Kickstarter Holywell Cemetery
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Here's the first draft of the proposed promo film for any potential field trip we make over to Holywell Cemetery in Oxford.
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Promo 2 Holywell Cemetery in Oxford
The first benefit of our trip Holywell Cemetery in Oxford.
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Brynford Pet Cemetery Aerial 360
An Aerial 360 pan of Brynford Pet Cemetery
Holywell Church, Oxford 8.5.12 DSC_4234.AVI
8pm on Tuesday 8th May, Holywell Church, Oxford.
me singing at holywell
my 1st song is hopelessy devoted then my 2nd song is roxie hart singing in north wales has got talent :D
N/Wales mini road trips Mold town centre to Loggerheads country park
A short journey from Mold town centre to Loggerheads country park.
Vehicle; Chrysler Grande Voyager 2.8D.
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GHOST of Wepre Park & Ewloe Castle,nr Connah's Quay in Flintshire, Wales.
Originally established next to an ancient forest, Wepre woods and estate are described in the Domesday book, situated within the Hundred of Atiscross, measuring 0.5 leagues.The park is home to Ewloe Castle
Ewloe Castle, which was built around 1257, is a relic of a brief triumph that the Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd had over the English Crown and the Anglo-Norman Marcher Lords in the mid 13th century. Until then, this part of north east Wales had been the starting point for repeated Norman invasions of Gwynedd for more than 150 years.
Legends say the castle is haunted by the ghost of 'marching men' and, in the surrounding 160 acre woodland between Connah's Quay and Ewloe, Nora the Nun is said to walk.The area had already written itself into the history books as the Battle of Ewloe in 1157 saw 200 Welshmen led by Owain Gwynedd, who was then king of north Wales, nearly kill English monarch Henry II.
The fight in Ewloe wood was close to where the ruins of Ewloe Castle stand.BATTLE OF Ewloe here
But beginning in the early 1230s, the Princes of Gwynedd had had started to gain the upper hand against the Anglo-Normans and Plantagenets who had taken territory in North Wales. Eventually by the late 1250s, the Welsh had reached Ewloe retaking lands up to the England–Wales border. A fortification had existed on or near the site since the Battle of Ewloe (Welsh: Brwydr Cwnsyllt) in 1157, when the Welsh successfully ambushed an English force under the command of Henry II (as they marched to Twthill at Rhuddlan). The English king only narrowly avoiding being killed himself having been rescued by Roger, Earl of Hertford.
Wepre Park is one of North Wales’ most popular destinations for family fun, however the Connah’s Quay beauty spot has a terrifying dark side...
The park has an illustrious past having once been part of the Wepre Hall estate, however nothing now remains of the hall now after it was demolished in the 1960s.
The grounds are also home to the remains of Ewloe Castle which was built by Welsh Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd in 1257.
But despite the picturesque surroundings, legend tells that the ancient woodland is a hive of paranormal activity and when darkness falls things go bump in the night.
The park has long had a reputation for being haunted with sightings including a floating Nun called Nora, a pack of spirit dogs, a singing woman, and even a phantom army complete with a headless horseman.Undoubtedly its most famous ghoul is Nora the Nun who is said to haunt the Rosie pool and has been spotted by dozens over the decades floating over the waterfall and in the castle grounds.
It’s thought that she drowned in the Rosie pool after giving birth to an illegitimate child and unable to live with herself threw the baby into the water.
While other popular stories say she had her head cut off after an affair with a monk or was possibly hit by a bomb near the waterfall.
Over the years people have described her as an “angry faceless nun” with some claiming to have heard her humming while walking across the top of the waterfall.John Williams from Connah’s Quay said: “I can remember seeing Nora one night during a midnight walk by the waterfall with my dog. My dog started whining and when I looked up I saw her floating across the waterfall and could faintly hear a humming noise. But then she vanished into thin air.”
It’s also claimed that a pack of ghost dogs roam the woods, which are said to come from a pet cemetery at the old Wepre Hall where generations of family dogs were buried with their own headstones.While others say that if you go down to the castle late at night when it’s stormy the sound of drumming and the noise of a marching of an army can be heard, with some even claiming to have felt the wind of passing horses.
The Pet Cemetery - BBC Wales (in Welsh)
Brynford Top # 5 Facts
Brynford Top # 5 Facts
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Greenfield Valley
Greenfield Valley Heritage Park (Welsh: Dyffryn Maes Glas) is a 70-acre (28 ha) country park in the United Kingdom. It is located near the town of Holywell, in Wales. It is well known for its woodland, reservoirs, ancient monuments (including the ruins of Basingwerk Abbey), rich industrial past and its factories which played a big part in the Industrial Revolution.
Dan And Zazu on Brynford Mountain
Went for a walk with the most untuff staffy every lol bless him !! Wouldn't have him any other way to be honest !!! It was a stunning morning so i got me fone out and had some fun
Great day out at Pantre Halkyn Quarry
Thanks to SCALE.RC for a great day out with some cool guys we were just having fun all day
Graveyard Beauty- St Mary's churchyard, Callington, Cornwall
St Mary's churchyard. I was hoping to get inside the church to film (wanted to get some shots of the knight's grave) but unfortunately it was locked)
Music on the actual video ~
Archie visits Greetland and The Piecehall Halifax UK
OLD CEMETARY FROM THE 1800'S!!
Please excuse the shaky camera! We are still trying to overcome this problem.. If you like watching these videos, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!! Hope you enjoy this tour of this very historic cemetary..:)
Wolf Head Fountain- London UK
This golden coloured Wolf's head marks the spot where allegedly the last wolf in London was shot, the site is also a medieval holy well.
Holy Sacred Wells
A holy well or sacred spring is a spring or other small body of water revered either in a Christian or pagan context, sometimes both.
The wells in England, as elsewhere, had not all the same virtues attributed to them. Some were blessed and used for baptisms, to others were attributed curative properties especially for sore or weak eyes, and for leprosy, while others possessed mystical and prophetic powers, at which offerings of cakes, pins, needles, and small coins were made, and sugar and water drunken. Wells are frequently found on the boundaries of counties.. Hauntings near holy wells are also common throughout Great Britain.An old witch is said to have stood
beside the ancient Skimmington Well at Curry Mallett in Somerset and dispensed cures. She is long gone, and the well's location is like-wise lost, but the legend of both lives on. It is one of the hundreds of holy wells referred to in folklore as places where miraculous cures
have taken place. At Cat’s Well at Bratton (named after St. Catherine), It is perhaps inaccurate to say that Cat's Well has no connection at all with felines. The well lies beside Stradbrook Lane, which is haunted by a black beast which some say is a great black cat, perhaps one of the Alien Big Cats which have often been sighted in recent years (White 1990-91). However, other local residents reckon that the beast is a black dog. The black dog is a very widespread phantom, found all over the country, and in its commonest and most benign form it is often found haunting the parish boundary. In Bratton the parish boundary runs along the bed of the Stradbrook, and so it would seem most likely that the Black Beast of Stradbrook Lane is a black dog.This simple dipping well was lost for many years, and has been rediscovered and restored fairly recently through the efforts of a tireless local historian, Jean Morrison.The massive earthworks of the Iron Age hill fort known as Bratton Castle (or Bratton Camp) are within the parish..
Ghostly “women in white” are also associated with holy wells St. Julian’s Well in Wellow, Somerset has a history of visitations by “the White Lady” when a calamity was about to happen to the former owners of the well. More than likely these “White Ladies” are not the products of natural phenomenon but create it. They are archetypal images of pagan goddesses, which periodically become evident near sacred sites.
In two instances these mysterious Ladies in White have been seen scattering flowers or seeds in fields. In both instances the flowers or seeds had turned to golden coins the next morning.
Another ghostly woman in gray or white has been recorded at St. Dene’s Well near Cardiff, Wales. She reportedly would follow drovers for about a mile through the Llanishen neighborhood before she would return to the well. It was thought that she had done evil in her time and was in bondage to the well as punishment.
Not only Ladies in White or Gray have been reported but Ladies in Green as well. One such Green Lady was reported to watch pilgrims place rags on a thorn bush at the Eye-Well near St. Donat’s in Marcloss, Wales. Another was seen in the village of Woodrow in Buckinghamshire. According to the witness a wraith-like figure dressed in green was seen gliding across a meadow leaving a path of green phosphorescent light until she disappeared suddenly. The witness pressed himself through the underbrush at the spot and found an ancient grotto—but no Lady was in evidence.
Haunting History of :
St. Ann's Well,St Ann's Hill,Chertsey, Runnymede borough of Surrey, England Read all HERE
Holy wells and sacred springs throughout Britain must be sought, protected, venerated and cherished before it is too late and they are lost to us and our descendants FOREVER.
Ancient Penwith
A series of ancient sites from Penwith, Cornwall - the most westerly part of Britain.
Film includes:
- Lanyon Quoit (Neolithic period - 3500-2500BC)
- Chun Castle (Iron Age - c.500BC)
- Chun Quoit (Neolithic period - 3500-2500BC)
- Pendeen Fogou/Cave/Vau (Neolithic to Iron Age)
- Men-an-Tol/Crick Stone/Devil's Eye (pre-Iron Age)
- Sancreed Church (13th century)
- Celtic Crosses (c. 4th to10th Century)
- Sancreed Holy Well/Chapel Downs Well (Unknown Age - likely pre-Christian)
- Boswarthan Celtic Chapel/Madron Bapistry (present building 12th Century)
- Pendeen House/Manor Farm (not in Padstow!) (13th Century)
(Dr William Borlase birthplace; John Wesley preached and was imprisoned here; Half-burnt down by Cromwell's men; contains Pendeen Fogou)
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