My England: Exploring Ringmer in East Sussex

Today I have come to explore Ringmer, I believe the largest village in Sussex. After seeking out the older part of the village I head up to the South Downs in search of the old Windmill there.
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[@MrGreatplum]

Wonderfully filmed! I was thinking about the old phone box; it’s probably near me at a yard in Merstham where they are sold from (you can see all the phone boxes there when you take a train to London.) I’m 40, and I don’t think I have ever used a phone box!

[@fastsetinthewest]

I watch these videos on my 70" TV. The picture and color is outstanding 👍. I usually don't comment because of the way I access these videos. Great history. Thank you. Eaglegards... P.S. Talking about the well reminded me of the great English doctor named John Snow. His mid 1800s study on cholera using mapping of wells was ground breaking.

[@orangeedo]

Theres a giant oak tree in the triangle of a 3 way junction near me. This week I found a photograph of it in 1892. Trees are special as you can enjoy the same shade as your great great great grandparents did.

[@juneprince-iles8390]

Hello Richard, good to see you visiting Ringmer, a village close to my heart. An ancestor of mine Henry Barber, born in 1749 had a shoemaking business on the main road there. His lovely whitewashed cottage and workshop are still there today, sadly I didn't inherit it . He died in 1827 and left me nothing 😭......Have you explored the next village Laughton ? I can tell you a real murkey storey of fratricide there in 1880's.....!

[@shirleylynch7529]

Breathtakingly stunning. Between your info, filming, tortoise , tree, green , church with graveyard and walk up the hill to the windmill I feel quite choked up. Thank you for such an interesting and beautiful start to my morning.

[@andyhearn9240]

Lived at Ringmer for 2 years in 1963, Holly Tree Cottage, Norlington Lane, was an abbatoir there then if memory serves me correctly

[@sarahmitchell7510]

I was born here in the mid 1960's in a cottage on the edge of the village green, into a village that was smaller than now, and somwhere that shaped my early life and happy memories. One not so happy memory was cutting my head on the handle of the village pump and having to have stitches, the scar of which I can still feel! The Downs above Ringmer and the lanes and fields around were our idyllic playground and although I moved away in 1982, my heart will forever be there.

[@crystalwaters8852]

Its great you have so many lovely memories!❤ sorry about you're accident though.😢

[@elainewhitelock5347]

I enjoyed a wonderful church barbecue on Ringmer green when I was driving through with my children. Everyone was so welcoming it was a few years ago now but lovely memories.

[@davidreidy2263]

Nice to see you in East Sussex for a change. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@ramibu239]

St Mary's was a beautiful church. Would love to see the inside sometime! Lovely church yard...loved that weeping willow! Ringmer appears to be a charming old village, but very busy w/ that main road going thru it.

[@paulmetcalfe4824]

I walked through Ringmer in 2019 when I did a countryside walk from Hayward’s Heath to Lewes I shall walk a little taller now I have been somewhere that the great Richard Vobes has been too as well !!!

[@denniskavanagh3075]

Thank you Richard for taking us to Ringmer, like you I have often driven though the village but never stopped. The remaining "Post" from the old "Windmill" looks a bit sad especially with that modern monstrosity behind it!

[@reginaceliasombinidossanto367]

Richard, you can't imagine how your terrific videos make me happy!! I love deeply England and stroll around over it is awesome to me, specially because in 1994 I stayed in Brighton for one month and visited some gorgeous towns over this lovely area ! May God bless you for this great job!! Gratitude🙏🙌😍

[@RichardVobes]

Wow, thank you!

[@crystalwaters8852]

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[@MrNas42]

That was lovely, the sound mix was particularly pleasing. I hope you didn't get to damp on the way back down to the van.

[@katherinekinnaird4408]

I love Turtles and tortoises and they do live for a long time. This is a great video. Thank you so much.

[@lionelmarytravels6003]

That old village pump is just like one that was situated in my last school at Sherfield English. Even the wheel is the same size. We older boys would take it in turns to go up to the old pump and give it 100 turns, which pumped water for the headmistress, who lived next door. Happy days.

[@annakane364]

Absolutely brilliant. I've just moved to Ringmer and have been exploring a lot, I totally missed this little lane to the windmill. Thanks for sharing. I'm off for a walk :)

[@tallpojjy]

A very interesting video, the church is fascinating and I am staggered by the size of the green.

[@christinebrown2417]

Love your video's,only way for me to see the countryside

[@CosmicClaire99]

Not only are your videos a lovely fifteen or twenty minutes in the beautiful Sussex countryside but (and I'm sure you know this) are a superb documentary archive of our land and its history. You are performing an invaluable service to both us the present viewers and future historians! You are a legend Richard. I recently found that one of my Facebook friends who lives in Cornwall is a regular viewer!

[@RichardVobes]

Aww, thank you.

[@CosmicClaire99]

@@RichardVobes

[@crystalwaters8852]

Its sad to say this but certain parts of Cornwall are becoming trashed. Penzance & Newquay among others.

[@henryharesdene4164]

Many many years ago We sang a wedding at the church and I talked to the organist about the specification (it's a very large instrument for a 'village' church. He informed me that it came from a 'certain large operatic country house' nearby and it was large because it was designed to fill the operahouse. You have to be very careful what stops are used for fear of rattling the roof and deafening the congregation.....

[@johnbyrne2756]

Goodness, what a tree! The long shot from further back on this magnificent green showed what I took to be two or three trees. Not only is England changing dramatically, it is also changing grammatically! Anyway, a very nice village video Mr Vobes...

[@lindagates9150]

Coin phones are still available in my grocery store , I am unable to remember when they disappeared from the streets it is so long ago. What I notice about my city is the disappearing courtesy of greetings, from the young people on the sidewalks, people of my generation and the next still do wish each other a good morning or say what a lovely day we are having.... especially when the weather is miserable but the children and other young people are silent playing with their phones . Seniors have been knocked down by young women pushing prams and texting on their phones and going on not even aware of the havoc they have left behind. I suppose that I like our ancestors lament that there are changes. Is must be genetically engineered as I remember reading about ancient Egyptian people and how they lamented the behaviour of the children not doing their school work etc.. I wonder how on earth has the relic of the mill survived thank you for the walk today as your searched for your childhood England 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖❤️

[@raybeverton9969]

Thank you Richard, for the lovely video. The old and the new, very interesting for me as I have never been to Ringmer.

[@jennyrose1082]

Beautifully filmed. Thank you.

[@RichardVobes]

Many thanks!

[@baldeagle3715]

Another fascinating video Richard I keep expecting a Dalek saucer to land at the end of the episode.

[@orange70383]

Even if there are areas that still retain that Olde England look, the attitude, the feel, the baton hasn't been grasped by the current generation.

[@crystalwaters8852]

That is a lot to do with parenting or lack of & the nonsense the schools are teaching them. This is why people have the entitled attitude.

[@bpalive2005]

I believe the Glyndebourne Estate recreated the remains of what was left of the windmill in the 1960s and the only original remaining bit is the tower section of the main post of the mill. The 4 trestle legs replaced the originals in the 1960s and were much chunkier originally. The trestle would have stood on 4 brick piers and the mill had a roundhouse around it. It is good that something remains. I have always been smitten with this "minor" remains.

[@stationmasterschoice-walku1307]

Familiar territory for me, both as a bus driver, and vehicle parts delivery driver in later years. But always good to see the place through another pair of eyes. Have seen many fairs on the green, and the setting really suits them. Magical in the evenings. Thanks Richard. You'll be catching up with MY locations soon!!

[@jeanblemings5352]

Now musing on what differentiates a village from a town and a village hall from a town hall! Interesting about the tortoise - I did not realise it hailed from Ringmer. The phone box removal is sad. It is still marked on OS map which may confuse future navigation! Great video - loving the photography and composition of the scenes you chose to present to us.

[@jeaniepullen9434]

Beautiful church, in a lovely setting. Great narration. It's such a shame that the telephone box had gone and not much left of the windmill.

[@hsbcgeoff]

Thank you Richard. My home village. I wish I had known you were coming, as I would have popped along and said hello. Super video..

[@RichardVobes]

Next time!

[@christaylor4145]

Hi Richard always enjoy your vlogs, but just to let you know if you are covering more areas in East Sussex , there is a very nice little camp site in Crowborough where I live it is right next to Goldsmiths Leisure Centre and would be a good base if you ever cover the Ashdown Forest, or any surrounding villages, take care and all the best to you.

[@lorraineburchett655]

I live here now, it has a great community, been here for nearly 14 years.

[@bullettube9863]

Ironically I just read that the tortoise that Charles Darwin brought back to England recently died, outliving him by 126 years! Don't you just love climbing a hill then complaining that it was steeper then it looks? What a sense of exultation that you made it! I feel the same way climbing the stairs to my apartment!

[@grantkelley6840]

Brilliant Richard. Didn’t know about any of the history of ringmer. Thankyou 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@lesleymetthews4590]

Actually, Thame in Oxfordshire is great too,home of the late Robin Gibb and where he is at rest.

[@coliniancooke8848]

Shouldn't it be "formative years " ? :-) I love your Malapropisms ! "Foiree" is still my favorite. You make great videos with superb photography and charming appropriate music.

[@RichardVobes]

Slip of the tongue. Sorry

[@martincannon1078]

That lovely village green could have a hundred houses built on it! All is possible in this wonderful day and age don't you think?

[@CharlieCooper3101]

Great video Richard the music works very well too. Ringmer looks a lovely place, lovely Church and houses, great big green. And what a lovely big tree I like the way it covers the path and you can walk through it thats cool. And a great bit of history with part of the old windmill still there. Be nice to visit that windmill and Ringmer myself one day.

[@RichardVobes]

Well worth a visit to the windmill, Charlie.

[@jym225]

Fascinating video. Thanks. Gilbert White’s house and gardens is worth looking at if you are in the area.

[@lindakane4717]

Richard has made a couple of videos in Selbourne

[@bexhil7]

A vary nice video!.😎

[@traceystickland-mottram8021]

What an amazing village green. Lovely vlog as ever.

[@lesleymetthews4590]

I've been there,my cousin lived there and i knew about the tortoise. Have you done Windsor,i know its not your usual area but its worthy.

[@credenza1]

Very enjoyable. I doubt the day will ever come when anybody, out of sentimental attachment, wants to touch the monstrous metal windmill which you so wisely avoided mentioning.

[@cathybonner9437]

I've driven through Ringmer and had a meal in The Anchor pub. Didn't know about the windmill so will have to stop and find it myself one day.

[@lisal5262]

Hi Richard ... found your videos by mistake and how glad I am.... absolutely love them , hoping you’ll do more in Surrey.... Thankyou so much from a fellow July 1963 baby ! 😊

[@RichardVobes]

Welcome aboard!

[@deanmc178]

you can see the wind turbine from my house ..

[@steveroperfilms]

From memory the phone box in Ambridge was taken over by the National Trust. Cheers.

[@imranzazai7404]

What a beautiful.

[@FredWilbury]

A great bit of bedtime viewing 👌😎

[@marywhite5669]

Thanks for the visit. What a shame you didn't mention the name origin of Springett Avenue, or the adjoining Harvard Road.

[@michaelmiller641]

Interesting video, again, Richard

[@nikkiwalsh2762]

It's not all its cracked up 2 b!!😂 I live here and i gotta say ya made this village look beautiful!👍💙

[@adrianburn7178]

You say Ringmer is the largest village in the south-east. When does a village become a town? I assume there's an official definition linked to population size.

[@oddiedog4376]

Following , I fear that many villages have now become towns , It pushes the house prices up if anything . Town v Village

[@Sparky68M]

The Green Man Pub

[@nlcphotography8396]

Brilliant

[@kenabell4978]

Would like to see one of malling down nature reserve next to Ringmer, apparently pevensey castle was built from the quarries there, and no one knows the origin of the flint pile on the south hill, there was also gunning placements facing Ringmer during ww2

[@welshmanjasonpatrick8607]

Ringer look nice place visit church looks old time past

[@joannajones8218]

Great Video! 😊

[@katherinekinnaird4408]

My 7 year old granddaughter will probably never have the opportunity to make a coin operated telephone call via a telephone booth.

[@davidtomsett]

David Attenborough opened the wind turbine

[@RichardVobes]

Oh, did he?

[@lindakane4717]

Brilliant ! I wonder if the inhabitants were informed of the decision to remove the phone box ! Many of them are repurposed as libraries, information kiosks or for housing a defibrillator with the locals maintaining and painting it etc. Did you check what you were wearing in your previous video re windmill ? Same shirt and walking boots . lol

[@RichardVobes]

I didn't check actually!

[@dedestephens4229]

Richard, I notice most of the church yards you visit have a huge yew tree, is this a common thing there? If so it must have some meaning. Do you know if it does?

[@RichardVobes]

The old yew tree usually implies that the land has been used before the church was built for religious meetings.

[@dedestephens4229]

@@RichardVobes thank you. I’ve wondered ever since I’ve seen my first Vobes visit to a church.

[@davidtomsett]

A few years ago some idiot put poison down near the post and a dog died.

[@RichardVobes]

Poor dog.

[@bengriffin4638]

You subbed my class today HOW DARE YOU MOCK MY TEACHER

[@austinstitzel]

I'm going to guess that you are a Capricorn.