A few years ago I made a full length Bald Explorer documentary about the rural Sussex town of Petworth. It was shown on the Community Channel, one of the Sky digital services. It was part of series of other programmes I made virtually single-handedly. It's 44 minutes long. I hope you enjoy it. | The Bald Explorer
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A few years ago I made a full length Bald Explorer documentary about the rural Sussex town of Petworth. It was shown on the Community Channel, one of the Sky digital services. It was part of series of other programmes I made virtually single-handedly. It's 44 minutes long. I hope you enjoy it. | The Bald Explorer
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This is the last part of our exploration of the Serpent Trail for now. We started near Fittleworth in West Sussex, but have only explored a tiny part of the 64 mile long distance path. This time Julia and I emerge from woodland into a large heath with heather and gorse on the Greensand Belt. We hope we have whetted your appetite to have a look for yourselves. Do let us know what you think. My videos are funded 100% by people like you. If you enjoy them, please help me make more: https://www.payp
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This is the last part of our exploration of the Serpent Trail for now. We started near Fittleworth in West Sussex, but have only explored a tiny part of the 64 mile long distance path. This time Julia and I emerge from woodland into a large heath with heather and gorse on the Greensand Belt. We hope we have whetted your appetite to have a look for yourselves. Do let us know what you think. My videos are funded 100% by people like you. If you enjoy them, please help me make more: https://www.payp
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The Quest For England - In Which I Explore The Sussex Downs near Woodingdean The Sussex South Downs are beginning to fascinate me more and more. After the second World War much was bulldozed, flatten, scraped and turned into monoculture. I am curious to see how the landscape has changed and out it is being used today. I am in north-east of Woodingdean in East Sussex exploring some of the Access Land where the sheep still graze and remote patches of hay grasses still thrive, but much of the wild
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The Quest For England - In Which I Explore The Sussex Downs near Woodingdean The Sussex South Downs are beginning to fascinate me more and more. After the second World War much was bulldozed, flatten, scraped and turned into monoculture. I am curious to see how the landscape has changed and out it is being used today. I am in north-east of Woodingdean in East Sussex exploring some of the Access Land where the sheep still graze and remote patches of hay grasses still thrive, but much of the wild
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The Quest for England - From Ferring to Kingston Gorse Today I take a short stroll across the open farmland from Ferring in West Sussex to the private estate in the west at Kingston Gorse to get down to the coast. I pass through a lovely old fashion farm with film and brick buildings that immediately takes me back to a former time. I hope you enjoy the walk. ------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER My videos are funded by people like yo
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The Quest for England - From Ferring to Kingston Gorse Today I take a short stroll across the open farmland from Ferring in West Sussex to the private estate in the west at Kingston Gorse to get down to the coast. I pass through a lovely old fashion farm with film and brick buildings that immediately takes me back to a former time. I hope you enjoy the walk. ------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER My videos are funded by people like yo
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Would you come to #Worthing in #Sussex? What do you think of the place? I am keen to know. Check out my whistle-stop stroll thought the town. More explorations on my Youtube channel: http://www.Youtube.com/c/richardvobes | The Bald Explorer
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Would you come to #Worthing in #Sussex? What do you think of the place? I am keen to know. Check out my whistle-stop stroll thought the town. More explorations on my Youtube channel: http://www.Youtube.com/c/richardvobes | The Bald Explorer
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The Quest for England: Exploring East Preston in West Sussex Julia and I are down on the Sussex coast in the village of East Preston, close to Rustington and Littlehampton. We start at the shingle beach and work our way through the main street studying the various types and ages of architecture, ending up in the park. A thoroughly enjoyed little walk through many different time periods. ------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER My videos
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The Quest for England: Exploring East Preston in West Sussex Julia and I are down on the Sussex coast in the village of East Preston, close to Rustington and Littlehampton. We start at the shingle beach and work our way through the main street studying the various types and ages of architecture, ending up in the park. A thoroughly enjoyed little walk through many different time periods. ------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER My videos
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The Motte and Bailey Castle in Horsham, West Sussex. Who knew there was a Motte and Bailey Castle in Horsham in West Sussex. Not me, and I lived in Horsham as a boy. The lovely Julia and I pop along to a piece of wasteland in the North East of the town to discover the old Norman defence, where soon after the invasion of 1066 a timber stronghold would have stood. ------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER My videos are funded by people lik
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The Quest for England - A Look At Ferring in West Sussex Today I have cycled to Ferring, an ancient village that dates back to the Saxon period. A farming community close to the sea with some wonderful houses old flint buildings. The site of the village is an ancient one: the name itself is Saxon; it is mentioned in the Domesday Book; the parish church is Norman, and is dedicated to St Andrew. In the churchyard are buried the ashes of Major John Bigelow Dodge (1894-1960), veteran of the Great Es
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One from last summer! I am taking a stroll through the West Sussex downland town of Steyning. Originally a Saxon settlement, it grew to become an important port town - the River Adur ran closer than it does today. The Norman's built their castle close by at Bramber and the railways linked it to London for a hundred years until Dr Richard Beeching cut the line in the 1960s. But the architecture is stunning and that's what I am here to have a look at. Support my video walks and explorations - chec
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The other day I was up on the South Downs near to Sompting in West Sussex. I had dressed up in my wet weather gear because on the day I was filming it was due to rain. Luckily it didn't. This episode is a continuation on my walk in which I think about the past generations who would have lived and work on these chalky hills. ------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER My videos are funded by people like you. If you enjoy them, please help m
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The Bald Explorer's Southdowns Lament Where have all the people gone? I am up on the Southdowns in West Sussex, above Lancing, and I am thinking about the peace and quiet around me. And yet this place wasn't always like this. Ever since Man walked upon the chalky white undulating hills HE has been busy working the ground to survive and bring up his family. But now when I look I wonder where have they gone now? ------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THE
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Support the Bald Explorer here: http://baldexplorer.com/support/ I am in Billingshurst, West Sussex, walking around a brand spanking new housing estate. I am wondering whether the residents are aware that the site upon which their new homes stand was formerly No. 46 Prisoner of War Working Camp which contained at one point nearly 900 enermy soldiers at the end of the Second World War? | The Bald Explorer
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The Sussex BordThe Sussex Border Walk - Part Two: To West Worthing and its Glasshouses I am working my way around the border of the county of Sussex, starting from Worthing and walking westwards. In this episode, I explore the Holy Trinity Church, in Shelley Road, old maps and the Victorian hotels that have long gone, and the market garden growing and the copious glasshouses that once peppered both East and West Worthing. Links: Worthing's Heritage Trails: http://www.worthingheritagealliance.org
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A Brief Walk Around The Village of Rusper in West Sussex The lovely Julia and I are in the quaint village of Rusper, just north of Horsham. We take a walk around the church and then along the high street. I used to live in Horsham as a younger man, but never visited this nearby village. Today I am delighted to see all the old timber framed buildings lining the streets. ------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER My videos are funded by peo
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Exploring Upwaltham Church in West Sussex Today Julia Hartley, Cynthia Julian and myself are exploring the terrible tragedies that occurred towards the end of the Second World War close to a rural download church in West Sussex. St Mary's the Virgin, The Church in a Field, lies a few miles south of Petworth. A Norman built church with very little changes since 1120. Two aircraft, one a Lancaster Bomber, just back from a Damn Buster raid crashed in the hills near the church killing all the crew.
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In Search of Sussex - In Which I seek out Bramber and Upper Beeding My Quest for England continues throughout the Coronavirus Pandemic. For the moment, I am concentrating on exploring the county I live. To begin my Search for Sussex I am following a book by Arthur Stanley Cooke, Off the Beaten Track, and he starts me at Bramber Castle and St Nicholas church. You can follow my journey and read the book online here: https://archive.org/details/offbeatentrackin00cookuoft/page/xiv/mode/2up ---------
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In Search of Sussex - In Which I Go To Devil's Dyke This is Part Two of my Hangleton to Edburton walk. Chapter 4 from Off The Beaten Track by Arthur Stanley Cooke, that I am following in my In Search for Sussex series. In this episode I have left Hangleton behind and I'm climbing the Sussex South Downs to Devil's Dyke, a well known beauty spot where there are the remains of the Iron Age Hillfort. During the late Victorian era fairground amusements adorned the top enticing day trippers to visit i
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Today it is my pleasure to meet John Barkshire, one of the stewards of St Nicholas Church in Arundel in West Sussex, John very kindly agreed to show me some of the many curious artifacts to be found in the well cared for church on offer for the visitor.These include the curious witches circles scratched on the pillars, the amazing stone carved pulpit, the Anglican nave and altar and the private Catholic chapel that belongs exclusively to the Duke of Norfolk; all within the same building. To find
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The Quest For England - In Which I Walk The Ferring Rife I am back in Ferring, in West Sussex, and this time I am taking a stroll alongside the Ferring Rife. This stream rises in the West Durrington area of Worthing. It has multiple sources including one near Castle Goring and another in Titnore Wood. The streams converge that make up the Ferring Rife converge north of Littlehampton Road, passing through Maybridge, then west of Ferring into the sea. It flows south-west, west and then south into
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The lovely Julia and I are out exploring another quintessentially English village, Fittleworth in West Sussex. Our walk starts at the two sixteenth century pack-horse bridges, both of stone construction and originally built narrower and widened more recently for modern day traffic. The first bridge crosses the river Rother, while the second, Clappers Bridge, gives access over the mill stream running from Fittleworth Mill. Our walk continues to the heart of the village where the 14th century coac
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Criminal damage and theft to our historic monuments is an ever increasing problem. Daryl Holter is the Sussex Police Heritage Crime Lead. He met up with the Bald Explorer at Shoreham Fort to explain just what Heritage Crime is and the effect it is having on our society. For more information check out: www.Sussex.Police.uk | The Bald Explorer
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The Sussex Border Walk - Part Fourteen: From Elmer to Middleton I am continuing my Sussex Border Walk. I left Climping and Atherington and have headed west across to Elmer and Middleton-on-Sea, where the sea bashes the coastline. The story of erosion continues, and the history of the people and their communities are once again lost to the sea's encroachment. ------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER My videos are funded by people like yo
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In Search of Sussex - In Which I Arrive in Southwick and Kingston Buci This is part three of my walk from Devil's Dyke to Kingston Buci in West Sussex. I am following the footsteps of Arthur Stanley Cooke from his book, Off The Beaten Track. I have arrived in Southwick from the Sussex South Downs. I am keen to look at the two churches, St Michael's in Southwick and St Julian's in Kingston. How much has changed in the last 100 years since Arthur wrote the book? Shoreham Harbour video: https://www
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The Sussex Border Walk - Part Eight: The Pumps and Flint in East Preston I am continuing my Sussex Border Walk, but I have missed out Ferring and Kingston Gorse. The reason is simply that during Lockdown One I walked through these areas - video links below - and I didn't think it necessary to repeat myself. So I resume in East Preston. In this episode, I discover the 1930s petrol pumps of an old restored garage, repurposed farm buildings, the school that is now and estate agent and the Three Cro
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I am down at Pagham Harbour in West Sussex. Martin Snow is with me to help me explore the many facets of the harbour, including the strange Norman ringwork beside St Wilfred's and the old Tide Mill of which little remains. | The Bald Explorer
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The Quest For England - In Which I Explore Bury in West Sussex I have come to Bury in West Sussex, close to Amberley and Arundel, to look for a pub that no longer exists, a ferry that closed in the sixties and a church that is actually open. I am following in the footsteps of author, R Thurston Hopkins, who wrote a book called, The Lure of Sussex. He took the ferry across the Arun and had a drink in the Dog and Duck. How much has changed? ---------------------------------------------------------
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The Sussex Border Walk - Part Six: Old Goring, the Ilex Way and an Ancient Pub I am continuing my way around the Sussex border. I started from Worthing Pier and travelled westwards. In this episode, I am in Goring-by-sea. I am seeking the older settlement, and find Malthouses, Richard Jeffries house, the fine church, an eighteenth century plantation of Holm oaks and a very old pub. Related video: Richard Jefferies grave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlOG-slho38&t=41s -------------------------
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The Park - Hotham Park, Bognor Regis Today Julia and I are are joined by Lara Sargent in our investigation at parks in West Sussex. We have decided to visit Hotham Park in Bognor Regis. It was established by the founder of Bognor Sir Richard Hotham, who formerly resided at Hotham Park House (built 1792) which still stands today. Since becoming a public park in 1947 Hotham Park continues to be a popular local attraction for residents of the town as well as holiday makers. The park is located near
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In Search of Sussex - In Which I seek a Stream, a College Chapel, an Airport and an Old Bridge Off The Beaten Track by Arthur Stanley Cooke takes me further along the route from Bramber to Shoreham. In this episode, I trace a portion of the Ladywell Stream near Coombes, have a brief look at the chapel at Lancing College, find out the history of the Sussex Pad, grab a view of the old airfield and traverse a bridge at an ancient crossing point. I do hope you will enjoy it. Related videos connected
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