Well hello and welcome in today's video i'm planning to do
three things. Firstly a lot of people have been asking
about the equipment I use to make these videos so
I'm going to make this video, I'm just using my iPhone
a £ 49 clip-on mic and a £49 tripod
that's all I'm using so we'll see what results we get with that
secondly on my last video last week I came over looking for
an old windmill in Merthyr Mawr with no success
I've gone back looked at the coordinates I think I know where it is hopefully
there will be something there and not just a sandy mound or something
like that so that's the second thing I intend to
do today and thirdly I know it's a grim
period and a lot of you can't travel luckily
this is within walking distance of my house
so I'm just going to show you the beauty of Merthyr Mawr
and if you're watching from the future and you can visit
then get in the car and come down. So let's get started let's go so I'm just
heading over the Merthyr Mawr dunes on the way I think there's an old
medieval wall which I'm gonna have a quick look at.
Like I said before last week I had no success
all I found were grassy mounds so hopefully this week
I'll actually find something
so on the way to the windmill, I've come across this building
the remains of a building and unfortunately like last week
there's no evidence there you can't see the walls
that under a grassy mound but don't give up.
I've had it from a good source that the windmill over
in Merthyr Mawr, although it's difficult to find
there are visible remains to be seen so
fingers crossed, well anyway this is a medieval building
and that's one of the outer walls there it's got great views overlooking
out towards Ogmore and they also found in excavations the remains of a midden
that's like a domestic waste site they found
pottery as well as a lot of limpet shells from the beach so
anyway don't give up we are gonna find something
in this video, I'm sure of it but we've got these great views so stay
around just for those.
So as you can see it's getting a bit wet the GPS have a look at the map it says
the windmill is in that so that's where I'm heading
into those bushes there so it looks like somebody has cut a path through the
woods which is promising
and yes there it is!
a circular building that must be the windmill
just give the screen a little wipe first very wet
well I found it I can't believe I found the remains of the Merthyr Mawr
windmill I've been looking for this for months
it's actually about 20 foot from the coordinates I had
I'll put in my coordinates off my phone to see if they're any different
and it looks like somebody's recently cut a path to the
bushes maybe that's why I couldn't find it, it was just overgrown
well the windmill, it's late medieval it's about five metres in diameter
and the remains about four metres high, it was buried in the 1600s and only
emerged in 1823
so let's go and take a look around
before I do I'm going to go over after this to do some nice shots of the dunes
weather depending and this place is only about
150 foot from the top of the main dune the Big Dipper but you would never
have thought it was here amazing I've actually found a place it's not
just a grassy mound it's a building, look
stones!
so now I'm at the top of the largest dune in Merthyr Mawr
known as the Big Dipper it's actually the largest in Wales
and as kids, we used to play here on sand sledges
and the local running club, under normal conditions in normal years they have
a race here called the Christmas Pudding Race and
the start of the race is at the bottom of that slope and I
think they have a separate award for the first person to run up it so if
you want to try that lookup the Christmas Pudding Race.
In the trees over there you may be able to make out
although it's a bit hazy with the rain the top of Candleston Castle which I've
done a few videos on and people don't believe me when I
say this but look it up and I've done a video on it already
the classic David Lean film Lawrence of Arabia
certain scenes were actually filmed on these sand dunes.
So I'll link that below as well so let's go take a look around I'm already
wet may as well get wetter.
so that was my walk across Merthyr Mawr dunes
and yes I finally found that elusive windmill
hidden in the bushes. We don't just do local walks even though at the moment
that's what we specialize in because we can't actually go anywhere
but we also do road trips around the world and if you
haven't seen it check out our favourite drive we did, the
whole of route 66 back in 2019, have a look in the playlist
well anyway I hope you enjoyed and you experienced Merthyr Mawr from the
comfort of your warm lounge in front of the fire
and I suffered for my art for you in the rain but anyway, seriously
I hope you enjoyed and I'll catch up with you in one of our other videos
coming up next so bye, bye.