Here is another of my travelogue type videos (so no racing hydroplane boats or planes as in some of my other videos! LOL). This video is about the small village of Amberley, which has about 500 residents, and is located in the Horsham District of West Sussex, in Southern England. Most of the structures here were built in the 16th to 18th century, when Amberley was a farming community located on the main coaching road between Arundel and London. (I’ve done a video about Arundel Castle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jZ0ggnC3w) and a video about the Cathedral of Our Lady & St. Philip Howard in Arundel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4vuRQidKBw), if you’d like to check those out too).
There are approximately 55,000 thatched structures in England, and the village of Amberley is noted for its many thatched buildings. Wikipedia has a great web page about thatched roofs at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatch.
Amberley Castle (current website http://www.amberleycastle.co.uk/) used to be owned by Bishops from nearby Chichester, who used it as a hunting lodge and retreat. The castle is now a luxury country hotel that “offers 19 luxurious bedrooms and suites, many with four-poster beds and all featuring Jacuzzi bathrooms. Facilities include two restaurants, lounge areas, tennis court, croquet lawn, gardens and lakes, 18-hole professional putting course and a stunning thatched roof tree house complete with rope bridge”.
The nave of St. Michael’s Church was built around 1140, and additional construction done around 1230. The faded wall paintings shown in this video were done around the 12-13th century, and depict scenes from the life of Christ.
The song I used for the video is “Heartland” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. I went to the reunion concert of this group a few years ago and it was an amazing evening :) :) I couldn’t, however, fully grasp the reality that SOOOOO many years had passed since I used to listen to this group when I was going to the university “way back when”!! LOL . . . “tempus fugits” . . .
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