Sussex Footpaths: Around the Nyetimber Vineyard in West Sussex

I am exploring the Sussex footpaths in West Sussex. My walk today starts at West Chiltington Church and takes me around the Nyetimber vineyard with views of the South Downs.
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[@denniskavanagh3075]

Thank you Richard for today's walk and video, nice to see you "exploring" again, i've missed these little excursions.

[@RichardVobes]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@dedestephens4820]

Really enjoyed this video. I’m not sure how you find these foot paths but I’m glad you do. I can’t believe how many there are and so much history to go with them. Thank you so much for sharing them with us. It was a real joy and I’m glad the weather worked out for you too. Take care!

[@travelfox4820]

Lovely nice to get out and about with you and every thing so green good job ; please keep em coming

[@davidwindell5732]

Right behind our house! I often sit in the vineyard to clear my head. Gutted to miss you but hopefully say hello again on the next BE walk.

[@RichardVobes]

That would be grand

[@MrNas42]

Delightful! I love a wonder down unfamiliar footpaths.

[@shirleylynch7529]

Stunning walk . Absolutely beautiful. Trees, flowers, grapevines,cows , glorious weather. What more do you need.? Ah yes cup tea or coffee to finish off.

[@RichardVobes]

So nice of you

[@joannajones8218]

Great walk Richard! Love the Vineyard! 🍷

[@rachelt-s]

I see what you did there - lots of different types of trees and then you said there are many ROOTS (routes) we could take...lol (3:15) Made me laugh anyway. 😂 Great video Richard. Top Quality. Xx

[@Harmon1ca]

I’ve actually bought Nyetimber sparkling wine (champagne) here in the US and it was very nice! And, by the way, the village in between Pagham and Aldwick is called Nyetimber. That’s where I grew up in addition to Aldwick.

[@welshmanjasonpatrick8607]

Very interested footpath u been before very interested to explore down Sussex good weather for u

[@andyjarman4958]

The post and rail fence you were walking next to at 8:10 was cleft chestnut - perhaps from a local coppice?

[@cogidubnus1953]

4:00 Thought for one brief moment you'd shrunk or reverted to childhood Richard...Goodness that was a big old gate!

[@JH-W]

Very enjoyable video, Richard, many thanks

[@carol9523]

Great walking Countryside around West Chiltington ... the best! That particular Vineyard was an old Golf Course until recent years. You may like to pop back and venture a short distance in the other direction, where you will find the other wonderful Windmill, Meeten's Mill ... you will love that one and can just about touch it 😊 I am always dragging friends down that direction to see the Vineyards, Windmills and the numerous Thatched Cottages. Really enjoyed your walk, thank you Richard.

[@RichardVobes]

Will do!

[@andyjarman4958]

Wow, a golf course giving way to a vineyard, that is pretty encouraging.

[@jt9696]

Great video, Richard. Loved it all, and I especially enjoyed 3 mins 53 seconds to 4 minutes 5 where you are in the Land of the Giants!

[@NeffyV]

Richard you rebel, wearing a tank top 😂 love it 👍

[@waynehawes439]

There was a golf course here until recent years, which might explain the strange tree formation.

[@CharlieCooper3101]

Another great video Richard lovely vineyards lovely countryside. A nice little walk.

[@michaelmiller641]

Nice!

[@johnbyrne2756]

ON THE BORDER (verse134 of 171) At Cooden Beach the railway station used to be a halt.. The halt that served a golf course there midst sand and sea and salt.. There's nothing much at Cooden Beach except of course the sea.. Which comes and goes but twice a day with regularity. JB21

[@KitoTodd]

Beautiful scenery💚I think it would be it would be cool if you made a video of you and Julia making 🍷 wine the good old fashion Roman way! Get those shoes off and throw on the toga's oh yes and don't forget the Olive leaf crowns you've just got to wear them on your head's😂ciao 🍷

[@andyjarman4958]

Or if you can't get olives, Ivy is very Bacchanalian.

[@nickindevon]

Great video Richard, thanks. Loved seeing the vineyards. I grow a few vines in my garden here in south Devon. The climate is near perfect for growing them and this year is going to be a bounty as we haven't had the droughts of previous years and the vines love a combination of warmth, sunshine and rain, which is what we've had so far this summer. I can produce around 70 litres or so of red wine per ten mature vines. Nice to see the old chestnut trees too.

[@MsMaisiesue]

A lovely area Richard, thanks for the tour. I thought you’d shrunk for a second. The gate into the vineyard was enormous!😁

[@RichardVobes]

It was huge!

[@JohnHawkins]

The Rising Sun in Nutbourne is a great pub, have you ever been? Pubs and restaurants these days often go on about using local / seasonal produce - it has become a bit of a cliché - and sometimes they have a very generous definition of "local"... but the Rising Sun has two vineyards (producing really excellent wine) within a mile of it, as well as a really excellent heritage tomato grower in the village,

[@MrAg272]

G'day Richard. I watched an UK TV programme oh years and years ago. About Grape growing for wine production. In the UK! As you stated in the Vlog the Romans grew grapes for wine making. I read recently the Wine Industry in the UK is growing at a good pace. Producing many wine varieties. I do love my Australian wine Down here. So far I have not found any shop here selling UK wine. I am intrigued by what a Red UK wine will taste like compared to an Australian Red. Love these country walks you do. Cheers.

[@RichardVobes]

The UK wine is definitely being sold here, but not sure where. Some supermarkets surely stock it.

[@MrGreatplum]

I’m no expert but I don’t think much red wine is grown here in the U.K. as that needs more of a Mediterranean climate - our white and sparkling wine is meant to be excellent though

[@davidbarlow350]

A lot of people tend to poo poo Australian wines like the Chateau Chunder,the Hobart Muddy or Nuisance Wogga Wogga,or perhaps the Sydney Syrup,(guaranteed to open the sluices at both ends.)At the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge club they were fishing them out the main sewers every half an hour. Eric Idle certainly knew his wines!

[@John-mu2ki]

The only trouble is that the plants that consume the most Co2 are trees. So the extent and pace of deforestation across the world wrt the amount of green house gasses that is now produced by modern man, means that we have too much Co2. Its upset the balance.

[@davidbarlow350]

3% of Co2 is produced by man.

[@RichardVobes]

Do we not have more trees now across the world than 200 years ago?

[@chriswinder1387]

@@RichardVobes Far less the Amazon is less than 1/2 of its size 200 years ago.

[@andyjarman4958]

4:00 Mini-me!

[@JH-W]

Yes, we noticed that too!!! That gate must be huge

[@RichardVobes]

@@JH-W Yes it was!

[@JH-W]

@@RichardVobes I thought you’d been transported to Alice in Wonderland, lol!

[@christinebrown2417]

Very enjoyable x

[@jeanblemings5352]

As they say there is no such thing as inappropriate daily weather just poor choice of clothing and I see that goes for warm and sunny as well as wet and windy. That huge gate made you look as if you had shrunk!

[@peteredwards338]

Co2 is plant food.Well said Bald !

[@Henbopty]

Correct

[@davidbarlow350]

97% is natural and man contributes the remaining 3%. The highest contributor to greenhouse gases is ocean ozone,and next is methane from rotting vegetation. Let's see how little Greta tackles that!

[@Henbopty]

@@davidbarlow350 👍

[@chriswinder1387]

@@davidbarlow350 To be fair "little Greta" has the support of the United Nations committee on climate change!

[@davidbarlow350]

@@chriswinder1387 That just shows the level of exploitation the Satanic UN has to employ to promote it's fake green Ponzi scheme on behalf of the likes of George Soros and his cohorts,

[@michaeldukes5928]

That gate Richard, it made you look like a little boy🤔

[@MrGrahamwhitt]

Made me chuckle!

[@johnbyrne2756]

That gate was a red herring, chucked by a mischievous Explorer to see if anyone would notice and guess what? We did.....

[@bpalive2005]

Nice to see Nutbourne again ;-)

[@MrGreatplum]

Great video, Richard - good to see you out and about ; it’s stayed very green this year… Of course, vineyards are mono-culture as well (just playing Devil’s advocate!)

[@RichardVobes]

Yes they are, but we haven't cover all of England in them yet.

[@andyjarman4958]

Like orchards, they do allow for sheep grazing. Great meadows come from sheep grazing.

[@michaelwhite8031]

The Earth Temperature goes in cycles...nuff said.

[@Henbopty]

Agree

[@JohnClemence]

Yes, and sometimes the cycle is totally destructive. But human behaviour is not yet cyclic.

[@michaelwhite8031]

@@JohnClemence Get back to me in 10 years .

[@jorybennett5932]

Richard, what is the name of your opening music? It sounds very French.

[@RichardVobes]

I will have to look it up.

[@dornierdo2172]

That's a big gate you look like one of the Borrowers.

[@JohnClemence]

BTW what has happened to the border walk Richard? To be honest I can't be bothered with your Sunday chat (sorry) so apologies if I have a missed a mention of it there.

[@RichardVobes]

Border will be back. Thanks for being a paid up patron.

[@simontalbot1792]

Can just see the Windmill in the distance

[@smoath]

👍🏻

[@Henbopty]

I do agree with you Richard in regards to the Romans growing grapes 🍇 climate change always happens..I not worry about global warming its natural 😉

[@andyjarman4958]

Ever done anything on wild food Richard? As kids we tried eating all sorts of things, Beech Mast, Sweet chestnut, Hazel Nut. There's a lot of more obscure food sources too, like rose hip, hawthorn berries, nettles, herbs like salad burnet, fungi like puff balls and so on. At Butson they dye their hand spun wool with Wede and Wode. You're coming into Autumn shortly thought it might be interesting to give it a go. I have a feeling you once referred to foraging.

[@JohnClemence]

Your attitude to climate change is quite amazing given the recent evidence from a huge number of scientists. BTW plants like Cardon Dioxide. However Carbon Monoxide (the stuff that comes out of your van) may be another thing altogether! Still enjoyning the views though - the ones you capture through your camera of course. Keep up the good work.

[@paulwood7798]

In the interest of fairness as an environmental archaeologist of many decades and having worked across Britain Ireland and a number of countries in Europe since the last Ice Age we have encountered huge fluctuations in climate long before the invention of the motor car. Britain suffered hugely in the early post Roman period and again in the 1700s where our climate drastically altered for at least 75 to a 100 years from large volcanic eruptions on Iceland. A common conclusion from many lowland Iron Age and Romano British sites is flooding. Just to simply say our climate is irreversibly damaged from a one hundred year period of the motor car is simply an argument any informed person could shred apart. How many times have clowns like Obama and the power people predicted doom and Gloom for it not to happen and for what purpose. Bravo to Richard I say for having an opinion and having the stoutness to express it. I try not to get involved in these slanging matches as no matter what evidence we supply it is suppressed as honest evidence is not on the agenda but when you see who pays the so called scientists pay checks just think for one moment what they tell me can I go and verify this as most don't and I am flabbergasted at how much people get involved without questioning any part of what they perceive to be right. I obviously don't know you from Adam and I don't know your agenda but as I said Richard questions what he is told and good for him.

[@RichardVobes]

Curious that 'they' say global warming is caused by carbon dioxide that plants like and not a mention of carbon monoxide, which maybe they don't. I was talking about the former, as was obvious in the video :)

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks, Paul.

[@PeterDHurley]

Hi Richard I enjoy your videos, but I want to pull you up on the climate change aspect. The carbon dioxide level now is higher than at any point than over the last past 800,000 years, the impact of that level of co2 is not just in warming but disrupting our weather systems, leading to more extremes like the heat bomb over North America and the extreme floods in Europe. Unlike in the past, where temperature changes would change slowly over many decades, the rate of co2 increase induced by our behaviour is going to lead to temperature and climate changes at unprecedented speeds. I for one worry about how our flora and fauna will cope and adapt to such rapid changes.

[@RichardVobes]

I would love to know where that statistic comes from regarding Co2 levels higher than 800,000 years ago. Either way, assuming that is true, it's been bloody useful for 800,000 years then. It has fed us, warmed us, provided with building materials. On the whole, extremely useful at this level. I am not sure that I want to go back to levels it was 800,000 years ago. Since then, we have food, shelter and mechanical aids. Fantastic.

[@PeterDHurley]

@@RichardVobes Given the remarks you made about this in your recent podcast, I felt it best to respond in more detail via email. I hope you find what I sent more informative

[@chriswinder1387]

I cannot believe that you made the comments that you did about rising CO2 not being a problem. Please read the summary of the United Nations report released this week. We won't be too badly off but around the world places will be uninhabitable and millions will die.

[@RichardVobes]

I think that is wrong, and simply scaremongering.

[@chriswinder1387]

@@RichardVobes Who are you to disagree with a UN report prepared by the world's top scientists?

[@jym225]

Thanks for bringing common sense to the climate change debate. 👍🏻

[@Henbopty]

Correct

[@simontalbot1792]

It's a lobby of some very sinister people who want to control people , using the climate hysteria as an alibi

[@mrtiabrown]

Yup ya might be missing breathing with all that carbon

[@RichardVobes]

I doubt that.

[@simontalbot1792]

With you on the whole climate thing - not convinced for one minute

[@johnbyrne2756]

Mankind induced global warming would indeed be useful -- during an ice age, rather unfortunately we are not currently in one...

[@peteredwards338]

I believe we are in the tail end of the last ice age.

[@MrNas42]

We are in a brief warm phase of an ice age. The average historical global temp is about +3-5 deg C warmer than present.

[@johnbyrne2756]

@@MrNas42 I would love to know how scientists arrive at such a figure, in the total absence of an ability to measure the temperature 8,000 yrs ago....

[@MrNas42]

@@johnbyrne2756 Ice cores and sea bed sampling to name a few. The research is called "Paleoclimatology" and can go back over 500 million years revealing that global temps see-saw like anything in waves on a fairly regular basis.

[@johnbyrne2756]

@@MrNas42 Yes of course those methods but today we talk in terms of 1-2 degree C temp variations making a massive difference, those methods cannot possibly be that accurate, there must be at least a large element of guesswork involved even if they are scientists....