Van Trip UK | I head for Suffolk and end up in Saffron Walden!

[@susanlukerceramics]

Great Richard, Thank you. 🙏

[@heathwagaman5566]

Never tire of seeing these beautiful English villages and sites. Looking forward to seeing those windmills.

[@jonathanfox1355]

Thanks B.E. you've really nailed these videos. Those characters looked well dodgy. Apologies if wrong. Look forward to part 2

[@bobmcross1]

Really like the new format,very engaging.

[@woodyjenny6353]

Me too Timbo

[@philipcracknell4442]

love it - good job

[@rogersimmons8788]

Truly beautiful Richard, thank you. In this mad world, with endless doom and gloom in the news, it's so nice to be reminded that such beauty abounds on our doorstep.

[@barrystevens2699]

I stopped paying my TV licence and have not seen any news of media in years now. Best thing I ever did. The depression and negativity the media cause in on a mammoth scale is it unreall the damage it does. And you only realise it when you rid your life of it. There is much positive and happy and beautiful things in the world even on our doorsteps that the media don't care about as it doesn't involve the fear they so love. Thank god for people like Richard who bring us these great videos.

[@rogersimmons8788]

@@barrystevens2699 I haven't had a TV for 8 years and I haven't read a newspaper for donkeys years. I do however keep a fleeting eye on the lunacy that goes on around us via Sky news and the BBC apps on my tablet. On the basis I have no control over anyone or anything except myself, I try my hardest to let the 'news' go over my head.

[@barrystevens2699]

@@rogersimmons8788 glad to hear it mate. I wish more would follow suit.

[@woodyjenny6353]

On the basis I have no control over anyone or anything except myself, I try my hardest to let the 'news' go over my head. Wise words and thinking, thank you Richard for this reminder.

[@jeanmann6985]

Magnificent church. Love the stained glass windows. Looking forward to part 2.

[@kezzaba1]

I know Saffron Walden quite well. Pete used to do craft shows there every year at Audley End house and if you do go back, visit Audley End, it is wonderful. I love the pargetting on the original buildings in that area.

[@shirleylynch7529]

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you for taking us with you. Beautiful buildings and houses.

[@PCamb1234]

Beautiful video. I can't emphasize enough how your mission is such an important one in these troubled times

[@woodyjenny6353]

Amen to your vital thoughts and message Folk Trails & Folk Tales, so true it be bless you

[@orangeedo]

Nice to see you in places that are familer to me. Hope you can visit again soon.

[@RichardVobes]

I hope so too!

[@EmeraldHearts]

Was great seeing Saffron Walden as I used to live there when I was a child and I named my daughter Saffron after it. I now live in Suffolk about 16 miles from Bury St.Edmund's. You should visit, Lavenhan, Long Melford and Framlinghan( especially the castle).

[@JH-W]

Extremely enjoyable & interesting video, Richard! Could have happily watched it for a whole hour! Many thanks

[@RichardVobes]

Part two to come on saturday.

[@rachelt-s]

What a fabulous video. I love old churches, medieval architecture and the mizmaze was the cherry on the cake. 🍰 You pack so much into these videos - so many camera set ups, drone footage it's a real treat to watch. Xx

[@woodyjenny6353]

A true treat they are, I agree totally with you Rachel T.S.

[@barrystevens2699]

Loved this video. They have such a happy feel to them. Your nearly a quarter of the way to 100k subs when you'll get your KZbin award trophy. Really glad your channel is growing now. You deserve it.

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks so much Barry. For your support and encouraging words. Hope to see you soon!

[@woodyjenny6353]

They have such a happy feel to them. Barry, such wonderful and true words. Richard most definitely does deserve goodness in all ways to grow upon and around his most excellent being, as does Julia and Judith and ALL of us, may this be so, thank You Barry

[@MrGreatplum]

The drone shots of the church worked so well - really showed its isolation! The two “gentlemen” in saffron Walden might have been under the influence of something - definitely 2 local characters!

[@cogidubnus1953]

You know Richard, your journeys do seem to remind me of Chesterton Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire, And after him the parson ran, the sexton and the squire; A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread The night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head. 😁

[@simontalbot1792]

Tobias and friend look a right pair of " geezer's " lol

[@rogersimmons8788]

I couldn't help but wonder at the wisdom of engaging with a man swigging beer from a can during the day, let alone believing anything he said!

[@indranildey5596]

Beautiful St. Mary's church

[@alanflint7732]

Saffron was a favourite town of mine. I used to cycle there from Hackney when I was a teen. In my 20s I bought a house in Haverhill, slightly to the north. It's a lovely area. It still speaks to my soul. Thank you for your video. It brought back many memories.

[@CharlieCooper3101]

What a long way to travel, but a good thing to take various stops for a break and a look at the scenery and a cuppa tea. You certainly stopped off at some lovely places Richard, great looking timber frame buildings. Wonderful villages. Those two blokes earn 1 hundred thousand pounds? Blimey, I would be terrified if a couple of blokes told me to come in and look at this castle. You have alot of guts Richard. Nice castle though. Then the churches, wonderful, And more saussage and chips, yum yum that's like the 3rd video in a row you've had saussage and chips from the chip shop. A lovely misty morning again and good old Windmill Bob showing you around some lovely places in Suffolk.

[@jeremyperkins9110]

My Grandparents all lived their adult lives in Gt Dunmow, the other major town of Uttlesford. As a boy I remember riding shotgun in a Thames Trader lorry delivering hay to Newmarket Stud driving up the road from Saffron Walden to Gt Chesterford

[@dalem1140]

Should try and get to Lavenham whilst in suffolk. Beautiful old village

[@bpalive2005]

I am hoping to take Richard to Lavenham on his next visit!

[@malcolmrichardson3881]

Thank's for a really interesting video. Saffron Walden is a gem and I think would be well-worth an extended visit. At one time it had its own railway station.

[@silvialittlewolf]

I truly enjoyed part 1. Many years ago I spent 5 days (I think) on holiday in the Suffolk / Cambridgeshire region and really loved it.

[@nicstacey3605]

Fantastic Vlog Richard. Really looks a beautiful area and those two churches one with checked pattern entrance, high windows and the part brick arch patterns and the other with thatch and Safron Waldon: great. Will have to put it on a holiday list of places to come at some stage. I'd be tending to agreed with your view on at some stage there were houses near the second church. Have seen something similar and the nearby ground of dwellings went due to one of the plague pandemics. So sorry to hear of your need to self isolate. Wishing you all the best it goes quick. Looking forward to part 2 with yourself and church/windmill Bob.

[@RichardVobes]

I am editing part two today! Thanks for great comments.

[@thehootsforce4201]

I walked all the way from Lavenham to Bury St Edmunds back in May going down the St Edmund Way that goes all the way from Manningtree in Essex to Brandon in Norfolk. Such a pleasant walk until I needed the toilet in the outskirts of Bury and what I didn't want to see was the disposed broken toilet outside someone's property.

[@welshmanjasonpatrick8607]

Very interesting place with church's good places to visit

[@stevendowden2579]

lov ely video

[@dalem1140]

Think you might want to visit the suffolk coast sometime. Worth a visit👍

[@RichardVobes]

Definitely!

[@bpalive2005]

That's on the list as well! Suffolk is a big and varied county.

[@drewski363]

Fascinating. Loved the mizmaze

[@RichardVobes]

Me too - fab thing to see.

[@drewski363]

My late uncle Jim was the Superintendent of Gardens at Hampton Court. He taught us kids the secret of the Hampton Court maze. We made it to the centre and made it back out again. Nigel Pennick's "Mazes and Labyrinths" is a great book about the old turf mazes for those interested.

[@jacquelineloaring2438]

I used to do a delivery job back in the 70/80s and Safron Walden was one of my drop offs.

[@simontalbot1792]

Windmill Bob has a lovely house

[@bpalive2005]

Thank you! We love living here! And it was great to have Richard doss on our driveway!

[@annenewton5403]

Love this one ,my paternal Grandfather's family come from Suffolk.

[@mmwaashumslowww7167]

That was a good tour of Walden, a place I have not been to. I should imagine that you will do the things at home that you may have been putting off doing with the time available?. 10 days will feel a long time.

[@jeaniepullen9434]

Fascinating about St Mary's church. Would love to know if there were more houses around there at some point in time. Great video

[@lindakane4717]

Saffron Walden is lovely , I visited it in September 2020, like you, on the way to somewhere else - Ickworth House NT in Suffolk. great video as ever. That second church was so lovely ( divine?)

[@carolross6583]

I have never been to Suffolk but the little villages do look quite stunning. I have been to Norfolk. My problem with East Anglia is that it is so flat, and I'm so used to the South Downs. Great video though and looking forward to the second instalment very much.

[@keeponpainting]

I live in walsham so I enjoyed this video, a thought on the remote church at Coney weston, there are several such remote churches around suffolk, I was told that the church was originally the centre of the village and the plague caused the village to be abandoned or burnt, and then rebuilt at a safe distance .

[@anthonyconte400]

I watched you eat your sausage and potato chips. Please, Richard, believe me what you eat today will affect your future health. I am 78 and I could have done muc better diet-wise back when I was your age. Cheers! -- Tony

[@Barbara-yj5tl]

We’ve recently returned from two nights in the Forest of Bowland near Clitheroe. We visited a lovely little village called Downham (where the 1960’s film whistle down the wind was made) The village is owned by the Assheton family. No Ariels or sat dishes on any of the properties. Might be worth a visit for you when you’re next ooop north :)

[@RichardVobes]

Sounds lovely!

[@haroldofcardboard]

i have the same coat as tobias :)

[@joanhiggin1134]

Wow Im only just seeing this for the furst time a year on !!

[@andrewnorris2]

There was so much of interest for me here, notable the Eddistone lighthouse. My descendant, Henry Norris was chief engineer on its third incarnation. The mizmaze in Saffron Walden is one of only a few left in England, this is probably the most famous one but my favourite is in Hampshire, at Breamore. And the water tower! I think that that was a location in one of my favourite films, 'Drowning by numbers' by Peter Greenaway! I always wondered where in Suffolk this water tower was. Thanks.

[@RichardVobes]

I loved the place!

[@joannajones8218]

Those beautiful old buildings 😍😍 Thanks for another wonderful, engaging video Richard ! Will you be doing a live tonight? 😃

[@stephengraham5099]

Did you see the pargeting in Saffron Walden? The church of St Mary's is lovely, it took me about twenty minutes to find it on Google Earth.

[@RichardVobes]

I missed the pargeting - next time!

[@angelaskelton2594]

Great video as always. There is a three part series on Fridays on Channel 5 about the challenges of building lighthouses. The first episode was about the Eddystone lighthouse. It was fascinating.

[@RichardVobes]

There is a great book about the Eddystone lighthouse too!

[@jeremyperkins9110]

Fab two films Richard. Thank you so much for sharing although we'd rather like Suffolk to continue to be a well kept secret ! When you do film to camera from a lay-by there's usually plenty from former bypassed roads that are set back from the main carriageway. If you're back up in my part of the World again I'd love to show you Pakenham Windmill and Pakenham Watermill in my home village - much opportunity for drone footage too. Mills seem to be part of my identity too as my herd prefix for my ultra rare Riggit Galloway and Belted Galloway herds is TwoMills as we're the only village in the country with a working windmill and a working watermill. If you come up this way again come via Assington near Sudbury and I can show you Assington watermill - a stone's throw from the Dedham Vale and Constable Country too

[@RichardVobes]

That sounds like fun. I certainly hope to be back soon.

[@victoriawhithear8336]

When you go back, you must see Audley End House and the miniature railway, Bridgend Gardens and try to find a local historian. There are a few in the area who will be able to show you some hidden gems. I would probably try to talk to Mr Crossan, who taught at SWCHS. I think his first name is Robert.

[@RichardVobes]

Great ideas. thank you.

[@markburgess6801]

Think I came back from Corby once because the friend driving had a relative in Suffolk so decided to drive us back to Kent that way to call in on the way but think we came back via Dartford bridge my only time over it

[@gothicwilderness]

The windmill is in Stansted Mountfitchet.

[@kurtsteiner8384]

Bob sounds like hes from london, They talk differently in suffolk my uncles and cousins did in lowesoft and gt yarmouth.

[@malcomflibbleghast8140]

possibly a flock of partridges/pheasants

[@DavidB5501]

Stansted Mountfitchet sounds a lot better than Stansted Airport.

[@robnewman6101]

Willaim the Conqueror. The Battle of Hastings in 1066. Norman Conqest.

[@charlottex8276]

I live there 😎

[@Barbara-yj5tl]

Those guys saying they get 100 thousand a month probably meant views on their tik tok or the number of followers, probably not cash if that’s what you were thinking they meant Richard?

[@RichardVobes]

Well, he said cash - but I am very dubious! :)

[@robnewman6101]

East Anglia.

[@robnewman6101]

Robin Hood. Prince of Thieves 1991.

[@digofthedump]

give julia her tanktop bk pls )) gl

[@CharlieCooper3101]

What a long way to travel, but a good thing to take various stops for a break and a look at the scenery and a cuppa tea. You certainly stopped off at some lovely places Richard, great looking timber frame buildings. Wonderful villages. Those two blokes earn 1 hundred thousand pounds? Blimey, I would be terrified if a couple of blokes told me to come in and look at this castle. You have alot of guts Richard. Nice castle though. Then the churches, wonderful, And more saussage and chips, yum yum that's like the 3rd video in a row you've had saussage and chips from the chip shop. A lovely misty morning again and good old Windmill Bob showing you around some lovely places in Suffolk

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks, Charlie