The Concrete Forest with a Fake Monument

[@pwhitewick]

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[@alanbeard8020]

You guys are great. Watched loads of your videos & I’m keen on everything trains & history so I love it. Finally subscribed but keep going... Love it ...Alan 👍😁😘

[@stevebeal73]

Great storytelling in this one. Thank you!

[@pwhitewick]

Thank you Steve.

[@Bender24k]

I write 'walked in the woods with the Whitewicks - 5 miles' in my exercise log every time you post. The frosty drone shots are super. I enjoy your videos very much, thanks!

[@pwhitewick]

Hahaha.... thats cheating.

[@highpath4776]

Frosty Drone, C&W Singer

[@davekirwin]

Great video! Didn't know about Crossroad Graves and love the King Edgar story with all the actions. Even the ad was amusing!

[@pwhitewick]

Cheers Mr K

[@stevenvanes2928]

Great video guys, they just keep getting better and better.

[@pwhitewick]

Cheera Steven.

[@motorheadmalc]

Great vid, stunning frosty scenes. What's that lovely haunting tune that comes in around 6:25?

[@pwhitewick]

Hey Malcolm. The track is "Stay by Marton Hall".

[@motorheadmalc]

@@pwhitewick Thank you! :)

[@christopherbraiden6713]

Thanks for the video totally enjoyed the story and such a beautiful looking area!!😎🐓🐓🇬🇧

[@glynnwright1699]

The frost-covered trees are beautiful, thank you for this episode, it was fun to watch. I appreciate your efforts to keep producing these videos during the lockdown.

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks Glynn

[@darrellbenge9235]

Have you done the roman road through Grovely Wood and Great Ridge? Some WW2 bunkers and the Witches Trees to explore

[@nwae8812]

Nice to see the frost, helps to keep us cool down here in NZ.

[@pwhitewick]

our pleasure!

[@SteamCrane]

12:59 - Where are the coconuts?

[@andykopgod]

Becca, falling on her arse!, sponsered by ouch! The cream, for those embarrasing mishaps 😆🤣💪. Brilliant guys, another great video 👍👏👏

[@DomEvans]

Oh wow. Wondered why the forest paths I've been exploring are concreted! That's why 😁😁😁 so glad I've found your Chanel.

[@davelucraft5825]

Love the video. I think the Roman road has been messed about a bit, as you contend. May I suggest a really good example in the South East, Stane Street running from Chichester to London. At the point where it runs north east up to the South Downs northern escarpment where the South Downs Way runs, the road is easily discerned on the ground. It can be easily accessed too by a road that runs from Bignor(where the famous Roman villa remains are) and terminates at the top of the Downs at a car park.

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks Dave. I'll check that out

[@charlesemerson6763]

Paul, where do you keep your model railway or are you just a collector. Great video by the way, -3C there, 38C here at the same time.

[@pwhitewick]

I'm between layouts right now.... N gauge collection armed and ready

[@leroyholm9075]

Hi Paul. A way back I watched the Roman road episode and noted you are lucky enough to have a copy of ‘Ivan D. Margary’s Roman Roads in Britain’ sadly now long out of print. My wife Chrissy had a long and successful career in Libraries before retirement and managed to borrow a copy from the British Library service. What an amazing compilation, I could not put it down. Excellent and thank you very much for pointing me towards it. Well done.

[@PurpleVision23]

Hiya you beautiful two, my name's Purple and my Queen is Leanne.. a friend has show me your channel.. after rejuvenating an area of land for all to come and enjoy nature once again, the locals have sent me on little adventures of beautiful walks and historical quests to help them re-live their memories.. please should you ever find yourself in Wellingborough, please look us up and we'd love to give you the grand tour... Just have a little look at wellingborough history. It would most certainly tickle your fancy... Many many school trips from around the country once visited our town just for it's history.. I don't need a shout out or to even be in your video.. help me raise awareness to the greatness our town once was.. Purple and Leanne The Kotch Wellingborough

[@pwhitewick]

Hello to you both. Thanks for thr invite very kind. We shall see what 2021 brings us!!... Good luck.

[@PurpleVision23]

@@pwhitewick see you on the other side. Keep the unity, keep the love and keep the faith..

[@Laxpowertoo]

In the woods north of Hartley Wintney is a resident deer herd which has many white does. When I worked near the old police college we used to see them in the fields out the back of the place.

[@pwhitewick]

Brilliant, never knew they existed.

[@saltleywsc]

Great video both !

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks Merv

[@SBCBears]

What a pleasant walk together. I would like to see the footage that was edited out-- just walking along was so lovely. And the beautiful drone shots, the informative map clips... your fine work is appreciated.

[@martinross5521]

We miss the snow in Terrace B.C., from the year we were there in 1982. Arrived in thick snow Jan 25, finally melted in our back yard by mid June, snow back into the upper tree line by mid September. Brown and black bears all over!

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks Crow. Around 3 hours was edited out. Assurances you'd get bored.

[@DaveVespa]

Cheers peeps. Loving these vids. Keeping us a little sane in all this weirdness. I hope to do one of your walks when we're allowed out again properly. The one you did in Swindon is a little too far to walk to, then around and back home. I'm not quite as fit as I was before a year of sitting on the sofa.

[@pwhitewick]

More than happy to make some recommendations based on your locations Dave

[@DaveVespa]

@@pwhitewick you're just too nice. I'm in the centre of Swindon so when we're allowed to drive for exercise I'll try some of your localish ones. I've completely missed that there was an unfinished railway that you showed in the Swindon video. My dad and his mates had an incident there when they were bunking off school as kids some 50 years ago.

[@pwhitewick]

@@DaveVespa I think you can drive a small distance now. Even more so that you live in the middle of a town. So I'd argue with anyone that it's safer to drive a couple of miles than walk in a park pack with people. Anyway.... yes when you can drive further..... Marlborough has a wealth of old landscapes to explore from ancient travkways to disused railways. Fascinating place to start

[@neilbain8736]

It's great when we do real cold in the UK. But it's rare. Everything looks so crisp, white and fresh, the ground is hard underfoot, the snow is dry powder or the frost is gloriously crisp and they day out is really enjoyable with nothing worse that a good cup of hot Bovril won't cure. I was talking to a Latvian girl who swore that anywhere hovering around zero here was more miserable than their -30. I think she's right.

[@pwhitewick]

Not the first time I've heard that too. A friend went to Sweden and said their -20 was warmer than our 0.

[@neilbain8736]

@@pwhitewick The last few days have been -4 here and even that was fantastic. The snow was dry powder

[@GhostTheory]

Just realised we never commented. Really loved watching this, as you know we love this place and it took us back. Also didn't actually know much about the roman road side of things either so that was really intriguing.

[@simonharrison7925]

Ive think I have heard about the monument is it close to the A303

[@pwhitewick]

Yup, i think it featured on Highway to the Sun.

[@HenrysAdventures]

Interesting video as always! The forest looks like it a bit of an eerie atmosphere but a fascinating reason to how it came to be!

[@pwhitewick]

Cheers Henry.

[@dawndietz4654]

Haha I did enjoy it actually 🤓 a little silliness good for us!

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks Dawn. We definitely need it right now.

[@eddiek0507]

Great video, Nice bit of history...😎👍🏼👍🏼

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks Eddie

[@paulgtravers]

Should have watched this before commenting on last years! All very interesting. The earthworks would be built to prevent the propagation of any explosion between stacks of explosives.

[@janinapalmer8368]

That was great to watch on a hot day here at 37°C !!

[@phillunn4691]

Another brilliant and very interesting video! I thought it was very informative. Keep up the good work Paul and Rebecca, stay safe and well too 👍🏼👍🏼

[@nilo70]

Thank you both for posting this video ! You folks Rock .

[@pwhitewick]

Our pleasure!

[@oldmanvlogger9259]

Excellent, thank you

[@pwhitewick]

You are welcome!

[@manmeetsinghmahajan6183]

Nice one.

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks!

[@briancjohnson]

I saw that Class 37 your were going to buy...

[@pwhitewick]

Shhhhhsssshhhhh

[@sapiotone]

Paul, I don't quite get it. What does an agger do?

[@pwhitewick]

An Agger is essentially the middle of the road which allows for run off. On other words it's high in the middle.

[@sapiotone]

@@pwhitewick It doesn't push pineapples then? B'dum-tsh

[@pwhitewick]

@@sapiotone oh god. Now there's an ear worm I don't want

[@jonstorey6414]

Hi. I don't know if you remember. but the videos that you did heading towards Saltburn, Redcar. on the old disused railway line. I made comments I like that your covering the old line. plus I commented about things in the town of Brotton. Well sadly I have some sad news. at this present moment the engine shed in Brotton is being knocked down. iv heard that area that was railway land. with a buried engine turntable is to be built on. all new houses. Its sad to see old buildings go

[@pwhitewick]

Hi Jon, unfortunately we don't see all comments for various reasons, but do try and reply where possible. Thats a real shame to hear, is there nothing that can be done to stop this? Seems to easy these days to pile through history in this way!

[@jonstorey6414]

@@pwhitewick Hi. you did replay saying you couldn't complete the journey due to virus lockdown. I'm sorry to say the destruction of the engine shed has happened. I went out my way to see the damage. only to see a pile of rubble. how far they are going at this time I don't know.

[@naughtynaughtyish]

Loved this and have driven through Harewood forest wondering about the concrete everywhere. No I know 👍

[@mrtnsnp]

The arial shots don't disappoint, again.

[@davidcutts2650]

Thanks for an amusing, interesting winters walk. 👍👍

[@pwhitewick]

A pleasure David.

[@jonlihou668]

Watching your video, looking out our window at first snow of the year here in B.C. Your videos are getting better and better, love them!

[@pwhitewick]

Thank you Jon

[@shirleylynch7529]

That was brilliant. What a beautiful forest and filming just perfect. Loved your stories. Didn’t want vlog to end. Thank you so much

[@pwhitewick]

Thank you.

[@davie941]

hey paul and rebecca , another great bit of history , love the frost shots , well im watching this with around 4 inches of snow outside lol , well done and thank you :)

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks Davie

[@QALibrary]

the trees look like Broccoli and love the fluffy on to the Rebecca hat - thank you for the videos and keep having fun and joy - PS Paul I agree the 37s are the best trains ever

[@LeoCapaldi]

3:24 - Nice cat

[@suzyqualcast6269]

How did D of D end up lodged in Derbyshire ¿?

[@raybeaumont7670]

Thanks folks! Great to see you're both able to stay active and enjoy the outdoors in these lockdown times. I've been staying local around the Rhondda Valley and re-exploring paths I haven't seen for quite a few years. Stay safe, both.

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks Ray. So much locally you never tend to know about. So nows the time I guess.

[@davidsnapebrcrosslane8782]

Hi Paul, Rebecca, as paul was looking at a model class 37, do you have a modek layout ? If so , can you do a video of it please. Rebecca's new hair colour suites her.

[@pwhitewick]

We are between layouts at the moment. Might be under way in the very near future.

[@derrickfelix6206]

Rebecca, you were pushed! Was Paul, so Simson jeaned! Is this the new development, walking old historic paths, Etc. Hope so When you've got filming up to mark they would be bloody good. Cheers

[@petergrifff]

Great video as always guys and agreeing with quite a few others, the drone footage was amazing !

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks Peter. Couldn't feel my fingers afterwards!

[@alanmuddypaws3865]

Another great video! Very amusing and artfully shot. Did you get the 37 with the money you saved?

[@pwhitewick]

Haha.... not yet!!

[@midnightwind8067]

This is really good tv. Always a great and enjoyable moment. The gentle comedy even makes the commercials watchable. Nice cat there in the window by the way. Really enjoy your videos.

[@pwhitewick]

Cat one of two!

[@mickypavey7247]

As a Pavey in Hampshire I now need to go a find the Grave, Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Oh and the children can walk a real roman road

[@pwhitewick]

Get them exploring Micky. Loads to see round there

[@DaveVespa]

I thought you were attempting the lift from Dirty Dancing and almost dropped Rebecca.

[@pwhitewick]

Don't put Rebecca in the corner

[@leeappleton7416]

Joined through watching Martin zero 👌

[@pwhitewick]

Welcome Lee. 👍

[@leeappleton7416]

@@pwhitewick thank you loving your work already

[@pwhitewick]

@@leeappleton7416 164 videos to catch up on.... get busy 🙂🤪

[@leeappleton7416]

@@pwhitewick ha ha its going to be a long week 🤣

[@mikehardwick352]

Another great video ,looks like there is a lot of paths to explore and you two are going to do show us your great country

[@Johnny_Tambourine]

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one that didn't have a 'Private' sign, and that has made all the difference."

[@pwhitewick]

Robert Frost?

[@Johnny_Tambourine]

@@pwhitewick Yup except for the private sign part :P

[@leroyholm9075]

Rebecca that headgear is iconic what a sense of style!

[@icewizzard666]

Cracking vid, love the silliness bits, drone footage over frosty trees is amazing! The kitchen looks fab also! Absolutely love your channel and Rebecca's other one (which I keep forgetting to sub to)

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks Marc, she will appreciate the sub.

[@theoutdoorappreciationsoci8858]

Another great video. I’ve always thought on my walks that the point where the Test Way crosses the Roman road in Harewood to be very interesting. I’m convinced that it would have been a significant place historically.

[@junior602002]

Small criticism. "Lootenant?"

[@pwhitewick]

Ah yes....

[@lapiswake6583]

A very interesting video about an area I need to visit post-pandemic, to visit the stations in the area. Nice choice of loco to spend the saved money on

[@allenatkins2263]

Fun fact, if the coroner found that the cause of death was suicide, your estate was forfeited to the state.

[@shauntodd7123]

What fantastic scenery with all that frost. Great see tou out and showing up so much history again.

[@pwhitewick]

Cheers Shaun

[@handiman5001]

the tree shots from the drone made the forest look like a platter of over cooked Broccoli "BEAUTIFUL" 2) -3 is cold when you are used to + temps. at time of watching this at 11:00 AM on January 24th, 2021 it is -32C so -3 would be a beautiful spring type like day "grin" .GREAT VID

[@hectorthorverton4920]

'Every Disused Grave' a new stream for your channel? Some of course were executions rather than suicides. I am told Cannard's Grave, just out of Shepton Mallet, is one of those. Highwayman? Nice to begin and end with death, but lots of life in between. Thanks for your attention to research and composition.

[@williethomson8353]

North Hampshire like it

[@pwhitewick]

Lots of history... more to come.

[@williethomson8353]

Sounds like a drunk saying Northamptonshire too

[@BibtheBoulder]

"The Whitewick's do weird things in the forest".....made me lol...

[@pwhitewick]

Now that should have been the title.

[@Jimfowler82]

You find that episode on a site with a similar name including “tube” 🤣🤣

[@Sim0nTrains]

Brilliant video indeed, looked very frosty indeed and the pouch advert was brilliant... did you end up buying that Class 37 from Kernow?

[@pwhitewick]

Not quite yet....

[@Sim0nTrains]

@@pwhitewick ah! Guessing Rebecca did catch you in the act on trying to buy it then 🤔😂 (just kidding)

[@justanotherviewer4821]

Another great video and I learnt something. Even the pouch advert was good.

[@pwhitewick]

Cheers

[@williethomson8353]

11m 49s was that a stand in

[@pwhitewick]

Stand in?

[@williethomson8353]

@@pwhitewick if you watch at that time you canny see rebeccas face so I thought yould got standins lol

[@auser1484]

Lovely looking scenery, hope you had a flask of tea in your pouch that day. 😁

[@pwhitewick]

Ba ding boom

[@terryblackman6217]

Thank you for a most enjoyable video, and for the history lesson.

[@pwhitewick]

Our pleasure!

[@frankupton5821]

950.....time for coffee

[@MrVxrman]

Great video guys 😎 Loving the drone footage too. Stay safe out there. 😀🍻🥂👍🏻

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks

[@a11csc]

loved that thank you both

[@robertdonaldson6584]

any lipstick on paul's shirt collar query

[@pwhitewick]

erm......

[@williamwelbourn7932]

Great video. All that frost made me feel a little chilli... which is great on a day here in Melbourne where it'll be 40 degrees Celsius! Enjoyed it a lot.

[@iainhunneybell]

LOVED the walk-by that didn’t quite work. The raised Roman road was remarkable. The statue to commemorate the ‘settling up’ ... or not ... and just the fun you were having 😊

[@pwhitewick]

I think the cold got to us!

[@TheClockwise770]

Another great video on the Hampshire countryside Paul and Rebecca, Brilliant aerial shots of the forest too. The reason they buried murderers and witches etc. at crossroads was so their spirit would hopefully not know which way to go to return to the village to the scene of their crime. Thank you for this crisp and beautiful ramble and look forward to many more entertaining walks in future and better times.

[@pwhitewick]

Thank you. Very much appreciated

[@andrewradgick4424]

Did you find the remains of any brick squares In the woods? Here in snowy Berkshire, ammunition was stored in Swinley Park just to the south of Bracknell. There were also brick-built rectangular water tanks in case the ammo stores were hit by incendiary bombs so that was water on hand to fight the fires

[@pwhitewick]

We didn't but I understand there are some on the east side of the Forest.

[@wilfbm9067]

I saw a beautiful white stag in Kingswood about 12 years ago.

[@boriss.861]

So that is the reason for Daniel's Grave just up the road from me... That has solved that mystery.

[@pwhitewick]

Pray tell were Boris??.... I only found a few local.

[@DomEvans]

Oh my days. Fellow andovorian here. Me and my wife found this place on Sunday. Struggled to find much about it. Currently half way through the video but I'm freaking out how awesome your channel is. 😁😁😁

[@dazzlingdaz187]

Loved this. What a beautiful drone shot above the trees.

[@pwhitewick]

Cheers Daz

[@andyalder7910]

2:45 I spy the other end of the road from last week's video in the top left corner of the map.

[@pwhitewick]

Spot on

[@calxtra5361]

Beautiful frosty drone shots .. full of interesting facts and fun ... You both nutty as a fruit and nut bar :))

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks Cal... the best way to be!

[@coalcrackerchris]

Love this scenery, BEAUTIFUL!!! Wish i could visit these areas with you. Love the story. Can you stiil read the inscription on the monument? Great video as always!

[@pwhitewick]

Cheers. You can just about make it all out. Just

[@TheSynthnut]

Those drone shots of the forest are beautiful, almost ethereal!

[@pwhitewick]

I see what you did there Ben... 😏

[@60_Degrees_North]

Love the walking edit at 7:19 i thought I was tripping 🙈

[@pwhitewick]

Ha... that was fun

[@michaelpilling9659]

What a shame I wasn't taught history in school the way you do it. Super video. Great facts. Really enjoyed it. Thanks guys. See you next week.

[@art-gallery3257]

Nice

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks

[@Sarge084]

That reminds me of Camp Bewdley (Which wasn't in Bewdley) a WWII American Army hospital. As a child I played around the derelict buildings and foundations of the wooden buildings that were dismantled and relocated. There was a road network and other infrastructure, including a water tower that still exists. Nature has pretty much taken part of the land back almost obliterating man's efforts, and the area where the HQ was is now a housing estate. As a side note, the abandoned railway through Stourport-on-Severn ran close by and was undoubtedly used extensively by the Americans. So, should you wish to do video on the canal and railway of Stourport I can show you Camp Bewdley too, I even have a book for reference.

[@pwhitewick]

That sounds like a very good story Sarge.

[@ashleyguyler]

Very interesting to learn about Pavey’s Grave. There is a Chadwick Grave close to where I live in Derbyshire that is shown on old maps. The road close by is now known as Chadwick Grove.

[@pwhitewick]

Fantastic. I assumed it was just down south.

[@jamesoates1334]

During my time-based in Tidworth, (early 70s), both Longparish and Barton Stacey had Army barracks.

[@pwhitewick]

I was aware of Barton having them but not Longoarish that late on

[@thhseeking]

Did you buy a cat tree with your savings? :P Or a 37-class loco :P

[@martinross5521]

Hi both, that was a beautiful walk, great scenery and hope too cold. We’ve got plenty of graves on unconsecrated ground on Dartmoor, the method of trying to keep folk in line with church rules. I think woodlands were often used as cover for secret installations in WW2. Love the Roman road example, still completely recognisable after nearly 2000 years. Thanks for showing us a piece of your well researched world in a fun and entertaining way

[@carolinegray3150]

Interesting

[@robinnicholson4009]

Not snow bound then - saving this for later!

[@pwhitewick]

It was all but gone within minutes sadly.

[@BrioPA]

"Loo" tenant? That's the American pronunciation!

[@RichardWatt]

Iirc, it's originally a French word, so the US pronunciation is closer (we probably use the different one to upset the French).