On this cycle ride video I cycle from Great Ouseburn (north of York) North Yorkshire in a loop through Boroughbridge and back to Great Ouseburn, looking at lots of interesting stuff including a medieval battlefield where Robert the Bruce slaughtered the Archbishop of York’s Yorkshire army, a WW2 bomber crash and a curious, ancient French nursery rhyme.
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[Music] morning everybody where am I today on this wonderful Monday morning in May that rhymes doesn’t it I am at Great urn which is north of York and before I get going on this ride I’ll show you a couple of things which are quite interesting if you can hear me cuz it’s quite Breezy today I’ll just take it down here slightly Off The Roots can you see ah head on the right it’s a sweet little brick Bridge a listed Bridge an ancient Bridge well ancient it’s probably Georgian and it was built for the The Manor that used to be over there I think it was called Kirby Kirby hall now demolished but this is quite a sweet little ornamental Bridge it’s only single file traffic it’s been repaired quite recently this goes over a little stream and here on the right is the church now this this road leads to littleburn that was great urn this is littleburn and this is littleburn church which we’ll just go and take a look at there’s a commonwealth War grave here as well but there was it the like a ride on Saturday it’s Elm holy Church little urn creaky Gates like there’s some old steps to mount a horse there maybe anyway what’s interesting here part from the lovely old church my camera bit is this over there which is a mosum which was built for whoever it was that owns Kirby Hall quite an interesting building and quite a large building this is such a peaceful Church yard it really is peaceful let’s go and take a look and see if if we can see inside I just put my bike down what can we see Safeway security I don’t know if you can see there’s a what looks like a vault under there and there’s an an and the niches are now empty but I think they used to be filled with statues of people that were of interest to the gentleman who is buried here originally I think quite a few people were buried here and I think it got full in the end so they had to expand into the churchyard it’s a beautiful little old church isn’t it beautiful when I was last year here had my lunch here and there was a very sad little grave I don’t know if I can find it it about other child [Applause] I could spend ages couldn’t I here this is such a peaceful place I needed some peace and quiet today which is why I came here oh this is the the war memorial men from the littleburn parish who dies in the between 1914 and 1919 so presumably people who died once the war had finished as well two Robinsons so presumably from the same family so very very sad very sad but what’s a peaceful place to rest could actually spend all day here I think for the peace and quiet which I needed today on my last video you probably remember I said my mom had Dem has dementia and it’s getting worse and oh boy did it get worse over the weekend I just needed to get out and she’s being cared for today so that’s good she’s at a day Center creaky Gates okay there’s a little little um notice along here about the the back I’ll ride over the bridge and take a look at that before we head off on the main ride the camera so back across that sweet little bridge I think they um Mana house used to be over there there’s still a gate house to it which exists over there on the road our private house what does it say let’s have a look creepy breaks right it says you can see it this stream it’s called oo Gill Beck CU of course it’s the river ooze that runs behind us parallel that runs into York um well as I said in my last video the the river o begins as the river y u um and the SW River swell flows into it and they it trundles along towards York where it sort of at one point becomes the river ooze the famous river flowing through York oh this is sp Kirby Hall the one I mentioned that was demolished it was built in 1755 by the Thompson family who also built the little bridge and the molean we just looked at in the church the a of the estate was killed in the first world war ah um so he might might have been listed on that war memorial um and the distraught owners felt unable to remain there and the family moved away and the hall was sold and pulled down in 1920 that’s so sad that’s the church dates back to the 11th century on possibly on the site of an earlier Saxon Church oh an Bronte sketched this and she she was a governor locally and she used to go to that church you can see the church over there and she that was her sketch of it that’s so interesting there’s a lot more here so please come and do this ride and have a look at all the history so history around here it’s unbelievable and loads more than I know so right we’re going on and we are joining the Hang on we’re joining the way of the Roses cycle route that we were on on my last ride that goes all the way from moram in Lancashire all the way to ridlington in East Yorkshire the coast to coast rout so we’re turning right in [Applause] hello we’re turning right towards the little toll bridge that’s old walk that crosses the I think it’s the river y there it hasn’t quite become the river ooze yet this bridge was closed for about 18 months only reopened earlier this year it was taken apart and reconstructed it’s listed so had to do it very sympathetically it used to be really rickety but it’s still kind of rickety because it’s constructive from wooden slats it’s free for cyclists and motorbikes to cross and 40p for cars the owner applied to put up the fee but I think it’s the local Council said no got to keep it at 40p so I don’t expect them make much money and the W have made any money while it was closed and being refurbished and I bet that cost a fortune it’s not owned locally it’s owned by someone down south he’s probably not that happy that he bought it it’s probably costing him more than he gets in toll fees CU there a little man stands by the Toll House collecting the money so presumably has to pay him as well I took some photos of the tollbridge the other week which I’ll share with you on this video quite a nice spot you often get people boating or puzzle boarding beneath the bridge this ride that I’m doing is fairly flat we go around in a circle to burough bridge and then we follow tiny lanes and villages on the way of the Ros cycle route back to where we started it’s quite a short ride but it’s perfect for when you want to get out and D stress especially on a gorgeous day like this I just love this area really really really really really like this area so if you’re thinking of bringing your bike up to New York do do these cycle rides that I’ve videoed they are really just lovely and not well known to people who aren’t from this area unless they’ve done the coast to coast um Road way the Roses cycle route anyway we’re coming up to the tollbridge There’s the Man collecting the tolls it will be a bit bumpy but not as bumpy as it used to be [Music] right crossing the river picnic tables down there there we go oops speed bump at either side so watch out for that and I think there’s another one coming up so don’t Race Across this bridge here we go up we’re about to turn left towards oldw Walk Village of course when that bridge was closed it messed up the way of the Cy way of the Roses cycle route and people had to come a different way and missed out a whole load of prettiness because of it but now everything’s back in operation Farm smells around here good thing you can’t smell this right turning left here we will be retracing some of the route that I did on the last video on Saturday for flow and helper be Owen of course M and on SW got some more information about that since since I posted the last video not much more but some yeah quite a lot actually old walk here it cuts off the corner over there that we cycle past on Saturday with the plague cross at Al if you want to know about that watch my last video it’s the easing World video this little village it’s got a church which I think is 19th century it has that look about it it looks a bit like this church a little CES that we cycled past on Saturday maybe built by the same architect and oldw Manor is on the right it’s now a hotel with a big muzen extension obviously this Village serves the local Mana morning morning well it’s afternoon it’s 10 1 it’s the pretty Village this is pretty and quiet is fairly quiet there is a foot Bridge across the river here that while the toll bridge was closed you could walk you bike across it but it’s not a cycle path I never I never did it I just the voided this area while the bridge was closed Golf Course is everywhere here well one on the left and there there’s one back there might be the same one I don’t know Oh’s walk here’s the little church it’s very sweet interesting construction Pebbles and Bricks stripes is after my last video I was researching a load of stuff about the area and there is so much history that it’s impossible to Crum it all in I’ll try to share a bit of it with today so many tourists come to York and they just go to York and they don’t really come to these Villages uh north of York they just do York and it’s very crowded in York as you can imagine all the tourists there’s so much more to see though Bor Bridge of course was famous for a while there a location for for Julian noron on the Yorkshire fets series on Channel 5 it’s absolutely rammed with history is Burbridge one thing I’ve forgotten to do is research where the the Old Railway Station was in Burbridge so we’ll probably come to Burbridge again and do another ride because there’s so much history I can’t possibly talk about it all here and there’s also some interesting things like the not on this route but on another route that I can do on the routs from rien to B Bridge there are three of what are known as the devil’s arrows which are thought to be Neolithic in origin there were four maybe more but there were at least four and one of them was removed to help construct one of the bridges at bough Bridge so I understand unfortunately somebody gave Planning Commission for a housing estate to be built the other year a more affordable housing um built opposite the dev Arrow which is a shame cuz it was quite quiet there apart from the you’ve got the A1 and also the old what used to be the A1 running alongside it so maybe it’s not so quiet anyway so that will feature another ride soon we’ll be turning left and then we’ll be going left again onto the road where I was on Saturday it takes us through the village of flow I think it’s pronounced flowers not there there’s a couple of left turns that always confuse me but they’re just leading to f MS guess what I forgot to take an antihistamine again for my hay fever so apologies for any sniffles like that we turn left here so we go through flow again and then not too long after that we turn left into M look towards M on Swale tiny little village off the beach be track and the village itself if you’ll have seen on Saturday’s video it’s on a no through road but you can get through on its helpa be by going past the old Stables belonging to the hall night and Hall it adds a little bit of distance to the ride it’s not a shortcut it’s quite the opposite but it’s quieter and much more relaxing and interesting than just cycling along the main roads so here we are in FL with h apologize if you don’t like me chassing away on these cycle rides about all sorts of things but I find it quite cathartic and didn’t used to talk on the cycle rides really at one point I put a musical background on it which many of my followers said no no don’t do that we want to we want to hear the noises on the cycle ride well one of the noises is now me rambling on about stuff frog in my throats my cycle coach said yesterday he said cycling is a real stress Buster because I I’m super stressed at the moment with my mother and her D Dimension so I’m stress busting today let’s bust the stress just good cuz exercise gets the endorphins going and the endorphins are feel good hormones which make you feel better and happier hopefully I also find editing the videos quite cathartic what isn’t cathartic is uh waiting while they they publish on my video editing software Saturday’s video took about an hour to publish and then it takes an equally long time to upload to Youtube and then you might find as I did yesterday that what you’ve uploaded is all out of sync the little Maps were out of sync so I had to take it off YouTube and start again well not start again but go back into the editing software put all the maps back into sink and publish it and when I get back I’ll upload it to YouTube and then I’ll do the same with this video here we turn to MIT MIT on swell as I said last time the river swell winds its way all the way from whale Dale which is the Yorkshire Dale that’s the north of wednesy Dale at the top of the Yer Dales really um and the river swell joins the river Y which I talked about a while a few minutes ago and then together after a while they become the o and I think it flows into the river humba in the end and El into the North Sea here are the horses again one’s on the other side of the road this time hello horses I don’t know what those horses do they were to be there and I I feel sorry for them all chains up and then the Sun or the rain if it’s raining this little farm sells eggs and sweets usually and not in there but doesn’t seem to have anything today don’t fast forward this video just because I did this on Saturday cuz I’ve got a bit more information well I put some of it on the other video when I went back into it this morning over there you can see M Hall which as I said last time was the home for quite a while of Sir Ken Morrison who made his fortune from Morrison’s supermarkets and so I asked the question in the title of my last video what do Robert the Bruce and Morrison supermarkets have in common well the answer is that Robert the Bruce and Ken Morrison are both associated with M on Swale cuz it was Robert the Bruce’s troop from Scotland that came up here to kick the British into touch I should I say sorry the English into touch it’s a massive massive historical period loads of stuff about it it’s the first Scottish war of independence which I only know a bit about there’s loads of information about it apparently though the name War wasn’t used then so it wasn’t called a war but that’s essentially what it was and I’ll tell you what I managed to glean as to why this is the case want to take you back to the Iron Bridge built in 1868 I think it was across the river Swale a beautiful beautiful Iron Bridge that has recently been restored but which doesn’t actually lead to anywhere apart from the field and uh where you can take the dog walking and it’s a rideal path so you can go take your horse there as well what I mean is it’s not a rose Bridge here’s the little village couldn’t find out much about the church I Googled it so if you know about the church here please comment below so I imagine I’ll be coming through here again cuz I like it here so we’ll be turning right here when we’ just visited the bridge ago which is down here on a no through Road I didn’t realize how important this Village or rather the battle associated with this Village was I’ve never heard of it fin me last time I was here I was pointed out that phone box and said I was going to using world to look for a listed phone box the fact is that those old red telephone boxes designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott’s son famously designed Giles Gilbert Scott um many of them I think it’s 2,000s of them at least are listed and so that’s probably listed too so we’re going down here to the bridge the road gets a bit bumpy because the TAC gives way to to an unmade Road and a little bridge is ahead it’s not a little Bridge it’s quite [Music] a wonder if we cross it if we can get a f graph or something of underneath because apparently it’s quite all nice let’s try to have a look first see it looks as if it should lead to somewhere even T that it just leads to a Green Lane that then ends up going by the side of the fields oh oh this tells you all about the Battle which is so to be somewhere over there [Music] um looks like it’s a foot path here strange Gates [Applause] they strange Gates it’s [Applause] okay so it says on the 20th of September 1319 5 years after the battle of banck bur these Meadows were the scene of the battle of MIT an inexperienced Army of English clergy farmers and towns people were defeated by Scots soldiers on route to York I understand theyd heard that Edward the First’s Queen Isabella was in New York and they they had an idea to capture her maybe for a ransom or something but but um the king got word of it and moved the queen out of the way this bridge 1868 I was right about that so a local Source at the time of the battle was said I think it’s over 4,000 Yorkshire men were killed and a thousand of them ended up just over there I guess in the Swale there was another Bridge here but we don’t quite know where that was it might might have been here but people don’t know apparently it’s also known as the charter battle I think that’s right Charter being because there was an enormous a large number of clergy involved and yes the Archbishop of York was part of it fighting and a lot of clergy from the area and Town’s people and so on were actually pressed into service they’re all inexperienced and the reason the Scots wanted to give them a kicking was I mean this was after the time of braveart if youve seen the historically inaccurate film um this is I might get this wrong and please Scottish people comment in the comments below but apparently there was an ineffective King in Scotland and some sort of council or committee decided to ask Edward the first of England up there to give advice on what to do but apparently he I think he imprisoned or killed I don’t know which this Council and decided that he quite fancied having governance of Scotland which of course didn’t please the Scots um and Robert the Bruce who became king of Scotland decided to give the English a kicking and to throw them out of the land and they they headed as far as York they might have gone further but after barican fre they came here to mitan where this this battle took place so peaceful now just imagine imagine if 4,000 were killed and a thousand of those ended up in the river imagine those who didn’t get killed who just got injured this peaceful place here must have been a blood place and now it’s just this lovely Victorian Bridge overlooking the gorgeous peaceful River swell just another place you could stay all day sit on that seat over there and bring your sandwiches it’s a good thing about walking or cycling we can get to all these peaceful places that if you just driving or on the train you would miss all together right so that’s visit number two two of this lovely Bridge next time I’m going to bring my lunch well next time I’ll do the ride that takes you over the bridge and you have to walk the bike through some of the meadows and it’s quite interesting it’s a shortcut to bur bridge and it goes past some interesting tree carvings there’s a family of owls which is amazing oh I’m coming up behind you it’s okay that’s excuse me here for little sh whole [Music] church we will go into that at some point but now we’re going to turn off to go past my ni and Hall along what local cyclists call Ken’s Corridor here’s Ken’s Corridor this Parkland apparently was built in the 19th built was designed and constructed and laid out get it right in the 19th century whereas the hall on the left is late Stewart late 17th century and it’s quite unique in the way it’s not been added to or changed it I think it looks pretty much as it did when it was built can you see it very symmetrical with the Weather Vein on top I think symmetrical building started round about the Elizabethan era influenced by the Italian Renaissance how recall and Arisha as an example of an Eliz bether mansion with early classical design and then of course before that in times everything was a little bit more higgledy piggledy but that M Hall is a beautiful example of a hall from its time now last time I said we’re doing the same here we’re going past the old stable blocks which were obviously built later than the hall cuz they look to be 19th century divided into Apartments now but really nice looking there that water tower again which I think people may live well guess it’s got a window at the bottom who knows that is so peaceful here I want to live here right really nice Victorian stable plot is we’re winding our way back to meet the road that we left when we turned off toight and we’ll be heading into HBY again and then past T instead of turning right which we did on Saturday towards eing worlds we’ll be going straight ahead towards B bridge and we will be crossing the sale again a little further on from Hela be on a bridge called thoron Bridge h d [Music] we’re coming up to that Wall’s Garden on the left which I think I found out belong to Hela be Hall that’s one of the square turrets on one corner there’s another one bit further on there some kind of all sorts of stuff the wall Garden yeah and help of behall I wasn’t sure what it was on Saturday but I’ve been doing a bit of research about it look there’s other of square turrets but the original Hall goes back a few hundred years but it’s been extensively altered than a bed at the front where we went last time looks as though it’s 19th century and I haven’t found out yet why it’s got that strange ancient I think 15th century fr nursery rhyme inscribed above the door so if you know again let me know in the comments hi there I found the text online and it’s all about puppets which is kind of weird puppets not puppies Mar n L Marinette F something or other so this is helpa I came through here on Saturday on the left is help behall I’m assuming it’s I’m assuming it’s now Apartments but this section is obviously not that old and here you’ve got a French inscription can you see it Maria pH pH pH to TOS I think it was a pre S V which is a very old French Nursery rme how curious I need to know why why why it’s there why French who knows I hope you do cuz you can let me know in the comments below let’s head off oh last time I didn’t look at the little Fountain this time I will I also said I’d Branch off to look at a little church didn’t I not the very hideously ugly Methodist Church but up the lame where I’ve never been these are Victorian arms [Music] houses I see and this this is is a fountain he to commor commemorate 60 years of Queen Victoria’s rain and also 100th birthday of Lady Celia herion Mills coats I’m guessing they lived in h puppy Hall right on we go I thought there was a bakery or something on the right here but it seems to have closed it’s a shame oh butches that was it Village h up there I’m guessing that is a war memorial so this is the Hideous Victorian Church which is very ous let’s go look at St Peter’s Church I’ve never been a here so why not I’m not seeing any church is that like cycling up big gravel like we go this way the clue is in that name church house so the church must be around here it is lovely here Commonwealth wargraves here too gosh so these are all the people who would have died on English soil as opposed to on Flanders Field oh yeah this is another thing I was going to point out this is a plaque in memory of the crew of the Halifax bomber which um crashed near here while returning to RAF dish forth from a mission over Germany and everyone was killed we got ages 20 21 19 21 23 27 and 20 every man was a volunteer so all those young men go it’s heartbreaking isn’t it Google it online and I think there’s a few websites that talk about it I I don’t think they were all buried here from what I remember I think some of them were taking home home or I might be wrong but so sad isn’t it so sad but we do get the church here St Peter’s church now then it’s Bon it’s funny cuz Bon is Bron is well it’s Hela be Bron and sometimes they refer to it as Hela be and sometimes Bon because it’s really two Villages that kind of meet in the middle well this is obviously the church at rafon I’m quite interested in graveyards and cemeteries cuz as I said on Saturday I’m going to do some research Undercliff cemeter in batford one of the great Victorian Municipal cemeteries with some amazing tombs it’s a bit like a bit like um Highgate Cemetery in London that sort of thing I’ve got a specific area of Interest apart from the fact that my ancestors are buried there not in one of the moans just in an ordinary grave I need to find where that Gra is as well here we have the church now that ahead looks like it’s being extensively modernized over the years I’ll have to look it up and that’s old at the end and old this bit here have to look that up it’s also being repaired but I know that our friends of victorians were really into um making churches and buildings look a bit more medieval than they actually were even though they were Medieval they’re into embellishing them to make them look more medieval more Gothic fun it happened with quite a lot of cathedrals too um notrad I’m in Paris being one where Viet luk the French 19th century Gothic architect um tweaked the cathedral to look a bit more Gothic and of course he designed that Spire which burnt down and has now been reconstructed Google it it’s amazing it’s an exact copy and it’s beautiful and I’ve learned the French words for Spire it’s flesh laugh flesh I studied Victorian Gothic architecture at University many many years ago back in the late 70s gosh right so we’ll get back on track now interesting very interesting I’m so sad about these these a man I guess this video is one way of remembering them widening [Applause] awareness so we’re going to join the beat and track again soon and we’ll be turning left obiously at the Pu like we did on Saturday and we’ll be going over the old track bed of the Old Railway line which went from pilmore where it joins the East Coast Mainline to burough bridge and beyond that to nurb which of course links to Harriet what so what’s ining here get up quick past the affordable houses oh Sun’s gone in oh that’s the old person so it wasn’t that that GR not much to see off the track bed here so I won’t stop this time but you can see a bit of it on my last video the easing World video and I’ll put a link to that video at the end of this one and as I said I forgot to Google where Burbridge station was but I will next time or I’ll see if I can find it on an old map I can see the White Horse on the Hills over there so I said those were the hadadian hills but I think they’re the Hamilton Hills they kind of meet and above them is well they lead to the North York Ms and the White Horse above Kilburn is is a hill figure but I don’t think it’s as old as you think it is we’ll go nearer to it on another ride in fact if you’re looky it might even Cyclops with it’s a very steep steep Ro winding and steep I’ve done it in one before so I can do it in one again hopefully so on Saturday we turned right here but this time we’re going straight on we’re going to cross the Swale at Thornton Bridge before turning left towards bur Bridge hello this is thornson Bridge it’s not it’s not a very beautiful Bridge so I won’t stop and look at it so I think it’s old I mean it’s iron isn’t it oh well look it up but it’s not I don’t know it’s not as nice as the other bridge laon bridge so we go left there’s something about Milby and I can’t remember what it was that’ss historical I really can’t remember I’ll find out if we do another ride this Ro is quite busy it’s one of the main RADS to our Bridge a incline now B Bridge has a massive history dating back to Neolithic times and the the devil’s arrows that I mentioned a while ago it’s was directly on the great North Road the A1 between L and edenboro oh a bit bumpy here it’s now bypass but the A1 is now a Motorway but back in the day it was of enormous importance it had a large number of pubs and coaching in I think it had at one point about 40 pubs that’s an awful lot I mean You’ get very drunk if you just had half a beer in each one wouldn’t you that’ be 20 LS of beer I don’t imagine it still has that many there’s a fountain in the center rather large Fountain which has a canopy built over it which I’ll check but I think it was 19th century but the fountain itself used to be the only source of water well part from the river the only source of drinking water for the whole town also I think bar bridge was lit by gas light until I think it was the mid 1930s don’t take my word for it when it’s switched to electricity it’s got a large Market Square that we will cycle through I think the river is the river y not the sale and there was a kind of a bit of a navigation section which is no longer used so that’s why you cross two Bridges when you go into the center of the village and at the moment I think parking is still free which is very unusual in this day and age it’s also on the way of the Roses cycle route so the cafes are a good stopping point for people doing that challenge well for any cyclists this road I’m on now is not part of the rout oh it’s a bit bumpy bad surface and just beyond bough Bridge we’ll also cycle through got my brains playing tricks I think I think my brain is full at the moment with everything that’s going on a bit of a blank little Senor moment uh this is one of the lanes that you come to if you cross the little bridge at my turn good name I was looking for is old BR old BR is kind of attached to bur Bridge these days and it was a Roman town there is a Roman villa that you can go and look out you have to pay to go in I think it’s English heritage it’s also a pretty little village so we skirt it when we join the way of the roses and then we go through a series of pretty little quiet little Villages all the way back to Great urn oh um oh what a terrible Ro surface awful awful not far for a bridge this is not the most pretty Road in the world but it’s already have to go along if you want to do this cycle tour in a loop like we are so we used to be able to catch a train from here to nbor my nbor station is still very much an existence it’s on the Harriet York stopping line and of course as you approach nbra station from the haret side you cross that Main in Firs across the the river the river nid which is an old name probably dating back to North times question mark it’s an amazing Viaduct and if you’ve been to Nob you can’t help but to have seen it and then immediately the other side of the river is the station NB is beautiful it has a feel of a sort of Seaside feel to it even though it isn’t and you can cycle along the Old Railway line from part of the line from haret to Ripley but the section that branches off to ripen isn’t open it’s just overgrown as we saw on the other ride earlier this week and there where it gets quite busy so you’re cycling on their cycle routes but you’re dodging the tourists and pedestrians back to this ride we’re just approaching burough Bridge h and we will be approaching bur Bridge shortly We join the road where we turn left a junction by three affordable houses that have been built over the last year I think expanding B Bridge something I’m puzzled about is the fact that we talk about the need to build all these houses and yet it never brings down the prices of houses I mean the hous is right at the bottom of the chain the first time buyer’s house my adult son is desperate to get on the property ladder but it’s a prohibitively expensive as the rents which is why they came back to live with us P me a bit of B on board of course it doesn’t live for free all right here we are turning left into B Bridge oh so there’s two Bridges here I think we cross the na old navigation First oh they still used there a there’s a barge on it so it must be going let’s go somewhere and this is the river pretty sure this is the river yo [Music] yeah this is the river y I checked my [Music] map looks as though there’s some not very nice stuff floating down [Music] it sign of the times I had a quick look to see where the Old Railway line was cuz you can often see where they were and I think it was it comes in from near the A1 I’ll check it out properly when I get home sh so this is the Market Square and this is that Fountain it’s rather the grand canopy so this was the only source of water drinking water for the whole town at one point we’re now back on the way of the Roses cycle route all the way back to Great urn but first we’re branching off to alra the Roman town which is on the RO you might be able to see ahead move that here we are we’ve got the red rose and we’ve got the white rose red rose for lire of course and white rose for Yorkshire talking about Lancer want doing a little cycle ride into Lancer soon last year and the year before I did a whole Road load of cycle rides that I didn’t record I just got a bit fed up with recording stuff and to be honest it’s quite time consuming but I’ll do these little rides again and record them particularly rides into the pen which can be quite bruthal as you can imagine beautiful but brutal I don’t really feel up to doing brutal rides just yet I need to get my fitness going again really but talking about brutal last couple of years I went cycling on darkart Moore which I have I’ve only recorded one cycle ride I did on Dart Moore which in itself was a pretty brutal ride but I just more over the last couple of years I’m hoping to go back there at some point this year with my bike this R by the way the V Village Center is on the right and I think that’s the way to the Roman town yes there’s a sign for it on the right a Roman villa hello hi hi Roman town but we’re going through the dun for Dan for Dan forth I don’t know which are sweet little villages along fairly quiet Lanes that’s what the way of the Roses route tends to do if it can it goes along quiet Lanes with some Offroad only goes on the main roads where there is really no all on this particular section continues from where we were on the ride from last week we we joined the way of the Rose’s routs just down from Fountain Abby if you remember all the way through Studley Royal Deer Park and through rippen and along past the root of the old at rippen Railway line and if he carries on on the cycle route we turns off if you remember but if it carries on you go to the Village of Radcliffe followed by burough bridge and you come in past the devil’s arrows and so this cycle is part of the route is an extension of that fromb bridge from great urn takes you overwalk bridge which we went over at the start of this ride then it takes you on to Benning BR Hall who cycle through the grounds H Bing for Hall is National Trust then you end up cycling into York along a cycle path mainly but some of its on RADS and the route takes you through the city of York we will do that one day and from there it takes you to Stanford Bridge the other side of York on the ridlington road Stanford bridge is scene of that other great battle of 1066 when Harold hard rzza came over from the mark question mark anyway he met King Harold at Stanford bridge and they had a scrap a battle Harolds won sent hard kicking I think or sent him off rather with his tail between his legs should I say and um trouble was around about the same time or shortly after Old William came over from Normandy to claim what he believed was his right and that was the The Throne of England and our King Harold was in Stanford bridge and he had to get to Hastings pretty quickly which wasn’t an easy thing especially when your soldiers are very tired after battle and probably one of the reasons why the famous Battle of Hastings Was Won by the Normans by William from St Stanford bridge if he’s doing the Roses ride you heard to walkington and then you head through the orire worlds um through dfield and then you do that section that I’ve recorded before to ridlington which um it’s quite Pleasant until he it takes you through the old old bradlington which feels like like a fishing Village but it’s actually not quite on the coast maybe it was at some point takes you past B and Agnes Hall and Elizabeth and Mana house we’re heading towards the village of lower dunforth followed by upper dun forth followed by great urn which is where we started one of these Villages has a Vineyard which you might think is quite unusual for Yorkshire but there are quite a few in Yorkshire we will go past the vineyard he this so Cy quite a breeze today warm breeze and beautiful Blossom such a shame when that goes this is the best time of here to cycle and walk and just leave I forgot to check whether the care home I got in touch about a date for moving Mom the reason I remembered I let this car go past was because I know quite a bit of information I don’t pretend that it is all totally accurate but I try but a lot some who was a walking encyclopedia was my mom and now that brain that was absolutely Rams full crams full of information is dying and is hallucinating and can’t remember stuff and getting stuff mixed up she does remember some stuff from the past but sometimes she thinks it’s the present she used to know so much stuff especially historical I think she taught me more than I ever learned at school I mean she was a teacher by profession she was French teacher that’s another thing she speaks FR and fluent French or she did speak fluent French and she has a degree from University College London she studied there during the war and she wrote a piece for the local newspaper about the eay opposite Bingham palace with all the celebrations she got it published in the paper and now that Lively brain is dying it’s been destroyed so so sad she even lives in Jamaica for a while for 5 years in the 1950s and one of her bridesmaids when she got married in 1956 came all the way from Jamaica that’s a story in itself bridesmaid who unfortunately has passed away she was very beautiful but her name was Glory Robertson and her brother inherited the I Chief ship they call it that of the Robertson clan in Scotland because because obviously he he’s descended from the Robertson I don’t know whether any of it was related to slavery or not have a feeling it wasn’t cuz I think it was all legitimate I think the Robertson guy went over to live in Jamaica and obviously fell in love with a local woman and Gloria and her brothers were the results I don’t know if he saw alive but he can be found if you Google it I can’t remember his first name good glory in my in my mom and dad’s wedding photos and she’s so beautiful this by the way is lower done fors apparently my mom’s other Brides mate felt a bit inferior compared to the beautiful Glory now Glory used to send us Christmas puddings every year all the way from Jamaica and they were absolutely laced with rum really really really laced with rum I’m really really really nice sadly she passed away a few years ago as did Lally all of my mom’s old friends it’s another listed phone box that’s another thing so sad about my mom she outlived all her friends I don’t think any of them are alive anymore so SS yes so this is the pretty little village of lower dunf and that is the church and let me come to Upper dunf this is he would expect upper D first to be on the hill wouldn’t you up above lower D with but isn’t really it’s all fairly flat I wish I hadn’t talked about my mom cuz it’s setting off my stress and worry anxiety levels again so so turn my sleeve so I I won’t talk about it anymore that’s FES FES all bits of dandelion CL this is the venard on the left and it says it’s open and this brings us into uper ones for where I shall change my GoPro bat me there we go oh I’m in a high gear move down a bit that’s a pretty tree so this is the village before brace burn where we started it’s pretty like all the other villages h oh yes I was telling you about my dark Mall cycle rides and how I hope to do them again this year and as you can imagine they’re pretty challenging especially the main climb up onto D Mall from molon Hampstead and any climb from Wham is challenging but the other year also down in Devon I did a bit of cycling around the South Devon as well which is really nice but challenging all around totness area and South Brent places like that I didn’t record them I went in February so it’s an unusual time of year but I was going to the Friends father’s funeral in Corall so I took my bike and I did a really nice ride along the X EST I attempted it again in October but I scoided on some wet sand on a Country Lane and damaged my bike and didn’t break anything but I got a few cuts and bruises so I couldn’t ride after that cuz my bike was off the road so I did a walking instead but the accessory is peaceful and you get the trains of course it’s the main Great Western Railway and it’s a cycle path and there’s a cycle cycle path goes through door and it’s unusual in that you have to climb up some steps quite a lot of steps and there’s a kind of a place where you can push your bike up at the side of the steps you wouldn’t cycle up them little Lake on the right I don’t think it is normally a lake I think it’s part of the flooding that we’ve had a few water fell on it oh little rabbit it’s quite extensive if it is flooding I just come into great urn where we started off the way park right at the bottom of the Main Street come how you doing this n [Music]
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Looking forward to the next history lesson. 🚴🚴🚴(is the clicking coming from the chest harness for the gopro)