Places to see in ( Knighton - UK )
Places to see in ( Knighton - UK )
Knighton is a small market town in Powys, Wales, on the River Teme and the English-Welsh border. Knighton railway station, as well as a small part of the town, is in Shropshire, England. The name derives from the Old English for A settlement of servants. This Anglo-Saxon settlement later became a Norman fortified town. Tref-y-clawdd, its Welsh name, means town on the dyke (i.e. Offa's Dyke) and was first recorded in 1262.
The name Knighton probably derives from the Old English words cniht and tūn meaning, respectively, ... a soldier, personal follower, young man, servant, thane, freeman and ... farm, settlement, homestead. This implies that the settlement was perhaps founded as the result of a grant of land to freemen.
Knighton is known for a well-preserved section of Offa's Dyke. Intriguingly, Wat's Dyke also runs parallel to Offa's Dyke and a few miles to the east. An earthwork that runs north-south along the English/Welsh border from Basingwerk near Holywell to Oswestry. The dykes aside, two Norman castles, constructed in the 12th century, are the oldest survivors in modern Knighton.
Knighton first prospered as a centre of the wool trade in the 15th century and was later an important point on the two drover routes from Montgomery to Hereford, and from London to Aberystwyth. Otherwise, Knighton was remote from the centres of commerce. It seemed likely that the railway revolution would also fail to reach the town; the 1840s and 1850s saw considerable railway building right across Great Britain but Radnorshire had a small population and little industry.
On the last Saturday in August the town holds its annual Carnival and Show, which attracts thousands of visitors to the town from all over the world. It features two parades, one at midday, and another at around 8 pm; these consist of various themed carnival floats and people dressed in fancy dress. The show takes place at the town's showground at Bryn-y-Castell; also home to Knighton Town F.C., Knighton Cricket Club and Knighton Hockey Club.
Knighton Community Centre is the towns largest venue and plays host to many events such as discos, performances, wrestling, bands, artists along with local clubs and organisations. Just outside Knighton and visible for many miles, is an observatory with a telescope, Europe's largest camera obscura and a planetarium.
Knighton is at the centre or the start of two National Trails; Glyndŵr's Way and Offa's Dyke Path. The Offa's Dyke Association has a visitors' centre in the town alongside the site of the ceremony at which John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Llanfair Waterdine inaugurated the long distance footpath in 1971.
Knighton is 137 miles (220 km) from the UK capital city, London; 86 miles (138 km) from the Welsh capital of Cardiff; and, 19 miles (31 km) from the county town, Llandrindod Wells. For the smaller part of Knighton that is in Shropshire, the district administrative centre of Ludlow is 16 miles (26 km) distant and the county town of Shrewsbury is 34 miles (55 km) away. The town is remote but is connected with the following towns and villages.
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WELLS CATHEDRAL SOMERSET UK
Wells Cathedral is set in the medieval heart of England’s smallest city and is the earliest English cathedral to be built in the Gothic style. The current building was erected between the 12th and 15th centuries and is a significant landmark in Somerset and the South West.
Places to see in ( Warminster - UK )
Places to see in ( Warminster - UK )
Warminster is a town and civil parish in western Wiltshire, England, by-passed by the A36 and the partly concurrent A350 between Westbury and Blandford Forum. The River Were runs through the town and can be seen running through the middle of the town park. The Minster Church of St Denys sits on the River Were. The name Warminster first occurs in the early 10th century.
Warminster is located in south-west Wiltshire, near to the Somerset border. The town is surrounded by six hills, providing shelter and security for early settlers. The area is made up of chalk, which provides good drainage to the nearby River Wylye, providing plenty of arable and pasturable land near to the village. The Wylye is a tributary of the River Avon. Warminster is also close to Selwood Forest.
As Warminster is in an area of fertile land, much of its early economy was through farming, especially corn. William Daniell commented in 1879 that Warminster lay 'in the midst of a fine corn-country', and Warminster's market provided the backbone of the economy through the 16th to 19th centuries. Warminster's clothing trade suffered greatly in the early 19th century, as there was no suitable river to power machinery during a period of industrialisation.
Warminster has a number of local venues which facilitate cultural events for the community. This includes a library, museum, five theatres and cinemas, eleven halls and a number of pubs. There are many festivals and events held annually within the area including Warminster festival, Vintage bus run and heritage open days. Warminster is twinned with Flers in France.
Close by to Warminster is stately home Longleat, which has included Longleat Safari Park since 1966; the first drive-through safari park outside Africa, home to over 500 animals, including giraffe, monkeys, rhino, lion, tigers and wolves. The town includes a theatre, the Warminster Athenaeum, an 1858 Grade II listed building. The Warminster Lake Pleasure Grounds were laid out in 1924 and facilities include tennis courts, play area and boating lake. They were officially opened by the Marquess of Bath on Saturday 26 July 1924.
The east of the town is situated along the A36 road and the Warminster service station is on the route. The Warminster railway station, opened in September 1851, is managed by Great Western Railway
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Places to see in ( Chard - UK )
Places to see in ( Chard - UK )
Chard is a town and a civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It lies on the A30 road near the Devon border, 15 miles south west of Yeovil. Chard is the southernmost and one of the highest towns in Somerset. Administratively Chard forms part of the district of South Somerset.
The name of the town was Cerden in 1065 and Cerdre in the Domesday Book of 1086. After the Norman Conquest, Chard was held by the Bishop of Wells. The town's first charter was from King John in 1234. Most of the town was destroyed by fire in 1577, and it was further damaged during the English Civil War. A 1663 will by Richard Harvey of Exeter established Almshouses known as Harvey's Hospital. In 1685 Chard was one of the towns in which Judge Jeffreys held some of the Bloody Assizes after the failure of the Monmouth Rebellion.
Textile manufacture was important to the town during the Middle Ages. Chard is the birthplace of powered flight as in 1848 John Stringfellow first demonstrated that engine-powered flight was possible. Percy and Ernist Petter, who formed Westland Aircraft Works, witnessed some of Stringfellow's demonstrations in Chard and often asked for help in the formation of Westland's first aircraft development factory on the outskirts of Yeovil. AgustaWestland now holds the Henson and Stringfellow lecture yearly for the RAeS. James Gillingham developed articulated artificial limbs. Chard is a key point on the Taunton Stop Line, a World War II defensive line.
The Chard Canal was a tub boat canal built between 1835 and 1842. Chard Branch Line was created in 1860 to connect the two London and South Western Railway and Bristol and Exeter Railway main lines and ran through Chard until 1965.
Local folklore relates that the town has a very unusual and unique feature: a stream running along either side of Fore Street. One stream eventually flows into the Bristol Channel and the other reaches the English Channel. Chard Reservoir, approximately a mile north east of the town, is a Local Nature Reserve, and Snowdon Hill Quarry a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest. Major employers in the town include Numatic International Limited and the Oscar Mayer food processing plant. There are a range of sporting and cultural facilities, with secondary education being provided at Holyrood Academy; religious sites including the Church of St Mary the Virgin which dates from the late 11th century.
From 1842 Chard was the terminus of the Chard Canal, a tub boat canal that joined the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal at Creech St. Michael. It had four aqueducts, three tunnels and four inclined planes along its 13.5-mile (21.7 km) length.
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Lakeside Lodge with Hot Tub at Water Meadow Lodges, Crewkerne Somerset
Lakeside Lodge with Hot Tub at Water Meadow Lodges, Crewkerne Somerset.
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CREWKERNE STATION WHEN FARE TO LONDON WAS £16 RETURN
These two BLOKES go round finding bridges full of CRACKS - then they put big pipes right through them and 'pull them TOGETHER'. It is like those by metail Xs you see on older houses. These blokes are fixing the Bridge at Crewkerne in Somersetshire.
Places to see in ( Ilminster - UK )
Places to see in ( Ilminster - UK )
Ilminster is a town and civil parish in the countryside of south west Somerset, England, with a population of 5,808. Bypassed in 1988, the town now lies just east of the junction of the A303 and the A358. The parish includes the village of Peasmarsh and the hamlet of Sea.
lminster is mentioned in documents dating from 725 and in a Charter granted to the Abbey of Muchelney (10 miles (16 km) to the north) by King Ethelred in 995. Ilminster is also mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) as Ileminstre meaning 'The church on the River Isle' from the Old English ysle and mynster. By this period Ilminster was a flourishing community and was granted the right to hold a weekly market, which it still does. Ilminster was part of the hundred of Abdick and Bulstone.
In 1645 during the English Civil War Ilminster was the scene of a skirmish between parliamentary troops under Edward Massie and Royalist forces under Lord Goring who fought for control of the bridges prior to the Battle of Langport. The town contains the buildings of a sixteenth-century grammar school, the Ilminster Meeting House, which acts as the town's art gallery and concert hall. There is also a Gospel Hall.
Ilminster is close to the River Isle and the A303 road. Along with the rest of South West England, Ilminster has a temperate climate which is generally wetter and milder than the rest of the country. The annual mean temperature is approximately 10 °C (50.0 °F).
Ilminster takes its name from the River Isle and its large church of St Mary, which is known as The Minster. The Hamstone building dates from the 15th century, but was refurbished in 1825 by William Burgess and the chancel restored in 1883. Further restoration took place in 1887-89 and 1902. Among the principal features are the Wadham tombs; those of Sir William Wadham and his mother, dated 1452 and Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham 1609 and 1618.
Ilminster used to have a station on the Chard Branch Line but this closed in 1962. There were also some sidings, to allow trains going in opposite directions to pass each other. minster lies just East of the junction of the A303 (London to Exeter) and the A358 (Taunton to Chard and Axminster). The B3168 runs through the middle of the town and is used as a bypass. There have been concerns of the safety of roads in Ilminster .
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Places to see in ( Bridport - UK )
Places to see in ( Bridport - UK )
Bridport is a market town in Dorset, England, situated approximately 1.5 miles inland from the English Channel near the confluence of the small River Brit and its tributary the Asker. Bridport origins are Saxon and it has a long history as a rope-making centre, though many of its buildings date from the 18th century.
On the coast and within the town's boundary is West Bay, a small fishing harbour previously known as Bridport Harbour. In the 21st century Bridport's arts scene has contributed to the town becoming increasingly popular with people from outside the locality. It has an arts centre, theatre, library, cinema and museum, and several annual events. It features as Port Bredy in the fictional Wessex of Thomas Hardy's novels.
Bridport is in the county of Dorset in South West England, in the West Dorset district. Measured directly, it is about 14 miles (23 km) west of the county town Dorchester, 15.5 miles (25 km) SSW of Yeovil in Somerset, 33 miles (53 km) east of Exeter in Devon and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) inland from the English Channel at West Bay.
The coast at Bridport is part of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site that covers a continuous 96 miles (154 km) of coastline in Dorset and neighbouring east Devon. All of the town is also within the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a protected landscape designation of national significance. The town's most notable landmark is the conical Colmers Hill, its distinctive shape and small clump of summit trees being very noticeable from West Street. Bridport is a Met Office coastal weather observation point.
The A35 trunk road between Honiton and Southampton passes around the centre of Bridport on a bypass. Bridport railway station was closed in May 1975, along with the Bridport - Maiden Newton branch line. The nearest railway stations to Bridport are Maiden Newton, Crewkerne, Dorchester and Axminster. The nearest international airports are Exeter and Bournemouth.
Within the parishes of Bridport, Allington, Bradpole and Bothenhampton are 514 structures that are listed by Historic England for their historical or architectural interest. Three of these are listed as Grade I (the designation of highest significance), seventeen are Grade II*, and the rest are Grade II. The three Grade I structures are Bridport Town Hall, the Parish Church of St Mary, and Holy Trinity Old Church in Bothenhampton. The seventeen Grade II* structures are: Bridport Museum, The Chantry and Daniel Taylor's almshouses (and wall of the Friend's burial place) in South Street; No.34 and Granville House in West Street; the Literary and Scientific Institute (the old library), Granby House Masonic Hall, No.9 and the walls to the garden behind No.74 in East Street; Nos.133-139 (one structure) and the Church of St Swithun in North Allington; Nos.27 and 29 (one structure) in West Allington; Downe Hall in Rawles Way; the unitarian chapel in Rax Lane; Berry Farmhouse on Lower Walditch Lane; Messrs Norman goods warehouse in West Bay; and the new Holy Trinity Church in Bothenhampton.
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CRACK COCAINE - no Crack Crewkerne - Fixed SOMERSET uk
When I went to Crewkerne Station this morning the repaired bridge was there in all its glory. The first film of this (also on YouTube - called CRACK Crewkerne - NOT COCAINE!) showed two men working on the bridge. This is their finished effort. (no drugs were used in the making of this video)
I asked them if this was in preparation for putting down the second line and doing away with having to wait for up trains and down trains to get through on the 'single track'. The workers said they knew 'nothing' about this.
Ah well - here's hoping!
A COLOURFUL WALK AROUND CULVERCLIFFE MINEHEAD SOMERSET 8 JULY 2022
Getting out, enjoying the local scenery on a fine summer's day.
The Seavington Hunt arrives at the Market Square in Crewkerne
The Crewkerne Christmas Pram Race
Somerset Routes: Hamstone Line
Langport - Yeovil - Crewkerne - Chard - Muchelney
Taking its name from the distinctive honey-coloured stone quarried in the area, the circular Hamstone Line incorporates 55 miles of history and heritage. Discover stately homes and beautiful gardens nestled between traditional orchards and rural villages.
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Walton and Street, Somerset, UK (4K, 3840x2160, 60fps)
Driving on A39, Walton, Main Street, Quarry Batch, Westway, Westway Roundabout, Street Roundabout, Street, B3151, Glaston Road, Somerton Road.
Walton is a village and civil parish, on the Polden Hills, 1.5 miles west of Street in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. The parish includes the hamlet of Asney.
Street is a large village and civil parish in Somerset, England, with a population of 11,805 in 2011. On a dry spot in the Somerset Levels, at the end of the Polden Hills, it is 2 miles south-west of Glastonbury. There is evidence of Roman occupation.
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Three Peaks Challenge 2010 Crewkerne RFC
A Short Video Documenting Crewkerne RFC's Senior Mountaineering Divisions 2010 Fund Raising Challenge To Climb The Highest Mountains In England, Scotland And Wales Within 24hrs.
All 21 Dorset Railway Stations (visiting EVERY station)
Every Dorset railway station. All 21 National Rail stations in the county of Dorset, England (UK). South Western Railway, Great Western Railway and Cross Country serve the stations of Dorset.
The stations in Dorset along with the operator that manages the station and the date I last visited the station:
Bournemouth (South Western Railway) 07/07/2021
Branksome (South Western Railway) 07/07/2021
Chetnole (Great Western Railway) 30/08/2022
Christchurch (South Western Railway) 06/07/2021
Dorchester South (South Western Railway) 27/07/2019
Dorchester West (Great Western Railway) 27/07/2019
Gillingham (South Western Railway) 16/07/2019
Hamworthy (South Western Railway) 07/07/2021
Holton Heath (South Western Railway) 27/07/2019
Maiden Newton (Great Western Railway) 27/07/2019
Moreton (South Western Railway) 27/07/2019
Parkstone (South Western Railway) 07/07/2021
Pokesdown (South Western Railway) 07/07/2021
Poole (South Western Railway) 07/07/2021
Sherborne (South Western Railway) 19/07/2018
Thornford (Great Western Railway) 15/07/2019
Upwey (South Western Railway) 27/07/2019
Wareham (South Western Railway) 27/07/2019
Weymouth (South Western Railway) 30/08/2022
Wool (South Western Railway) 27/07/2019
Yetminster (Great Western Railway) 30/08/2022
Each station within the video is shown with station name and the 3 letter station code. Note that only National Rail stations are included and Corfe Castle is not included as it has not received a National Rail SWR service since 2019.
This video includes all the stations in Dorset in January 2023.
All 19 Dorset stations: 00:00
Bournemouth 00:05
Branksome 00:09
Chetnole 00:13
Christchurch 00:17
Dorchester South 00:21
Dorchester West 00:25
Gillingham 00:29
Hamworthy 00:33
Holton Heath 00:37
Maiden Newton 00:41
Moreton 00:45
Parkstone 00:49
Pokesdown 00:53
Poole 00:57
Sherborne 01:01
Thornford 01:05
Upwey 01:09
Wareham 01:13
Weymouth 01:17
Wool 01:21
Yetminster 01:25
Endscreen 01:29
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UK Mainline and Heritage Railway Highlights 2021
As 2022 fast approaches, we can cast our mind back over the last 12 months and look at some of the highlights on the UK's national and heritage railway network. 2021 saw a bounce back into normality following numerous lockdowns and restrictions throughout 2020, with the majority of heritage railways opening their doors once again to visitors during year.
2021 also saw the final goodbye to HST services on the Midland Mainline, as well as a farewell to LNER A4 60009 'Union of South Africa's time in traffic. The year did also bring a hello to a selection of steam locomotives returning to service, such as L&Y Claas 25 957 and GWR Small Prairie Tank 5553, in addition to BR Class 50 50044 'Exeter' making an active return to the mainline since 2012. With one A4 out, another A4 shortly comes back in, with 60007 'SIr Nigel Gresley' leaving the National Railway Museum in York for the final stretch of her overhaul to be completed in Crewe.
2022 is already shaping up to be a headline year, with even more locomotives returning to traffic, as well as plenty of upcoming events, both on the heritage and national rail networks...stay tuned...!
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EMR Class 43 HST 43102 'The Journey Shrinker'
GWR 94xx Pannier Tank 9466
BR Class 04 D2245
LNER A4 60009 'Union of South Africa'
LNER V2 4771 'Green Arrow'
GNR C1 Atlantic 251
Southern Bulleid Light Pacific 34053 'Sir Keith Park' (As 34095 'Brentor)
BR Class 31 31430 'Sister Dora'
GB Railfreight 69002 'Bob Tiller CM&EE'
Hudswell Clarke Austerity Tank 68067
L&Y Class 25 957 'The Green Dragon'
Midland 4F 43924
BR Class 31 31128 'Charybdis'
WCRC Class 33 33029
BR Class 09 09017
LNER A4 60007/4489 'Sir Nigel Gresley
GWR 45xx Prairie Tank 5521 (L150)
BR Class 20 20227 'Sherlock Holmes'
Southern Merchant Navy 35028 'Clan Line'
GWR 4575 Class Small Prairie Tank 5553
BR Class 44 D8 'Penyghent'
BR Class 50 50044 'Exeter'
BR Class 50 50007 'Hercules'
VIDEO CONTENTS
0:00 - 43102 - East Midlands Parkway
0:57 - 9466 - Shottle
1:49 - D2245 - Murton Park
2:57 - 60009 - Irwell Vale
4:04 - 4771 & 251 - Doncaster
4:52 - 34053 (As 34095) - Eridge
5:45 - 69002 - London Waterloo
7:00 - 68067 - Quorn & Woodhouse
8:49 - 957 - Keighley
9:24 - 957 & 43924 - Keighley
10:21 - 31128 & 33029 - Church Fenton
10:51 - 60007/4498 - York NRM
11:10 - 5521 (L150) - North Weald
11:50 - 35028 - Horsted Keynes
12:47 - 5553 - Rowsley South
14:05 - 50044 & 50007 - Doncaster