 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm in Tesco's Colour Park in Hexham up in Northumberland. The reason I've come here is because I'm taking part in the IFA's road run around Northumberland, Time Valley. As you can see we have some walk birds, some skodas, some trebants, my larder and a couple of other larders around the corner. I'm doing a separate video on the road run so if you have a look at the link on screen now you'll be able to see that where we're taking all these eastern block cars around the area. This video I'm going to explore Hexham because I've never been here before. I've passed through on a train in the past I've never actually explored the town so there's my larder river estate and there's the older style of larder. There is another larder somewhere in the car park but as I said if you want to see the cars on this road run then do look at that separate video. I'm now going to go and explore Hexham. So as I said we're in Tesco's car park and beginning my explore of Hexham and across the road just here over there is Waitrose. It's the most normally Waitrose in England, not the most normally Waitrose in Great Britain. That accolade goes to Sterling but this is the most normally Waitrose in England so I've decided I'm going to go in there and buy a sandwich just so I can say I have been to the most normally Waitrose in England and then when I've done that just behind that Waitrose is the railway station. So I'm going to go and get lunch and explore Hexham. I just bought my sandwich for lunch coming out of Waitrose now so I'm going to go and find the railway station and it doesn't look like it's that way so I've got a pretty walk all the way around there. Got to Hexham railway station. Be a winning station for me to take the station off. Might see a train. Then we're going to go up there because there's an avi up there to have a look at. So here we are, Hexham railway station on the Tyron Valley Line. It's a very scenic railway and it's worth doing. Trains today in that direction only go as far as the Holt Whistle. Normally the train would go all the way through to Carl Harbour. There's engineering work taking place and then that way we'll take you to Newcastle. I think it's a really attractive station and what we're going to do quickly is a bit windy because there's something quite interesting just up the track which I should be able to show you. We go up onto the bridge you can see Signalbox just up there. Now that Signalbox is unusual because very few Signalboxes raised above the track survive. I think there's this one. There's also one I think a crude hole on this line. There's one somewhere else but I can't think where I might think later on. But Signalboxes straddling the track on Britain's Railways today are a very rare thing. Just notice down there though. This bridge it looks as though going by that line there. It was once covered over it was an enclosed bridge. So my plan now is I'm going to head over there. That building with the Monsard roof just to station in. Walk over there, follow the path up behind the sports ground up to the town centre and we'll have a look at Hexham Abbey and see the town centre. Then I've got to go back to Cisco's car park, get in the larder and we're going to drive off in that direction with the IFA club. So Hexham Railway Station. So the railway station is over there. Just over there that majestic wine shop that is the old Goodchess. Here is the sports ground. I'm going to follow this path here. It's called Hello Orchard and it will take us along beside the sports ground. That's the station in I said about earlier. We're going to head that way to Hexham. So we're going to have a look around Hexham and we'll be able to see the old jail and we'll see the Abbey just that way. Just walking past the old jail in Hexham. You can go and visit it. So it's a museum you can go and explore. I haven't got time to do it today but maybe another day. Come back and see that. Now there's another quite interesting building just here in front of me. It's not the Abbey. It looks like possibly the gatehouse into the town. Not entirely strong because as I said I've only just arrived here and realised I had this hour to have a look around but certainly very impressive building. So we'll go through here and I'm thinking when we get through here or we come to the market place and we should yes I can see it in front of us. There this Hexham Abbey over there lives the Motel. So yes it is a it's a gatehouse so and then that's the jail but we just walked past so we've just come along there. We're just about to climb this archway here into the centre of Hexham. So this would have been the old farmers market just here. That's Hexham Abbey so we're going to go and have a closer look. There we are inside Hexham Abbey. It's a really beautiful impressive Abbey church for you know quite a small town. So you know it would have been an Abbey. It's now come to the parish church. It's all but a very large church. It's bigger than some cathedrals I've been in so I'm really impressed. You come to the crossing here just look at that. Probably hard to convey from watching videos how vast and big this space is but I think it's amazing. I haven't been to an Abbey ruling door standing this year I think so it's really nice to come to such a beautiful large Abbey. It's a very very attractive large building. I'll go around this way. That's where the choir is. And then as I said I'm going to have to run back down to the car park and get in the car. It's meant to be my lunch stop. I quickly ate the sandwich outside later and then explored Hexham. So this is where the choir sits. There you have the high altar. Very impressive building. Always enjoyed visiting a church or cathedral on Abbey with or without a roof on them and there's so many ruined Abbeys and they are impressive as they are but to find one like this with the roof on just gives you a bit of an idea what they would have been like all the other Abbeys in their heyday. So I'm going to go outside show you a few things of the Abbey from the outside and then back down to Tesco's car park. So here we are back outside this would have been the Abbey cloisters. Came out through this modern bit here where they built a cupboard in way but they've built it in the style of the Abbey since it's connected to the architecture. So imagine this this was a cloister this were the months of the exercise. There probably would have been more monastic buildings there as you can sort of tell by the little you know just like there was an arch there there was possibly but there certainly would have been various other buildings. I'm going to go through here this has shown it says it's where there's a cafe. There was also an exhibition which you can visit here so if you do come here and you've got a bit more time now I have then that exhibition is probably very much worth visiting but I haven't got time to do that today so I'm just taking you around the Abbey and go through this gate into this park. So there's quite a nice park here out the back of the Abbey in Hexham. I've had a little bit longer I'd have a walk around there but the thing I wanted to show you is just around here. There's one more part of the Abbey I'm particularly interested in and want to show you. I'll just come around the other side of the Abbey now so the Abbey Park where there was a moment ago is down there. This building down here looks like this was once the gatehouse to the Abbey so it's sort of ruined but it's preserved for us to see so we're going to go and have a look at that and then as I said I have to make my way back to Tesco's car park so the Abbey is just hiding behind those trees there. Can you have this gate then I'll switch over here. So there have probably been looking at the arches I've altered ceiling in here once and this would have been one of the main gates or if we actually look at the road side cow garf so yeah this would have been the gatehouse into the Abbey and that's the town centre so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to find my way back to the car. I hope you enjoyed this whistle stop tour of Hexham. Thank you very much for watching you know if you're up this way maybe you're in holiday Newcastle why not get the train to Hexham. Do come visit some really really nice town and hopefully you'll have a bit more time and I have to really explore so thank you very much for watching please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment and from just outside Hexham Abbey goodbye.