Ashurst Village & The Adur
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- On 25 May, during the Monday of the Spring bank holiday, I visited the little village of Ashurst. It was the holiday, but though I was there mainly to try to get some footage of the River Adur, I wandered around a bit in order to see this little corner of Sussex.
The door of the village church was open, and I took a brief tour of the grounds before making my hike to the river’s bank. It wasn’t a long walk, for normal people at least, but for my very much out-of-shape body it was a little challenging. The endorphin rush I got after putting forward the effort was kind of worth it! There was a lot of wind that day. My drone didn’t like it much!
Over the following weeks I made return visits to Ashurst to get more material for this video. I stopped to talk with Alex, the innkeeper at the village pub, the Fountain Inn, and got some photos and footage of the pub. In the video I say that the pub was founded in 1651, but that was a mishearing of what I learned from Alex. The pub was actually founded in 1581. Ooops, as they say!
Thanks to:
• Reverend Mark Heather, Rector of Saint James church in Ashurst, West Sussex, for information about the church.
• Stuart Spicer’s channel: “A short journey down the River Adur” ; • A short journey down t...
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What a charming video - in what seems to be a charming series. Anglophile Americans are probably my favourite people: _they_ , at least, know a Good Thing when they see it!
Indeed they do!
We live in a most beautiful country,most of which l have not seen.Thank you for bringing it to me on your videos and l am pleased that you like it too.l look forward to seeing more from you . .......From Mike in Solihull.
I just discovered your channel, and have really enjoyed viewing some of your earlier videos, as well as this one. Many thanks for them all.
In your researches of Sussex, have you come across Eleanor Farjeon, an author who lived in Sussex for many years. Her first major success 'Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard', and its follow-up 'Martin Pippin in the Daisy Field' are collections of stories (as told by Martin) which take their inspiration from places in Sussex, and the first story 'The King's Barn' starts in Ashurst with Kings Barn Farm, wanders through Hawking Sopers and Doves farms, and winds up in Chanctonbury ring near Washington. The stories are fanciful, but very charming: in the fifth story 'Proud Rosalind and the Hart Royal' a main player is Queen Maudlin (presemably from Maudlin farm, Steyning) of Bramber Castle, who decamps from the banks of the Adur to Amberley castle by the Arun, the scene of most of the action.
I hadn't run across Eleanor Farjeon before, but with your mention of her, now I have! I will be checking further, thanks for mentioning her!
Certainly is a beautiful little Church. and a charming village.
Very pleasant.
What a brilliant series, perhaps you should do the whole UK, really interesting and informative.
What an absolutely gorgeous place , I envy anyone who lives there . Your calming and informative narration was absolutely first rate . I'm subscribed and looking forward to the next vlog . 🇬🇧
Born in Portslade in 1945 - now in Australia since 1952. Loving your series. Also noted the Ukrainian flag flying in Ashurst.
Thanks! That flag is seen flying in many places in Sussex!
I've always wanted to visit Australia, but fear that I may never be able to!
I have just Subscribed and I really enjoyed this video and I learned a great deal.
My best friend lives nearby and we, often, go for a walk thru' the Woods there. It's a beautiful part of the Country as is much of the County of West Sussex.
Other great walks include Alfriston to Cuckmere and The Seven Sisters in East Sussex, which are a series of chalk sea cliffs on the English Channel coast and are a stretch of the sea-eroded section of the South Downs
Very interesting, I used to go to the Fountain many years ago and attended a former brother in laws wedding at St James.
Loved the video and your voice is pure velvet
I drank in the Fountain for a number years
Very nice and delivered without the very common american stridency, a calm american voice just adds to the video's interest because of its rarity, a bonus for us brits listening 😊
Thanks! Although I can be strident if the subject flares me up enough!
@@SussexYank So can I, but a lot of Americans just seem to have it on default. Was very interesting listening to you, and taught me stuff I didn't even know about my own country, looking forward to more from you.
Thankyou an interesting video. Just one slight observation At 9:07 you have obscured the ariel view of the church with your diagrams. Seems pointless all that hard work doing footage with the drone if your going to cover it over with diagrams . Could you maybe put the diagram to one side or after the drone footage ?!
It would have been better to put the diagrams elsewhere, I agree. My excuse for the oversight is that at the time I was putting the video together I was under time-crunch due to needing to get the video done before flying back to the US for a month.
Keep up your great posts … informative , relaxing and professionally done …. Just drop the ‘British bride’ reference , sounds a little tasteless , just refer to her by name .. a little more warming and polite …. 😉
Thanks!
In the realm of staying relatively anonymous in a world where the internet can be iffy at times, the idea behind referring to her as the 'British Bride' was to help preserve a degree of anonymity. But perhaps you're right. Our names aren't particularly unusual, after all. Mike and Wendy, as it turns out.
"sounds a little tasteless"
Oh, what nonsense - and _infinitely_ preferable to the now-ubiquitous _partner_ !
@@marvinc9994 it’s observational critique , my opinion and my only negative point on a post that I highly praised …… you on the other hand just post insulting remarks . Try to control your inciting behaviour , sit down and have a calming cup of tea matey….. 😉
@@barrieglover8941
"you on the other hand just post insulting remarks"
Calm down, Dear - or you'll do yourself an injury! If you post an 'opinion' (especially a fatuous one) on a public platform, then you really mustn't mind if someone decides to counter with an opinion of his own; such a possibility is _implicit_ in your very action.
"Try to control your inciting behaviour..."
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Kindly explain, Little Snowflake - WHAT it was I was 'inciting' you to do. Do you actually know what the word _incite_ actually means? If not, look it up. God save me from semi-literate neurotics!
"have a calming cup of tea..."
Freudian projection (qv) ? It is YOU who needs to calm own, I think! What a silly little person you are. Have you started shaving yet?
No more playground retorts, please: you'll only make yourself look even more ridiculous. Now, DO try and resist the _schoolgirlish_ temptation to Have the Last Word, there's a good fellow. OK?