St Laurence's Church, Bradford on Avon, England
Interior of Saxon Church of St Laurence, Bradford on Avon. One of very few surviving Anglo-Saxon churches in England which is over a thousand years old.
Bradford On Avon: Cummings Your Way
Back in Wiltshire, one of Cummings Your Way's favourite counties, Dan Cummings explores the charming pockets of pocket-Bath, noting that it's more similar to Perpignan than Walsall. He visits a church dedicated to the rock band Saxon, is troubled by English summer-surrealist dreams, and is unhelpfully challenged on his knowledge of Ecclesiastica and conceptual artists. Over the amphibious landing craft and under the liquorice fishtank, as the locals say. Probably.
OOPS, is UK's Oldest Saxon Church, actually LATE ROMAN!?
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This video states that the old 'Saxon Church' at Bradford on Avon is actually centuries older than this! It is clearly late Roman!
* More epic fails! The whole of architectural history in the UK could well be wrong! The example is the image of St Peters at Barton Upon Humber, shown towards the end of the video. This is clearly a Roman structure on the bottom, with a continuation in the Saxon style built a little higher. At top there is a Norman edifice!
* look at the Curia Julia, the Roman Senate! This is a larger version of what is going on at Bradford on Avon, yet built during the time of Augustus!
* look at the ruins of Ardmore, clearly Roman, (they say SAXON) motifs yet there were no Saxons in Ireland! What's going on!
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Travel Blog: UK Places - Bradford On Avon
Another episode of my travel blog featuring places in the UK. This episode I visit Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. This Saxon market town features in the woollen industry history as well as the rubber products/tyres industry, although both are long gone. It is home to the Moulton bicycle and the K&A canal.
A Walk around Bradford on Avon
We take you on a walk around historic Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire including a visit to the Kennet & Avon Canal, Carlin Steps and McKeever Bridge, the Saxon Church and the town bridge all filmed on a GoPro. Find out more about Wiltshire by visiting visitwiltshire.co.uk
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Kennet and Avon Canal - Bradford Tithe Barn and Saxon Church
Julia and I have decided to risk the wet weather and take a quick look at the famous historic tithe barn and Saxon church before continuing with our journey towards Bath on the Kennet and Avon Canal.
We take on water and cross the Avoncliff aqueduct before find a spot to moor for the night.
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Behind the Scenes of the Bald Explorer: 30th Sept - 6th Oct 2018
The Behind the Scenes of the Bald Explorer takes you to Blackdown in Sussex, a chocolate shop in Horsham, searching for a World War Two pill box and a village hall in Biddenden. Join me as I show you what goes on when I am not filming!
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Kennet and Avon Canal - To Bradford On Avon
This is day two of Richard and Julia's explorations on a narrowboat on the Kennet and Avon Canal. In this episode we encounter our first lock, passing on the right and the joys of mooring on the bank.
Julia is a natural helmsman and shows off her piloting skills while Richard is handy with a mallet and mooring pin. But can they cope with a nine week baby on board?
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Saxon Chapel
St Laurence Chapel Bradford upon Avon
Escape to the Country - Wiltshire - 2018 - 2019
Escape to the Country - Wiltshire ...
Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of 3,485 km2 (1,346 square miles). It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. The county town was originally Wilton, after which the county is named, but Wiltshire Council is now based in the county town of Trowbridge.
Wiltshire is characterised by its high downland and wide valleys. Salisbury Plain is noted for being the location of the Stonehenge and Avebury stone circles and other ancient landmarks, and as a training area for the British Army. The city of Salisbury is notable for its mediaeval cathedral. Important country houses open to the public include Longleat, near Warminster, and the National Trust's Stourhead, near Mere.
Wiltshire is notable for its pre-Roman archaeology. The Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age people that occupied southern Britain built settlements on the hills and downland that cover Wiltshire. Stonehenge and Avebury are perhaps the most famous Neolithic sites in the UK.
In the 6th and 7th centuries Wiltshire was at the western edge of Saxon Britain, as Cranborne Chase and the Somerset Levels prevented the advance to the west. The Battle of Bedwyn was fought in 675 between Escuin, a West Saxon nobleman who had seized the throne of Queen Saxburga, and King Wulfhere of Mercia. In 878 the Danes invaded the county. Following the Norman Conquest, large areas of the country came into the possession of the crown and the church.
At the time of the Domesday Survey the industry of Wiltshire was largely agricultural; 390 mills are mentioned, and vineyards at Tollard and Lacock. In the succeeding centuries sheep-farming was vigorously pursued, and the Cistercian monastery of Stanley exported wool to the Florentine and Flemish markets in the 13th and 14th centuries.
In the 17th century English Civil War Wiltshire was largely Parliamentarian. The Battle of Roundway Down, a Royalist victory, was fought near Devizes.
In 1794 it was decided at a meeting at the Bear Inn in Devizes to raise a body of ten independent troops of Yeomanry for the county of Wiltshire, which formed the basis for what would become the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, who served with distinction both at home and abroad, during the Boer War, World War I and World War II. The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry currently lives on as Y (RWY) Squadron, based in Swindon, and B (RWY) Squadron, based in Salisbury, of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry.
Around 1800 the Kennet and Avon Canal was built through Wiltshire, providing a route for transporting cargoes from Bristol to London until the development of the Great Western Railway.
Information on the 261 civil parishes of Wiltshire is available on Wiltshire Council's Wiltshire Community History website which has maps, demographic data, historic and modern pictures and short histories.
The local nickname for Wiltshire natives is Moonrakers. This originated from a story of smugglers who managed to foil the local Excise men by hiding their alcohol, possibly French brandy in barrels or kegs, in a village pond. When confronted by the excise men they raked the surface to conceal the submerged contraband with ripples, and claimed that they were trying to rake in a large round cheese visible in the pond, really a reflection of the full moon. The officials took them for simple yokels or mad and left them alone, allowing them to continue with their illegal activities. Many villages claim the tale for their own village pond, but the story is most commonly linked with The Crammer in Devizes.
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Bradford on Avon Tithe Barn interior and exterior.
A short video of the outside and inside of the Tithe Barn in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom.
Behind the Scenes of the Bald Explorer: 23rd -29th September 2018
My mother died this week, which sadly puts a downer on some of the posts, but Julia kept me upbeat when filming in Tottington Woods.
Previously you had to be a patron a Patron of The Bald Explorer to receive the behind-the-scenes video of the week's activities. It is now made public for all. Another busy week filming bits and pieces for the channel and going live in the studio with the Vobes Show.
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church_Earls Barton Northamptonshire
A church in Northamptonshire, built in Saxon times. What are the doorways, half-way up the tower, for?
Bradford on Avon England
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The Three Forests Way: Chipping Ongar to Abridge 5 October 2016
What should have been a 9 mile section of the Three Forests Way long distance footpath turned out to be a 6.5 mile section because of an impassable path. I had to do the final couple of miles into Abridge along roads because of this. But there are still some great views in the video. The walk took place in sunny, but windy, weather on Wednesday 5 October 2016.
Bradford on Avon
A tour of the Anglo Saxon town in Witshire, UK.
Revisit to the abandoned street in wiltshire
Back for a second visit to the flats i couldn't get into the first time round with #Random Exploring #urbexing #derlict #abandoned #wiltshire
Amazing grace in the Saxon church
Trina singing Amazing Grace in the 1000 year old Saxon church in Bradford-on-Avon, England
A Brief Walk Around The Village of Rusper in West Sussex
The lovely Julia and I are in the quaint village of Rusper, just north of Horsham. We take a walk around the church and then along the high street. I used to live in Horsham as a younger man, but never visited this nearby village. Today I am delighted to see all the old timber framed buildings lining the streets.
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Places to see in ( Trowbridge - UK )
Places to see in ( Trowbridge - UK )
Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, England on the River Biss in the west of the county, 8 miles south east of Bath, Somerset, from which it is separated by the Mendip Hills, which rise 3 miles to the west.
Long a market town, the Kennet and Avon canal runs to the north of Trowbridge and played an instrumental part in the town's development as it enabled coal to be transported from the Somerset Coalfield and so marked the advent of steam-powered manufacturing in woollen cloth mills. The town of Trowbridge was foremost producer of this mainstay of contemporary clothing and blankets in south west England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries by which time it held the nickname The Manchester of the West.
The parish encompasses the settlements of Longfield, Lower Studley, Upper Studley, Studley Green and Trowle Common. Adjacent parishes include Staverton, Hilperton, West Ashton, North Bradley, Southwick and Wingfield; nearby towns are Bradford on Avon, Westbury, Melksham, Frome and Devizes.
There is much of architectural interest in Trowbridge, including many of the old buildings associated with the textile industry, and the Newtown conservation area, a protected zone of mostly Victorian houses. The town has six Grade I listed buildings, being St James' Church, Lovemead House and numbers 46, 64, 68 and 70, Fore Street.
Trowbridge railway station was opened in 1848 on the Westbury–Bradford-on-Avon section of the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway. Today this line forms part of both the Wessex Main Line (Bristol–Westbury–Southampton) and the Heart of Wessex Line (Bristol–Westbury–Weymouth), while the original route to Melksham, Chippenham and Swindon is used by the TransWilts service. Other services from Trowbridge join the Great Western main line at Bath and Chippenham, or join the Reading to Taunton line at Westbury.
Trowbridge is about 18 miles (29 km) from junction 18 of the M4 motorway (Bath) and the same distance from junction 17 (Chippenham). The A361 runs through the town, connecting it to Swindon to the north-east and Barnstaple to the south-west, while the north-south A350 primary route to Poole passes close to the town.
Within Trowbridge Castle was a 10th-century Anglo-Saxon church. Henry de Bohun turned this to secular use and instead had a new church built outside the Castle; this was the first St James' Church. In the base of the tower of the present day church, below the subsequently added spire, can be seen the Romanesque architecture of the period.
( Trowbridge - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Trowbridge . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Trowbridge - UK
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