Eight Bells Chipping Campden Gloucestershire
Eight Bells may encourage you to leave the house more often and explore the many attractions of Chipping Campden Gloucestershire. Choosing your new home can be a struggle. You need to find the right house in the right location. There are so many factors to consider from the house itself to the location. Look no further than
Exploring the Cotswolds Episode 3 | Winchcombe and Broadway to Chipping Campden & Moreton in Marsh
Continuing our journeys across the Cotswolds, this episode Robin travels from Winchcombe to Broadway via Hailes Abbey and Snowshill, moving east to Chipping Campden and Moreton-in-Marsh.
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Bell Practice St. James Parish, Chipping Campden
North Downs Way, West to East, Part 5 of 7, Lenham to Patrixbourne
This series of seven videos is a detailed and authoritative photographic flipbook guide to all 157 miles of the North Downs Way travelling from west to east.
The North Downs Way is a long distance footpath and official National Trail, in easy reach from London, that passes through two designated Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty: the Surrey Hills and the Kent Downs. In doing so it traverses the range of hills stretching from Farnham in western Surrey to Dover in the heel of Kent.
Links to the rest of the NDW west to east series
Part 1 Farnham to Dorking:
Part 2 Dorking to Oxted:
Part 3 Oxted to Snodland:
Part 4 Snodland to Lenham:
Part 6 Patrixbourne to Wye:
Part 7 Wye to Dover:
The National Trail Web Site
Ordinance Survey Maps covering the NDW
1:50000 Map Nos. 178, 179, 186, 187, 188, 189
1:25000 Map Nos. 137, 138, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150
Public Houses and Inns
03:41 The Flying Horse Inn, Boughton Lees:
06:51 The White Horse, Chilham:
07:29 The Star Inn, Old Wives Lees:
09:24 The Chapter Arms, Chartham Hatch:
11:18 The Eight Bells, Canterbury:
11:22 The Monument, Canterbury:
11:29 The Unicorn Inn, Canterbury:
11:34 The Bishops Finger, Canterbury:
11:41 The Cricketers, Canterbury:
Places of Interest
01:42 Charing Village:
02:13 Charing Quarry:
03:17 Eastwell Manor:
03:39 Boughton and Eastwell Cricket Club:
04:34 All Saints Church, Boughton Aluph:
05:53 Godmersham Park:
06:44 Chilham Primary School:
06:47 Chilham Castle:
08:22 Nickle Farm, Chartham:
09:51 No Man’s Orchard, Chartham Hatch:
10:09 The Blean:
10:11 Bigbury Camp Hill Fort:
11:25 St Dunstan’s Church, Canterbury:
11:36 Westgate Gatehouse, Canterbury:
11:47 Canterbury Cathedral:
12:01 St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury:
12:10 HM Prison Canterbury (former):
13:41 St Mary’s Church, Patrixbourne:
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Bell ringing at St.Anne's Highgate
My video about bell ringing at St.Anne's, a church in Highgate.
Armistice Centennial Bell Ringing
Today people across the world are tolling bells, marking the Centenary of the end of the First World War and paying tribute to the millions killed or wounded in battle, and those on the home front who struggled amidst pain and loss to help ensure freedom survived.
Natalia 'Saw Lady' Paruz ringing 'Taps' on 4-in-hand handbells at WWI memorial in Astoria Park, Queens, NYC, USA.
Inscription on memorial:
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT
A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.
ERECTED 1926 BY THE PEOPLE OF LONG ISLAND CITY
IN HONOR OF ALL THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS WHO SERVED IN THE WORLD WAR 1914-1918
Tewkesbury Abbey: Explore Robert fitzHamon's Parish Church in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
After leaving Cardiff Bay we went to Monmouth Castle. There were only a couple of walls, but the military museum next to it had some interesting stuff. Monmouth Castle was built from 1066-1067 by William fitzOsbern; the same man who built Chepstow. It sits on a hill overlooking the River Monnow. It was briefly held by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, then by Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster, who rebuilt the timber structure in stone and added the Great Hall. King Edward II was held as prisoner at Monmouth briefly, and King Henry V, son of Henry Bolingbroke and Mary de Bohun, was born there. Oliver Cromwell had the castle slighted in 1646, and the round tower collapsed after an attack on 30 of March. The Great House was built in 1673 on the site, and is now the home of the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers Militia and their museum. Following are links to people associated with Monmouth Castle that we are descended from:
William fitzOsbern
Mary de Bohun
King Edward II
Edmund Crouchback
Since Monmouth turned out to be nothing much, we managed to get to Tewkesbury barely in time to go in. As with most churches, except for Canterbury, it was free. We had planned to stay the night around there and visit the abbey the next morning, but I saw a sign for the abbey before we saw any hotels so we stopped. The sign out front (or was it back?) said we had about an hour before they closed the gate, but we left after that time and they were still open. People were arriving so there must have been something going on.
Officially called the Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Tewkesbury Abbey is deceptively large and beautiful. Other pictures, taken from vantage points we didn't have access to, give a better indication of the size and building style. Even before entering the church we were impressed by the enormous Deodar Cedar and Copper Beech trees.
Building of the abbey began in 1102 by Robert fitzHamon. He was wounded at Falaise in Normandy and died in 1107, but the work was continued by his son-in-law, Robert fitzRoy, Earl of Gloucester. However, there had been centers of Christian worship on the site, or near to it, since the mid-7th century. The church was made of Caen Stone imported from Normandy and floated up the Severn River.
Following the Battle of Tewkesbury on 4 May 1471 some Lancastrians fled into the abbey, but the Yorkists forced their way in and slaughtered them. The church was closed for a month so it could be cleaned and re-consecrated. It was surrendered to the Crown at the Dissolution of the Monasteries on 9 January 1539. The townspeople claimed it was their parish church and bought it from the Crown for the value of its bells and lead roof, totaling £453. The bell tower was used as the jail, or gaol, until it was demolished in the late 18th century. The original central tower, the largest Romanesque tower in England, was topped with a wooden spire, but that collapsed in 1559 and was never rebuilt.
Of interest are the church's organs, three of them, one dating to the 17th century though it has been rebuilt several times. Also there are many well known and important people buried there. Below are links to our pages for some of them.
Robert fitzRoy, Earl of Gloucester (we have listed him as Robert the King's Son de Caen)
Robert fitzHamon
Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford
Gilbert the Red Earl de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester
Hugh le Despenser - both the Elder and the Younger
Tewkesbury Abbey Official Site
Tewkesbury Abbey on Facebook
Change Ringing at Chipping Campden
A town which I know very well indeed. St. James church is the finest Wool Church in the Cotswolds. Take a look at irkibby's cool video to see how grand the church is inside. The tower houses a 22 cwt ring of 8. They are quiet outside due to the height of the tower. This video was filmed as I rushed off to no. 4 Glebe Fold to say hello.
Young Ringers' Weekend: Heavitree
Ringing at Heavitree on the Young Bell Ringers' Facebook Group Tour to Exeter. Cast in 1897 by Taylors they form a fine sounding 8, amongst the best bells of the weekend, which go well and are super to ring!
0:09 Spliced S Major
3:32 Grandsire Triples filmed from outside
5:20 Rounds & Call Changes from the stairs
6:02 Grandsire Triples from inside
Tenor 25-3-2 in Eflat
Rounds 'n' Calls at Broadhembury, Devon
A characterful ton 6 which have the added bonus of being anti-clockwise!! Sound better in than out. Tower wobbles like a jelly when ringing. Fantastic view from the ringing room window though!!
Tenor 20-0-8 in Eflat
Bellringing at Moreton Pinkney 7th May 2011
A short clip of some bellringing at Moreton Pinkney during the PDG Culworth Open Day on 7th May 2011. These are a cracking little 6, very easy to ring and they sound lovely.
St Mary's on Tour 2017 - July 8th - St Nicholas, Saintbury
The tour this year was to smaller towers than in previous years and so limited the chance of a good video angle.
This is call changes with our learners doing very well at the redundant church at Saintbury on the Cotswold slopes
WAY OF THE MORRIS: Official Trailer 2
Available on DVD // A heartfelt ode to his agrarian roots, WAY OF THE MORRIS follows filmmaker Tim Plester's search for a connection with the much-maligned native dance traditions that run deep in his bloodline // World Premiere SXSW 2011 // A Fifth Column Films Presentation //
The 4th chiming at North Cave church open day
5-3-1 cast 1919 by John Taylors And Co.
Church Simulator - Splitter (Disc 1) (2018)
East Suffolk Morris Men: British Council School Madrid 2014 : Middle School
14th March 2014: School performances are a favourite part of Morris trips outside the UK for me.
We were grateful to be allowed to perform for the British Council School in Madrid on our 2014 trip. This is a precis of the show to the middle school. An archive vid.
Chipping Norton
Chipping Norton is a market town in the Cotswold Hills in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England, about 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Banbury and 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Oxford.
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Grandsire Minor at Yarnton, Oxfordshire
An excerpt of a quarter peal of Grandsire Minor on the 22 cwt 6 at Yarnton on the outskirts of Oxford filmed on 17th December.
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Invicta Morris at The Green Man in Hodsall Street, June 2013
A selection of three dances by Invicta Morris at The Green Man pub in Hodsall Street, Kent, UK - 20th June 2013.
The dances performed are...
0:31 - Hop Bine (a.k.a. Morning Star)
3:35 - Eynsham Figure of Eight
6:00 - The Black Joke (Adderbury)
Morris dance
Morris dance is a form of English folk dance usually accompanied by music. It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers, usually wearing bell pads on their shins. Implements such as sticks, swords and handkerchiefs may also be wielded by the dancers. In a small number of dances for one or two people, steps are performed near and across a pair of clay tobacco pipes laid one across the other on the floor.
The earliest known and surviving English written mention of Morris dance is dated to 1448, and records the payment of seven shillings to Morris dancers by the Goldsmiths' Company in London. Further mentions of Morris dancing occur in the late 15th century, and there are also early records such as visiting bishops' Visitation Articles mention sword dancing, guising and other dancing activities, as well as mumming plays. While the earliest records invariably mention Morys in a court setting, and a little later in the Lord Mayors' Processions in London, it had adopted the nature of a folk dance performed in the parishes by the mid 17th century.
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