 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm outside Stammore Station, the northern terminus of Jubilee Line. Come up here today to go and see the friendliest deer herd I've ever come across in London or anywhere else of that matter. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to walk up through the town centre, look at a couple of interesting sites on the way and let's go and find this very very friendly herd of deer. You can see how far we are from places with this rather nice vintage road sign. Just there is St John's Parish Church, the new church. Let's go inside, we'll see the old church and then we'll go on up to Bentley Grove. Here we are inside the Parish Church of St John's Stammore. Now this is the newer church. I thought I'd quickly include this in the video that I wanted to show you. There's something interesting outside. There's the old church which is ruined but there's talk of unruining the old church which I think is quite an interesting idea. I'm not sure if I like the idea or not but I'll show that to you as we go outside. So we come out here so that's the way we've come and there is the old church so we'll go and have a look at that and as I said it's going to be interesting to see what they do. We can't actually go into the old church but we can have a look at the old church from the outside so here it is in front of us and we'll be able to see inside in a minute but as I said we can't go inside but we can look through the windows and have a look. So it's a big brick church so if they unruined it they'll have to rebuild all of this wall and also inside right in the middle there's this mausoleum so I understand they're going to move that mausoleum over to one corner. I've put the camera through the bars they have a look at the interior and you may be able to see how it looks like I'm in prison haven't into the tower so what we should do we shall um just have a wander around here so I'd like to go inside you know be interested to go inside even more interesting you actually got up the the tower quite a few buttresses coming out here so yeah from here you can see straight up the church into the church so that's that mausoleum which I said they're going to have to move. Where all those new houses are that was the Stanmore Parker stage that's another country stage Stanmore it's not the one we're going to visit today I'm going to head now out onto the main road and continue on up to Stanmore Priory where we're going to go and look for these this very friendly herd of deer and we'll have a look at the park as well so let's go out to the road and find Bentley Priory. I'm now about three quarter mile away from the station quarter mile away from the two churches in a residential area and um what we're going to do well we're going to leave the residential area and we shall head out into the Bentley Priory open space okay and here we are this is the Bentley Priory open space so signpost to the London Loop the Belmont Trail I think that might be the old railway from and Harren Wilson Stanmore so that's definitely a video for another day there's quite a lot of walks you can do so what we're going to do the deer are up there we're going to go around here around the summerhouse lake and back down that's my plan for today so if you're ever coming here and you just want to quickly go up and see the deer if you follow the path or not there that will take you a quick way to the deer park but right now we have some other animals coming up not deer look at this there's a cow I'm not no expert on cows or deer that matter but here we have a cow happily eating grass beside the path over there so as I said that's the quick way to the deer but what I'm going to do because I never seem to go the straight forward way I'm going to head across the field over there we're going to find the summerhouse lake so here we are now in the woods of the Bentley Priory estate and here is this unnamed stream now what we're going to do we're going to follow this stream up into the estate because up here is the summerhouse lake and um summerhouse lake takes its name from the gazebo where um queen adelaide used to sit she was the widow of king william the fourth so yeah it's a bit um slipping um yeah so that's the stream go follow it up that way through the trees find summerhouse lake I've now come out in the woods I've been following the stream which has taken on more of a like a water shoot sort of it's like a water shoot I think that a bit more water you feel on a really hot day you could put your swimming shorts on and slide all the way off down there but it's certainly too cold for that today so up here would be the lake that we've been looking for now if you want to come a more sensible way we don't have to jump across uh culverts like that it appears there's a path just up there so that's like the more sensible way to come I only came this way because I like water and I like following rivers as you've probably seen from some of my other gifts so I just wanted to follow the stream but yeah I've had a piece of paper on me I'd make a paper boat right now and put it in and just let it sail off down there but anyway I haven't so coming to it for another day comes out that culvert there and here is the lake so this is the summerhouse pool so my plan now is to follow the path on around the edge of the lake and then we'll come up to the top we should see the stately home Bentley plierie then we'll go down and find the deer which we've come here to find doesn't make more way around the edge of the pond or the lake I'm on a wall ever since I was a child I have always liked walking on walls I don't know why I think it's a bit like rivers and railways I like things that go to places so if I'm just following the wall it's kind of it's lower and lower to the point it's not a wall anymore and then from a wall to something very different impressive in front of us here is a huge oak tree this is the master oak said to be the oldest tree in Middlesex of course the county Middlesex is mainly absorbed into greater London some parts have gone into Buckinghamshire and Surrey but this is the oldest tree Middlesex when Henry VIII was king it was probably a tiny acorn and it's still alive it's amazing to think that you know this plant was alive when Henry VIII was king but I'm going to now continue rounds through this gate up around the pond just one thing I will say it's pretty muddy if you've come here so like I am might be best to wear wellies if you're going to come in the winter although if you want to go just to see the deer that path is turned back all the way so you'll be fine there but if you're going to come round here just be wary it is muddy and there is the oldest tree in Middlesex so now at the top of the summer house pool it's no longer a lake it continues on you see stream here flowing into the lake there's another one just over there so here hop across so we'll leave the lake behind and follow the path now up there and we will continue to find the deer so we'll point out we are still in greater London as rural as it feels this is greater London it's about probably a mile that way to the Hertfordshire border feels on the most rural place I've been in greater London it's really nice up here just as I said can be muddy but we've seen lots of mud very rural place in London we've seen the oldest oak tree in Middlesex or old tree Middlesex let's go now find the friendliest herd of deer in London so having left the London loop we're now just going to follow this path down to Stammore but it's down this path where the most exciting part and the whole purpose of coming here today to make this video is after this fence here the deer enclosure begins so you never quite know where you're going to see them but they are as I said very friendly hence the title of the video so you normally see them um so let's hope we do right well this is the deer park this isn't looking there's none here they're probably all down the other end we'll keep walking I'm sure we will see them when I came here a couple of weeks ago there was like one or two here and as you went down the hill you kept seeing more and more so this path will take you back to Stammore it's the path I pointed out earlier in the video I said see that path going up there that's the quick way to see the deer so we're heading back down there but yeah this is currently a deer park seems to have more squirrels in it so um but you know I'm fairly confident we're going to see deer we just got to keep walking it's not particularly huge enclosure it's got um I don't know it's very difficult to count deer when you're um how many there are because they can move around but there's a there's a herd of fallow deer of anyway so I'm no doubt we'll see them but I'm normally right at the fence but I'm not going to keep up yet because I'm pretty sure they're here they're hiding somewhere perhaps they know I'm coming along with a camera but when I was up here the other day they were coming up to the camera they you know I was taking pictures of them and they they were just so friendly ah now wherever the camera's going to pick it out I can see the herd down the bottom of the hill so we will see the deer definitely let's just see what we can see okay as we look ahead now I can see a few people standing by the fence that's probably a fairly good indication that the deer must be about somewhere um because you know the funny thing with these deer is you stand at the fence they do tend to come up to you they probably hope you're going to feed them um so you know sometimes when you're going to deer parks you'll see the deer in the distance it's fairly rare apart from perhaps that zoo to really get up this close with the deer but we're going to do that that is the plan I'm sure we'll find some very soon well when we get to down here as I said the path continues to stand well there's another path that goes up that side of the deer park so I'm fairly sure that we shall see some fairly soon they've got to be they all seem to be down this bottom corner whether you can see just over there there is like a herd of them um but as for the deer themselves I'm not too sure if there's going to be any I hope there's one here right by the fence so I don't see if they'll be as friendly as they were the other day here we go hello I'm making a video of you on YouTube so here we are that's what I mean about these very friendly deer there's nothing just down here hello I haven't got any food for you I'm sorry but you're being put on YouTube you know not interested there's another one here there was a stag about um I could see some and I'll say do you ever do hello so I mean they're so cute and friendly very that dog over there frightened them oh I think so a few more of them here I'll put the camera over the fence you can see them they're just all staring at me it seems um they're obviously used to people they don't seem to be so used to people talking to a camera and putting them on YouTube let's get past these funny they're like a staring competition between that dog and some of the other deer hello dear it's almost like no they're pretending to be stuffed here there's still standing there so still there's a stag there right here there we are there's a stag hello hello mate you don't want to be on my video look at that there's a few more female deer as well so um it's I think it's really nice that you can come here and I could say get this to get this close to a stag to have me you know sat here next to a stag and he's you know quite happy okay they've been a fence between us which may be a good thing but yeah they're very calm they're not really aggressive animals at all see how close hello yeah so that's why I think this is why I called these the friendliest deer herd in London of course there are other deer herds in London Richmond's Park is quite well known for they've never actually been there much to go there in the future there are deer at Greenwich in the park there but they're not as friendly as these ones and no doubt there's various other deer parks in Great London and of course once you get out around the rest of the country there's deer parks everywhere various national trust properties have deer parks but this one here although it's very rural we are actually in Great London and then they were the friendlier deer over there here are the not so friendly deer if you have a look just here they were just happily you know chilling on a nice winter's day there's like a little brook here which must come for a spring and it flows off down there so what I'm going to do um I think here's a good place to end this video hope you enjoyed it thank you very much for watching as I said if you want to come visit them you can come by train it's fairly easy to get to as we saw today although I went the long way there's also a car park um if you just follow the path out there there is a car park it's called Wood Hall Lane if it's um there's a car park there so you can walk to them so from the deer at um and there's that stag we're finished with him from the deer at Bentley Priory thank you very much for watching please do feel free to like subscribe and comment goodbye