic! A brilliant video - you made, what seems at first, some boring old coastline come to life. Your explanations of what we were looking at was superb. Linking this with your camera work, still photographs, historical information and spooky musical introduction, makes this one of your very best vlogs ever. Congratulations.
What amazing geology. I've known about limestone pavements since school days, but your information is a first for me.
Thanks again. See you again very soon. Stay safe please
Thank you Michael for a lovely comment. It was somewhere I found by chance doing desktop 'map hunting'. I didn't realise it has so many unique geological features at first. It was just a shame that I didn't have enough time on this occasion to do proper fossil hunting - I am sure that I would have found a couple of ammonites at least. Still, gives me a reason to return! Thanks again, take care, Paul 👍
Really enjoyed this one Paul, even though it was such a grey cold day, but maybe that added to the rugged ambience. I enjoyed learning about the limestone pavement and seeing the remains of the pier. 😀
Thank you Donna! Glad that you enjoyed it. Yes, I thought that it would make an interesting place after seeing it on the map, but I didn't know about the limestone pavement until just before I got there. Thanks for watching and commenting 👍 Cheers Paul 🙂
You've excelled yourself here Paul. Its's easy for photographers to make videos of such as Lulworth cove, but to make what, at first sight, seems a boring desolate place takes some skill.
The limestone pavement reminds me of the Giant's causeway in Ireland. When one is taken by the hand, figuratively speaking, and shown what one might overlook, then that makes life worth living. To anyone reading this, just down the coast is the Blue Anchor fault. Again, probably overlooked by people enjoying the sandy beach, but fascinating. I also loved to see that one could see the tide moving in, probably because the Severn Estuary exagerrates the speed of it. Thanks.
Thank you John! I discovered this place by accident. I was talking with another TH-camr about potential places to visit for videos in Somerset, and this little hidden corner of West Somerset just seemed to shine out of the OS Map. I later found out it had a limestone pavement, and wave cut platforms. Sadly, I didn't have enough time to find fossils (it is ammonite country - but parts of dinasours have been found here too) but I am sure I would have done had I gone further along the beach. There is also an abandoned church here too, so I will most definitely be back to uncover some more interesting things about the coast here. Thank you John.
Hi Paul, this was an interesting video. I enjoy coastal videos and I find geology very fascinating too. Not that I know a lot about it, but it’s a topic I would love to learn more about. Hope you do more like this. Great video 😊👍
Thank you Stephen & Yhana - hope you are both well. Yes, this is an interesting slice of the coast, isn't it? Reminded me a little of the coastline in Essex around Bradwell-on-Sea. Yes, I certainly hope to do more coast, but almost certainly not until the new year now! Thanks so much, take care, Paul.
Increadible how the action of natural forces over millenia produces what looks like cobbled roadways. Fascinating to learn there was a harbour here importing coal and exporting pit props to South Wales. On-line sources mention a boathouse and a lime kiln. What a contrast to today's deserted appearance. I wonder how the materials were transported to and from the harbour? Thank you for a very interesting video.
Very good question about how materials were transported to the harbour. Judging from my footage, the footpath just before the harbour (heading towards Kilve) is very wide (above the sea wall), so I suspect it went along this. I would imagine that there was a slipway but would hazard a guess that this was removed when the sea wall was strengthened. It was probably horse drawn of some kind. Yes, geology is a fascinating process and I am fascinated by what it produces. Thanks for watching and commenting. Cheers, Paul
@@westcountrywanderings Thanks Paul.
Did you find any fossils then🤔🤔?. I think it looked too cold to be hanging around!! Lots of great memories fossil hunting at Charmouth and on Portland Bill and even on the beaches of West Sussex.
You could really see the different strata in the cliffs ..... Strata ..... Fossils ..... You really need to get a copy of the book I told you about (The Map that changed the World), spoiler alert ..... you are sure to enjoy reading it!!
I listened with headphones on, well worth doing so.
Hope you've warmed up now!!
Good luck from Spain!!
Sadly, no David! Unfortunately due to (as you rightly suspected the cold) and the need to go on to film 🎥 something else (a timed event - video arriving this Sunday) I was not able to stay as long here as I would have liked. As far as I can see, this location (apart from videos about fishing) has never been on TH-cam before, which really surprises me. I hope to return to explore it in more detail next year and walk over to Kilve, or maybe start from there. I might get that book over the Christmas period. Thanks for watching and commenting, Cheers, Paul 👍🙂
@@westcountrywanderings It's an interesting coastline I'm sure you'll go back sometime!!
I was surprised to see a pier at Hinckley point so went back to earlier Google Earth photsos to find a partly built pier in 2018.
Hi John, for some reason I had (mistakenly) thought Hinckley Point had always had a pier. Apparently not! This one was completed in 2020 (hence partial in 2018), and was an engineering challenge (due to strong tidal currents and tidal range). It was built to ship in construction materials for Hinckley Point's new nuclear power station. In fact there was a ship berth up doing that very thing, but it was too misty and murky to get a good shot. Thanks for the comment. Paul
I was also surprised to see the pier there. When I was a child, in the 50s and 60s, the first Hinckley Point power station was being built. The defunct port of Combwich on the River Parret was resurrected for ships to bring in large machinery parts.
@@richardwakeley2192 I drove past the entrance to Combwich Port - judging by the new road heading to it, and high fencing + security, I would say Combwich Port has been reopened too. The scale of the new Hinckley Point Power Station has to be seen to be believed! Thank you for commenting. Paul