A Brief History of Sherwood Forest
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Date: 2022-09-10
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CM
I have such amazement seeing the layers of time in the towns and cities and natural places of the world. If you live in a place where such things can be seen, treasure it. I live in Florida in the US and have to make do with a town that has little from over a hundred years ago. Our treasure is our huge oaks, some surviving from well before European colonization. Some are similar to your oaks, only, often with long sprawling limbs that touch the ground! I'd love to see the older trees, and architecture and ancient roads of England. I have very little English but our shared culture makes me feel as if I'm seeing home, seeing imagery such as that shown here. Thank you for sharing your history with us here, especially as many of us are e stuck in our own countries as I write this.
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I have such amazement seeing the layers of time in the towns and cities and natural places of the world. If you live in a place where such things can be seen, treasure it. I live in Florida in the US and have to make do with a town that has little from over a hundred years ago. Our treasure is our huge oaks, some surviving from well before European colonization. Some are similar to your oaks, only, often with long sprawling limbs that touch the ground! I'd love to see the older trees, and architecture and ancient roads of England. I have very little English but our shared culture makes me feel as if I'm seeing home, seeing imagery such as that shown here. Thank you for sharing your history with us here, especially as many of us are e stuck in our own countries as I write this.
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John
Yes, I would love to know more about the Bodger more specifically. The man or rather vocation that did preserve or rather help along these old forests of the old. Their disappearance has been a fascination of mine now for some time. The woods fell and the bodger went into oblivion. The makes of a truly great bit of history. It is past due time for the return of this man of the woods. Without him, these woods may NEVER return to their once glory. A feat yet not impossible in this day, and one worth the undertaking. Blessings
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Yes, I would love to know more about the Bodger more specifically. The man or rather vocation that did preserve or rather help along these old forests of the old. Their disappearance has been a fascination of mine now for some time. The woods fell and the bodger went into oblivion. The makes of a truly great bit of history. It is past due time for the return of this man of the woods. Without him, these woods may NEVER return to their once glory. A feat yet not impossible in this day, and one worth the undertaking. Blessings
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Bubb
I watched this video because I wanted to see what Robin Hoods Sherwood Forest looks like today. I am devastated it looks nothing like it did when it was RHs stomping grounds. Why couldnt people have planted some big Oaks there 200-300 years ago? When RH was there it must have been a tangled, twisted mass of wood and leaves. People, I think, lived in the forest, over and under its heavy coverage. It must have been beautiful but scary.
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I watched this video because I wanted to see what Robin Hoods Sherwood Forest looks like today. I am devastated it looks nothing like it did when it was RHs stomping grounds. Why couldnt people have planted some big Oaks there 200-300 years ago? When RH was there it must have been a tangled, twisted mass of wood and leaves. People, I think, lived in the forest, over and under its heavy coverage. It must have been beautiful but scary.
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Dave
Wow watching this video has really made me realize how much of the local nature I take for granted. Living between the USA and New Zealand I see giant wild forest and ancient trees everywhere, but I never realized how much less common virgin wildness is in Europe. Great video really makes me want to come and visit to see these trees myself
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Wow watching this video has really made me realize how much of the local nature I take for granted. Living between the USA and New Zealand I see giant wild forest and ancient trees everywhere, but I never realized how much less common virgin wildness is in Europe. Great video really makes me want to come and visit to see these trees myself
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Aura
Nice history of the area. I didn't know edwinstowe was named for that reason. Our family have lived here for generations. don't want to say how many people in the area Ancestry says we're related to. all of them nearly. dear god! Anyway, such a shame there's so little of the forest left. And how hideous are those scotch pines?
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Nice history of the area. I didn't know edwinstowe was named for that reason. Our family have lived here for generations. don't want to say how many people in the area Ancestry says we're related to. all of them nearly. dear god! Anyway, such a shame there's so little of the forest left. And how hideous are those scotch pines?
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GrannyGoose
I'm a direct descendant of the Sherwoods of Nottinghamshire. I believe the name originally meant the people who lived in The Shire's wood and the spelling was a bit different in the middle ages. It was my mother's surname and I've always been proud of the heritage and have studied it a bit.
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I'm a direct descendant of the Sherwoods of Nottinghamshire. I believe the name originally meant the people who lived in The Shire's wood and the spelling was a bit different in the middle ages. It was my mother's surname and I've always been proud of the heritage and have studied it a bit.
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Atheist
My mother had her genetics done by 23andme and it gives you this thing that shows where the closest matches to you are in all the world. Her matches were all clustered around Sherwood Forest, Leicestershire, and Lancaster. We're American, so getting something like this was pretty amazing.
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My mother had her genetics done by 23andme and it gives you this thing that shows where the closest matches to you are in all the world. Her matches were all clustered around Sherwood Forest, Leicestershire, and Lancaster. We're American, so getting something like this was pretty amazing.
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Eagle
The pace of your narration is relaxing and editing and music perfect. This one is especially historical to me, I am a descendent of the separatists from scrooby that fled to holland and then to America, know here as the pilgrims of plimoth.
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The pace of your narration is relaxing and editing and music perfect. This one is especially historical to me, I am a descendent of the separatists from scrooby that fled to holland and then to America, know here as the pilgrims of plimoth.
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Transportia
Shorter vids like this introduce places (and why they matter) to people who don't know about them or who don't have time/patience to view longer ones. So yeah--add the overview type. But don't stop making the longer ones!
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Shorter vids like this introduce places (and why they matter) to people who don't know about them or who don't have time/patience to view longer ones. So yeah--add the overview type. But don't stop making the longer ones!
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Randal
With all respect, I prefer the regular history videos you make, they are more interesting than this. It seemed too unfocused and too light on historical details for the amount of time spent watching the video.
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With all respect, I prefer the regular history videos you make, they are more interesting than this. It seemed too unfocused and too light on historical details for the amount of time spent watching the video.
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peter
Can you do one about the Isle of Ely. You have Bodicia. Hereward and King John losing his treasure in the wash region of East Anglia. Herewards resisistance to the Normans would be great. Thanks great info
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Can you do one about the Isle of Ely. You have Bodicia. Hereward and King John losing his treasure in the wash region of East Anglia. Herewards resisistance to the Normans would be great. Thanks great info
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River
Being from the states, Treks in the British countryside are what I myself enjoy most. a fella named Huw in Wales does real good with those type vids. thanks for sharing the unseen countryside with us.
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Being from the states, Treks in the British countryside are what I myself enjoy most. a fella named Huw in Wales does real good with those type vids. thanks for sharing the unseen countryside with us.
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Hand
It was a refreshing look into the past. And sad to realize what we mere mortals have done to the land that nature provided. The trees are history standing time. We just have to listen. Yes do more!
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It was a refreshing look into the past. And sad to realize what we mere mortals have done to the land that nature provided. The trees are history standing time. We just have to listen. Yes do more!
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JohnnyRebKy
Does it always look so gloomy and dreadful over there? No wonder there has been so many wars in Europe, everyone is in a horrible depressed mood from the weather lol.
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Does it always look so gloomy and dreadful over there? No wonder there has been so many wars in Europe, everyone is in a horrible depressed mood from the weather lol.
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Malc
Cool stuff. One minor thing though, you used the same clip from the Edwinstowe village for a different village later in the video. Now I'm not sure which one was which.
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Cool stuff. One minor thing though, you used the same clip from the Edwinstowe village for a different village later in the video. Now I'm not sure which one was which.
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F2P
Really glad you made this. I come from Retford (the red ford of the River Idle) nearby and it blew my mind when I found out about the origins of Edwinstowe.
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Really glad you made this. I come from Retford (the red ford of the River Idle) nearby and it blew my mind when I found out about the origins of Edwinstowe.
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Benjamin
Sometimes I watch your smaller videos and I think that they are longer than they actually are because they are so jam packed with information
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Sometimes I watch your smaller videos and I think that they are longer than they actually are because they are so jam packed with information
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Jeff
Really enjoyed the scenery. Have you considered spending some more time in the villages and exploring historical sites in them?
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Really enjoyed the scenery. Have you considered spending some more time in the villages and exploring historical sites in them?
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Mark
I would very much like to see more videos such as this one. I enjoyed every moment and will most certainly view again. Encore!
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I would very much like to see more videos such as this one. I enjoyed every moment and will most certainly view again. Encore!
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