A Walk Through an English Village | Gargrave, Yorkshire 

You two are different. But in a very good way. You really get into each place you visit. You make everyday things here seem more..... You two are a breath of fresh air. Thankyou. Rik from UK... Manchester. 🇬🇧😃😜😘

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Your description of semi-detached houses was just so adorable, not in a patronising way, it's just lovely to see my home through your eyes xx

The houses "cut in half" are called semi-detached and are built like that. Great video.

6:36 I am not 100% but if i recall those are phone cables not electricity. at least in the 80's and 90's most phone lines were above ground (on telephone poles like the one in this video) and electricity was underground. Now this one could be different, but the term "telephone pole" is from this kind of thing.

The house is a semi detached, they are still built like that, they aren't necessarily a big house that has been split after building. You can get pre paid phone cards from newsagents for the phone box. The co op is owned by its members its a co-operative. I love that you are going off the usual routes for tourists.

You two are hilarious and I love watching your videos 1. because of your personalities and 2. because I am learning so much about areas I have never been to, in the country I was born and raised in. Thank you 😊

The monkey puzzle is a prehistoric species a 'living fossil'! The leaves are tough and spiky to prevent dinosaurs from eating it (apparently)! :)

When Kyde mentions this how the electrics work, that wasn't electric cables they were telephone lines. Great video though 👍

An absolutely adorable couple as always. Cannot wait for more and glad you got to see a broader view of England. I really do enjoy watching your explorations. Its so funny and cute how you find regular English things so fascinating but i guess that goes to show how us English have taken our heritage and everyday quirks for granted. So awesome. Please keep it up. Plus please stay blessed, protected and happy :)

So awesome as I am a Gargrave, and my family members came from Gargrave in the 1800’s to America. So cool to watch this video.

Thank you for posting. My dad lived in Gargrave during the war years when my grandparents ran the Swan Inn, featured in your video. He went back there a couple of times in his final years and it was obvious he had very happy memories of the place, attending Keighley Grammar School when he wasn't enjoying life in the pub or jumping into the river from the nearby bridge in summer. The Landlady of the Swan was good enough to let me and him have a room by room tour the last time we were there.

Thank you for this. My grandfather was from Gargrave. His father was the town doctor/surgeon in the early 1900s

I think it's brilliant that you guys are actually travelling to little villages, rather than just doing tourist traps..you are showing more of England than most vlogers i know. You are showcasing the real side of our little island. Thank you so much.. we have so.much more to see. If more tourist will just step outside the cities..we done guys

Your interest and enthusiasm are marvellous. Great to hear you have so much praise for our country. Thank you.

6:42 that's the telephone pole lines , not electricity ... The power cables are under ground.

People in more rural locations in the UK tend to really fight to keep their post offices, it's an amenity some people really need.

The pole with the cables connecting to the houses are likely to be telephone lines, all power cables are usually buried underground

Having such fun watching you both ...thanks for making me smile..also i love a lass that loves her food...keep filming please...

That tiny house is really awesome! My roommate and I have been on a tiny living kick so this was right up our alley! Also loving the cook and poop~ 👌🏻

The poles with wires strung between them are telephone wires that can also carry the internet signal the mains power cables are under the ground along with the water and sewage. i have been to Gargrave quiet a few times as i live in Leeds.

England has a huge network of canals covering the country (mostly all man-made), Caen Hill locks has 29 locks in a space of only 2 miles! :)

They call a semi, a 'mansion cut in half!' Love it! Wonderful enthusiasm and wonder - and yes, our TV is boring. Oddly, in the 80's... we only had three channels... and yet the TV was actually better!

I used to live here this is so cool to see you guys exploring my home village!

Thanks!

As I'm a Yorkshire lass, I'm glad you enjoyed visiting our little part of the world, it's a shame you couldn't visit later as we've had some really good weather through May and June. Really enjoy your videos guys, it's lucky our TV is so boring 😉🤗

That little house seemed so perfect and cozy to stay in during the winter. I could see it very easy to waste the morning drinking a cup of coffee and reading a good book. The ceiling was still tall enough for Eric too!

Thats a cute tiny home...Ive been fascinated with the whole concept

I live just a few miles from here, it's nice to see somewhere local in the limelight! =D

I love your adventures together. It would be so fun to travel like that with your significant other. You all must be so close.

it's just sooo nice to see you guys in the countryside. so many tourists do the touristy thing and just go to London and Edinburgh. we do have tons of history in our fabulously quirky country. we/were are the masters of innovation and we take it so much for granted because we're used to it. you made me very happy due to the fact that you seem to be genuinely enjoying it all. thank you very much for this lovely posting.

Got to love the crazy British weather!

British TV isn't boring.

Wow I actually really love this video, the positive vibe you guys give off is second to non

I came to this channel when I was looking up stuff about tiny home architecture, and now things've come full circle!

I love that tiny house. I want one!

I love how Eric gets massively interested in the details and history of places, It's a really open way of approaching the world, for god's sake you're in Yorkshire, but it seems so interesting to me.

"People who used to be people ... " ...... brilliant!

I would totally love to stay in their B&B tiny home. No loft to climb up! It's charming as is the town. Loved your video, thank you!

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal used to also support the Textile industry especially the Lancashire end of the Canal during the industrial revolution. The canal used to be lined with Textile Weaving Mills which are long gone although there are some old shells of the mills still around.

Your fascination over a semi detached house had me cracking up in the first few minutes. ahaha.

I enjoy the fishing on the canal in Gargrave, glad you enjoyed your visit :)

I love churches, When ever i visit a place i have to find a church i just love them :) what a great little house just perfect for 2, me and my husband lived in a place like that back in the days when we lived in Jersey ( Channel Isles) our kitchen was smaller awww its brought back memories :)

Found your excellent videos today. I went to Vietnam with you, and closer to home in Yorkshire. I am captivated with your commentary, and your personal dynamic. Brilliant adventures, thanks for sharing. Good luck for the future and take care.

Great video again! A couple of observations as i watched: 1. Split houses are commong and are called “Semi Detached” very common all across UK 2. Money Puzzle Tree 3. That is called a kissing gate its to keep the sheep from crossing areas 4. Coal Bunker is where you stored the coal in the old days 5. Shout out to Sedgewick the Hedgehog 6. That little heater is called a radiator. Very common across the UK I hope you can check out 1. Gordale Scar and 2. Malham Tarn, Finally 3. Airton smaller village than Gargrave and where my godmother lives! Very well done. Good for your for promoting smaller parts of uk.

I think ive said this before (So sorry if i have) but you guys crack me up, seriously, your love for life and humour is fabulous (Even the weather doesnt $$$$ you off!!!!) :p

Great video as always..

Very enjoyable, thanks. Quite a culture clash!

You guys are both awesome, keep the videos coming. It is the difference between a town and a city, a village isn't a town and not sure how a village becomes a town.

It so sweet seeing you in a village so close to the one I grew up in. We used to go paddling in the river and going to the great park just outside by the canal. I hope you made it to the cafe it's really nice we would cycle to them all the time, the cheese toasties are the best. Btw those aren't electricity lines, all that is underground now. They were phone cabels.

Thanks - really enjoyed this tour around a non touristy village.

I'm English and wanted to show England to my GF and your videos are really good for that! Thank you!

you guys are the bomb. Love your videos and narratives. Very informative and not judgemental. Cheers.................

The old school was a Methodist one. The two doors would either have been one for boys room, one for girls room, or one for the junior school room and one for seniors.

When I think of a typical English village, it's one off the beaten track and not cut in two by a major road going through it as there's an awful lot of traffic there. It's still obviously a village because of the facilities are typical of a small settlement. Nice watch, thanks

If you like canal locks you should check out the Tardebygge lock flight in Worcestershire - 40+ locks in a row!

Growing up in a hamlet with 1 bus stop that gets 3 buses a day, a village with a train station, pubs and a shops is mind blowing aha

Araucaria araucana (commonly called the monkey puzzle tree, monkey tail tree, or Chilean pine Endangered.

Love this so much! You’re so right (especially at 12:55) - so much of what you’re looking at and singling out as noteworthy seems so incredibly ordinary, everyday and, well yes, ‘boring’ to most of us who live here; but just seeing how genuinely enthused and happy you are to see these things really serves to remind us of just how lucky we are and how much of our history and culture we completely take for granted. So, for example, yes, medieval churches are “ten a penny” in the UK, and we really need to appreciate them more. Yes, I guess semi-detached houses are kind of weird when you stop to think about them - just never stopped to think about them until you pointed it out! And yes, C18th canals and locks, C19th schoolhouses converted into apartments, multiple pubs in tiny villages, no-nonsense street-naming, ‘supermarkets’ that are very far from being ‘super,’ old-style red phone boxes that still work!...they all seem so ‘normal’ and unremarkable until someone points them out and says “Wow, look at that! Isn’t that cool?” (Or “weird” or “funny”). So, thank you! Your enthusiasm gave me a little warm glow of pride in and affection for my country (and that’s a serious rarity!) I’m really glad you enjoyed and appreciated all these ‘little’ things. (Although, I would urge you to explore British tv a lot more - honestly, you’ve no idea what you’re missing!) Btw, I haven’t read any of the other comments that have been left, so I’m sure MANY people have probably already told you this, but the weird, prickly tree is a monkey puzzle tree. Don’t quote me on the history (I haven’t checked!), but they’re not native to the UK, and I suspect they were probably brought over here sometime during the period of the great landscape gardeners of the C18-19th who created many of the impressive grounds you’ll see at so many stately homes, and that they got disseminated throughout the country from then on. They’re still a little bit of a rarity to come across, though. They always fascinated me as a kid (so exotic and out of place in the UK), so I understand your curiosity about them! Thanks again - really great video! 😊

you guys are my favorite nerds.. I was like no way Peep show! Then a few seconds later Kyde drops a mortal kombat "Toastee!!" I mean what the hell I laughed so hard.

I use to live in Gargrave. Was a lovely village to live in... mostly.

Ahhh the north. I lived in a little village in Cumbria called Newton Reigny, we had no shops but we did have a pub....... oooh! and a bus every Wednesday.

Enjoying your videos of Yorkshire.

its just nice to see tourists outside London

We are English and we find your little 'documentaries' so much more enjoyable and informative than the professional TV channel ones which are too arty-farty and polished. You get us right down in there with you. Love all your videos, keep it up.

This is real Britain. Not London. I'm from a small coastal town in Scotland and there is loads that I can relate to in this video. Glad you got to experience it!

Great Video as always Kyde and Eric , Next place hopefully somewhere hot and tropical for you to warm up , love England but as cold as a frog in a icebound pool.

England is so beautiful love from India

Wow, when he opened the door of the phone box I got a waft of the smell from inside! Memory is a powerful thing.

Love having early access to videos. :)

Hi Kyde and Eric, great video. 6:44 is a Telegraph pole used for telephone/internet and not electricity. Electricity to UK homes are normally supplied underground, except for rural farms which rely on small wooden electricity poles.

You guys are great. Loved all your videos. I'm a Brit living In Bristol RI

Love your videos guys. Those semi's were purpose-built and can be found in older East Coast US cities - e.g. in Philly where they'rev called twins. also known as semi-attached. That old Mini was cool. I recommend Lavenham in Suffolk and Malvern in Worcestershire if you ever feel the need to come back!

Spent many an hour working there. Nice to see an outside perspective of the area I live in :D

All canals are man made, all rivers are natural formations though they may have been rerouted or had their banks altered. Those weren't power lines, they were telephone cables.

I was due to have an interview in Skipton so afterwards went to have a look at Gargave. Have a nice cream tea in a quaint little tea shop.

Your 3 and a half hours away from where I live lol 😂 your right at the bottom of the Yorkshire Dale's hope you guys have fun xx

The electricity pole you pointed out is actually a telegraph pole distributing phone lines to the surrounding premises. The amount of electricity produced is so small as to be utterly harmless,

We have a lot of houses like the ones you described, they are called semi-detached houses. Many of the great conurbations built throughout the country in the 1920's & 1930's were built in this style. The tree is what we usually know as a Monkey Puzzle Tree, I think it is a species of Cypress. When you get a group of locks on a section of canal they are called a flight of locks. What you pointed out as being an electric pole was, in fact, a telegraph pole for phone lines. I like the description 'squidgy breads' !

It's really weird to see you in this area of the UK. I've lived in this area for my entire life and have been watching your videos for a while. Have a great time guys. The weather is the best it's been in a long time.

I live in a Town on the Leeds - Liverpool Canal in the North of England, Skipton on the border of Yorkshire and Lancashire but on the side of Red Rose County of Lancashire its a Beautiful part of England..

Loving your UK videos and generally seeing your excitement for it all. I think you're pretty accurate with everything you said, although those aren't electricity cables, they're telephone (an old fashioned version of Wifi that we still use sometimes over here.) :)

Kyde’s face is so warm and pretty.

I'm so glad you have got to experience the real UK. So many people think London = UK which couldn't be further from the truth. The real UK is truly beautiful, if you can avoid the rain.

This is where my Nana lives and where I spent all of my childhood!! The hill you looked at is where we hike and where my grandads ashes are, the church is where my mum got married and my nana and grandad used to own The Swan pub!! I love that you showed it all❤️Also in summer this place is beautiful and there are so many people come!! If you ever go again you need to hire a car there are so many places to walk!!

Felt the need to travel to Gargrave just to chat on the porch of the tiny house, drinking tea of course.

Awesome video, I live in gargrave and have for 20 years now. The old school you speak of is actually an old Methodist chapel. The village does have it's own primary school

Wonder if they got to my uncles pub in Hardraw and saw the waterfall. I quite like these two they are keen to get stuck into the culture and eager to take in new experiences.

FYI, those hoohoo hoo noises that you hears out in the woods (you thought they might be owls), were actually woodpigeons. The same size as a town pigeons but different colours and a white ring on the neck. Also, I'm loving watching you both exploring my country. Keep up the great work!

Thank you so much for getting out into the real England, away from London. You mention the weather - we're amazed by it too. Its why the British are noted for talking about the weather - its genuinely worth talking about. :D

Your videos are excellent.

On the Kennet & Avon Canal there is a lock system with 29 locks rising 237 feet in a single ladder called the Caen Hill Locks.

That mini is indeed owned by a bloke who works at reliant (the big warehouse looking building across the way) hes called Chris and is a very lovely person. That car is his pride and joy and hes been restoring it for a number of years. The guys who work there are all lovely, I used to clean there and got on well with them all.

Neptune's staircase in Scotland (Caledonian Canal) is, I think, the biggest sequence of locks in Britain with 8. The Anderton Boat Lift and the Falkirk Wheel are alternative examples from past and present how engineers have dealt with boats getting from one level to another. They differ slightly though as both of them connect two different waterways rather than dealing with elevation

Hi there, what a pity you missed out on going to Malham and Malham Tarn, (Google both for more info) I first encountered Gargrave on my Long Distance Walk, The Pennine Way (270 miles from Edale to Kirk Yethome) back in the 1970's and loved the area just as you did. Ofeten visited since then to see how much it changes over the years and that is very little from my first visit 50 years ago. Loved the video and I will track down other videos you have uploaded. All the best Tony

The houses you thought were one house cut in half are actually built like that to start with, they are called semi detached and are very common across the UK.

Yeh usually you can pick up the forms to apply for your driving license or forms if you need to make changes like new address on your licence. But most of that can be done all online now.

I think you guys are great, I've really been enjoying your videos. I was born in Silsden about 5 miles away from Gargrave so know the area well. Just need to correct add detail on a couple of items; The posts with wires on top you said were for electricity are actually analogue telephone wires, all the electrical wires at urban street level are underground. In order to drive a car on the UK roads you need to pay an annual Tax charge its called "Road Tax" its also refered to as "licensing". The canals were used for all kinds of moving of industrial materials. The two houses together are a style called "semi-detached" and are common throughout the country. Keep up the good work. T

Really looking forward to seeing more of you guys on the I.o.M. soon.

If you come back to England you should explore the canal system! The canals do extend into other parts of the UK but England has the most extensive network. It's a huge network - all dug by hand and mostly from the 1700s or early 1800s. It was state of the art transport back then (no rail and no trucks) but is mostly leisure activities now. Renting a barge (sometimes new, sometimes converted from old freight carrying vessels) can be expensive but being forced to slow your life down for a while is priceless! Travelling with a 4mph speed limit is REALLY frustrating at first but becomes blissful without you even noticing the change. And you get to see the most fantastic countryside... not to mention some seriously great canal-side pubs!