 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm standing under a weeping willow tree by the River Missbourne in the very pleasant Buckinghamshire village off Little Missington. We have been here before. We've been to this bridge before when I did my Missbourne series and we walked through Little Missington It was the first episode where we started at Great Missington. We walked down here to Little Missington but what we're doing in today's video is we're going to go and have a look at the parish church in Little Missington because it wasn't open when we did the Missbourne one and it is today So it's something I've always wanted to feature on one of my videos. It really is a lovely church So that's where we're going to go. So we just we come down this road. This is the main centre of the village It is a very small village. The church is that way I'll just quickly show you the village centre. I do really like this direction sign they've got though So it's high teeth that way, whole more green that way And it sits in any spring. We've got some snow drops coming out So let's just have a very quick walk up to the village centre and then we'll walk back down to The question that was asked quite a lot When I did the Missbourne series is where does the name Missington and Missbourne come from? It's fairly sort of Obvious that there's a link very similar words. Now. I've heard apparently it's an Anglo-Saxon word for the middle of the valley That's how I understand it to be So I believe that's where the word Missington comes from. So we get to here. Here's the red line one of two pubs in the village And then I just want to show you this that there's a See if there's a giant, is that a baboon or giant gorilla? Quite an unusual thing to find. There is of course a Red lion. It'd be nice to go in there for a pint, but we won't today. So this is the village centre If you go that way that'll take you down to Amisham. You can do a lovely walk through Shard Lowe's There's a bus stop. I'm not sure if any buses serve the village anymore So what I'm gonna do now, I'll take you back this way to the other end of the village We'll go and have a look at the church If you're thinking it looks like I'm in a Midsummer Murders film set I have said this a few times in my videos The reason it looks like a Midsummer Murders film set is because technically it is. They have filmed various Midsummer Murders episodes in Little Missington and some of the other surrounding villages. You've got some of the hilltop villages such as the Lee Which is a few miles up the hill in that direction This is one of the valley villages of the children's and there really are some lovely villages around the children's. I already do You know, enjoy spending my time exploring them. This house in front of us This has definitely been in Midsummer Murders I'm not gonna say which episode to can't remember off the top of my head But it certainly has featured possibly more than once. It's definitely been in at least one Midsummer Murders episode though That's where we started down there Taylor's Lane We're coming up here apparently this house. I believe it's an Elizabethan house It was a bridgely in the shape of a knee for Queen Elizabeth. That's what I heard once. So it's a really lovely house I think I believe it's the manor house of the village. So we come to this other junction There's the church more of that in a moment There's another Nice old-fashioned direction sign. It looks like it probably should Samish and bits broken off So you got Homer Green up the hill that way went over Ellesbury in that direction So there you have a few more that's the old vicarage in there a few more of the lovely houses of the village So as we now walk past this house the one I said has definitely been in Midsummer Murders We come towards the parish church and there's something really quite spectacular in this church Which I'm looking forward to showing you once we get inside Let's just go across the road So here's the church. It looks as though they've repointed the wall Around the church because they've put all this tarp hoarding over and it seems to be weighted down I assume that's to make sure you know the frost doesn't damage the pointing work But anyway, here's the church Really attractive building And What I want to show you is something very spectacular inside that the church is open So we just arrive at the church now I'm just gonna quickly stop filming to put my face covering all so let's go have a look inside We come into the church. I believe what they are showing is How to be a good Christian? But you've got to remember this is in an era where most people couldn't read or write So it's a bit like watching a cartoon. It's all in cartoons To show you, you know, how it would have been I'm gonna do If you have a look you can see certain areas of them appear To be missing have a look up there See how there's rather big areas, which I suppose what's happened is it's been whitewashed over the years Painted over forgotten about wouldn't it be nice if we could bring them back and see them as we were? Well with some modern technology We have a button here on top of the rain nature Wonder what will happen if I press this button Making a bit of a noise. I seem to have restored some of them I thought I could bring those ones back But I'm obviously not that as much of as clever as I thought I was but have a look at that Up there we have projected onto the walls Some of what is lost So, you know, it's really a nice feature that we can see, you know, what has been lost and what we You know and wouldn't otherwise see I'll just take you through here. This is the chance Here we get a bit of a close-up view of some of the That's much too cartoon like that. But some of the more decorative where it appears we got crosses if you can see them in And a bit more of it here to see what I'm saying about the white wash. Yeah, they've painted over it It's pretty very delicate business removing the white wash because obviously you don't want to lose the painting You know behind the white wash I go through here Chapel here Remains of some more paintings Interesting. Oh, that stained glass window She's physically showing the battle. We've got the airplanes. That's why they've been shot out of the sky And you know, there we have bombs going off You can probably see the church has fairly recently had a lot of money spent on it And I remember I came here one time and they said always will be your last chance. I've looked in here for a while It's all gonna be restored and I think you know, they've done a great job of I believe in there, we're not gonna be able to go in there But there's like a private mausoleum and it has it's built in a different style So what we'll do I'll go outside walk around the outside of the church and There is to see there but before we go, let's have one last look at how At the touch of a button we bought back some of those medieval wall paintings So let's go outside. So I think that's a really really nice feature. They've got here So as you come out out here Take my mask off now As soon as we're no longer inside. So just go for a quick walk around the church yard And then I'm going to go for my own little walk probably along the Miss Bourne Valley So this is the cemetery the cemetery as we're most churches. It's outgrown itself So there's now another cemetery on the other side of the road Look at this. It looks like it's been snowing. It hasn't The snow drops have come out look at that Through the graves of the snow drops and just down there in the field the River Miss Bourne flows through there and Probably if a train went along now, we'd see a train on the ex-great central main line in a few Animals in the field Cows that's gone See the cows look at them all. Yeah, they're all looked up. Well one of them's looking at me He's seen me with a camera So, yeah, we've got cattle. We've got the River Miss Bourne. It is one right here. See if he wants to say hello. Hello Hello I'm just filming You're gonna be a star on YouTube you are But I think he kind of has what to make of me. I'm gonna leave him to it by probably her actually So let's just have a quick walk around the church So if you look from here, you can see the building see with the hip truth That's the one that I said is like a private mausoleum. It's built in a different style We'll have another look as we get to it and then just through here It's kind of in someone's garden, but since we can see it clearly from the church yard. I'll show it to you There's a really beautiful garden in there lots of snow drops and there's all these tributaries of the Miss Bourne Which so that's so what you see down there a Lot of water and that's not the main course of the Miss Bourne. So that will all flow into the main course of the Miss Bourne Here's that and that more so than somewhere in the church. We never actually went in that's that building I believe it's the families private mausoleum. I'll just take you around. We'll see the chancellery end of the church and then as I said, I'm gonna get go for my own walk around around the area Here's the Chancellery. So that yeah, that's the chancellery. This would be No I'm getting confused. Yeah, that's the chancellery. That'll be the other chapel. I believe yeah, and then that's the what been in all the South Isle So I hope you enjoyed this video Quick look at the little Missingdon parish church. It really is a lovely church. I really enjoy coming here And you know why not come out this way? Yourself and go for a walk and I believe in the summer they do do cream teas which also makes any visit to a church very nice So thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like subscribe and comment. Thank you very much and goodbye