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morning peeps happy new year happy new year this is this for us who knows when you're watching this
but for us it's the first yes it's the first of the year first of january 2021 which is
you know a good thing considering 2020 and all that and it's minus 3, it is cold proper cold
it feels really early in the morning because it's a beautiful um everything's frosted it's lovely it
feels really early but it's not we're a bit lazy this morning yeah ten um it's gone 10 o'clock uh
we're off on a car called a little adventure today which we should describe to you very shortly.
So you find us walking in the very beautiful harewood forest which is an ancient forest
and it holds so many stories if you've been watching our channel a while
you'll know that a year ago we did a video there was something like all the history in nine
square kilometer or something like that what can you find sort of yeah square on
the map so today it's kind of like that in the sense that we're looking in here with forest
because it holds this random stories are just fascinating so you join us today in harewood
forest in north hampshire telling you some really weird and wonderful stories from this ancient
forest
really you're having fun rebecca i'm having lots of fun in the cold it's so cold yeah we
had to stop and kind of just stand on the spot and shake our hands out and do some weird things
that was a failed attempt at a um a walk past
um as you know we do we do like walk past where you walk past the camera and it helps with
overlaying clips because when i waffle too much i need to cut lots out and having overlay like
that is very useful but we failed miserably on that one i think rebecca let's put that one down
um right first thing we're going to talk about is pavey's grave
you can look on the the national library of scotland maps and you can see pages grave
from 120 years ago we did a lot of research and we found out that it was a crossroad grave so
if somebody took their own life you know we're talking hundreds and hundreds of years ago
it was deemed a very bad it was like it was really frowned upon therefore you were buried um outside
of the border of the the hundred the the town the place you lived you weren't given a place
where your body could pass crossroad graves were i say common there's a few that are local to us what
about four or five that we've uncovered sawyer's grave near newbury i think there's one and yeah
the random resting places but these these names have lasted for hundreds of years paul paul paul
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so about there and that there is really important so the reason why it's
the reason why it could be argued the reason why pages grave is just to the north of harwood forest
there is because of this line now this line is a roman road it's a roman road that went
between winchester and siren sister direction and therefore that formed part of the border
one of the hundreds in the area and therefore that border then led to where pavey's grave is today so
what if can you just hold the camera because i'm going to show our viewers
what i mean so hopefully you can see this is so we're in here wood forest this is the winchester
the siren sester roman road this is a good example um really in this this part of hampshire
or anywhere around here of a roman road and what you're looking at so this is what we're on now is
is the road itself this is the anger the bit that goes like that and forms the main part of it
and the reason why they built their roads like that is because obviously a drainage
and it would run off and if you look either side they wouldn't have their ditches so here is one
oh there it goes ditch over this side
is the other bit now this might be a little bit exaggerated due to um sort of modern works in
howard forest because there's a lot of works which we'll come to in world war ii but this here is as
good of example as you'll get a roman road in this part of the country in my opinion look at that
as we're now heading south continuing on the roman road um down towards the test way now
when we get to the test way there's some interesting things we would like to show
you
first up however there's a few more recent history things which are quite interesting so as with many
sort of old forest areas the war department or the the war effort back in 1943 decided they wanted a
lot of places to keep their ammunition thousands and thousands of bombs they decided they needed a
place it was around about 20 to 30 miles in land and rail access i needed to have a local town
i guess for workers and they happened upon harewood forest so something they did then that
would never get away with now is they concreted the whole of this ancient forest in terms of
all the trackways so everything we're kind of walking on has a layer of concrete underneath
there's old little bunkers around here all to hide thousands and thousands of bombs and this
carried on even after the war the rail link they had was the old spratt and winkle line and that
um the branch line from fullerton junction that came up to here out towards hurstbourne spawn
stopping at long parish station was part of that effort they built an extra siding at long parish
so they could bring all the bombs presumably up from southampton uh or at least the rail
link and stopped at long prairies stuck them on vehicles and distributed them all over the forest
subsequently heroin is covered in random earth works that really you can't explain also now i
can't explain there's one there now and i suspect a lot of these places were dug out perhaps to use
the storage second you saw i saw something white disappear through there like you could hear the
heavy hooves of it as well i just wonder if that's the white stag because i'm sure there's one here
really i didn't even know white stag existed i know see i wondered about that and then elliot
told me about it and i'm sure it was here yeah that there was one i know there was one local
stay don't let them
so just just around this corner is
um park cottages so this is the this is the cottages that we found right so just down here
or fireplace down there now according to the map there were two cottages here park cottages i
think park cottages park end cottages and yeah you can see was that a basement i mean this is lower
down than the actual you know lesser landscapes changed a lot that must be like a basement right
right so this this pathway ahead of us now goes off to the
uh west of harewood and we're not going to carry on going this way too far because we've got some
more exciting stories on that side of the forest but we'll just show you what we found
a few months back in the summer on the face of it doesn't look very exciting but rebecca spent
quite a bit of time here digging um finding some old bottles and bits and pieces and we presume
the dump here was maybe for the old houses over there perhaps when they're emptying the houses
when they're in a derelict state they just dumped all the rubbish in here
because there's all sorts of bits of metal here fireplaces loads of old bottles toys
which way we're getting i'm not sure i mean there's a private sign up there
i think it's that way okay
it's a bit kind of lopsided it's like that should is this all about um could you
just smack to me oh my god all right yeah
all right you join us on the east side of harewood forest on the east side of the a3o3
so your user imagination rebecca
you are king of england okay right and your name is edgar and the year is 950 a.d
okay right do i have a horse you probably have a horse you probably have more than one horse maybe
well you're not on the horse at the moment but you will be in a little while okay right now you want
a good lady wife oh okay you haven't got a good lady well if you need a good layoff you've heard
there's a very good looking lady who is the daughter of the earl of devonshire oh so you're
going to send your best mate now your best mate is going to go check her out you're going to say
look go and go and check out this lady and see if she is marriage material. we're going to go down
here you're going to send your best mate to go and see how good looking and is she worthy of a wife
um so etherald who's it who's the best mate of um edgar the king, so off you pop.
go check her out so off he goes he goes to check her out. now Ethelred
goes and finds um what is her name ethelreed the the the daughter of the the devon and he says to
himself my goodness me she is a very fine looking lady so he marries her himself you don't know this
you're like ethrald comes back and says to you, now you don't you don't want to know mate she's
she's not very pretty wouldn't make a very good um wife okay so forget it off your chop
happy fair enough end the conversation. Now little does effort know that you me okay you king
you add ear to the ground and you found out what happened you found out you were betrayed by your
best mate what are you gonna do about it becca off with his head off well yeah something said that's
a bit queen of hearts sorry yeah now you need your horse okay so on your horse you get and on
your horse you decide that you're going to invite effort as your best mate and knowingly for a hunt
in harewood oh let's go for a nice hug let's go over a nice hunt so off you off your trot to um
your hair would it and yeah and you're gonna do essentially kind of peddling my hands
you need a spear in one hand because you're going to kill your best mate for
what he did to you his betrayal right that better okay now spear you mate
right speared dead gone happy days and you're gonna clean yep don't don't tell them you're
going to claim uh the earl of devon's daughter as your own and off i will look after her yes that's
your third wife by the way don't blame me right now that is um the story of why in 1835 sort of
800 years later nearly 800 years later somebody called lieutenant colonel william somebody oh that
was going so well lieutenant colonel william somebody lieutenant okay lieutenant colonel
william iremonger decided that this was a true story no one knows if it is a true story or not
it was too long ago it was it was a very long time ago it was pre-doomsday book the William iremonger
said to himself what great story i'm going to erect in 1835 a monument in the um harewood
forest to commemorate the death of ethereald in your hand all right and here it is okay that's it
i think we're done oh we yeah do you want to what should we conclude
go and tell us what you're on what you're doing in this this side of christmas in the winter and um
all right might not be winning by the time this this video goes off yeah like we are absolutely
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