Don't worry about the language we were all pissed off about that beautiful tree as well , you need to look into why a lot of the Abbeys were destroyed back in the day it has a lot to do with a fella called Henry . 😊
Stonehenge used to be on my commute. It was just amazing to see it every day in so many different time and light conditions. Made the trip to work 100% worth it.
Castles 4000 in the UK Churches 30,000 in the UK National Parks Outstanding counties with raw national beauty Rainforests!!!! Yes they're small but there!!! Right to roam, public footpaths All in a country the size of Oregon!!!!
@philtreman9944 I agree. The fact the British have long since stopped caring about fantastical stuff like religion is probably one Britain's most admirable traits.
England was a Roman Catholic country, until the reformation when Henry V111 broke away from Rome in the 16th century. It was caused the desolation of the Monasteries hence the ruins you see. They were originally monasteries and abbeys inhabited by monks.
As a Londoner we have our fair share of castles and ancient buildings, but hands down it has to be Warwick castle for a family fun day & Leeds castle for sheer spectacular beauty.
Omg. So many more places left out here. Bridgnorth, Cheddar Gorge, Betts-y-coed, Norfolk Broads, Chester, Oxford, Forest of Dean, Leamington Spa, Berkeley Castle, Canterbury, Old Wardour Castle (Locksley Castle) used in the movie Robin Hood. A most magical place. Any of the beautiful Moors, like Dartmoor. Jeez the list goes on and on. So many beautiful places here. We kinda take them for granted. It’s really good to see you reacting to our gems, it’s refreshing and has reminded me just how lucky I am to live in this beautiful county. Thank you
look up the Landmark trust about staying in old listed buildings. I live near Ironbridge and it is the worlds first metal bridge built by Abraham Darby. It was assembled using woodworking joins and is fixed span. Shrewsbury is also home to the worlds first metal framed building The Flax Mill, precursor to the sky scrappers in New York ect
Sorry…me again correcting pronunciation! He said Keswick as “Kez-wick” but it should be “Kezzick”. Many of our Abbeys were damaged during the reign of Henry VIII with the dissolution of the monasteries.
Henry Vlll demolished many churches and abbeys in England and during the English civil war many castles were used as forts and were ruined by cannon fire.
I live in Sheffield and we are partly in the Peak District and the dams at the start are ladybower and the 1 behind is derwent and thats where the RAF 617 Squadron practice with the bouncing bomb and up on the moores are some WWII aircraft wreckage
From Mull you can also get to the tiny island of Staffa, famous for its 'Fingal's Cave' natural wonder, which inspired a piece of music by Mendelssohn.
The small half globe shaped building ,built out of random rubble is a Bothey which is a shelter for Shepherds and sheep, used during the harsh winters.
You can see what all those people are missing when they visit the uk and stay just in London . Even though the video speeds through each destination it does give you a good overview of some of the glorious places to visit . I have to say though the chap who made the video gets quite a few things wrong such as pronunciations of a fair few places and totally relocating the city of Lincoln to the Midlands when its actually in Lincolnshire near to the East coast of England . The reason the cliffs around Dover and the south coast are white is because they are made of chalk . Maybe pick some of your favourite places and look up specific videos . Great video thanks for appreciating our little island . 🙂 .
@shaunbyrne9037 Yes it's disappointing when a British guy gets pronunciations wrong etc... it's usually American narrators that bodge things. Regards from Halifax, UK.
Simon and Garfunkel sang about 'Scarborough Fair' which is a true English canticle. It is also rumoured that their album 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' was inspired by their visit to rugged Cornwall, home of King Arthur. Glastonbury Tor near me is a mythical magical place and home of Camelot, the Lady of the Lake and Avalon, and Merlin and the Sword in the Stone. Whitby is home and the birthplace of Dracula, and we are also the birthplace of Frankenstein. And the Hammer Horror movies. And the Muppet Show. It is rumoured that The Knights Templar bought back the Holy Grail and that it is buried beneath Glastonbury Tor. Dan Brown wrote the Da Vinci Code based on the Knights Templar, and their churches in London, and Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, were used in the movie.
This is NOT a request for you to react to it, but just for your information and pleasure. Try watching some of the many RU-vid videos of the UK medium to long length Hiking Tails, The Pennine Way 370 miles long, starting at Edale in Derbyshire ending at Kirk Yetholme in Scotland, Coast to Coast (C2C) 180 miles, starting on the West Coast of England at St Bees Head and crossing the Country to Robin Hoods Bay in Yorkshire, travelling through 3 National Parks (Lake District National Park, Yorkshire Dales NP and finally the North York Moors NP) covering 180 miles. There are many more I could suggest but these are two of my favouriite Long Distance Hikes I have completed more than once. Tony a retired Hiker.
One snippet of information missing from this Video, it is perfectly LEGAL to walk/Hike anywhere in Scotland and yes that includes Private Land (with the possible exception of the Crown Estate (or Rayal Residences) at Balmoral and Ministry of Defence properties (Naval or Military Bases). Tony in Engalnd
Yes the grass is very green, but hey thats the good thing about the UK, the bad thing is to get all that Green Grass it rains alot with the West Coast getting most of that rain. Glad you enjoyed the UK as a whole, but its even better to visit in real life. Tony in Essex, a retired Hiker
The cliffs are white because the rock is chalk. Quite a lot of Southern England (and Northern France) has chalk hills, streams etc. This is where such features reach the sea. Chalk streams and rivers tend to be crystal clear and full of fish. So popular spots for anglers.
The largish stone hut is a Broch, a pre Medieval Home (ie Stone Age or earlier) in the Highlands of Scotland. Often built with double stone walls inside which the family lived with the central part being for their livestock in Winter.
@@robheyes6470 I know what it is, that’s not what they said though, they claimed that Wales has more castles than any nation on earth and not only is that wrong, it’s massively wrong, it’s not even close to having the most castles, Germany has approximately 25,000, England has approximately 1100, Wales isn’t even in the top 10 let alone being number 1 like they are trying to claim it is
So nice to watch a reaction video where the viewer paid close attention and didn't constantly interrupt. My adopted home town Stratford-upon-Avon was on the list, by no means the most stunning place there, but it is the place my heart feels most at rest. And yes we have a LOT of castles 😂 I have visited a few. We are so lucky to have so much beauty and history in a small country..Btw those cliffs are white because they are chalk.
Wales has castles everywhere!.. And a Roman amphitheater. We do take for granted . My recommendations are White castle, Raglan castle, Caerphilly castle and Monmouth castle, birthplace of Henry V.
The mound of rocks you saw in Scotlands landscape and asked about ,early in the video. They are called Cairns and are usualky markers in the landscape. Some are buriel cairns.
I used to live near Ludlow, i have moved 36 times and Richards Castle a few miles from Ludlow is by far the best place i have ever lived. There are 3 castles within 20 miles of each other, each is very diffrent. The extreamly black and white building it showed you is The Feathers hotel is lovely. The amazing thing about this area is the fantastic top quality food, there were 3 Michilin Star resturants in Ludlow, it has a great food market and wonderful pubs. One of the pics showed a stone building with a beamed top floor is owend by a excentric couple and you can see all around the inside, it is opposit the castle entrance, the floors are on shocking slants. If you had to choose one place to visit in England this is it. Richards castle was one of only three pre Norman, Norman castles in England, only resently it was discoverd to be the first stone castles in the UK. My favourite view in England (apart from ones in the Lake District) is at the car parking area below the castle, you can see 3 counties, the castle is just a few bits of walls, the church is very old and has a seperate bell tower. My cottage tas just down the road, it had 4 rooms that were mentioned in the Doomsday Book so one thousand years old. We had a Canadian couple who stayed the night, they slept in my heavaly beamed room. The next morning we asked how they slept? They didn't, they were freeked out at how old the room / cottage compaired to there country, we never even think about that it was our home. Iv been to Clovelly and its stunning with great see food, there is a honnisty shell fish shed. I now live near Chester and it is a must to visit. A Roman city with Roman ruins in normal shops. A 2 mile Roman Wall you can walk around. The Rows are extreamly unusual its a ground leavel of shops with a second level which is coverd above. It is unbeleavably interesting, a must and Conway is a North Wales town not far at all, it has a stunning castle and is walled as well. There is a butchers which does great lunch food and the apple cake i got from there is the best cake i'v ever had. The smallest cottage in the UK is on the key side and you can see inside it, a visit would take less than 5 mins. The Conway mussels are extreamly well known.
My Great-Great Grandfather was a Coastguard and lived in one of those cottages at The Seven Sisters, The area is great for a walk along the cliffs that consist of chalk which itself is an ancient seabed that has risen up over time.
The landmark trust if ya like staying in historical buildings and very affordable 👌 all over uk light house mansions Castles check it out self catering everything you need just bring your own clothes 😉 😊
Those particular roof tiles you comment on in Lower Slaughter are neither shingles nor slates. They are stone tiles , a traditional form of roofing. My own house has a modern version of these made out of concrete, and many of my neighbouring cottages had their original stone tiles replaced with plain concrete tiles during a period when grants were given for new roofs. I'm pleased the former owners of my house went for the older looking ones. Other villages around which have kept their historical integrity have retained their stone tiles and probably the local tiles had accumulated a good store from my village discards.
Everyone says go to England see some castles, When you should be going to Wales. more castles per square mile than any other country in Europe , Cardigan Castle.Caerphilly Castle, Caernarfon Castle,Pembroke Castle Fantastic castles x
Glad to see Exmoor National Park in Somerset and Devon (southwest England) finally made it onto one of these lists. It’s about as remote as you can get for England, so it’s often missed, but it’s soooo beautiful. It varies dramatically from rolling hills to steep cliffs, heather, wild ponies and very steep ravines that are breathtaking, with the more impressive parts being less accessible, which is probably why even this video didn’t show the best of it. If you stopped at the rolling hills, you might think that’s all it had to offer, as one vlogger did when he camped in all the national parks and didn’t think it was as impressive as the Yorkshire Dales. If he’d seen it properly, I doubt he would’ve come to that conclusion.
A lot of these castles were built by the french,, if you goto the Loire valley,, home of Jean d'Arc, you can choose from many large chateau that are very reasonable to buy,, especially if you purchase a fixer upper 🏰😊
The funny looking building in London right at the beginning is called The Gherkin, the sort of squashed looking building is called the Walky Talky. We like to give these buildings nicknames. There are more but I can't think of them off hand. Close by is the Shard which is very tall and has a viewing floor.
Some notable omissions... For castles alone, Windsor, Pembroke and Caernarfon are all more impressive and better known than most of the castles included in this list. So is the Tower of London, for that matter. The fact that he didn't include ANY sites in London is truly astounding! So many beautiful and historic buildings and sites, yet none included, for some reason. Oxford was a puzzling omission too. Definitely as, or more, beautiful than some of the places on this list. Overall a great list but some areas of the country largely overlooked.
Hi marc from leeds England ❤️ I enjoyed your video on our heritage and sycamore gap I was disgusted also when someone cut down the tree, devastating, had some special times there ❤️new subscriber 👊🏽🤗
My parents had a long retirement on the Isle of Mull, and when they died I owned their house there for a while. Mull is surprisingly big and varied, and stunningly beautiful. Off its west coast is the Isle of Iona, which St Columba chose as his headquarters for bringing the Christian faith back to Britain. There were substantial ruins of its mediaeval Abbey, which were restored in the early 1900s by the Iona Community, which is very important for Christian leadership, particularly in music. But visitors can also see ancient crosses and a Chapel both from the 900s. The Jurassic Coast also contains deposits from the period after, the Cretaceous. ( The significance of the Coast is that much of the modern understanding of fossils comes from there, particularly involving a woman called Mary Anning. ) In the later Cretaceous a strange and very deep deposit of calcareous ooze developed on the seafloor; I believe it happens little today. The results are these great thicknesses of what we call 'Chalk', which form such spectacular cliffs. Incidentally, their crumbly nature makes them very difficult to climb. Only the bravest if climbers, called 'esoteric climbers', can manage to do so. When Henry VIII broke away from the Church of Rome, and formed the Church of England, he dissolved the Monasteries, and mostly they were demolished or left to be ruinous. A few were bought for use as parish churches. Unlike many, I'm quite sympathetic with him; the then Papacy was under the thumb of European Empires which were trying to take England over. The late mediaeval Catholic Church had become very corrupt, and often exploited the people. So the mediaeval Whitby Abbey is now a ruin, but the nearby Parish Church is still used and is in fact older. As other commenters have said, there are quite a lot of opportunities to stay in historic buildings.
Yay my home town is on here - Whitby 💙💙💙 the Abbey was ruined by Henry Vlll 🙄 along with hundreds of others during the dissolution of the monasteries - he wanted to get his hands on the monks wealth - he was a very interesting but brutal monarch 👑 Tudor and Victorian are my favourite periods in British history 😃 ps we have grass growing everywhere because it never ever stops raining 🌿🌿🌿 🥴😆🌧️
Not quite, as monks don't usually have wealth...Henry needed a male heir, but the Queen couldn't produce one, so Henry started his quest, very cruely blaming his wives when he was really not fertile himself!..
The UK is less than the area of California but the towns, villages, mountains, old and modern are stupendous. This was one hundred locations but only a TINY sample of, a REALLY TINY sample of places in the UK. Luckily we do not have the boring grid pattern of street layouts nor the long straight roads like the USA has.
All Roofs well most in Britain of any Age were Covered in Welsh Slate .It was exported all over the World. I'd be Totally gobsmacked if there wearnt some buildings in Canada from the 19th century Roofed in Welsh Slate .
@@pi1872 But those lovely cottages in the Cotswolds are roofed in stone shingles which give them beauty and character and many houses in the UK have red clay tiles.
Even 100 places doesn't cover some of my favourite places. By the way SKARA BRAE in the beautiful Orkney Isles is older than Stonehenge and the great pyramids of Giza at over 5,000 years these stone built dwellings are well worth a visit. and unlike Stonehenge you can get up close in a tour at £9. My favourite is World herritage site FOUNTAINS ABBEY STUDLEY PARK ROYAL, with its deer park and beautifully landscaped water gardens. The spectacular Abbey ruins has many gorgeous intact features and hosts music events. The acoustics are wonderful. The Uk has 4,000 castles ranging from ruins to privately owned and lived in for a1,000 years. Oh not far from Fountains Abbey is BRIMHAM ROCKS a smaller unique rock formations and absolutely beautiful and a great place to pick tubs of wild blueberries to freeze for your scones.
I've been to 22 on this list - isle of Mull and Iona (was last there a couple of weeks ago), Cairngorms National Park, London, Castle Stalker, Loch Lomond (which is where I'm from, and the footage in the video didn't do it justice!), Isle of Arran, Glenfinnan, Eilean Donan Castle, Isle of Skye, Quiraing, Lake District and its towns, Old Man of Storr, Glencoe (so many times, it's on the main road north from where I am), Luskentyre, Edinburgh (so many times, I'll be there again in a couple of weeks!), Fort William (still not climbed Ben Nevis), Kilchurn Castle, Wallace Monument, Urquhart Castle, Loch Carron (a TV show was set there called Hamish MacBeth, I watched it all the time when I was little), Stirling Castle, Whitstable, Angel of the North, Leeds Castle, Dunvegan Castle,
Benefit of intermittent rain ..... great grass, great tasting meat that eats that great grass. Grass fed is normal meat in the UK not premium. White cliffs are made of chalk like the stuff teachers used to write on blackboards with. So why your coastal walk should not be right at the cliff edge.
Hebden Bridge is next door to Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK, where I live. (not Halifax, Nova Scotia) Ed Sheeran lived there for the first couple of years of his life and was actually born in Halifax hospital, as was I.
It seems that only small ruined castles are being shown. There many hundreds of large castles inhabited by families that have occupied them for hundreds of years.
In 1500s King Henry VIII created The Church of England. He burnt down all religious buildings that's why you see so many beautiful remains of Monasteries, Abbeys etc. Don't 4get we're an Island of Islands surrounded by sea that's why we have so many cliffs. It's incredible what you can find in such a small country with so much heritage. Don't worry about ur language we all feel the same way about that tree, it was iconic by itself
Wales UK has more castles than any other country on earth, and the Queen's Windsor Castle is the oldest inhabited castle on earth. I am a descendant of the Earl of Warwick and Warwick Castle.
Canada is gorgeous too, and so vast! I have watched many videos of it. Did you know that 'Nova Scotia' means 'New Scotland' ? You should visit the UK. This year the UK will link up all it's walking trails which will be much longer than the Appalachian Trail in the USA. And they are all free to roam!
@@pi1872 There are hundreds if not thousands of places and towns across Canada, USA, and other parts of the world that are named after their British originals. Nova Scotia has a large Scottish population, from the Quakers and others from Scotland who came across on The Mayflower. Then there's New England, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and a vast amount more named after the original places. We have an ancient Disney village, which Walt and family visited. The Disney family are half English and half French. Half the family moved to the US and half stayed in England. The Disney's built their first funfair and park at Skegness in England. The Kennedy family originally came from England, and JFK and family have visited here a few times to visit family and places. Biden recently visited his Irish family here, and mad insane Trump has Scottish roots. That asshole destroyed peoples lives all around his Scottish golf course and he needs jailing for that too as well as for all his other crimes. Certain famous American outlaws from the Wild West were English and the famous so called American Pie was invented in England in the 13th century too. We even invented champagne, and not the French as everyone assumes.
The "Mini Castle" you admired in Hawkshead is in fact Hawkshead Parish Church - positioned on a hill overlooking the village. (and no, weren't saying it correctly. Its "Hawks..Head" (as in the head of a hawk!)
Hiya mate, have watched three of your videos, have enjoyed all, have subscribed 👍. So glad you have enjoyed your time looking at our country. Hope you continue to enjoy. Take care, Tony here in the UK 🇬🇧
The Seven Sisters are white because they're mainly made up of chalk (i'm fairly sure the narrator states that?) P.s you can use your cursor keys on your keyboard to FF or rewind 5 seconds...
Look up Kew Gardens in London, or the Eden Project in Cornwall, and the Minack Theatre in Cornwall, and Porthcurno, Cornwall, where it's telegraph cables spread under the sea across the British Empire. It is the base still for intelligence and security information shared between the US. Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and other places. Also look up Bletchley Park, and it's birth of codebreaking and the computer, which shortened WW2 by several years. I applied for a job there !
As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, One of the riddles from "Die Hard with a Vengeance"?
@@pi1872 It may have been used in the movie but it is a very old English riddle. The question is: How many were going to St Ives? And the answer is: One! Huh? It's because you were going to St Ives and met this man with seven wives coming away from it.
Oddly, the North and West side of th UK seems mainly rocky cliffs into the sea. On the South and East sides are more beachfront. If you scan the entire coast as i have using Google Earth, you will see what I mean.
