🎤 To watch with subtitles - please click the 'CC' button on your RU-vid video player :) Good evening! And thank you so much for tuning into this narrated video walk around what may well be England's oldest town: Colchester! Once the capital of Roman Britain, the town's history does actually go back to the era before the Romans invaded. The first mention of Colchester is thought to have come in the year 20 BC, when it was a major settlement for native Celtic tribes. Interestingly, Colchester - known as Camulodunum to the Romans - is also thought to be a possible location of the legendary Camelot Castle!
My uncle's used to live in Colchester and in my childhood I used to visit over the summer. Colchester was the first place I visited outside my country and it will always have an important place in my heart. ❤
I lived in colchesster for one in 1982 to leaarn English. Had taken a lot of photos of colchester including the castle. I stayed in Maldon road. Greetings from kuwait
I'm so glad to hear it! We'll be having more narrated walks every week from now on - so do stay tuned for more from around the country :) Thank you for watching and for your very kind words!
Thank you for an incredible tour of Colchester. I had little knowledge of this fascinating town and I love the roman history. Can't wait to see where you're going next!
Ha ha thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed the video - Colchester is a really captivating place with some incredible history, and beyond the Roman stuff - I didn't know all that much about it before I visited :) There are many more captivating walks to come on the channel, so do stay tuned!
Another great informative video! When I watch your videos, l learn history in the world 🌎 thank you for sharing such great videos with us. greeting from Japan 🇯🇵
You're welcome! And thank you so much for watching - Colchester is indeed a fascinating place to visit, and I'm really glad you enjoyed this virtual tour of the town centre :)
Well that was really interesting. Colchester has so much to offer and is a real treasure if you're into history and architecture. I briefly visited the town in 2002 but only had an hour or so before I had to continue to Harwich to get on the ferry to Denmark. Thanks for the upload.
Thank you for another fascinating walk. Colchester just reeks of history. Cannot wait to re-visit this amazing city once international air travel, and the World, is back to "normal". Cheers from Oz!
It really is a fascinating town - and with so much spectacularly-preserved history, I loved visiting and discovering it all! I really hope you get the chance to visit again soon - it's a wonderful place as I'm sure you know :) Thank you so much for watching!
Such a fascinating place! Yet another one to add to the list of places to go. I do enjoy your videos immensely. Thank you for narrating them - when I make them larger on the computer or telly the subtitles on the non-narrated videos get chopped off on either end of the screen, and I miss things while trying to read them. Thank you for bringing these intriguing places to us. Cheers from Australia.
Awesome live walk in the town of Colchester England. Very beautiful and historical the medieval town is. Your history lessons are always great and your walks are always enjoyable. Can't wait to see more soon. How is your weekend? Mine is great. We have lots of snow here in Canada. Have a great day 😀😊 greetings from Canada
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - Colchester certainly is a fascinating place full of history :) I'm glad you had a nice weekend and lots of snow - I wish we had a bit here too!
@@LetsWalkUK we have lots of snow. But it's hard to shovel the snow. And walk in it. Looking forward to your next video. Had you ever tried Sudeley Castle. It's a great historical visit and walk. 😀
I have always been fascinated by history and etymology and the two come together with myth and legend in this place. Camulodunum if the roman style end is removed leaves us with a word which is very close in sound to Camelot. Camul was an ancient British war god and "dun" is Brittonic for a settlement which led to the modern word town. It seems very fitting to have the army there now.
It's a really fascinating story! The Romans' name for the town was indeed likely influenced by the old Brittonic name for Colchester, but I love the thought that it may have been the home of Camelot too :) Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the walk!
Indeed there's a heap of things to see in Colchester - and we didn't even get to visit all of the town centre's landmarks! The oldest church in Colchester, for example, is located on the south side of the High Street - and dates back to the Anglo-Saxon era around 1020 AD :) Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the walk!
Thank you so much for this wonderful video. I live in Canada but my Father was born in Colchester. I’m hoping to go to England this year sometime. Thanks again
Thanks for your excellent Colchester walkabout narration. We visited the town today for the first time and used your route as a basis for our own tour. I’m sure we would have missed much of interest if we hadn’t known where to look. Thanks again, I’ll be sure to keep an eye on your channel.
Ha ha that's very kind of you to say! I'm really glad you're enjoying them - and that makes me all the more keen to make many more walks from around the country, so thank you!