American Reacts to How English Counties Got Their Names

Hello! I'm an American on a quest to learn more about the universe. In this video I learn the origins of all the English counties - the ones I could find on a map in my previous video, but not pronounce (mostly). Interesting to learn the Roman, Saxon, and Viking origins of the names, and the things they're derived from. If you enjoyed this video, please like and subscribe!
00:00 - Intro
02:01 - Reaction
23:29 - Outro
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[@neilgayleard3842]

The victory was built in Kent.

[@claveworks]

More stuff on the bridge than you you could ever want to know, but it's quite famous: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppS2nJ-QpNmoi9E

[@pipercharms7374]

ford is not really used much however we know what it means in general because of our history and books to with our history or books that take place in those times which ford is mentioned enough times for us for us to remember it XD

[@SoGal_YT]

@Global First Amendment. It's actually Valley Forge, not Ford :) But good reasoning anyway, haha.

[@claveworks]

@@pipercharms7374 "No human remains have been found, but stone tools discovered at Happisburgh in Norfolk and Pakefield in Suffolk reveal a human presence between 950,000 and 700,000 years ago. Scientists have even discovered a preserved trail of footprints left by a small group of these people as they walked along the mudflats of an estuary." Well... it looks like we have been crossing rivers here for a while.....

[@MoreUniqueThanMost]

The guy doing the voice over pronounces Berkshire and Derbyshire with a hard e. Nobody I know pronounces these places like that. They're pronounced BArkshire and DArbyshire.

[@mikedakin2016]

why is there a clown with a speech defect telling everyone how to pronounce the county names. Is it meant as a joke ?

[@davidfrost1961]

I noticed that he's not local

[@eddisstreet]

And Northampton is a town not a city

[@andrewclayton4181]

He also screwed up Tyne and Wear. It rhymes with Beer not Hair!

[@SoGal_YT]

I remember people telling me in my other video that's how to pronounce those places, so I did find it odd he was saying it differently. I didn't want to bring it up in the video though, on the off chance I would sound like an idiot. Good to know my instinct was correct, ha.

[@ftumschk]

4:07 As Eddie Izzard put it: "The Mayflower set sail from Plymouth and landed in... Plymouth. How lucky was that?"

[@davidfrost1961]

LOL

[@keithcornish5073]

"humm! we must've gone round in a circle"

[@citizenavatar]

Ha ha ha

[@chrislawley6801]

Waving off a group of religious puritans from Plymouth in 1620 thinking never hear from them again. What a mistake to make 🤣

[@jasonritchie8475]

It actually began it's journey from the port of Immingham, in Lincolnshire, on the East Coast of England, but then stopped at Plymouth for more provisions, before continuing its Trans Atlantic expedition

[@Osk.S57]

I remember when the "county" of Greater Manchester was created in the 70s. Suddenly i wasn't a person who lived in Lancashire, i was someone from Greater Manchester. To this day i still write down my address and end it with Lancashire. Rightly or wrongly people are proud of their county.

[@MrHws5mp]

Same, but with Cheshire. I take the view that 'Greater Manchester' is a temporary aberation (it's only been around for 47 years for God's sake!) and will be abolished as soon as people come to their senses. ;-)

[@hackdaniels7253]

Same, but Huntingdonshire.

[@G1NZOU]

@@MrHws5mp same, Greater London actually makes sense but I'm not in favour of Manchester doing the same with it's surrounding area, there's more distinction between the regions around there so it's better to keep the old counties people know and love to identify with.

[@MrHws5mp]

@@G1NZOU Yeah, on the one hand, where I live is definitely one of the 'satellite towns' of Manchester, but on the other hand, you can draw a clear and sensible boundary between there and here too.

[@stevored1989]

@@MrHws5mp Greater Manchester was abolished in 1995, when the Local Government Authority Areas were re-drawn and some towns/cities became Unit Authorities.

[@Groovemeister]

Not to forget the fact that the Shire was policed by a Reeve, Shire Reeve - where you get sheriff.

[@blackbob3358]

come now, mr Browning, a bit more levity please !

[@Someloke8895]

The lesser James Bond, introduction.

[@creamcheesejoe]

I dispute the narrators nationality! He called Derbyshire "DURbyshire" when surely every Englishman knows it's pronounced "DARBYshire"

[@Rob-fs8vq]

I used to live in Durby St.(Derby St,) which is how a Bristolian would pronounce it.

[@adamdruett9107]

Also the wear river is pronounced weer

[@bmw540i]

@@Rob-fs8vq but you do call Bristol “Brisole” 😂😂👍

[@Rob-fs8vq]

@@bmw540i I'd say that most Bristolians would call it Bristull, but never Brizzle, as many seem to think.

[@bmw540i]

@@Rob-fs8vq I’ve heard it called bris ol

[@jackbrew1]

The Romans and Scandinavians “kinda settled” is putting it very politely 😝

[@ruadhagainagaidheal9398]

Yeah, “Settled” by chopping off the heads of those already living here.

[@treubuchet]

Oh, less us not forget our French cousins too. If not for them, we'd eat mutton, not lamb etc.

[@gaius6187]

*Hehe Roma est Invicta*

[@alisonsmith4801]

Yeah my little town was perfectly happy with as a Celtic settlement it's original name, then the Roman's came marching in and built a big garrison, and gave us a new name, then when they marched off again along came the Vikings sailing up the Tyne and gave us our present name. 3 diffrent names.

[@chrislawley6801]

@@alisonsmith4801 and you still wonderful individual people on the Tyne north or south of the river. Maybe leave that to explain to SoGal at a later time 😆

[@derrisreaditbefore]

I wish more people had your approach and attitude to learning. Your willingness to walk into a subject and allow others to see how little you already know, is so utterly refreshing. This is literally what learning is for. Thank you for asking for, listening to, and accepting new information. The world needs more of you.

[@mothmagic1]

There's no doubt that Sarah is keen to learn anything she can

[@lumpyfishgravy]

"One afternoon I just decided to learn all the places on a map" - I like this Gal even more now. So many people are missing out on the joy of maps!

[@stephendavies1585]

your curiosity and respect is wonderful to see always.

[@richardscales9560]

He does have some odd pronounciation. Derby is usually as darby. Tyne and Wear like we're not ware. Surprised he didn't mention Kent was the home o the Celtic tribe of Cantii.

[@vaudevillian7]

Definitely a southerner, as he himself points out, but then he said Berkshire strangely

[@neilgayleard3842]

He did mention Kent briefly. He didn't call it the garden of England.

[@mattierenton701]

yes the tyne thing got me too in scotland we say weer to me it sounds like a scottish word lol

[@zarabada6125]

@@mattierenton701 The name Wear is believed to derive from a Celtic word, so it would make sense if it sounds Scottish.

[@mattierenton701]

@@zarabada6125 ahhh of course why didn’t I make the connection duh...Thankyou 😉

[@bill8784]

The “berk” in Berkshire is most definitely pronounced “bark”. The only times I have heard it pronounced “berk” has been by our American friends.

[@davidgill2592]

Not forgetting that "Berk" also refers to someone who is not too bright - very appropriate for the narrator of the video featured.

[@62mandog]

"Berk" is simultaneously rhyming slang and a euphemism (Berkshire Hunt) Berkhamsted is also pronounced berk. Berkshire and Berkeley are pronounced "bark". Also "j-ing" the d and "f-ing" the th indicate that the narrator is English and attempting an approximation of RP or SBE without being naturally conversant with these accents.

[@ikarus_incarnate]

hmmmmmI have diversley known it to be Berkshire. it was also shortened and incorporated into Cockney parlance... if you disdained at somemeone you would call him a Berkshire hunt, a c**t...! shortened to Berk! as in " did you see that Berk who cut me up at the intersection !? "

[@Kestrel1971]

Yes, HMS Victory is located at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth.

[@johnmunson201]

Yes, it is - but I think the aerial view shown at that point in the video was of Southampton!

[@gavintjames1989]

@@johnmunson201 it is 100% Southampton in that Ariel view with the river itchen, itchen bridge and the St Mary's stadium.

[@Ozzpot]

Somebody pointed out in a video like this recently, that there is a US state called New Hampshire that Americans have no problem pronouncing exactly as we do in the UK. But put "shire" on the end of an English county, and Americans turn themselves inside out trying to pronounce it. It's very odd! 😅

[@eddiegaltek]

@Lisa Smith No, the yanks have been getting is wrong for years; long before LoTR came out.

[@SoGal_YT]

@Lisa Smith I haven't seen Lord of the Rings. For me it's just because it's in another country, so I wasn't even thinking about it being pronounced the same way. It's dumb, but it's a real problem we have, lol.

[@chrislawley6801]

I love to hear how Americans say Worcestershire sauce 😁 : )

[@pilgrim....]

Woostchestershire sauce works every time .

[@blackbob3358]

@@SoGal_YT sure, there's buffoons on here who deride you. just turn it around,love, and they'l soon shut their trap if you give'em some beauties to pronounce from o'yonder... fancy you're used to it, anyway.

[@RichardHare]

…Berkshire being pronounced BARK-shire..! 🙂

[@Ozzpot]

I can't believe the author of the video got that wrong!

[@mermaidman1985]

Hertfordshire is also pronounced Hertfordshire and as a fella from Sunderland Wear is pronounced Weer

[@s.rmurray8161]

@@Ozzpot what a berk!

[@1882osr]

​@@Ozzpot It's just how most Southerners pronounce it.

[@chrislawley6801]

Berk

[@hyperdog4565]

that bridge at 7:22 was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. You should do a video on him, his life and engineering is extremely fascinating.

[@Beedo_Sookcool]

Seconded! Still got some remnants of his atmospheric railway around our neck of the woods.

[@MegAndJas]

The “car” beneath the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol (where I was born and raised) is for maintenance, primarily painting. At night it is illuminated. It was designed by Britain’s greatest engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel in circa 1855.

[@michaelteasdale4708]

What happened to Westmoreland??

[@richard6440]

@@michaelteasdale4708 . It formed an administrative county between 1889 and 1974, after which the whole county was administered by the new administrative county of Cumbria.

[@blackbob3358]

it's all in yer head , mr Tweedy.. Do hope ya get the ref. worry yee not, we'll all be a number, in a while...an Orwellian future awaits ya... .i'll be dead.

[@nuclearpiez2986]

9:08, that's a movie set that they used for Lord of the Rings, it's called Hobbiton in New Zealand and you can actually go there and I think you are allowed to go inside the houses.

[@antonycharnock2993]

There were actual cave houses near BIrmingham(Kinver) which may have inspired Tolkien. These are now a museum.

[@jackphillips6742]

Hobbiton is stunning. And worth going to, but to be quite honest I find the Wairere Water Falls (maybe a 20 minute drive away) to be the highlight attraction of the local region. There's also the stunning Blue Spring in Putaaruru. Morrinsville another small town in the area, has large cow statues everywhere painted by local artists. Source: I live roughly 30 minutes from Hobbiton. Kia ora from New Zealand.

[@darthwiizius]

@@jackphillips6742 But who had concrete cows first? I'll guess Milton Keynes.

[@collsmad]

In fact a lot of Tolkien's work was inspired when his son attended Stonyhurst College at Hurst Green in Lancashire.

[@antonycharnock2993]

@@collsmad There's a good Tolkien trail in the area. If you go a little further north just into Yorkshire there are some glacial hills which remind me of Hobbiton

[@gogledhol]

it's lovely too see someone from another country being so interested in england and the UK in general. amazing video :)

[@simonhayton9443]

Your brilliant, I enjoy every vid !

[@memkiii]

Lincoln is an abbrecviation of Lindum Colonia, that started as a fort & basically became a retirement home for legionaries. The southern edge of the Roman city has a wide (originally marshy) part of the river Witham. The Lin part of Lindum probably has something to do with the lake. Llyn is an old name for a lake or pool, still used in Welsh.

[@owenz1945]

13:40 this building is called Waddesdon manor. its owned by the national trust. for a fee or a membership you can visit he gardens and even inside the house. It's very grand and they put on Christmas markets and put up decoration inside and out of the house.

[@simonnewby1215]

Where my mum's family are from. Her late brother built the apiary there and my cousin is senior gardener. My grandad used to run the pub and petrol station in the village after demob from the army.

[@neuralwarp]

There's a US organisation you can join to get National Trust visitation rights, called the Royal Oak.

[@eddhardy1054]

18:50...I think cester/chester actual comes from the Latin castrum meaning a fortified legionary camp rather than just a Roman city or town. 😊

[@gaius6187]

Isn’t that castle?

[@eddhardy1054]

@@gaius6187 yep that's where we get our word castle. The Old English word for a fortified homestead or town was burh which is where the Modern English word borough comes from.

[@chrislawley6801]

I live in Chester .. Early Britonic Caer - cester from the Latin castra meaning camp grew to be Chester of the XX Valeria Victrix Roman Legion. ''Fort of the Legion'' though the Roman name was Deva after the Celtic name of the River Dee that runs through the city. Though after the Romans left the Celtic Britonic name evolved from the Roman camp became used more to become Caestre to be Chester & still the Welsh name of Chester is still now shown multi lingually on buses between Chester & Wales in the Welsh language as '' Caer ''

[@captvimes]

Yes that was a major mistake there

[@DraconimLt]

yep, caister and caster too, from castrum (plural = castra). I think a lot of them started as the forts and then towns grew up around them and remained when the Romans left

[@decam5329]

The thing under the bridge at about 6:20 is probably a scaffolding platform for engineers to do maintenance. It's removable.

[@Insperato62]

Yep. It's there much of the year, pootling back and forth.

[@jkpole]

WOW I learned a lot from your reaction video and I am from North Yorkshire, thank you so much SoGal.. you rock

[@kevinvermette2776]

Strange that he mispronounced a couple of famous places. Wear is pronounced we - err and Derby is pronounced Dar - bee. I would have thought every English person would have known that...

[@captvimes]

He comes from West Sussex so i appologise for the retarded pronunciation of Wear and Derby which are very well known and he should know better (East Sussex dig there). Though in defence you do murder our town names too.

[@dp-sr1fd]

@@captvimes My Father died ten years ago aged 96 and he and his four brothers always pronounced Derby the way it is spelt. He was born in Sheffield which is not that far from Derby. My Dad was not a demonstrative man, but he would get rather annoyed if anyone corrected him. There is no right or wrong way I suppose, but I think my old Dad was right. We do tend to be a bit lazy with our speech, and it is getting worse by the day. I fink I'd be' ' er stop nah.

[@Osk.S57]

Iv'e a sneaky feeling the narrator is either American or Canadian.

[@captvimes]

@@Osk.S57 No he comes from West Sussex he says so when he gets to Sussex.

[@Osk.S57]

@@captvimes Sorry. I didn't catch that.

[@BlameThande]

I am from Yorkshire. I haven't got to the part of the video where you ask us where we're from, it's just everyone from Yorkshire must tell you of this fact as soon as possible.

[@SoGal_YT]

Ha, well you knew I was going to do that : )

[@davidfrost1961]

A man from Yorkshire will never say he is British or English but from Yorkshire

[@pip-n-smith907]

I am from lancashire, yorkshire is fantastic, you might like to look up lancashire v yorkshire " war of the roses". Great to learn more about our history.

[@AutoAlligator]

Nice! :D I love these vids

[@davidrowlands441]

It surprises me when you say wow at some scene or other because I take the seeing if them for granted!!! Keep up your posts sal. I like them and find them educational at the same time. 👍

[@BenCrowden91]

Bristolian here, used to live in one of the houses almost directly under that suspension bridge!

[@chrislawley6801]

Lived in Bristol for 3 years I should have stayed as is a beautiful place to live

[@martinfanthom3870]

I love Cornwall I'm from the west midlands which covers some of the shires mentioned in this, also got East Midlands so this chap got it wrong, anyway my dad has done his family tree an we knew his mother's father name is ball came from Cornwall from Truro but now traced back to Penzance an now back to the isles of scilly.

[@wibberdywob]

Been living in Devon for 10 years in a small town called Cullompton. Spent a couple of years in Lancashire but I grew up in Somerset. Really love your videos, your enthusiasm to learn is addictive.

[@Beedo_Sookcool]

Been through Cullompton a few times, and it always sounds like what you'd call a person who can't walk quietly.

[@neilharold6793]

I grew up near Durham and went to school in that city. Yes, it is stunning and it's only having lived in other parts of the UK that you realise how amazing a place it was to grow up it; a "must visit" place for a summer holiday!

[@vaudevillian7]

I guess fords are pretty well known here, the names comes from a time when river fords were so vital to being able to cross a river easily which we forget about now. I guess as most of the development of the US has been in a much more modern age it’s less of an important factor. It’s a land if gridded planned cities, here settlements grew organically and you always ideally wanted to be near a river and a place to cross it - hence that’s reflected in their names that tell you where they are There are fords in America though, the Battle of Brandywine was lost because Washington didn’t defend (or know about) all of the nearby fords over the Brandywine Creek, whereas the British Army scouted the area better and used one to outflank him (I forget its name)u

[@PippetWhippet]

It’s worth mentioning that there are still a lot of working fords in the uk - the road is built through the river which is designed to flow over it, and as you drive along it, you drive through the river. Obviously they are designed to be shallow enough for cars to do this, but some are tidal and only passable at certain times. Millbrook in Cornwall has Englands longest Ford, which runs alongside a tidal creek, but it’s only covered with water on the highest tides, so usually discounted

[@doubtingthomas736]

Here's a good ford where lots of drivers come unstuck! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJ6YepeFjZl_qc0

[@russcattell955i]

I suppose river fords are more familiar to off roaders in U.S.

[@vaudevillian7]

@@PippetWhippet this is very true

[@captainadams8565]

The local law enforcement or judges were know as the Shire Reeve or Sheriff.

[@white-dragon4424]

And that's where the US gets their county sheriffs.

[@captainadams8565]

@@white-dragon4424 Also where we get the term referee because they were the a adjudicators.

[@peterturner8766]

@@captainadams8565 As in the person to whom the dispute is referred.

[@neuralwarp]

They still are the chief legal administrator of each county.

[@arposkraft3616]

this is so logical now you mention it

[@kevingunning7569]

I live in the North of Wiltshire, 40 miles from Stonehenge ;-) The word 'Ford' was used far more frequently when only horse and carts were used for transport. You would have to cross the river at a point where the water level was shallow enough for a horse(s) to cross safely. I am really enjoying your videos, and learning stuff for the first time myself!! Regards to Roger!

[@kevken3293]

The Bristol bridge is a traffic and pedestrian bridge, the thing underneath is a plastic temporary covered repair gantry. Great video as usual!

[@neuralwarp]

I believe it was the world's first suspension bridge

[@davidfoster8503]

I was born in London - grew up in Essex and retired to Cornwall 7 years ago

[@captainadams8565]

I was born in Essex, grew up in Essex. I hope I don't die in Essex.

[@chrisholland7367]

You made the right decision moving to the southwest.

[@eddiehawkins7049]

I was born in Essex, but grew up in London, even though I never moved from the town of my birth.

[@bmw540i]

Born in Southampton, grew up in the New Forest now live near Bath.

[@bookwyrmroo5704]

The photo of Rutland isn’t a lighthouse, it’s a church. One of my cousins got married in that very church a couple of years back, it’s stunning. The body of water you can see in the picture is a reservoir which was made my flooding a village. The village church was only partially submerged and a new floor was put in. The area is Rutland Water if you want to look it up (or even visit one day) P.S. I’m watching from Suffolk 👋🏻

[@SoGal_YT]

I almost said church because of the windows on the side, but it looked really small to be a church. Anyway, thanks for letting me know.

[@stephenhepworth1789]

Rutland Water is really beautiful and I envy your cousin getting married in that church. I grew up not far from the reservoir and have visited the church several times. Another beautiful place in Rutland Water is the village of Hambleton on the peninsula.

[@WeeJaunt]

Good job. Well reviewed.

[@langjones3846]

I wondered why someone who was English was mispronouncing some of these county names, but I see that despite his perfect English accent, he describes himself as American.

[@mikesaunders4775]

I could think of another word to describe him!

[@someblastedlimey3124]

This guy uses some weird pronunciations; he says Burkshire instead of Barkshire for example. Also he says -shire like sheer but almost nobody does that .. it's the same as sher in kosher.

[@clivestevenson8589]

when attached to the end of the name of a county 'shire' is pronounced 'shuur', but we do have a breed of horse called a Shire Horse - pronounced 'shy-er'. He makes a mistake - he pronounces Berkshire as 'buck-shuur, but is more usually pronounced as Bark-shyer.

[@ianpark1805]

I live in West Yorkshire. If I walk a few hundred yards to the River Wharfe, and if the water is low enough to let me walk over the collapsed weir (as in Tyne and Wear - that guy had some odd pronunciations!) when I step onto the opposite bank I’m in North Yorkshire.

[@Arrium147]

Big up West Yorkshire

[@ianpark1805]

@@Arrium147 Aye. ‘Appen as mebbe.

[@DavePigott2000]

I was brought up in Herefordshire - and in the village we had a ford crossing which you could drive over. :)

[@pmacca2967]

I like the videos, keep going.

[@hareecionelson5875]

You need to react to the Gloucester Cheese Wheel Chase, it's an annual festival in which people chase a wheel of Gloucester cheese down a very steep hill. Proper 'rag dolling' down the hill, arms, legs and heads going everywhere

[@SoGal_YT]

It's on my list.

[@memkiii]

@@SoGal_YT BTW. He mentions Leicester as the first time we see reference to the Roman "Caster" / "Cester"... After already talking about, and insulting GlouCESTER.

[@Prax97.]

Being from Derbyshire it hurts me to hear how he pronounces it at 19:30 😅 it’s pronounced like Darby, so Darby-shire

[@stephenhepworth1789]

@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches It hurt my ears too!

[@Prax97.]

@@stephenhepworth1789 I’m glad that we’re all in agreement on this 🤣

[@stephenhepworth1789]

@@Prax97. Absolutely!

[@hareecionelson5875]

Has he never heard of the Manchester football Derby?

[@jakesparrow5716]

It's so strange. I can't get my head round that pronouncation. BERKshire rather than Barkshire hurt as well.

[@jelkel25]

I've been told the reason Somerset is called Somerset is because a long time ago there was a lot of flooding in the county in winter so you could only go there in summer, not the reason this guy said. We do have the occasional bridge in England now so Ford's aren't as important but you still get the odd Ford in out of the way places and a road will run through the shallow part of a river.

[@Trebor74]

Especially when it says "deep water" but doesn't tell you how deep. I turn around and go the other way

[@jelkel25]

@@Trebor74 Yes, those ones are extra fun at the end of a wet winter!

[@Sorarse]

I'm from Kent, home of the famous White Cliffs of Dover. What he didn't mention was that Ken is also known as the Garden of England due to the number and amount of different vegetables, fruits and crops grown within the county.

[@xmassent]

The term "ford" meaning “a shallow place where water can be crossed.” However, this term originally comes from the Norse “fjord,” meaning a narrow inlet of sea and a variation the word was adapted from the viking invaders to mean a shallow river crossing.

[@antonycharnock2993]

The norse word for a ford is actually "wath". You'll find a lot in Yorkshire. Watch some Simon Roper videos.

[@lotsapockets]

I believe Ford comes from the proto-germanic furda and may have arrived in England with the celts or much later with the Saxons.

[@roypalfrey5694]

So then, I am currently in a town north West of London in Hertfordshire called Wath Fjord. Interesting...

[@richardwest6358]

A fjord is a drowned glaciated valley - as opposed to a ria which is a drowned unglaciated valley

[@davebetch9918]

And to clarify, a Ford is a river crossing with no bridge. So you drive, wade, or walk across.

[@vaudevillian7]

CGP Grey’s two videos on the City of London are well worth a watch!

[@jasongarfitt1147]

This one? kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqOyk42Vfb-Ni8U

[@SoGal_YT]

On my list :)

[@ronkelley5348]

Another point: the cester/chester endings are from the Latin Castra meaning a fort / fortified camp

[@robertwilloughby8050]

I'm subscribed to Patrick's "Name Explain" too - it's nice to to see when KZbinrs look at each other like this. Patrick is a very nice bloke, too!

[@plkrtn]

His guy seems to get County (Devon) and Councils (Plymouth, Torbay, Devonshire County Council) messed up. He's wrong about this multiple times for multiple counties too. His information is almost dangerously false. Plymouth Rock is named after that Plymouth, yes... And the house is Waddesdon Manor.

[@nocturnal2148]

He uses Plymouth, Torbay an Devon CC to demonstrate the difference between political and ceremonial counties, so not only is he corect, but he's specifically addressing your point in doing so. I grew up in Avon which was removed and the village I'm from is in BaNES, but they're not ceremonial counties.

[@plkrtn]

@@nocturnal2148 Except they are not political counties. They're are local authority councils within the counties. So he's absolutely wrong. Birmingham City Council and Wolverhampton City Council are local authorities within the West Midlands county, for example.

[@andrewcharles459]

You've reminded me that I'm overdue for a good Stilton cheese. "Of course it's the bugs. That's what cheese is: Gone-off milk with bugs and mold! That's why it tastes so good. Look, cows and bugs together have a good deal going. Why can't people grasp this?" -- Lenny Henry as Chef Gareth Blackstock.

[@BigMrFirebird]

18:50. Chester/caster names were the Old English (Saxon or Anglian) names given to the remains of Roman forts that may have later (depending on which fort we're talking about) turned into a town and maybe even later, a city. You can chart the timeline of the creation of county names: e.g Suffolk (South Folk) is much earlier than anything ending with "shire" as shire was a West Saxon (West Seax) invention and the Saxons of the House of Wessex didn't take over the rest of England until relatively late, when it comes to the naming of these counties. So any county name which doesn't have "shire" in it, is almost certainly older. The size of these counties often has a relation to the size of the county capital town/city defensive walls. The longer the walls, the bigger the county.

[@DGo-ur2ob]

He got Berkshire wrong, it’s actually pronounced ‘Barkshire’.

[@GSD-hd1yh]

We still regularly refer to crossing a river by any means as "fording" it. A is a shallow place with good footing where a or may be crossed

[@SoGal_YT]

Yeah, we just say "cross the river here," lol.

[@jasongarfitt1147]

@@SoGal_YT crossing it is usually with a bridge but with fording a river your feet/shoes get wet

[@1882osr]

@@jasongarfitt1147 Or your tires in a lot of cases

[@chrislawley6801]

@@SoGal_YT Shallow crossing of a river by foot or horse which was more important in history especially on tidal rivers

[@chugachuga9242]

I’m starting to feel wired then because I and every body I have ever met use the word,“fording” and I’m from the US

[@pukkiblinders2279]

You should do a video on the flying Scotsman and it's disastrous American tour, love your stuff

[@patchso]

HI SoGal. I'm from Bristol, we've been our own county (and city) since Edward 3rd granted us county status in 1373. That picture is when the tide is in. Bristol has the second highest tidal range in the world, when the tide is out, all of that water is replaced by a very deep, very muddy channel. That 'car' hanging under the bridge is for maintenance purposes. My dad has worked in that car - apparently it's quite scary :-) Love your enthusiasm for learning about other countries. Great videos!

[@KumaBean]

I used live in Herefordshire, I earnt my first canoeing profieciency certificate on the river Wye that flows under the old bridge in your photo, right behind the bridge by the Cathedral on the left is where we used to enter the water, thanks for the happy memories 🙂

[@mickmackem1479]

he didn't mention isambard kingdom brunel yet showed his bridge Bristol most famous man brunel

[@bmw540i]

And the SS Great Britain

[@bremCZ]

Hobbiton is a real place in New Zealand. They built the filmset for the Lord of the Rings and then rebuilt it for the Hobbit films and used permanent material to keep it as a tourist location.

[@chrisbovington9607]

Interesting definition of "real".

[@bremCZ]

@@chrisbovington9607 It physically exists. That's real in my book.

[@SunshineSML]

Massive respect for you recognizing portsmouth

[@stewartlewis3503]

The Clifton suspension bridge in Brizzle (AKA Bristol) is our equivalent of the Golden gate bridge, infamous for the same reasons.

[@michaeljohn1978]

My home county is Cheshire, and my home town is the county town of Chester. Despite the narrator saying he's from England, nobody in England actually talks like that. Possibly not even him lol

[@gordonhayward4409]

Hi, love your content. I am from Lincoln, the reason it is called Lincoln and not just Lindum is that the romans called it Lindum Colonia, meaning colony by the water( Bradford pool). The name is a bastardised version of Lindum and Colonia, like Brexit, what have the Romans ever done for us. It was also where the ninth legion of the roman army set off for Scotland and were never seen again.

[@darthgardner]

Ive lived in uphill lincoln all my life..you are correct in lincolns naming accept its brayford pool which was used by the romans as a port.other than that ermine street a major roman road which ran from london, actualy runs through lincoln and in the north of the city (uphill) 2 council housing estates are both east and west of that road,they are called ermine east estate and west estate from the road they are eitherside of.

[@calum5975]

Interesting how the "Coln" in Lincoln is the same as "Koln", the German word for Cologne (which stems from latin Colonia too!)

[@gordonhayward4409]

@@darthgardner A15 then pal.Sorry about the typo.

[@RichardLyleEsq]

If you'd left Lincoln and ended up in Scotland, you wouldn't want to go back either.

[@tonykear4494]

The box on the Bristol bridge (Clifton Suspension Bridge) is a movable maintenance platform - like the ones on multistoreys for cleaning windows, but going sideways

[@adrianharris9091]

Thanks for educating me about my own country :-)

[@octaviussludberry9016]

Yes, Plymouth is were the rock derives its name from.

[@decb]

The "lighthouse" is actually a church. It's parish is now underwater, having been drowned to create the reservoir in which there's a peninsula on which the church stands.

[@johnmunson201]

Worth adding maybe that you can only see the upper half of the church. The rest has been buried as most of it is below the level of the reservoir - which, incidentally, is called Rutland Water. It was created between 1971 and 1975.

[@geoffelks204]

Hi. So Gal. Your videos are great. The smallest county Rutland was chosen to have a large area flooded for water storage called Rutland water. A dam was built and several villages were covered by the water. One of the village churches at a village called Normanton was only half flooded so the built a dam around it. Thank you for your compassionate understanding of our culture.

[@dogstaraycliffe]

Hi, there just a quick correction on the video, Durham is a city, not a town and the view that you saw was both a castle and a cathedral. The construction of the cathedral commenced in 1093 until around 1133 with further editions right up to 1490. Durham is around 14 miles from where I live and contains the third oldest University in England. As a photographer, the cathedral has been my muse for decades. The full name is the County Palatine of Durham although this isn't used and is shortened to County Durham also known as the land of the prince bishops. Here is an article on the County Palatine en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Palatine_of_Durham

[@charlestaylor9424]

That's the movie set for the Hobbits in New Zealand.

[@SoGal_YT]

Ah, good to know.

[@SteveWhipp]

I believe the narrator mispronounces the "Wear" in Tyne and Wear. I've always heard it pronounced like "We-er".

[@kevingray3550]

I was born in Sunderland County Durham - Tyne and Wear is a "ceremonial county" invented in the 1970's and it has no history & little point. I always regard myself as being from the County of Durham. The River Wear is not pronounced "where" but "weir" as in the name for a barrier that controls the flow of a river (the name just sound the same and has no connection with a weir). The "castle" that you see in the photograph is mostly the great Norman cathedral at Durham. Durham Castle is to the left of the photograph and is completely overshadowed by the cathedral

[@MartinUglow]

Watching from Wiltshire!!! Found your channel when you were watching stuff about football!

[@lilyliz3071]

I live in Scotland and have never moved from the town I was born in but I've lived in two different shires and a region because they seem unable to leave boundaries alone and keep moving them

[@oldman1734]

Blimey. I thought everyone knew that the name London comes from the Roman name for the place where they settled after their invasion, Londinium. And Berkshire is pronounced Barkshear.

[@Naeron66]

The first is heavily debated and may not be true.it seems that the Roman's may have just used a latin version of the Celtic name of the existing settlement.

[@Naeron66]

@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches From the name of the place when they arrived which would have been something close to "Londin", that is why there is no obvious latin derivation, there is no Latin source word. The romans added "inium".

[@richard6440]

And Berkshire is pronounced Barkshear..... I had a g/f years ago , from windsor , and i always pronounced it Burks , just to annoy her :)

[@karenjohnson2720]

Is it Baaath or Bath though I'm the latter as from Yorkshire

[@richard6440]

@@karenjohnson2720 I guess from how you first heard it? Ive always called it carstle , although ive heard it said castle , as in hassle ? how we were taught or raised? i dont know , maybe regional.

[@Mixcoatl]

Seeing your appreciation for my city of Bristol brought a little warmth into my cold, dead heart.

[@Emmet_Moore]

rip my lover

[@chrislawley6801]

I lived in Bedminster for 3 years in the 90s I love Bristol

[@chrislawley6801]

What did they do to the Spotted Cow & Masonic Arms pubs : (

[@cjhobbyfly8597]

The river Mersey gets its name from Mercia, this was one of the old Saxon Kingdoms.

[@nickpotts3913]

The way "Shire" is pronounced depends on accent. Both ways that you say it are correct. Strangely, I love this video. A very nice bit of easy watching.

[@Macilmoyle]

At c 10.11 he mispronounces Berkshire. It's pronounced Bark - sher Also Derby is pronounced Darby and the Wear is pronounced weear

[@Brascofarian]

Yeah, considering all the pitfalls he avoided not badly researched though, but maybe this kind of video is better of done by an actual Brit, not some anglophone from the other side of the planet. Like surely Glouster's cheese rolling deserves a mention or Staffordshire's potteries... I'd guess they have a bit more global profile than Gavin and Stacey.

[@mikesaunders4775]

@@Brascofarian He got a whole load of it wrong as well as multiple mispronunciations. The ceremonial counties of England go back before the so-called reforms of 1974 and do not include Cumbria or Tyne and WARE, as he put it, not to mention West, South, or North Yorkshire.

[@Brascofarian]

@@mikesaunders4775 well I was being charitable. I was not a bad effort for a foreigner.

[@donovanwray5974]

13:39 That house is _Waddesdon Manor_ , built by the Rothschild family but managed by _The National Trust_ .

[@robirvine5068]

Rutland! Born and raised....but moved to New Zealand in my late 20's. The picture at 17:32 is Normanton Church - a partially submerged church, from when the flooded the valley and made Rutland Water.

[@migry]

@6.24 the famous Clifton Suspension Bridge built by Brunel. For many years I lived in the Clifton area of Bristol near to the bridge.

[@steveinheathfield]

Kent home of the ancient Britton tribe of the Canti tribe, centred in Canterbury...Cant-Kent

[@paulbowden2825]

The building in Rutland is Normanton church. It was partly submerged when they formed Rutland Water, a reservoir that is one of the largest man made lakes in Europe.

[@jimcook1161]

Furthermore, buildings like Normanton Church are known as 'follies'; a building built purely to show off the owner's wealth and usually the building itself will be impractical.

[@1954real]

Your right there are some stunning places to visit, it's finding them x

[@juanferreira5931]

Ford: maybe US cattlemen use the term. When they want to move cattle from one side of a river to the other, they find a shallow place (ie a ford) and they ford the river.

[@jamiesanders6734]

I can assure you the river Humber is not near Northumberland lol

[@aurynlalor1366]

I think that Northumberland used to extend south to the Humber, if not as a county, than as a kingdom known as Northumbria.

[@jamiesanders6734]

@@aurynlalor1366 exactly that.

[@claveworks]

Fords: There are a lot more small streams and rivers than you might guess at, and although there are normally bridges, sometimes there is only the sheep/cattle crossing point (ford) and sometimes both. This little place is rare to me, and I have never seen it before! There is a footbridge only for pedestrians, and a ford for vehicles: kzbin.info/www/bejne/emiVdmidnamciK8

[@dickyt1318]

16:45 - ford > a shallow place in water in which to cross where there isn't a bridge > the river there is fordable

[@johnrobinson3905]

Hi - great video. I currently live in Lincolnshire where I grew up. Lincoln was originally called Lindum Colonia, though I'm sure you know that by now!

[@octaviussludberry9016]

Interesting fact. The French, known for their cheese, have only a third of the amount of registered cheeses we have in the UK about 1600 in France and 5000 here.

[@ftumschk]

I wonder how many are "ancient" cheeses (e.g. Stilton), and how many are fairly recent creations for the modern market (e.g. Cornish Brie). As a cheese fan, I've really appreciated the inventiveness of British cheese producers in recent years :)

[@broadsword0072]

@@ftumschk USA bans Stilton and similar cheeses.

[@michaeljones825]

@@broadsword0072 Why? I would say are they mental?.....

[@ftumschk]

@@broadsword0072 What a pity. They don't know what they're missing!

[@broadsword0072]

@@michaeljones825 Because of the veins. They consider it poisonous, the health geezers.

[@phill633vgs]

That “lighthouse” is actually Normanton church.

[@SD1fruitbat]

And it is approx. 150 years older then the reservoir it currently stands in.

[@cal6040]

The building in Rutland is actually a small chapel overlooking Rutland Water (a lake). I actually attended a friends wedding there!

[@iantrott9152]

Great video :) The term “Ford” is quite common in England, it relates I believe to “Fording a river or stream”, in other words, crossing without a bridge, so the path or road is partially submerged. Where I live in South Leicestershire there are a number of Ford’s nearby; you have to be careful crossing them, look at the depth marker and know the wading depth of you vehicle so you don’t become stranded :)

[@BurningFlame08]

This guy says 'Shire' very strangely. He pronounces it more like 'Shear' when it should be more like 'Shuh'!

[@Ozzpot]

He also mispronounced Berkshire and Derbyshire. 😳

[@vaudevillian7]

@@Ozzpot and Wear in Tyne and Wear

[@peterfriend2919]

I got the impression that the commentator was not from the Uk due to him struggling with pronouncing some of the place names and his accent seamed to very at times.

[@noahrussell2043]

@@peterfriend2919 Think he said he English was at the beginning of the video!

[@noahrussell2043]

Not always- Wiltshire for example is more shear than shuh, but often it is between the two and depends how fast one speaks 👍

[@Mk1Male]

The guy narrating this video needs to learn more about the subject he is speaking about. Durham is actually a city not a town. The River Wear is actually pronounced 'wee-r' not 'wear' as in what you do with clothes.

[@ThomasWainster]

Also he called Northampton a city, when it's a large town.

[@jackyf3505]

@@ThomasWainster yes, his research missed out on that one too but much more forgivable than some of his other errors perhaps (especially the mispronunciations), not least as so many towns have received city status over the last few decades that few of us would be able to name them all correctly. Northampton has applied and been turned down at least 3 times in the last 30 years. It's now our biggest town not to have city status.

[@stevecook3224]

The bridge at 6:06 is just a standard road bridge, that thing under the bridge is likely to be maintenance or upkeep scaffolding.

[@nickjeffery536]

I don't think we use "Ford" all that much in modern life, but I suspect the reason it appears in place names in the UK is that the settlements were made at places the river was easier to cross, back before building bridges was a big thing. By the time the US was settled by European colonies, bridge-building was far more established as a technology, so the need to ford rivers was lower...