Cycling to Wiltshire’s only Thankful Village using off road tracks to avoid a busy trunk road
#cycletour #Thankfulvillages #wiltshire #riverwylye
SOURCES:
The route idea from a dog walker:
An Introduction to Thankful Villages:
About the bikers tour to the Thankful Villages:
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-49104,00.html
Thankful Villages map:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/articles/thankful-villages-war-dead/
Hellfire corner website listing Britain’s Thankful Villages:
http://www.hellfirecorner.co.uk/thankful.htm
Stapleford Thankful Village:
http://www.hellfirecorner.co.uk/TV/stapleford.htm
It’s coming up to 6:00 a.m. on a mid February Tuesday morning and I’m at my local railway station hfield park again to do a train assisted ride I’m going a few stops up the line to Warminster and then today I’m riding down the Wy Valley again I’m going to a thankful Village
It’s coming Up here it comes few minutes late morning thanks cheers isk do noty leave the when the just coming into B Spot cuz I’m visiting a thankful Village today got my knitted willing poppy which is part of a fiveyear project visiting all UK sful Villages and even the knitted poppy each
I’ve gone back to up an ticket much nicer than a paper ticket also got my mail card downloaded so you can see just instant access okay just get my garments fired up and hopefully I’ve got a route that starts from this side of the car park that take
Me all around the edge of warer and then I’ll get onto Wy Valley Road in less than a mile just while I wait for the garments to load up and pick up the GPS signal the thankful Village then is Stapleford it’s on the Y New Valley Road between Warminster and Salsbury and the
Total distance is going to be about 56 mil that’s that one picked up just waiting for the old 200 to pick up and then we’ll be on our way both the GPS devices have picked up the signal let’s get going other this side of the Railway then under a
Bridge oh here’s the other entrance that’ be the main entrance heading South I do know we go along by Litt and appear to cut through their car park this left there but look at it Littles Argos okay I know where we are straight away that onstop shop up there it’s got
A little Alleyway just to the left of it and that cuts across IM Road and then we’ll straight away be on the road I want heading out of warer to the Wy Valley i s see the foot path there in less than half a m I’m at a familiar
Location if I’d come in from bath then if I’d ridden down this morning still the train i’ have come in from the left here now I’m straight on familiar roads I’m starting halfway down between bass and Stapleford at warer station back there I just wanted to save a
Couple of hours which I’d rather spend later this morning exploring some off-road tracks using the road the GPS platform I’ve made a rout up which looks like I can avoid the A36 I have to cross it a couple of times but not ride on on it whether it’s ridable or not I don’t
Know so there’ll be new tracks for me and also if they are ridable it could very well be muddy cuz we’ve had a lot of rain recently there’s a possibility I may have to walk some of it which is why I just didn’t want the extra 20 miles 7
A.m. and you can see it’s almost light already it’s dark enough to still need bike lights and after all my reflective kit on but the days are definitely starting to lengthen this would be the old A36 coming out of warer it’s now being bypassed by more of
A trunk Road I’m just cutting across this road you can see why I didn’t really want to come through War a lot of traffic and we’re straight away on the Wy Valley Road we just about to cross the river Wy there the first of a few times today
It’s now about 20 7 and we’re in the Wy Valley on this lovely little Minor Road this is one of the ions for the work Cy away you can see the geography in the landscape it curves up very steeply that way then it rises up to what would be a
Roman Road along there the course of an old Roman Road between old serum and chartes on the mendips and over the other side would be the NAD Valley so this Valley runs along and then that side there’s some chalk Downs that would eventually head up onto the marbor
D our thankful Village of Stapleford is a few miles down here and then we turn over left cross over the A36 and it looks like you can actually ride to it on some old ancient tracks it’s called baric Lane whether it’s ridable or not I don’t know I’ve never actually tried it
So basic we be going long a several miles turning left crossing the A36 starting to climb up on some tracks basically going up and doing three sides of square then dropping down into staple food from the north if it’s really awful I’ll have to retrace for the main road
But that’s what today is all about it’s just so lovely along here especially this early in the morning next weekend I’ve got another calendar aax event is 100 km event about 110 actually from chiam called Fletcher’s Flapjack wrden it many times before chiam is about 14 mil from where
I live so that’s a 28 mile round trip to get there so it’ll end up being about 100 Mile Road I need to rebuild my endurance back up after our trip to Da recently and that bus trip from Bath to Dorchester was absolutely fantastic we both really enjoyed it the first section between
Bath and Wells it was a school bus in effect lots of stops lots of children getting on and off at different schools couldn’t really film that too much but we got on a virtually empty bus it was you probably saw from the footage we got upstairs
On a double decker bus had the front seats looking at that big window and some of it was main roads but it also went down to pretty narrow roads much narrower than what we’re on now so that’s quite thr being up on the top of the double decker
Bus Linda gets her bus pass this July she’ll be 66 I’m about 18 months behind her so I can see us both doing some bus trips in the coming years cuz we both decided we really like that Journey we’re just crossing over the railway so I got off at warer back that
Way and it’s heading down towards Salsbury following this Valley pretty much doing what we’re doing shortly after crossing the railway where I just spoke to you you come through the small Hamlet of Stockton that’s Stockton Farm up there where the coach is the point of reference there is there’s a cobbled
Road going across an old track but just down from that rise is this it’s a memorial to the anacs who were stationed here in the first world war and paying recognition to Anzac War Graves so easy just to ride by this speed and miss it all together but as well we’re stopping
Here there’s some War Graves all the way down this Valley there were many soldiers just stationed here in the first world war and you’re probably familiar with white horses carved into chalk hillsides but there’s also a lot of military barges down here not just here but further down near
Wilton so I’m heading down this very quiet Wy Valley Road very shortly I’m going to go over and cross cross over the A36 to try and avoid riding on it to get to my first destination see those Hills in the distance there’s some old ancient tracks going up over there so
Going to try and do three sides of a square over the village of State for I’m just coming in to the small village of Wy it’s very very busy road Junction so this is the Minor Road I’m taking down the Warminster Salsbury road that the wi cycleway also
Uses the A36 is just over there but Crossing it almost at 90° that’s a big trunk Road that’s the a303 London that way exto that way so you can see there’s a big vosa area there and the railway runs by complete coincidence there’s a train going by look runs right alongside the
Raad perfect timing that’s heading down to Salsbury if hadn’t got off the train at warer that’s where the line would have come anyway through Wy bit further down to langfords and then we’ll be crossing over the left bit of the junction then as you come into Wy head down to the A36
You would go there this little C is called teapot Street some great names on here look that my Cottage and this little spur wonderfully named teapot street that wonderful old chapel it’s even called the chapel look it’s now a private residence wow we’re coming into hanging Lang
You can see our road coming along here the railway running along that embankment just about to go through a cutting behind this hill you can see we’re coming into one of the langfords hanging Langford our village Stapleford is over that way to the left quite excited about
This because I didn’t even know these tracks existed until recently I used the ride the GP s mapping platform and I set the overlay to osm outdoor I think that stands for open source mapping and it just opens up a whole lot of foot paaths brightways then if you change it to osm
Cycore they’re still there so that suggest to me they’re rable but what sort of state they’re in well we’re going to find out soon aren’t we we’re now leaving this Minor Road it’s called the Wy Road at Langford Paris Hall it’s a lovely single story brick Community Building we’re heading down duck Street
Towards steeple Langford it says down here look Langford Lakes natureal Reserve basically Where the River Wy just splits into a zillion little bits and forms Lakes before it then carries on down towards Wilton so we’re going to cross the river Wy here can see how it’s flooded broken its banks spilled over into
Fields fields are very water logged oh here’s the main river I think oh the king fisher Cafe is down there as I said it splits along here on it there’s one there’s one section coming in another one there’s other one down there says there’s a king fish’s Cafe
Down there that might be well worth a look okay I need to pay attention here cuz I think we’re coming up to what used to be the old A36 it’s a bit where they’ve bypassed The Village just to make it a bit safer and this would have been the old A36
Yeah which now leads on to the new A36 and it’s along here we need to cross it at 90° why I’ve bought out two garments the older one is a little bit more detailed although that one just pinged to chestone gun down there and that’s what
This one seems to confirm so that avoids me going up on the A36 there again this is part of the old A36 before they straightened it out and widened it PB there called Rainbow on the lake so this used to be the old main road that Pub’s called the
Rainbow rainbow trout I guess there’s the big fishing lake down there must go through explore that sometime meanwhile I need to get across here and get onto a track called Beric Lane I think that’s how you pronounce it b e r wi C camper van
Look nice place to hold up for the night so I think we’re going to go along this path here you can see where they’ve put concrete obstacles in to stop traffic using this old section of the road it’s what you call a Green Lane isn’t it it literally is green now hopefully
There’s something going off on the left hand side similar to [Applause] this you can see why I don’t like riding this road I’ve nothing against cars and traffic it’s just I want want to ride on the road for this very long single Carriage Road Trunk Road so we need to
Get across into what you been old L by this is what I’m trying to avoid by doing this not I’m the ride on this road I’ve been Crossing it a few times but hopefully not riding on it okay now what along here looking for left is that there looks like this is
It well it looks like an old Minor Road doesn’t it course it’s like an old are shter there there’s a gate out there can I get through that it’s what today’s all about really just seeing whether this is possible certainly not going to trespass if it says keep
Out as I said the the mapping seem to suggest you can ride this there’s a gap in the fence here right he oh that wasn’t too bad okay so far so good as I remember this from the mapping then it tends to go on and then we turn
Off to the right although this road would go on and there’s a bit of off-road so I think it’s probably only metal up to the F buildings then there’s a little bit of where we’ll see non-metal could be a m track before we join a corresponding Lane like this over
There with we to take some staple forood I’m kind of looking out for anything which suggests this is a byway I don’t deliberately want to trespass there’s someone walking down was that’s a rambler or a farm worker maybe can always ask them it’s a dog walk right
There or maybe politely ask if this is a public byway or even a restricted byway both of the mean I’ve got legal right to be on here just to explain while I’m out of breath it’s bit of a grind up here you can see the way I’m climbing up you
Cannot see any traffic but you can just hear it you know it’s running just over the brow of that hill then you can sort of see the Wy Valley climbing steep that way where that cloud line is that would be the Roman Road along there we just pass that heading towards the mendips
That way meantime you can see from the the newer of the two Gins we’re about to turn right I think that’s going to be taking us behind that Barn okay we’re leaving this metal track turning right down with that Barn even a farmhouse it ceases to be metal here turning into a gravel
Track oh we’re going to pass that dog walker I might just confirm this is a a public byway that a really helpful conversation I’m such a friendly guy he confirmed this is a byway I said you know I wasn’t sure I didn’t want to trespass he said no you got perfect
Right to use this he said about apart from the track down to farm oh gosh that’s the way I just came and he said they s okay about it but when I go back he said if I go straight across that crossroads it’ll be like this and it’ll
Still be byway and that’ll take me down to sleep Langford which is where I’ve just come from so again I’ll explore that on the way back I don’t want to be encouraging people to trespass and this would be our road down into staple food even after a lot of rain this is
Ridable it’s quite Compact and hard gravel bit bumpy need to take care ride cautiously but if it’s like this after a lot of rain I imagine in the summer it’s going to be easier to ride looks like we’re going to do a shot left then start start curving into the
Village oh yeah here look so my GPS is sending me through this very sharp left hand angled track and that you can see tractor marks so it’s compact enough to take a tractor then it’s said curve R to the right here yeah just had a p end of that track that little spur
You’re joining this track then that comes down following the line of the trees then staple food should be down here and then very suddenly it becomes a metal track here into Stapleford what an amazing way to arrive at my first destination I still can’t see any signs of the village oh I’ve
Just caught one of two little green houses or outside structures oh starting to see some Cottages so just quickly how I found out about this I very rarely read cycling magazines or books if you just read cycling magazines just going to read what everyone else is reading I actually
Got this rout from a dog walker actually it just came up on my feed when I was doing a bit of research for my summer trip and I thought hey you know going by their photographs that all looks rable and it had cut out busy bit of A36 so
I’ll drop a link to that if you’re watching this on YouTube it’ll be in the description below if you’re watching it on Facebook it’ll probably be in the first comment so I got this idea from a dog walker who had posted the route complete with the GPX see the church
Over there that’s where I’m heading for because I know there’s a thankful Village slate plaque in there and that’s where I’m going to leave my knitted woly poppy it’s part of a five year project I’m visiting all the UK’s thankful Villages and leaving a knitted poppy each my darling wife Linda is knitted
With these lovely wo and poppies but hey what a way to arrive at my first destination Stapleford oh this is a fantastic way to arrive at thanful Village wow I just stop and look back that would be the old ancient route into Village oh it says mod Vehicles
Look up there so the military clearly use it wow no band is sign I suppose you would to SP one would you oh horse Raider in front of me I thought I could hear that lovely sound horseshoes on t what a beautiful beautiful place must be a main road we’re coming
Up to Village bus just passed when you come down off the hill it’s Crossroad so I turn right coming through the village to this little green area parking up area look at this wonderful sign 2014 best kept Village Stapleford workshire look at this for a Village
Street of s Cottages just trying to work out it to get in the church I thought maybe that was it out there but not quite Church entrance kinds of creeps up on you as you’re curling through back out the village going to go in hopefully we can get
In out War mesh gate in the porch taking my hat off already here’s today’s Ned wool and Poppy keep the birds and the wildlife out let’s hope we can get in donation I leave one before we leave yes oh wow just turn some light switches on but they don’t appear to be
Working on my last video I was reading the description I said a beer whatever that means b i e r could be a beer or a buyer apparently that’s what that is that is to wheel the coffin in when it arrives there’s the staple for pla
Look this is what I’ve come for today to leave my knitted poppy at the Stapleford thankful for plaque I was first told about thankful Villages just a couple of years ago by a YouTube subscriber called James thank you very much once again James and I started visiting them cuz Somerset has
Nine more than any other County in England Wales sadly Scotland and Ireland don’t have any so what is a thankful Village a thankful Village is where every person man and woman who went off to serve in the first world war returned home safely the list seems to be
Constantly changing my current count is 57 I soon discovered that at these thankful Villages normally at the church but not always sometimes maybe on a village scen would be these slate plaques saying the name of the village such as this one Stapleford a thankful Village this particular plaque at
Stapleford is different to all the others all the others have been slate and underneath where says thankful Village the others say 1914 to 2014 marking the centinary of the outbreak of the first World War I found out that the Slate blacks the one with the stiny years on were presented to The
Villages by some bikers who did this tour in 2014 and recently I came across some more details about that the source was Guardian online there was a question about thankful Villages how many are there in one of the responses I’ll put it on the screen now it’s from a biker called douge
Bankof telling the readers of the Guardian about their plans in the following year 2014 to motorcycle around all the 51 at the time thankful Villages and present them with a slate plaque of course once I saw that article there’s some links in that to their Facebook page and you can see lots of
Photographs and so now I’m about halfway through my 5year project to visit all the UK’s 57 I believe at this moment in time thankful Villages try to locate the Slate plaques and leave my knitted poppy at each as I refer to this Stapleford thankful Village plaque is different the others
It doesn’t have the 19 14 to 2014 years underneath them and also it doesn’t appear to be slate it’s got a kind of plasticky FM I think it’s either laminated wood or possibly very good solid quality plastic but I’m going to leave my poppy there anyway there’s a little framed
Description next to it about thankful Villages so I’ll just quickly read it out a thankful Village is one in which no men or women were lost in the Great War serving King and Country there are 56 villages in England Wales considered to be thankful villages with Stapleford being the only one in
Welshire it is uncertain just how many men left Stapleford and returned safely but research has identified the following one 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 if anybody read reading this is aware of an individual who they feel should be on the list please contact the chairman of the Paris
Council as I said it hasn’t got the centenal inscription on just before I run outside and get some money to bring in put in the collection box or sign the visitor’s book so as always I look at the last people that have come to sign visit’s book
And I think that says the 2 of the 1st 24 before that is the 3rd of the 12th 15th to the 11th I’m not saying they’re the only people to visit but they’re the only people that visited and sign the visitors but as I said this is
A vested church so I understand that there’s services in here regularly so I’ve signed the visitor’s book the 20th 2nd 24 Andy C from B Somerset and I’ve put part of my 5-year project visiting all 57 thankful Villages by bicycle leaving a knitted poppy at each there’s a bit of rain in
The air but I can hear traffic going by i’ just seen a few cards zooming along so that must be the A36 over there I can see a big red something but that’s part of a garage Filling Station not not sure oh gosh right up in the distance
Very Misty that’s the big hill line that’s pretty much what I’ll be doing when I retrace that route back up back up turn left along and then instead of going down through the farm the way I came up I’ll carry a bit further along then he said carry on
It’ll take you down to Langford which is where I want to get to anyway let’s have a Wonder around the churchard in the church what looks like it’s overlooking a wildlife Pond is the Henry Bennett Memorial Garden father of the hybrid te’s 1823 to 1890 lived at Mana Farm 1858 to
1880 and this garden and the sign is sponsored by the Wilshire Gardens trust it’s erected in 2007 daffs snow drops some Rose brushes and that remains of an old tree covered in Ivy I’m now reading from the Hellfire website which is all about thankful Villages and I’ve got the page up about
Stapleford so I’m going to read from that it says a short distance from the church is L’s Cottage where in the summer of 1938 Ralph vaugh Williams the composer found accomodation and composed part of his great Fifth Symphony his second wife Ura had been reported as saying that he enjoyed walking to
Salsbury more than seven miles away to meet his friends the cedal organist wter wock who played back with him in the cathedral friend sorry I misre that we’re just leaving the church now but before we head back that way I to just walk up here see if I can identify
Thatcher’s Cottage Stapleford St Mary I’m assuming Thatcher’s Cottage might be one of these along here leaving the church I turned left took this detour along here passed all those thatched cottages and they were not what I was looking for this is th’s Cottage this is where for Williams stayed in
1938 gained inspiration to write a symphony okay we’re now heading back that way past the church hard to believe this is just off that busy A36 bus stop there with it shelter Chapel Lane and then you get this view heading towards the church this is looking down at the river till which
Flows through the village and it actually flows into the river Wy just south of Stapleford just for we leave the village another recognition stfe bford being the best kept Village 2014 winner of the small village class this nice little Rec ation here area here through this
Gate look at this the river till Rises near Till’s Head Upon s plane it flows for about 14 kmet which is 8.6 mil into the river Wy nearby Stapleford and then the river Wy flows into the river nther at Wilton and that in turn joins the river aen at Salsbury which then flows
Southwards and flows into English Channel near CH Church on the sou Coast gentlemen his dog look dogs Ling that water reluctantly coming out I think the gentleman’s ready to go and we’re heading back this way or more specifically up there along on that Ridge line now done most of the elevation back
Up on The High Ground looking back down where we come from stap you can’t even see it from here you can definitely see the line of that Ridge up there it’s where the Roman Road goes somewhere over there is groly Woods you actually climb out of Wilton
And go straight up on the old Roman Road looking down on the Wy Valley Road now what we’re doing heading up to that find line of trees you see there’s an area just behind it marking the C I guess turn left along there a little
Bit then turn right back up that kind of Crossroads we’re going to go left but overshoot where we came up because that gentleman sort of said to me if you carry on it is Broadway that’ll eventually get you back down to Langford Lakes so I want to do this as properly
As I can I don’t want to be shown deliberately going through private roads I did the accidentally earlier on cuz my GPS sent me up there but now I know otherwise I don’t want to retrace that way back just passing the big Reservoir there of sludge very far yardy
Smell and that little antenna there now it’s straight on for a mile or so wow wonderful up here we’re back at the track where I came up this way and new can clearly see from this direction it says Private Road it does also warn you there’ll be Land
Rovers and tanks possibly coming along here it’s a Military Road as well but I don’t want to go back to that F yard because I shouldn’t really gone through there the gentleman said if I carry along here it will take me along a bit further
Then I can drop down to Lakes there and it says there very narrow track ahead drivers or motorcycles expect to meet Walkers and horses please drive with extreme C caution I’ll certainly be pying with Extreme Caution this ain’t for the faint the wheels slipping a lot is very slippery coming down here so
I’m going quite cautiously but I can hear the noise and I can see I’m coming down to join the main road and it looks like there’s an underpass underneath it so that’s possibly what we’re heading for dropping rapidly just need to compose myself a bit here before we do the final planse
Down looking across there I can see almost like a hide bird hide I wonder if that’s private land yeah private land in there possibly military or possibly private hunting ground you can see there’s like a track coming down heading towards the road I got a feeling we I
Got a feeling this is going to bend round and come into that then go underneath the main road so probably not too far to go till we’re back on time I just had to disant down there you can see it suddenly got very chalky and the wheel was slipping
Everywhere this is the A36 and you can see that there’s a style across sign posted byway and it looks like there’s a corresponding style over there but I’m pretty sure I saw a foot Bridge R there so that’s what I’m going to investigate go along there I need to Bear over to my
Left which would make sense to get back on that Wy Valley Road we’re now on this metal track so let’s see where this goes well right on Q where I need to start veing over to the left look there’s a left hand Fork it’s a public briadway sign up
There so this is perfect illegal to road then hopefully this is going to drop us down under Nia 36 back into Wy Valley I can see cars down there so clearly this is a road that traffic uses clearly coming into some sort of Village quite exciting this I can’t get
Too l oh gosh I just see the Spire of the church coming into a farmyard lovely metal SP start of a road forming as I said I can’t get too lost but just at this moment I’m not exactly sure I am oh is this LF is
It okay this is what I rode up earli on actually so straight on hanging Langford yeah I came up this way ear R past to Lake I might take that left hand turn down and see what that c is like go and have a look at the Lakes anyway another train going by
Just going to pla on now back to warer then into bath it’s about 2:30 now I’m back on a nice quiet Road in the Wy Valley heading from wishford up to Warminster and eventually back to B just coming through the small settlement of Bon not much more than a few houses and
I saw a sign pointing towards the church so I’ve come down to have a look feels like a lovely spring afternoon even though I know there’s some severe weather on the way wet weather and cold weather coming let’s go and have a look fairly solid wooden
Doors I think most people know in olden times people could claim Sanctuary from the law in churches and as I understand it that’s why they’ve have these round handles that’s called a sanctuary ring once you touch that you protected from the law by the church until about the 1700s I think
That privilege was retracted right above the bell tower sometimes above porches you would have classrooms and I wonder if that used to be a classroom in there maybe in the olden days not sure War Mesh Door it’s probably to get the birds out yeah please close door immediately birds can enter I’ve seen
Birds trapped in churches before it’s very difficult to get them out straight to Nave font over there grand old wooden organ pigmented pipes I’m very aware that I got muddy feet ear on I’ve cleaned most of the mud off but I’m not going to walk onto any
Carpet as say for instance out there I’m not going to go up to the chancel there’s the wooden pull pit quite Grand carvings on them look heads of angers both it on the sand reflector above it project the sound of the sermon out stop it all dissipating
Up into a high ceiling yeah I won’t go up into chant or here gosh that Crusader just going to have a look separate Chapel here but look it through these arches another tomb there ornamentally carved stone that is a crusader isn’t it it say Sir Alexander gford Crusader yeah
Hero of the battle of somewhere m s in Egypt 1250 note The Splendid Shield of unique importance to heroist I think that says and the otter at the feet 13th century Crusader is Shield of importance to heists and the otter At His Feet chewing in his sword but look at
It go really Grand circular window there some stained glass on very light in there those recesses in now I think I’m right and saying that Christianity is about 2,000 years old and for about 34s of that there was no Sean in churches people would just expected stand or na
But they would just sometimes carve seats into the stone walls and that’s for the elderly or the infirm or the parly disabled before the introduction of pews which a relatively modern introduction the stone wall seats in churches are the origin of the phrase the weakest to the wall go that Tomb of
The Crusader reminds me of the life-size Effigy Of TE Lawrence better known as Lawrence of Arabia at St Martin’s church at wereham it’s about 10: to 6: in the evening now and it’s still fairly lightish I’ve just come back over the two tunnels I actually got to midford
And decided to take the really difficult way up over Kum that nearly finished me off for the day and then dropped down bare flat and I just thought I’d come down to portal this this is the portal that’s been flooded till recently hard to tell how deep it is as
I came down there from Bloomfield track I saw a a runner go that way so whether they’d come down here turn around and gone back I don’t know I’m hoping somebody won’t come along is that a runner coming out just to give me an idea of how deep it is actually so yeah
There might be try not to Blind them there’s someone coming through this way [Applause] it’s hard to tell I’d say it’s about 30 to 50 m long but it’s hard to tell how deep it is somebody’s coming through with their dogs so this is the uh lipus test really try not blind
Them no they turn man gone the other way 70s Walkers as well so people are clearly avoiding it what happened was before Christmas I was coming back from a long ride came through a I suppose about 6 or seven Ines of water didn’t think too much of it rode out to in on
New Year’s Day went down into that next I know it was up above my knees and I suddenly thought gosh this is deep and then somebody put some tree stumps up above almost like um Stepping Stones I nearly went into a couple of those so dangerous and then sustr
Actually gated the tunnel and they’ve identified a drain problem it’s only recently been open the last couple of days but I would say my own view that’s probably unraidable okay I’m nearly at my home I’m just going to leave the two tunnels shortly and I’m going to finish the
Video here hope you’ve enjoyed coming along I’ve just been up to De to Tunnel had a look at the portal put a little post on Facebook so people can sort of see it for themselves make their own mind up my feeling was people were going up to
It turning around and coming back having said that I’ve Just Seen A C cyclist going that way if I waited a couple more minutes I might have seen if they attempted it or not I did notice as I dropping down off the hill cuz I rode over the tunnels a couple of cyclists
Were going up that way so my Gap feeding his cyclist avoiding it as well anyway end of the video thanks much for watching see you soon
7 Comments
Nice one. Sadly we don't have bus passes here in Switzerland. But I remember when my parents (RIP) got them back in Ireland – they travelled a couple of times every month for so long as their health allowed and as the pass covered Northern Ireland as well, they did a bit of international travel too! I don't know what it is like in Ireland now, but back then you could bring a companion with you on the bus pass, may be you could do something like that until you get your own ;-).
Well done epic journey
Thanks Andy .Enjoyed the ride with you…and didn't get my feet wet 😁 keep up the good work 👍
Andy your a star, love all of your content and the History is the icing on the cake. Kind regards Bob.
Loads of my route from Salisbury to Warminser. You are right about the OX road, pre Roman cattle road. It runs past Salisbury race Coarse
I hadn't heard or seen those recesses before, interesting, as was it being the origin of the phrase the weakest to the wall.
It's always enjoyable to see one of your videos with a theme.
I'm interested to know how much time filming adds to a rided like this?
Second question is what do you use in the way of a camera and do you wear a chest harness to hold it?
As always thanks for another interesting video.