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HOOTON PAGNELL: Doncaster Parish #10 of 43
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Today we come to a Doncaster village that is hidden away from the hustle and bustle of the world. Located away from all the local busy roads, this place has a certain charm that just isn't replicated anywhere else.
As you drive in, you cannot miss the imposing looking structure of it's once mighty Hall with it's turret like gatehouse. You also can't miss the wall that splits this village into a high part and a low part
Flanked everywhere with stone buildings, narrow streets and quaint little features. you would be forgiven for thinking this place doesn't belong in modern day South Yorkshire. In fact, when I first came here some years ago, I thought I was on the set of Emmerdale.
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A (4K) Drivers Eye View Hull to Gilberdyke. Under the Humber Bridge.
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LITTLE SMEATON: Selby Parish #10 of 74
Now we come to the smaller of the two Smeaton brothers but in stark contrast to the larger Kirk Smeaton, this video is actually longer because of a natural feature within its boundaries where this video ends. Yes, this is a much smaller village with a lot less in it than big brother Kirk over the Went, but I found much more to get my teeth into here.
For starters the River Went looked fabulous here, and we cross it twice in this video – once on a road, the second on a footbridge that links the two Smeatons together. It is also on the footpath that one of the quirkiest little features I think I have ever found anywhere is to be seen inside the old red phone box. I won’t give too much away here but watch the video and you’ll likely agree with me!
Kirk Smeaton supplies both villages with most of the amenities here but this village does have the park and playground, whilst the pub, shops and school are all located within a short walking distance by crossing the Went. This parish does have its own council though, separate from its neighbour, and as such there still is a parish noticeboard to chuck a TVI card onto!
The various quarries in the Went Valley area have caused a modicum of distress to locals here, after one in particular planned an expansion which threatened the very existence of Brockadale Nature Reserve – a steep sided gorge formed by glacial ice melt that has never had its sides cultivated in its entire history. The site is home to some rare species of flowers and is heavily protected and maintained voluntarily by the residents of this parish.
It’s there where we finish the video today on a bench that simply invites us to enjoy the view, and in this video, you can too. Welcome to LITTLE SMEATON.
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BURGHWALLIS: Doncaster Parish #15 of 43
There are villages that are beautiful. There are ones which are well maintained. There are ones that are loved and respected by everybody, regardless of whether or not you live there. Then you have this place, which is all three and then some.
Make no mistake, the parish council in charge of this ancient village pull out all the stops to make sure this is welcoming to everybody, resident or not. The village's rich history is preserved as well through various examples of old artefacts like the village pump, still visible in all it's glory on the old village street. The parish even has a road that is linked to the French Revolution by way of it's name, and make no mistake about it, The Abbe's Walk tale is one that you definitely will not find in every video on this channel.
It might be small, but what it has, it makes the most of. Many parishes can say they have a logo, or a symbol, or an emblem but how many can say they have their own village flag, flying proudly above the cenotaph in the centre? I think you would only need the fingers of one hand.
Joined at the hip with Hampole via Robin's Hood's Well being on the border of the two, you won't find many places with the same amount of quirky little features.
Once home to Jeremy Clarkson, click on this video and for the next nine minutes, treat yourself to the delights of the lovely BURGHWALLIS.
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KIRK BRAMWITH: Doncaster Parish #31 of 43
We're not quite finished with the Northern section of Doncaster just yet, and this one's the last one in the combined area of the Moss and District Parish Council area. Whilst Fenwick had the area's only pub, this one has the area's only church, and it' is quite some structure, being an old Norman Church dating from 1120.
Perhaps the standout feature of the church lies inside, and as ever due to Covid, I still have to get inside one, but this one would have been one of the ones I would have liked to have done so at, with the temptation to try to find all 27 mice...you'll have to watch the video to find out what that means! There's also a bell in the tower, all on it's lonesome, which is the oldest bell in the Diocese of Sheffield.
Google Maps reckons you can walk from the main village to the other village in the parish and back in 26 minutes, which I put to the test in this video. Was Google Maps accurate? Normally I would say not 100%, but on this occasion it would seem to be right. A nice walk down the country lanes there and back is punctuated only by the New Junction Canal.
Speaking of the canal, we see it not once but twice here, crossing both a lift bridge like the one in Sykehouse, and a swing bridge, where the road literally rotates. All of this is the backdrop to a pretty pair of villages, one slightly bigger than the other, bit with a combined population of 320 people.
Welcome to the very small, lovely little parish of KIRK BRAMWITH.
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MALTBY: Rotherham Parish #18 of 31
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ASKERN: Doncaster Parish #19 of 43
In the North of Doncaster borough, there are a lot of farms - that's a fact you can't escape. The heavily industrialised areas fade away into open fields and countryside, with more than the odd tractor in your eyeline. The land usage is dominated by agriculture.
So where you might ask, do all these farmers go when they need some food shopping? Well. of course, being on the fringes of a large town, some of course travel South into Doncaster, whilst others prefer to have things delivered to their doors. Those who choose neither though are likely to make use of the abundance of local retailers that you'll find if you take a short stroll though this next parish.
It's a civil parish with town status, much like Maltby, only a lot smaller, about one third of the size in fact. It's even smaller than the last CP we saw with town status - Edlington - and that had an ASDA supermarket. This one has a Co-Op supermarket but most shoppers in this place are drawn more to the local rather than the chain.
For a town, it's rather unique. It's another former mining community with a proud history, but you won't find anywhere else quite like this in South Yorkshire. Nowhere else to my knowledge has a spa pool/boating like in the town centre, and a big one at that. You can't avoid it either, no matter how you might try, you will always notice it from every direction you travel into the town. Also noticeable is the massive water tower, the quaint little church and the railway line connecting Drax power station in Selby with Doncaster.
There's all that and plenty more hidden away in and around the town of ASKERN.
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Askern
Askern is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, England.
MOSS: Doncaster Parish #21 of 43
So if you REALLY like the countryside, these next few Doncaster ones will be right up your street (or should that be field?). The North of the borough is a vast maze of farmland and windy narrow farm tracks that just seem to go on forever. You rally do need to know your way around this area or else you will get lost, and I'll admit, it has been a while since I visited any of the villages in question.
The first one (which you've already seen), Fenwick, was pretty easy to get on with because it's effectively a dead end off the road out of Askern., but now we are starting to get well and truly into the countryside with this one.
Built on farming and equestrianism,, this one is pretty much all housing, with nothing in the way of shops or even a pub, in fact the only pub this village did have has now gone. So you might be asking yourself, what's there, given that there isn't much to have a go at. Truthfully, not a lot but I can make a banquet out of a tin of beans!
I don't think the things this parish has to offer are 100% visual. For example, the area is popular with cyclists (and by chance a few rode by whilst I was there). Then there's the equestrian centre that is hidden away down a path and if it weren't for the sign you'd not know it was there. On the horsey theme, there's also a livery and stables on the main road.
The charm of this village isn't about the landmarks it possesses, it's much more about the land it's built on and how it's used. There's not much there, but I still think you'll enjoy the parish of MOSS.
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HOTHAM: East Riding of Yorkshire Parish #39 of 172
The Eastern end of the M62 motorway, at Junction 38, is two miles Southwest of the beginning of the East Yorkshire Wolds. If you travel from it, though the village of North Cave you’ll find yourself in this place. The village has about 100 houses. It doesn’t have a great deal more than that barring a pub, a church and a village hall
It once belonged to the 1st Baronet and Governor of Hull, and his son, but after he famous siege of Hull by King Charles, it would pass to his grandson, who was aged 13 at the time. Like his grandfather, he would become an MP for the local town of Beverley and went into exile in 1684 after the exclusion crisis.
The church dedicated to St Oswald was designated a Grade II* listed building in 1966 and is now recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Norman in origin it has a short West tower of the early 12th century and one Early English window in the nave. The chancel was rebuilt 1904-5 by the Hull architect F.S. Brodrick.
A bus shelter isn’t usually something we’d be calling notable but this one here sure is! It was completed in November 2001 as part of the village’s commemoration of the second millennium. There’s an avenue of trees too, and those coupled with the shelter are just two of the things that were done for the millennium. Somewhere in the village there’s a time capsule buried.
This is a delightful village all in all but I just wish I’d had a better day for it. It was very very cold when I visited a village with HOT in its name. This is HOTHAM.
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FENWICK: Doncaster Parish #20 of 43
Ah, the glorious British countryside. Full of all things good for the soul. Wide open spaces, lush green fields, fresh country air (if you can deal with the smell of animals and fertilizer that is), and above all peace and quiet. All of those things are what I grew up with, and it's part of the reason why I likes doing this so much. It's no surprise then that in today's parish, I felt right at home.
In the North of Doncaster, you'll find plenty of tiny communities just like this one where you probably have to drive a good two or three miles just to get to the nearest shop. Amenities may be limited and if you're not a fan of driving you can these days have stuff delivered of course. A lot of people would rather hop on a bike and enjoy the fresh air though.
Now, places like these aren't boring. They still have some history to go with them, and even though it was a little hard to read and interpret thanks to a rather large insect, the old phone box here provides this village with a place to display theirs. That's before you've considered the Pinfold Garden which in itself is a historical feature.
We haven't completely left civilisation though, because there is a main railway line here, in fact one of the country's most important ones at that- the East Coast Main Line from Edinburgh to London. Trains whistle through this parish on their way to Doncaster, a regular stop for the high speed bullets. The small graveyard in almost the middle of nowhere left behind after the church it belonged to was demolished is just one of those little quirky things about this parish too.
Only the second one on the channel so far that TVI has never been to before, this is the tiny - yet loveable - FENWICK.
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WOMERSLEY: Selby Parish #27 of 74
With a DN6 postcode, this is one of just two settlements in the district of Selby whose post town is Doncaster, the other we will meet next week. It doesn’t have a great deal, but that’s part of its rural charm. It does have however, a place of worship in the gorgeous St Martin's Church, which is a Grade I listed building
Speaking of listed buildings, the Grade II listed Park and the adjoining coach-house and stables dominate the centre of the village. The estate belonged to Lord Roche and throughout history there were important visitors to the estate who came by train here including the Queen Mother
Gale Common was a disposal site for ash from Eggborough Power Station which until recently could be seen from the village until it was demolished. At the time of writing this episode, only the chimney stack remains. There’s a fierce battle being fought at present to prevent extraction from the site. The residents main concern for this is that the serene and peaceful village you see before you would be transformed by the movements of HGVs as they leave and arrive at the site travelling to and from to the A19.
There’s some interesting bits in this one. The Courtyard Tea Rooms was originally built in the 1940’s as a NAAFI, hence the simple nature of the structure. Then there’s a railway station situated on the Askern Branch Line. It was opened in 1848 and closed to passenger traffic back in September 1948. The platforms have since been demolished, but the railway line through the site is still open and in regular use.
The Domesday Book records this one as “Wilmerslye”. We know it as WOMERSLEY.
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Forgotten Spas of Yorkshire
We've all heard of Harrogate, Ilkley and Scarborough - but what about Slaithwaite, Askern or Wetherby? They've all had them, but only shone brightly for a very short time - mostly 1820-1890 and then disappeared.
Others like Ripon came on far too late 1904/1905 and places like Boston Spa were left behind by the age of steam - although that mode of transport didn't help Goathland (North York Moors) that didn't even have a spa spring - although has the 70ft high Mallyan Spour waterfall!
SOUTHEND ON SEA ROUND-UP
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It's been a while I know, but finally the SOUTHEND ON SEA ROUND-UP video is here!
Using information that's been sent to me by all you lovely people out there, this is the video that catches all those comments and anecdotes and whatever else you wanted me to talk about, that I either missed or got wrong in Leigh on Sea, the only parish of SOUTHEND ON SEA!
I detail anything and everything you guys wanted me to! I love putting your areas on display and I've enjoyed receiving all your lovely comments!
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CROMWELL: Newark and Sherwood Parish #20 of 84
This village lies along the Great North Road – the former route of the A1, and is joined to the modern A1 at both ends by the old road. The old A1 was bypassed here in 1965, and this stretch was built by Robert McGregor & Sons, as part of an Improvement scheme from North Muskham to Carlton on Trent.
It was the trial location for the slip-form paver. It laid unreinforced and reinforced concrete carriageways with dowelled contraction and expansion joints. Just to the east of the village is a lock, which marks the point where the tidal River Trent begins. Between the village and the Trent there’s an extensive area of Roman fields
It currently has no school. Children have attended school in North Muskham since 1880 after a large school was constructed there. However, there used to be a schoolroom here before then. It was established in the Rectory barn in 1848 and flourished until 1880, when despite protests, it was closed.
The Duke of Newcastle was the principal owner, lord of the manor, and patron of the rectory. Speaking of the rectory, that building is quite interesting all by itself. In 1983 it opened as a doll museum, named The Vina Cooke Museum of Dolls and Bygone Childhood, and it was curated by Vina Cooke-Chambers, who amassed the collection within.
Sharing its name with a very famous Oliver, this is CROMWELL.
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OWSTON: Doncaster Parish #23 of 43
I am eternally grateful for parish boundaries being weird at times. That's mainly because you sometimes rock up to a place and think OK, this is quite small, this one won't take long to do...and whilst that's great for knocking another one off the list, it can be a little disappointing given that the resulting video on YouTube is really short (Gildingwells in Rotherham is only four minutes long).
However, when you have boundaries that cover an area several times the size of the main village, then you can unearth some treasures, and none more so than in today's video. The main village is tiny, and you can walk around it in literally five minutes...maybe even one minute if you run. It's a charming little place situated in the grounds of a Hall and with a pleasant little church it's a nice spot hidden away off the A19.
This one gets bulked out though by it's massive parish reach. The boundaries cover lots of open farmland to the East, and take in the hamlets of Holme and partially Haywood, with it's lovely 19th century church now converted into a dwelling. It may be over the border ever so slightly, but there was no way I wasn't going to that on the channel!
To finish, the parish also covers something of a train-spotters mecca - Joan Croft Junction - a place that I have personal experiences of having had a job that required me to use one of the last remaining hand operated level crossing gates on the East Coast Main Line.
All this is found by looking on Google Maps and being a little inquisitive about the parish of OWSTON.
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HIGH MELTON: Doncaster Parish #17 of 43
Don't adjust your sets, today's video is going up earlier than it's usual 4pm slot because I have some errands to run around that time later.
Today we get a look at another village in Doncaster. This one is home to a few things that might be of interest, but there's one particular feature that eclipses the others. That feature is the huge former college campus right in the centre of the village that used to belong to Doncaster College. It has since been sold, and will soon be putting Doncaster on the map in the TV and film industry.
The imposing buildings that make up the college campus all still stand and in this video we do get a little sneak peek at some of them, seeing as you can find yourself accessing the site through the church...weirdly, no signs tell you you're about to enter private land.
Speaking of land, this place has an abundance of woodland areas within it's boundaries, the most notable of which is an actual wood in the parish's extreme North Eastern corner, but look around you anywhere here and you'll see trees. The whole village once used to be part of a much bigger, denser wood until some of it was cleared by various historical groups.
Old buildings? Yep there's lots of those too, plenty of old stone houses and farms, including the Hall, which is designated by Doncaster Council as being the centre of the conservation area that encapsulates the parish. There's a rather gruesome tale behind one of the street names in this village too, involving some sheep rustling and a noose that caused the perpetrator to hang himself. Nasty stuff but it's things like that I come to find out about!
See if you can find anything else to add to the account I've given to the woodland wonder of HIGH MELTON.
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My name is Andy. I am armed with a car, a GoPro and an unhealthy amount of time on my hands.
Join me as I try to visit every single parish in the borough of Doncaster. There are 43. Here's the SEVENTEENTH one - High Melton.
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Barnburgh and Harlington Parish Council:
Great British Life:
Historic England:
Doncaster Council:
I have me a Facebook page too!
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