 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm outside the Lions of Bledlow. This is a pub in the beautiful Buckinghamshire village of Bledlow. Now I've been told this used to be two pubs because you can see there's a front door there and a front door there. One was called the Black Lion and one was called the Red Lion and they merged and became one pub so the Lions of Bledlow. I'm not sure how true that is but if that's true then that's a great story and I have been in there, I've had a pint in there. It's a lovely pub as is the village. So what I'm going to do today, we're going to go for a walk through the village and there's something quite spectacular I have discovered at the other end of the village. So we're going to walk up there but first we're going to walk through the village. Now I have something I'd like to say to all of my viewers and that is thank you very much. I have made it to 2,000 subscribers so I'm really grateful to all of you who have subscribed. Really, really appreciate it. So thank you very much. The fact that you've subscribed to me, it helps me. I can go out, I can make more videos and if you haven't subscribed please do because the more subscribers I get, you know, there's chances I get possibly invited to places as I have in the past. People say oh we've all seen your videos, we'd like you to come and make a video. So please do subscribe. It's if you haven't already. I really appreciate it and for all of you who have subscribed, you know, just again thank you very much. Perhaps invite your friends to subscribe as well. More subscribers I'll make, the more videos I'll make. So yeah thank you very much. Anyway we're now walking through the oldest part of the village of Bledlow. Do you think it looks like I'm walking through a scene out of Midsummer Murders? That's because I am. This village has featured quite a few times in Midsummer Murders. It's, you know, one of your lovely Chilton Hills villages. Quite a small place, nearest town B, Prince of Risbury in that direction. That way over the border in Oxfordshire, you've got Chinna. Of course running between the two towns is the Chinna Prince of Risbury Railway. There was a halt here called Bledlow Bridge Halt. I'm not going to show you that today because there's not a lot you can actually see without travelling on the train. But what we'll do at some point in the future, we'll do a video on Chinna Prince of Risbury Railway and their former stations. Perhaps we'll even go to Watlington and try and find the old station. So the railway runs just down there. So what we're going to do now, we're going to go and see the Holy Trinity Church. We're not going inside and it's not open today. But after we've passed the church is this really exciting place that I would like to show you. So here's the Holy Trinity Church. This church has definitely been on Midsummer Murders in quite a few episodes. I have a feeling I'm not 100% sure, but there was one Midsummer Murders where the vicar turned out to be the murderer. And at the end when he was found out he ran up the tower and jumped off. I think it was this church, but I'm not entirely sure. So if you know and would like to confirm that please do comment and tell me, or if you want to tell me it's another church somewhere else, tell me and maybe I'll go to that village and make a video. So that's the Holy Trinity Church. Now the place I'm taking you to, see over there, you can just see some houses beyond the trees. Before that it's down in the hole. It is a big, what appears to be like a big chasm in the middle of the village. And down in that chasm is somewhere quite a nice place. So let's continue. We'll have a look down into the chasm and then we're going to work our way down. So let's get a few of the beautiful church. So here we've got a public footpath which runs down to the main road. It goes across to Jim Pritzker's railway. I'm probably going to go around this video and maybe see a train. But it's this place here. Have a look down there. You can see a lake or a pond with a very, very exciting looking boardwalk. It's just one of those places you look at, I think, cannot possibly not go down there and have a look. So we're going to leave the church behind, just give you an idea, see how the church is so close to the edge of this hole. So the place I'm going to go to is down there. It's called Lide Garden. It's the source of the River Lide, which is, I would have thought it was a chalk stream. It's a river, a small river flows out, eventually joins the River Tame, and then the River Tame eventually joins the River Thames. We have done in the past, when the one chalk stream we followed from Source to Confluence was the River Mizzborn. Over on the other side of Bacchamshire, we did that last summer. I'm not going to necessarily do the whole of the River Lide, but we can certainly go and have a look at the source. So it's behind this fence here. So just up here, there's a gate. It's called the Lide Garden. It is free to visit. And it looks beautiful all times of year. I've deliberately come here today, partly because I'm watching Train Sunshine for its Rishborelle, and partly because there's not too many other people here. So it makes it quite easy to film. So as you come in through the gate, what they have done, because of the pandemic and social distancing, is the one-way system, so it says no entry. So we won't go down there. We'll come up there at the end. There's a church over there. So we're going to go, as it says, one way. So let's follow this one way and see where it goes. It says also stay two metres apart from our visitors. I don't think I'm going to need to worry about that too much. So I'm just going to let the camera roll and I'll point out a few things as we go. So we're kind of coming down now into the garden. You can just see that pagoda will finish up down there. That is the actual source of the River Lide. We are walking along this side. And I wanted to try and find that boardwalk I showed you. So I can see on the other side. There's a path there which is closed. So we won't go down that one, but it doesn't matter because, you know, we can still see the whole of the garden. It's a very nice box-heading here. That's where we'll go up there by the church. So that's the boardwalk. So to me, this is possibly one of the most attractive sources of a river I've ever seen. I've never really seen one quite like this. This garden, it does in a way, although it's not really anything like it, it does remind me of the Plantation Garden in Norwich, which I did a video about a few years ago. I'll have a look at the link on screen now. It's not really like it, but well, it's a garden in a kind of chasm in a bit of an unexpected area. So that's the similarity to actually look at, I wouldn't say they're the same. So we get to here. This is where the boardwalk starts. So we'll do that in a minute. Let's just start this path up here. I can have a look across the view over the river. You can hear the very relaxing sound of water. We've got a weir there. And again, up there, yeah, that's the church where we were a moment ago. So let's go along here. We'll follow the path right the way around and around the edge of the river light. So as we come on to this bridge here, this is the beginning of the boardwalk section, there's two not-real herons there. So the river continues out that way. It must go down. It must go for a culvert underneath the church in Prince Rizbor-Railway. The footpath that I was talking about runs along the top there. So if you ever come here and it's closed, you still do get quite a nice view into the garden from the footpath. So that's worth having a look at. And here, this is one of my favourite views of the garden. Just going to let you have a look at that for a few seconds. You can hear the relaxing sound of the water. It's very clear the water as well. And as you can see, you can just see the reflection of the trees above. But I just like how the weeping willow comes over the garden. Obviously it's not got sleeves because it's winter. This just all looks very attractive. So what we're going to do now, we're going to go up these steps up here and just follow the boardwalk around. Yeah, I think this is really one of the nicest views you can get here in the garden. It appears to be like another spring. You can't see exactly what it's coming from, but looking down there beneath the leaves, I can certainly hear it. I can hear water trickling down under there and joining the main riverlide. This must be the first conference. And if you count that as the main stream of the riverlide, it's like its first tributary. Very, very short tributary. That tree there, that really tall one, I believe that's a swamp cypress there. It's a type of tree that grows in, well, basically, conditions. Very wet, damp conditions is the perfect place for a swamp cypress. Oh, there's two more of them there, yeah. Those two, they're swamp cypresses. And of course, we can willows also grow very well. They're fried in this condition. And all that plant there is, it's obviously, it might be, I'm not going to try and guess, but it's obviously covered up because of the frost I would have thought. And there's one more there. Oh, as I said, about the first conference in the riverlide, there's actually another one here. So perhaps there's two more. I mean, yes, it's all part of the main source. So I'm sort of, sort of, it's a bit of a joke, really, to say it's the first conference. Really, all of this is the source. But if you like to call that the main river, then you could call this the conference. So we've got a stream coming down here. We're here to have, well, two more coming down here. They flow out into the river. And there again, there's a church up above us. So when I talk about the main course, I tend to consider this to be the main course of the riverlide, but I know they are all the source. So you've got those ones coming down there. So it's effectively a pond stroke lake from there. Now it's more like a little stream up here. So obviously it's been landscaped, just making it even more interesting. We're going to continue up there and to take on to this bridge. This is the first bridge over the riverlide. There it is, because when we get to there, we're going to walk around the end of the source. So the source is up there in that pond. It comes down here, underneath my feet, down out into the river. So to take you up here, we have the main pond, the very top of the garden. I'm sure I have come in the summer. There wasn't as much duckweed on. That is a pond that's not a piece of grass. So if you ever come in, don't go walking onto that. I'm sure I have seen fish in here as well. See how damp it is here? Must be that all of the water for the riverlide just all comes out the chalk all around here. So this is where the riverlide starts and flows down, down into, beyond and out to the river Tame. So from the Lide Garden, I hope you enjoyed this video and this little walk around bed. Once again, thank you very much for 2,000 subscribers. Really appreciate that. I've just noticed another stream there. It seems to just come out from under the path and it flows along down under this path and into the main river there. So yeah, there's streams everywhere here. So yeah, thank you very much for watching this video. Thank you very much to all of you who've got me to 2,000 subscribers. I'm really pleased to have got to that milestone. Thank you very much for watching and if you're out this way, if you've been on Chinprix River Railway, why not come have a pint in the lions of Bledlow Arthoes and come and visit this garden for yourself. It's a really lovely place. So from the Lide Garden, thank you very much for watching.