The Strid at Bolton Abbey

Some footage of The Strid, at Bolton Abbey. Shot in 4K with a DJI Mavic Pro. The Strid is dangerous and not to be underestimated! It has claimed lives. Photo album here: m. story.php?stor...
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Music: 'Woodlands' by Wiljan & Xandra
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[@lotspotcosplay3153]

U can’t fool me with these beautiful camera angles and shots, I’m still bloody terrified of that damn strid

[@StephenGarnett]

And well you should be! Very dangerous stretch of water indeed! :-)

[@jill_temple1111]

I finally understand that river system now. Those rocks are actually a steep overhang to miles of very deep and horrifying cave systems, with a violent unpredictable river squeezing its way through... Y’all are very brave people!

[@samo6083]

It wasnt filmed by hand that's a drone 😂

[@sandman_-_]

I never knew a river could cause anxiety by looking at it. Thanks, i hate it

[@rushshukla4636]

Don't hate nature. Learn to love and respect it.

[@anti-loganpaul7827]

@@rushshukla4636 Where did they say that they hated nature?

[@casmckay8034]

I don't know what it is but water and the surrounding almost calls you to give it a try,very mysterious

[@icantthinkofausername2605]

Also very deadly Fall in and you get dragged under the banks, which are actually overhangs, and powerful currents rip you apart and keep you under

[@drawyrral]

Deadly never looked so beautiful.

[@pennypay1]

Beautiful footage. It looks like a fairies' paradise in a children's book, or perhaps something out of Tolkien's Middle Earth, but it's deceptively calm. A width of thirty feet narrows abruptly into about three feet, with the river 'turning on its side' and undercutting the banks, and the depth can't even be measured due to the current's speed in that section of the river. And all the fatalities...

[@StephenGarnett]

pennypay1 beautiful but deadly! :-)

[@iang-lb7nx]

Slight exaggeration but yeah very dangerous.

[@meptune]

Since the volume of water is the same coming out as going in and there are no steap waterfalls; that means that a 30 foot wide and 6 foot deep river is pouring through a 6 foot wide, 30 foot deep channel that is swift, undercut, and stained with peat. Furthermore it's aerated by the turbulance and you sink like a stone in bubbly water. If you fell in with your clothes and shoes on you would be dead.

[@iang-lb7nx]

@@meptune no you're wrong. If it's 30ftdeep it cant be massively undercut. The river upstream is 30ft wide but relatively shallow so if turn on it's side it cant be undercut if 30ft deep.

[@JadieJamz]

@@iang-lb7nx jump in and prove it

[@jonshaffer5793]

Hey look its my favorite swimming spot.

[@SilverCipher00]

You + Strid = dead as hell

[@vermin5367]

@@SilverCipher00 language

[@SilverCipher00]

@@vermin5367 *Takes deep breath* _Fuck_ _Shit_ _Hell_ _Damn_ _Douchewaffle_ *HUHUHU*

[@vermin5367]

@@SilverCipher00 excuse me buts it's H E double hockey sticks, keep in mind I only have liquid soap.

[@SilverCipher00]

@@vermin5367 hahahaha

[@tbc27Z]

That was absolutely beautiful ‼ ~~~ So peaceful . And so deceiving.

[@StephenGarnett]

Many thanks! :-)

[@huskymcfluff]

Wonderful video; very relaxing with the choice in musical score. I only just heard about this river this morning and find it absolutely fascinating. I was hoping to find a documentary about it, but instead found this video and feel pretty satisfied.

[@StephenGarnett]

Husky McFluff many thanks, and glad you like the video. I'm glad it's finally getting some numbers- we put a lot of effort into it! :-)

[@PatrickPierceBateman]

This footage is literally awesome. I'm in awe of the strid's beauty, but in fear of its deadliness.

[@monkymoment4182]

You guys deserve so much more recognition for this masterpiece.

[@StephenGarnett]

Java AI we're at 75K views, so it's finally getting some views now! And thanks! :-)

[@louisehypher409]

I am fascinated by this stretch of the River Wharf (thank you Tom Scott!). Such a beautiful part of the river with a 100% fatality rate if you fall in or try to swim it. I wonder if scientists would ever be able to map its underwater topography and find out how deep it actually is?

[@StephenGarnett]

Thanks for your comment Louise. It was also Tom Scotts video that piqued my interest!

[@asheland_numismatics]

One guy did a video with a device, supposedly it’s over 200 feet deep at one point!

[@susanyoung1600]

Stunning video. Thank you. What a pleasure to watch.

[@StephenGarnett]

No worries! Glad you like it!

[@kurtlarkin448]

Beautiful place. Stunning footage.

[@NDKY67]

Great shots, love the early autumn colours. Must have been nice having the place to yourself

[@StephenGarnett]

We were allowed on site a little early to film and photograph. One of the (2) days filming was intensely hot! Sweat pouring off me! And thankyou!

[@SilverCipher00]

Don't you realize that the water is black because of how deep it is? Yet no one knows. If you fall in there's literally no chance you will survive. The current will pull you down, God knows how far, while grinding you against rocks. There's no little bottom either. The rocks at the surface is just an overhang. Nothing but depth below that. If you died, your corpse may not even resurface.

[@StevenEakins]

Looks like a beautiful place to go for a quick dip.

[@theresac.3536]

Never heard of this place before until this morning, this footage is amazing! Thanks for sharing

[@StephenGarnett]

Aww...thank you so much! I'm typically a photographer. I'd love you to take a look st my page on Facebook sometime? @stephengarnettphotographic

[@francinehibiscus350]

Idyllic! Gorgeous filming, thanks for sharing!

[@StephenGarnett]

You're very welcome:-)

[@lynndonnelly6471]

A beautiful video and accompanying music of a beautiful place I have visited many times

[@JoelGroot]

Looks like a lovely river to swim in😄

[@financespain664]

Lovely footage. Thanks. I've been going there since I was a child. Used to give me nightmares as a kid.

[@lustforlife358]

Nicely captured Stephen!!

[@StephenGarnett]

Many thanks! :-)

[@Warkive]

I'm kinda surprised no one has thrown a dummy with a camera attached to it to see what actually happens.

[@thedronenomads7440]

Nice video, beautiful colours - just subbed to your channel.

[@StephenGarnett]

Many thanks!

[@someguy3926]

I just swam there last week. Nice spot

[@Labinzel]

Okay but,,, these shots are gorgeous?!?

[@StephenGarnett]

Many thanks! :-)

[@anvilbrunner.2013]

It's probably looking a bit like the Antelope canyon in Arizona, under the water along that stretch of the river.

[@adrinathegreat3095]

Excellent drone footage, very smooth and professional, great subject matter as well. It's an area of the country I've yet to visit but I plan on doing so soon

[@StephenGarnett]

Adrina The Great many thanks! Glad you liked it! :-)

[@devonthehedgehog15]

Don't fall in, lol.

[@illol3755]

Can someone explain me why i don't feel safe even if i'm something like 3000 km away from that damned strid ?

[@ReignofFire1]

I wonder why nobody has plumbed the depth with a fishing line yet, wouldn't be very difficult, might snag up sometimes and loose a few weights but in places it would be fine.

[@gothamgymnast4638]

If you tried fishing there you’d get pulled in

[@SilverCipher00]

@@gothamgymnast4638 Exactly. The line would likely get caught on something _deep_ underwater and would pull you down with it. Then It would be fine to grow some gills and armor or accept your death.

[@michaelexactly5741]

You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat !

[@josephinebennington7247]

Look at the geology above water. It’s like that below water. Curls, swirls, scoops, overhangs, eddies, traps, over falls, stoppers....need I go on?

[@munterboy9298]

Looks like a nice place for a swim in summer

[@SilverCipher00]

Don't you realize that the water is black because of how deep it is? Yet no one knows. If you fall in there's literally no chance you will survive. The current will pull you down, God knows how far, while grinding you against rocks. There's no little bottom either. The rocks at the surface is just an overhang. Nothing but depth below that. If you died, your corpse may not even resurface.

[@bosshogg55]

Beautiful images Mr Garnett..

[@StephenGarnett]

Many thanks! :-)

[@farky350]

My eldest was & is still terrified of the Strid, it's so beautiful but 100% deadly as many have found out. Only 30 mins from my house so lucky to live in Yorkshire.

[@wretchedsinner2468]

If someone showed me this and said it was upstate New York, I would question it for a second. Beautiful!

[@StephenGarnett]

Many thanks!

[@VAMR-vc7xg]

Beautifully filmed, thanks. I won't be going too near though.

[@StephenGarnett]

Many thanks! :-)

[@devvisuri773]

beautiful... so lovely :)

[@docairline5016]

I want to go into the depths and experience this. I also want to go into a black hole but...

[@dogwood8031]

Beautiful video of a deadly river.

[@scouthammer5370]

Man this looks beautiful!! I love rivers and this looks amazing to swim in with little to no clothes in. Im giving it a try this summer!:)

[@marsishere1121]

You’re probably joking based on the writing style and smiley but if you aren’t. Don’t

[@scouthammer5370]

Why not? Its not allowed? It just looks pretty peaceful haha @@marsishere1121

[@marsishere1121]

Scout Hammer uhhhhthere’sapparentlya100%drowningrateforpeoplewhofallinhhhhhhhh

[@scouthammer5370]

wait what????@@marsishere1121

[@marsishere1121]

Scout Hammer apparently, anyone who’s fallen in it has been sucked under the water and the rocks and has died

[@dreadfulbadger]

If I ever get some incurable disease I will swim there.

[@loofdot]

Yeah that'd be a faster dead xD

[@tapirvorpal4236]

Life is an incurable disease!

[@IDvfy]

@@tapirvorpal4236 Jesus is the cure.

[@WilliamTravisIto]

@@IDvfy why do little kids get raped and tortured everyday

[@IDvfy]

@@WilliamTravisIto Because of the choices of wicked people. If you want to ask a question, ask directly. Don't beat around the bush and be upfront.

[@meptune]

what an amazing natural phenomenon, its fascinating.

[@jesser5127]

Do we know how far back on either side the overhangs actually go? Has anyone done anything to determine that?

[@PantsofVance]

4:00 and the fairies and wood nymphs lived happily ever after

[@ashmaxwell665]

Such nice music for a deadly stretch of water.

[@tammygronskei6776]

It's beautiful

[@taraelizabethdensley9475]

So deadly if you fall in, but certainly beautiful to look at

[@gamer_guts9836]

Great video! I’m curious as to which model drone you went with? Thanks

[@StephenGarnett]

Jaime L. Hi there, it was the DJI Mavic Pro.

[@fernando8246]

Looks like a lovely place to swim

[@genevie1998]

What a calm river!

[@beecharmer9522]

Lovely work, thank you. It must be an amazing thing to witness, I’m going to view the location on Google earth now…cheers from somewhere very near The Spokane River.

[@StephenGarnett]

Thanks ever so much! :-)

[@dawnpiper5883]

I want to see a underwater camera let loose in that death trap

[@StephenGarnett]

11 thousand views! May seem like small numbers, but I'm so happy this video is finally getting some views. We put a LOT of work into this Please feel free to follow my Facebook page @stephengarnettphotographic. Thanks for everyones kind words and support.

[@zzerulialase7471]

beautiful but deadly

[@mememanfresh]

zzerulia lase why is it desdly

[@Unknown-sz8kg]

Just like women.

[@HokieVols]

@@Unknown-sz8kg There are some ugly ass women out there.

[@baqikenny]

@@den4199 not potentially, highly probable, like 90% of the time.

[@abingleyboy]

1:34 & at 3:58 those shots along the strid looks magical, like something from Ridley Scott film Legend or The Never Ending Story. Great Shots! Half expect a unicorn to apear!

[@icantthinkofausername2605]

The unicorns gonna die

[@user-tb2jy9lu3d]

Something nobody seems to be able to answer: how *deep* is the actual narrow water just above the waterfall itself? I'm referring to that part at 2:13. Everybody talks about a 30 foot wide river 6 feet deep turning into just 5-6 feet wide. Well, there's a little boulder sitting right there on the edge of the waterfall. What is it sitting on if that's 20-30 feet deep pouring over? If it isn't 20-30 feet deep pouring over (both above and under the water), which it would have to be in such a scenario because the water has to go somewhere....why does it look like only about 2 feet deep water going over the waterfall itself?

[@mastertrey4683]

Beautiful photography

[@StephenGarnett]

TWrecks many thanks!

[@RNCHFND]

Love the video!

[@StephenGarnett]

Thanks so much! :-)

[@Wayner71]

The entire Strid appears to be only about 50 metres long (at most). Above the small waterfall and below the river canyon section the River Wharfe is as safe as houses to swim in. The Strid should be mapped to reveal its secrets. Or is it the fact that we don't know its mysteries that makes it fascinating?

[@vermin5367]

I can't wait to swim in this!

[@dreadfulbadger]

How did it go?

[@vermin5367]

@@dreadfulbadger still alive

[@SilverCipher00]

@@vermin5367 You didn't swim in the damn river. If you would you'd have died. You just say you have so that you can try to trick people into thinking you're the only one who made it.

[@vermin5367]

@@SilverCipher00 Thanks Detective Proxy, I'll make sure to die next time.

[@rikihanawhiu7637]

Now the challenge of a radio controlled submerged go pro.

[@bearbaler1456]

Wouldn't even stand next to that thing without kids arm bands on, and a tractor inner tube round my waist!

[@buildersandinteriorexperts]

My speciality when I was a kid was swimming were the river Dee I think it was emptied into the see at Rhyl. There was Skull & Cross-bones signs every where but I used to love swimming up and down it for badness. People would scream at me and didn't realize I was wearing divers flippers 4 feet long :-)

[@kimdawcatgirl]

Beautiful musical choice to enhance this lovely drone footage! Great job! How long is this treacherous stretch of river?

[@StephenGarnett]

Kim Dawes its about 65 miles long in total. The music is called 'Woodlands' and really makes the video IMO

[@kimdawcatgirl]

+Stephen Garnett Thank you! I appreciate you sharing the name of the song. If I can find a place to purchase it I will add it to my favorite chill music. But, it won't be the same without the footage to enhance it! :)

[@StephenGarnett]

Kim Dawes no worries! Glad you like the video! :-)

[@zennomad258]

very enjoyable

[@haeggis1481]

The rocks around the river are actually overhangs and powerful currents drag you down into the dark abyss laying below.

[@mastertrey4683]

Scary stuff because it looks completely innocuous and like you could just walk over it. Looks super shallow but underneath it is much larger and the water is compressed and the current will fling you into the rocks and break your bones and pull your flesh off

[@eddiew2325]

TWrecks one time my dog jumped into and lived

[@icantthinkofausername2605]

@@eddiew2325 lucky puppy

[@robloxvids2233]

DJ Jazzy Jeff's career fell in there in 1992.

[@lit-eral5953]

What

[@BigSauce_]

Now theres a name I've not heard in a long time

[@jdraper12]

I live in such a beautiful country

[@munterboy9298]

Can't be England then it's always wet and grey and everyone lives in tiny houses lol

[@geslinam9703]

@@munterboy9298 some people like wet and grey. I know I do!

[@markfox1545]

I've rarely seen such hysteria as I've seen in these videos about the Strid. It's just a stretch of water. It's inadvisable to swim in the vast majority of all fresh, salt, flowing or still water. This stretch may well be dangerous but it's not anything out of the ordinary except for maybe its easy accessibility. Get a grip, people.

[@StephenGarnett]

75K views! Wow! I've added a photo album link in the description, please do check out my Facebook page: @stephengarnettphotographic

[@lorenzbroll101]

In parts its 65 m deep - that's 13 double decker busses stacked upon each other!

[@iCapaS]

jesus did you record this, its amazing!

[@StephenGarnett]

Slazenger Beats glad you like it!

[@vasenka5430]

Tanya!

[@markfox1545]

I don't think Jesus filmed this, no.

[@146sst]

so its not like the entire river is dangerous, right? and its just that section of a couple metres thats deadly. or am i wrong...

[@StephenGarnett]

It's that section in particular, shown in the video. The river takes practically a 90 degree twist, but also goes under those rocks at each side.

[@stevecarter8810]

The rest of the river varies from broad and shallow with stepping stones (Google Bolton Abbey stepping stones) to rapids to deep and brisk. Bits are fine for paddling. From this spot it's a couple miles to a bridge so tempting to try to leap

[@Sedgehun]

Looks something straight out of heaven at 1:34

[@marcoroberts9462]

Jump in and it’ll send you there too

[@nathantyson5265]

1:25 I have laid on the rock looking over the edge on the left when I was like 8... face to face with death

[@CoffeewithCrew]

Hey man, i am making a video on the strid also! Would it be ok if i could use some of this footage?

[@StephenGarnett]

Vibrant Films Pro Hi there. As long as you credit me and my FaceBook page: @stephengarnettphotographic in your video, and link my original video in the description? That sound fair?

[@CoffeewithCrew]

Stephen Garnett of course man, thanks!

[@commiedoggo2439]

Techrax should make a "stream" of swimming in the strid

[@SilverCipher00]

Don't you realize that the water is black because of how deep it is? Yet no one knows. If you fall in there's literally no chance you will survive. The current will pull you down, God knows how far, while grinding you against rocks. There's no little bottom either. The rocks at the surface is just an overhang. Nothing but depth below that. If you died, your corpse may not even resurface. In other words, your idea is one of the most stupid things I have ever seen.

[@heminmohamed5172]

ProxyAlpha 00 I am pretty sure he was joking... he wouldn't be THAT stupid, right?

[@SilverCipher00]

@@heminmohamed5172 With the way he said that, I doubt it. I hope he's not that ignorant. I've seen a bunch of comments saying that they're gonna swim in the Strid, and a couple months down the line when people ask if they're still alive,there are no replies from the original commenter.

[@alencko7114]

Great work, beautiful ,but I ain't coming !!thanks anyway 😉😁😂🤣👍

[@Fangfosse]

Very evocative, also: ... This striding-place is called THE STRID, A name which it took of yore: A thousand years hath it borne that name, And shall a thousand more. And hither is young Romilly come, And what may now forbid That he, perhaps for the hundredth time, Shall bound across THE STRID? He sprang in glee,--for what cared he That the river was strong, and the rocks were steep?-- But the greyhound in the leash hung back, And checked him in his leap. The Boy is in the arms of Wharf, And strangled by a merciless force; For never more was young Romilly seen Till he rose a lifeless corse. ... Excerpt from The Force of Prayer by William Wordsworth on the founding of Bolton Priory.

[@andrea1972ak]

Strid = Swim This River Induces Death

[@venusasaboy]

What's the song?

[@StephenGarnett]

venusasaboy "Woodlands". link is in the description

[@ingenear]

Is 'Strid' just a topographical name of the Wharfe or does it have a more general meaning?

[@StephenGarnett]

ingenear I think it's a term derived from 'stride', as The Strid looks safe enough and narrow enough to just stride over!

[@ingenear]

So, there or other Strids in the UK as well?

[@iang-lb7nx]

It descends from Old Norse, the Vikings names it Strid which means to Stride.

[@coletrick8748]

There has gotta be someone out there that has video of swimming the Strid

[@maxreid9186]

The Venus fly trap of rivers

[@yeshuasage3724]

Is it drinkable?

[@user-mw8um6mc3v]

It looks lovely doesn't it. It sure does. But it's a lethal stretch of water. Go in it....and you arnt coming out.

[@PatrickPierceBateman]

I go swimming there every summer. I usually swim the whole stretch to train for triathlon.

[@jenniferholden9397]

I would love it if they could divert the river so the Strid would be a dry river bed, that is the only way I would go near the darn thing and I live not far away. It terrifies me. I wonder if that’s how you get to middle earth? I live very close to a river that every year claims lives at “beauty spots”, I wouldn’t swim in there if you paid me. Quite a few years ago two lads that were canoeing both drowned, they were in canoes within sight of the banks and people watching! I’ll only go to places like this when I can breath underwater.

[@Uciferzalunje]

woaaa where is that? i want visit and swiming here :3

[@StephenGarnett]

BlueStahli DeepFocus it's at Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire. I wouldn't recommend swimming there though!

[@SilverCipher00]

Don't you realize that the water is black because of how deep it is? Yet no one knows. If you fall in there's literally no chance you will survive. The current will pull you down, God knows how far, while grinding you against rocks. There's no little bottom either. The rocks at the surface is just an overhang. Nothing but depth below that. If you died, your corpse may not even resurface.

[@bigshagger8277]

The Strid? Completed it mate. Done 50 laps up stream once

[@shiroikin]

Something so beautiful but so dangerous. makes you wonder how many hunters or travels though of this looks like a good spot to get water and just died never to be heard from again.

[@sarahlou3494]

The music gives this place a wrong sense of security............ you will drown if you swim in this stretch of water ........ 100% death rate ......... no one ever has survived

[@munterboy9298]

Doesn't look dangerous

[@marcoroberts9462]

@@munterboy9298 extremely high undertow means that anything unfortunate enough to fall in gets sucked to the bottom

[@porkzero]

The start of the film, The Water Babies was filmed and based here.

[@StephenGarnett]

Was that the live action/animated film?

[@porkzero]

@@StephenGarnett Yes, that's the one

[@porkzero]

@@StephenGarnett Brilliant video. Best footage I've seen of the Strid.

[@StephenGarnett]

@@porkzero wow! Many thanks! This video has SLOWLY gained some traction! I'm very happy it's getting some appreciation, we put a lot of effort into getting the shots and editing it all together. :-)

[@patrickclark1346]

Either fence it off or use dynamite to collapse it if it is so deadly.

[@agateapples5670]

This is the type of place to find a new species

[@Spacegoat92]

I'd love to see someone chuck a frozen chicken or a pig carcass or something like that in there. And also attach a go pro to it with some lights on it as well. The mystery is such an allurement!!!! If it wasn't for my stupid lungs needing air, i'd totally put on full motorcycle gear and jump in just to see for myself!!!

[@deadmire1976]

Bruh... You should do it.motorcycle gear and all.

[@stevecarter8810]

Put a gps transponder on it too. When the honeymoon couple fell in the husband was found miles downstream, days later

[@RolandThePaladin1]

It would probably end up getting stuck on a rock somewhere underwater. The Strid seems to just trap things that fall into it. It's like a tangled labyrinth of rocks below the surface.

[@jonshaffer5793]

If the drone went in the water would you go in after it?

[@StephenGarnett]

Jon Shaffer no! LOL

[@jonshaffer5793]

didn't think so. great video btw. nicely done music and effects.

[@mastertrey4683]

I would attempt to fly it out if it didn’t automatically short out and it was waterproof

[@devonthehedgehog15]

TWrecks no flying out of the strid mate, even if it didn't short out. I'm willing to bet the currents would pull it right under and the rocks would tear it to pieces. That is the deadliest stretch of river on the planet.

[@22espec]

So.... nobody has ever challenge that river in a kayak?

[@taparb8562]

one day humans will be able to get to know behind this, and i will not be surprised but i hope soon

[@motodin4210]

Uhh because it's narrow thus making the current strong and deadly, no ?

[@perthsaint66]

Went down thar river on a lilo when a were a boy.

[@danet.6215]

So cold. I swim there.

[@StephenGarnett]

Dane T. I wouldn't recommend swimming there!

[@icantthinkofausername2605]

I swim a bit further along where it's nice and wide where the stepping stones are but the idea of the Strid scares me

[@roberthoffhines5419]

A slot canyon in a bazillion or so years