The Sussex Border Walk - Part Eighteen: Pagham and the Lagoon 

"Yep!" remarked the satisfied viewer, when he asked himself an unspoken question regarding the feeling of calm he just experienced...

This so constantly reminds me of my Childhood Holidays staying at the Grandparents in Gillingham and doing day visits to the coast. Many happy times. Thank you again Richard for posting. As ever David and Lily Land Locked Reading. Tilehurst.

Been to Pagham many times as a child AND adult, waking up to the lagoon is perfection

The Sussex Border Walk. Its opening theme tune is music to my ears. Typically wonderful video....

Have just re-watched this wonderful video again after 3 years and still marvel at the fact it was made by a single cameraman...

Stuck for words this morning. Beautiful absolutely beautiful walk. You are so fortunate living on the doorstep of everywhere in Sussex. I live so far away but you bring me and no doubt many others to your wonderland every day. Thank you.

Loved the video. So pleased you're back on the Border walks.

Brought back some happy memories of my childhood, thank you Richard. Every Whitsun week we would stay in a small caravan on the great caravan park. The lagoon and pebbly beach were and are still lovely. I remember trying to catch fish there using a short bamboo pole and some cotton thread for a line - happy days!

One of your best Sussex walks ever ! Pagham and the church is gods own country..! More please sir…!👍👍😀😀

So informative. The church was beautiful. Thanks.

Yayy glad the sussex bored walk is back, great place Pagham by the looks of it, lovely lagoon and and duck's, great you could go into the church aswell, and lovely thatched cottage at the end. Great Richard.

Videography - Amazing. Music - Amazing. Richard - Lovely!

Loved the lagoon area and of course the Mute Swan being the 'bird' man that I am. Thank you Richard.

Thumbs up Rich, more history please!!!

Thank you Richard. So pleased the border walk series has resumed, and with a cracking video. The lagoon is fabulous, and great that you can see inside churches again. Pagham looks well worth visiting!

Great video, lovely photography and music, glad you are back on your border walks, looking forward to the next one!

This was pure delight for me! I grew up in Rose Green (nearby village) in the 1950’s. I worked at Church Farm caravan site during my summer vacations in the mid 1960’s. Living in the US now this area will always be near and dear to me. Thank you so so much for making this video! I love it!!

How beautiful is that lagoon, and simply stunning shots of the swans, so artistically done Richard.

so happy to see this series back , thanks Richard

At last, the Sussex Border Walk continues! What better way to begin again than at the beautiful Pagham with it's lovely lagoon and charming church. I wonder how many more delights can be found there? Fab, video with amazing shots especially of the lagoon.

What a welcome return...many thanks Richard.

Very Interesting! Thankyou Richard.

Thank you

Beautiful scenery, beautiful music. Magical episode. Thanks from Richard in North Carolina.

Thankyou so much for this video, you was at Pagham the same day as my parents, 1 of there 1st local outings after shielding. I booked a holiday at church farm yesterday too, for later this year, I'm fairly local and wanted to stay near home this year. We are so lucky to live In a stunning county. Thankyou for making my day with this video it's absolutely stunning. My daughter was so happy to see the Swan, we love Pagham. You really have been a breath of fresh air these last few months.

Richard, Pagham holds happy memories for me as me and my late hubby were retiring there. We spent many a happy holiday at Church Farm and later one of the converted railway carriage cottages. It's a beautiful place where everyone is so friendly. Pubs are farther up the road towards Chichester, have been in a couple of them.

Love the music with the beautiful video.

GREAT VIDEO. Makes us see what we have been missing ! Stunning church !!!!!

What a great walk, Richard. Brought back happy memories of my holiday in a railway carriage on the beach 70 years ago.! How it has changed.!

Lovely church. Loved the stone arches & the large round stained glass window. That old cottage at the end was amazing!!!!😍 The Lagoon was just so serene. Still envious of how many Swans you have that just swim around naturally over there. Here in Oregon I'm lucky to perhaps catch a glimpse of one in a park & then that's just because they were hand reared & raised there.

Fantastic! A wonderful representation of our village, thankyou.

Thank you “Mr. Explorer”. Another amazing video with just enough information to arouse my curiosity and send me off exploring the internet for more information. I now realise that the history of Pagham goes back a _very_ long way and I have learnt the word for an unusual building practice - galleting!

Wonderful film making Richard. So glad to see more of the border walk again. We really appreciate the time & effort you devote to your videos, thank you.

What a wonderful video again Richard. That music in the church was really entrancing. I would love to hear it again in other amazing places you find. Thanks Richard.

Good to see you back on the Sussex Border Walk Richard, and what a beautiful morning. Some lovely shots of the Lagoon, Church and local buildings, old and not so old.

Really great to see the weather improving and making everything look beautiful. Lovely filming Richard and I have been looking forward to the resumption of the border walk.

Thanks for a very scenic excursion with many different views and highlights. Very enjoyable.

So much for those stereotypes of England being a dreary place , what a glorious day ! Loved this walk and the intro and music were wonderful. Good times ahead this spring/summer.

Good to see you back on the border trail Richard. Growing up in south-west London, Sussex was the obvious seaside location of choice for my family, and Pagham featured strongly in my childhood. I never got to know its inland sights however, and your visits to the lagoon and the church were a revelation. Having been away from access to a computer (moving house), I look forward to bingeing on your more recent postings.

Lovely to see this series continue. Great weather for it and a lovely place! The use of old railway carriages as homes in places like pagham or dungeness is the reason that many heritage lines have any Victorian rolling stock!

Very nice, Mr.Vobes. Appropriate cap to my evening, ending a day, starting at 5:30 am, of driving a 70ft rig, delivering goods about our, half frozen, northern ontario town. Thanks.

Stunning day and interesting exploration beautifully recorded and photographed. So good to see you back beating the bounds of our great county. Strange how deserted everywhere seemed - all a bit post pandemic zombie apocalypse. That was a big imposing church too.

Fantastic video Richard, such a lovely day for exploring and sightseeing the beautiful landscapes. The Lagoon would be a wonderful area for a summer cottage, so peaceful and quiet. :)

What a beautiful Church. Wow

Fabulous video. Thank you. It really lifted my mood.

I have waited so long for this video !!! And is was worth the wait !!! Thank you so much and you got there with the help of that wonderful van and all our love

Great to see different parts of Pagham, my father and his family lived at Sefter Farm (1926-1942) towards Nyetimber and went to Thomas a Beckett church, and my aunty May was married there in 1940. Great to see inside the church. I remember a previous visit you made to Pagham when there was much angst about a new housing development which would effect the wildlife that use the lagoon.

Lovely video. What a beautiful day you landed on. Looking forward to seeing more.

Loved the music you put to the lagoon scene . Nice footage 👍

Great video Richard 😀😀😀

Did you know that the view from Pagham to Aldwick/Bognor inspired the song that became the Desert Island Discs theme? Whenever I hear it I’m transported back to Aldwick beach where I grew up.

This seaside is beautiful! And that church...something to behold. I took Tammie to film an old church for your show that was condemned as far as we knew, only to find that it is in fantastic shape and the entire neighborhood is coming back to life which was great to see. We had a great time driving through that area. It was a great weekend off work for me. I love to do things like this. Glad you were able to get outside on a nice day! Tim

Ah, right on the eastern edge of the Manhood Peninsular (Anglo-Saxon ‘common wood’ or 'common land') .One of the last relatively undeveloped stretches of coastline between Newhaven and Southampton but I think that may be about to change , surprise surprise. Great to see you out really exploring again. The lagoon is indeed lovely, but as a comparative local I tend to avoid it at any time during the hoilday period! However I have never visited the church, and I must change that. Onward to ????

Nice be back with bald explorer very interested to see different places Sussex border is interesting hope soon he can travel soon out Worthing for something different put my hat up Richard vobes and Julia Harley thack you

What a nice, long walk you had! That lagoon looks like the pond I live on, which is connected to Lake Ontario, with the same Mallard ducks but the Mute swan instead of the Trumpeter swans we have here. I hope the community works to leave it in it's natural state, such places are becoming rare as developers keep looking for their next conquest.

Not much to add to other comments other than that your video production continues to become more and more polished! The musical accompaniment was particularly apt.

I saw that you passed a fish and chips place. It's on my bucket list to fly to England (from PA) and buy some authentic fish and chips. Probably those of you who live in England never eat them. Lovely video, as usual. Thank you.

These lockdown videos are really interesting. Can be quite hard to tell which buildings are completely abandoned / closed permanently and those that intend to open when restrictions lift.

Good to see you in my old haunt of Pagham Beach Richard :-) Changed a lot since the seventies! BTW I'm fairly certain that nearby Aldwick is named after Alder, the type of tree that likes wet ground. You didn't visit the Aldwick duck pond when you were doing your visit there, but I think it may have been drained in recent years, as was the ditch in Silverstone Avenue a short distance away. I remember fishing for sticklebacks there with my brother back in about 1960. All sadly piped away in land drains now sadly I fear.

Pagham. Never heard of it as a Holiday destination. Too many pebbles for my liking. The Lagoon looked beautiful but not as I remember it. We actually stayed at Church Farm around 3 years ago, although we didn’t really have much to do with Pagham. Nice to see you out and about again.

Brilliant thank you B.E

Excellent video Richard. Glad you’re back on your border walk. Pagham is very interesting. Had my first holiday on church farm. Thankyou

Lovely!

Great walking weather. for the continuation, just when I thought I'd got the tune Sussex By The Sea ought of my head. 'Caravan' and 'park' required a big stretch of the imagination. Cheers.

Great video a joy to watch TY Richard

Neil Innes from Bonzo Dog Doo Da band wrote a ditty for Monty Python called "How sweet to be an idiot". I'm afraid to say, I can't help thinking of the lyrics "as much imagination as a caravan site" whenever I see those places. No trees, no footpaths, hedgerows, life... Van life is definitely the way to go for me.

Great video on such a lovely spring day. I admire your tenacity, well done.

After so much time

Very nice and well done video. Loved the cinematography!

Very nice Richard 😎

Wonderful video Richard; you are very talented and knowledgeable. Thanks.

ON THE BORDER (verse 27 of ???) A multitude of birdlife comes and goes across the year Ecstatic twitchers on the case all rare arrivals cheer A medieval harbour all those centuries ago Now Pagham's marshy inlet hosts a stunted ebb and flow JB21

Thank for this I have a caravan on church farm as unable to go at moment it was great to see pagham I love watch your walks

Should have bought your coracle for the lagoon!

Back on the road again! :-)

The lack of people was it due to editing or did your tour take you to a magical place that exists to give a explorer an easy day to go through a dream world dotted with flowers, swans, a magnificent church, and beautiful houses from a long ago time.. I have enjoyed the resumption of our walk around Sussex. Perhaps I have used too many "s" I remember one swan at least I think it was a swan and one quaint thatched house ! The cluster of yellow flowers were delightful so unexpected . May you find good weather for the next walk!👍👍👍👍🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🙋🏼‍♀️

It looks like a vary nice place.

Hello Richard, im karla from south of brazil, florianopolis Island. Interesting beach, mostly because there is no sand. I live here at beautiful 42 beachs island, and soft sand. How is to go to the beach without sand? Interesting place, thank you for sharing with us.

Your music choices often give me a giggle. What was that Austin Powers type snippit?

Getting back to Normal, bit by bit. Hooray! More freedoms lifting tomorrow. Harder to see why any restrictions still in place when you look at the data but I guess letting go of special powers comes hard for Authority. It will have to do so, Effective house arrest at huge cost is no future. Things not so good across the water and somewhat behind so Staycation (yes I know!) is the likely holiday this summer. Wondering if the lagoon is a Mosquito sanctuary? ^-) Beautiful Flowers in the Churchyard.

Very nice video and good to see you out on the Sussex Border Path project again. Will you be visiting the Medmerry Scheme between Selsey and Bracklesham Bay?

Nice video Richard, i think people that follow the birds are, bird watchers or twitchers

What a beautiful video Richard! Excuse my ignorance re UK flora as I'm 17,000km away - I'm wondering why the pruned or lopped trees, and what they are?

Amazes me that they leave Churches open with the every increasing numbers of pondlife around nowadays

Lovely, except for the holiday lodges, everywhere in Britain. Couldn’t that make these look better than this? Maybe some colour other than white?

Very nice are but I’m not crazy about cookie cutter houses. It takes away your individuality and if you are a drinker it could be deadly going to the wrong one. Do people live in the caravan park? They are a bit to close to each other but nice. It seems several farmers turn property into caravan parks.

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What was that term for pushing flint into the mortar joints? I've never heard of that before. Bungaroosh is one of my favourite terms for flint walling. It's a way of utilizing lots of different types of masonry (flint, limestone, sandstone, brick) in the same wall.