Life in a 1,000 Year Old Medieval Town 

Thanks Jim!

@@MobileInstinct2 £325,000 for a shabby two-storied building in a small English town, overpriced as usual.🤣

6-feet doors would fit most US males.

You are not alone me too stay safe.

@@internetcensure5849 You just don't get it do you? To the owner, and possibly, to some buyers, it's worth exactly what they are prepared to pay--to obtain what it is, they desire.

most of that town is 400-500 years old, but parts date back as far as 2000 years ago

I'd love to live there

@@MobileInstinct2 Stow on the wold is situated high up on the wolds ( hills) with a ancient busy Cross Road at it's centre, and very exposed in Winter.

‘ Stow in the Wold’ where the wind blows cold - famous saying !

I went to England on a student trip 50 years ago. England is like every other country, US included. Outside of where elites tend to collect, there's a warm and wonderful country going on. My highlight was Bronte country, the town of Haworth.

@@frankbolger39692 minutes near me...Lovely little STEEP village....

@@hx2607 You are a very lucky soul. I spent much of my time in the church cemetery on a cool, dark windy day. Magical!

Come and see us! 😊

@@hx2607 Picked up a steam engine from the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Museum, Haworth station, in the 90s, and you are right, climbing up station rd, by the time I got to the island, my temperature gauge was well into the red! had to stop, and let her cool-down for ten mins.

And now it's all new build Little boxes.I do not like modern houses.This is only the second I have lived in.If an ant sneezes 3 doors down u say bless you.A workman once said he'd seen better built Lego houses.

It's not that America can't match the charm. It's that you are subconsciously remembering your past life there with nostalgia. ;-)

@@conniewilkinson9347 American doesn’t have the History. And if they did, they’d knock it down and build a glass tower😡😢

@@ernestj3081 If you believe the Americas have no history, then that's because you can't bother yourself to learn about it. Granted (for the most part) it's not the history of the deplorable caste system & filthy living conditions of the 'medieval' period in Europe, but it's still historic and was more populated than much of Europe. While in modern times, it is true that a lot of developers build a lot of tall towers & business developments over old building sites, they are also required to stop if anything of a historical nature is found so it can be properly dug out, preserved & studied before, if at all, they can restart construction. However, most of out pre-European history was already destroyed by a lot of the first Europeans after Columbus, particularly the French, Spanish, Portuguese and other Catholics, when they tried their damnedest to obliterate what ever historic records, art objects, buildings and other artifacts they found because they considered them 'blasphemous' and heretical. All the while plundering as much gold & other valuable jewels & metals they could carry away.

There are very quaint neighborhoods in Philadelphia, Boston, Savannah, etc. They are not 1,000 years old, but are >250 years old and very pretty.

The Cotswolds beautiful area with the yellowish stone buildings, is THE most expensive place to live in, in England. My family had to go up to Herefordshire - and it is STUNNING countryside with villages around there with a church built by Henry de Lacey who built the churches circa 1130 onwards, as did his son another Henry de Lacey. Now THAT is old even to use. They have medieval paintings frescoed on the inside walls of these churches, faded but STILL there! Wikipedia the de Lacey Norman family!

Come and visit!!

@Hereandthere andnowinyourface There is a lot of gothic architecture in England as well as cottages. I didn’t mean to be confusing???

@Hereandthere andnowinyourface My comment was about England in general. There absolutely IS gothic architecture in England. As you can see I was also talking about the East End, which refers to London. That has nothing to do with this town.

@@TraceB yes, there is plenty of gothic architecture in England. You would like the old churches.

@@nigelgreaves2027 I’ve been there a few times & yes they are gorgeous!

It was a hoax.

And I'm a Brit living in the US for 40 yrs, so it's nice to visit a few old Brtiish villages to remember the feeling of that life, and enjoy the differences that are somehow so much more calm & less phrenetic than current American goings on. Of course what's happening right now in 2022 in the US is not normal life - things have gone haywire, but we hope for the restoration of good sense & decency some time soon ! A certain person needs to be removed from public life & then things will be restored I believe !

yeah he is giving you guys a taste of our American summers. Now imagine that for 4 months ( at least ) every year... Add in miserable humidity and presto feels like an American summer.

@@chadmiller2224 😁

Bourton-on-the-Water is indeed beautiful--it can be a bit crowded in summer. Smaller villages worth a visit include Broadway, Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter, and Upper Swell and Lower Swell. ("Slaughter" means a marshy or boggy area; the word is related to Slough or Slew.) Also, Burford, the so-called Gateway to the Cotswolds, is beautiful. If you are touring and want to explore a little bit south and east, and also love odd place-names, try the little villages along the Wallop Brook, on a side road from the main road from Salisbury to Winchester. Nether Wallop (yes, that really is its name) is the most picturesque. Thatched cottages alongside a clear brook where wild watercress grows ...

How blessed you are to live there.... My heart is just aching to visit my two children who live in the UK. Greetings from SA.

@@liz0707 I hope you can come over soon. You are very welcome 🙂

That beautiful golden stone is typical of the Cotswolds. It really is a beautiful place to be.

ha ha yes!

There are cobblestone streets here 🥰

The old cobblestones were bad for modern car suspension so most have been removed from places with a lot of traffic. The Royal Mile in Edinburgh is the exception. If you look closely at the ground at the start of this video you can see that it has a modern, very smooth, cobbled surface. Brick rather than stone. That and the double yellow lines at the roadside for no parking tells me it's a pedestrianised area. Traffic will be limited, particularly during the day, to deliveries only. Historic cobbles aren't wheelchair and pushchair friendly. This feels a bit strange to me but it's what has been happening all over GB in recent decades. The street is too empty. In times past, business owners would have literally lived above their shop. That would have meant children playing and adults socialising outside business hours.

@@michellebyrom6551 Ah, the good ole days. 😊

Two main areas where there are very beautiful small towns and villages that retain a lot of old buildings, with an overall harmony of architecture, are the Cotswolds and East Anglia. Both were of importance in the sheep raising/wool yarn producing/weaving industry that was important to England's economy in the Middle Ages and Tudor periods. The towns became rich and could afford handsome churches and municipal buildings, as well as homes and shops. Then when the cloth industry declined in importance population did not grow, and new building declined, so the old town centers remained very much unchanged. The beauty of the honey-colored Cotswold stone that you mention was important in creating the harmonious blend of buildings. Chipping Camden is another, similar market town. Lavenham in Suffolk is an example of a beautiful old town in East Anglia.

Further north mews are called ginnels

A couple of points. Firstly, UK war memorials typically feature the names of those that died. Those who served but were not killed are remembered of course, but their names are not usually found on war memorials. Secondly, it is not true that "many" towns and villages lost "all" their men. That would be highly unusual. The idea that there was a "lost generation" is actually a romantic myth, not that I'm trying in any way to under-sell the sacrifice many families in the UK made during the Great War, mine included.

@@nickmiller76 Yes this is very true. War memorials have only the names of those who died in WW1 and WW11.

There are a few villages in Britain that did not lose any men in WW1 and at least one that didn't lose any in both wars

The older name for Stow, and still the name for part of the town is Maugersbury. The - bury part is Saxon for strong place, like German burg, Mauger would be the Celtic holder of the fort at the time of the Saxon takeover.

Nice set of knockers 🤣

They are right. 1 pound equals 80 cents

The pound used to be worth about $2.50 some 50 years ago until today where it's worth a little more than $1 so I'd say your dollars can have more buying power in Britain than in the past .

there's also a ghost town that was taken over by the military in Dorset, called Tyneham

Kernow bys vkyen.I miss Cornwall sooo much.

@@susanmccormick6022 God Bless

Hi , those narrow ally ways are for the farmers back in the day would steer there sheep down it to market they are narrow so the farmer could count his sheep as they came through . 🙂