 Hello, thank you for joining me. That's George Cross station down there. I'm out on my daily exercise today And what I thought I'd do, I would show you one of my favorite walks So we're not going on the train. I haven't been on the train since the 1st of November And I don't know at this stage when I next will go on the train So what I thought I'd do as I go out for a walk every day Around George Cross and the Chal fonts and denim just as far as I can walk really I thought I'd take you with me and Show you some of the sites so most of George Cross was explained last summer in a video I made called a walk George or George Cross a walk back in time There's a link on the screen now to that video and we did come along here and we looked down at the railway station and I talked about How George Cross used to be and everything what today we're doing something a bit like that But we're actually gonna walk from George Cross to a corner of Charleston, Peter and I'm gonna discuss with you how Everywhere would have been probably let's say how let's say well before the railway was built So about 130 years ago Well I for a start would have been in a field down there the cutting simply wouldn't have existed It have all been flat that was all Excavated when they built the railway and the railway opened in 1906 So we come out of the footpath here into a dead-end road called the Orch Hill rise So I'm gonna take you down there and the road I particularly want to show you in today's video It's called over way. It's possibly one of the most interesting residential roads in George Cross. It's got a few quite unusual features, so Got the railway line down there I'm not gonna hang around and wait and see a train because I've made plenty of other videos with trains in so yeah Just imagine all of this some of the trees might have been here But all of this would have been filled there was one footpath which I'm gonna show you Some of what has been slightly rerouted since the railway opened in that video I made George Cross all back in time Wended up on George Cross common by the pond the footpath that I came out of Which takes you over the railway where it crosses their bulls roadway first takes you over the railway Comes out just up here. That was once a footpath which ran from the pond right through to over there It's a pack horse road, which is the main Road from Chalfonson Peter to George Cross. That is all residential now But a hundred and thirty odd years ago it have all been farmland and there's been one or two Big houses indeed this road being called all-kill rise. I will explain in a moment where They got the name all kill from so we get to here Here is another one of George Cross station car parks. Now see this footpath here That's the one that takes you to the green footbridge or the iron bridge for not going over there today But that is the one footpath It would have probably run across In front of us and then when we get to this crossroads up here There's an or kill Avenue, which goes that way and that follows the route Where that public footpath would have gone so imagine this would have all been Completely fields George Cross new town simply didn't exist George Cross old town was well It's just a very small village a few houses around the pond on the main London Fish Guard Road And the ball hotel would have been there so the footpath would have run off Down there now the name all kill which is all kill Avenue that comes from What was and biggest house which is now St Mary's school that was called all kill house So that's where all kill comes from. So this road we're walking into now. This is called Overway now you'll see in a moment Why It's called over way Have a look it's a bit unusual for quite a quietish residential road. It's very wide here Um, it's not very busy. So I'm while I'm walking in the middle of it. See what happens here The road splits in two and this is the oval Which is why it's called overway. So we could go that way We could go that way. We're not going to go either and we're going to go through the middle of the oval Now ever since I was a child I've always enjoyed This walk through the middle of the oval. It's funny because it is there's a fence around it, but just step out of the fence Takes us in to this little sort of Wilderness well, we'll just come back to the road. But once you go through here Takes you into this like little wilderness In the middle of a residential area. It's um, I've just always really enjoyed Coming through here. It's always been good fun. There's a lot of laurel bushes here. Now normally I say laurel isn't the best plant to have it's invasive, but here It's nicely controlled. It's surrounded by the tarmac road. So here is what I would call quite an appropriate place to have laurel and I think if it didn't have the laurel it would lose its um feeling that it's got that See here, you feel like you could be in the middle of a woodland Somewhere although um, perhaps you wouldn't have too much laurel or any laurel in a native English woodland But it just has that really nice sort of feeling that you're a long way from anywhere when actually You are right in the middle of a housing estate and every now and then You glimpse through the trees a house and just reminding you you are in a housing estate So all of these houses would have been built after the railway overway simply didn't exist before the railway When the railway arrived from George Cross in 1906 George Cross was really built up and um, it became The town stroke village is today. They mainly provided a station really for chow funds on Peter In fact, I think early station signs it says George Cross for the chow funds Um, but George Cross now is a place in its own right But very soon Which way should we go? Should we go that way? Or that way let's go this way very soon in this video We are going to leave George Cross and we're going to cross the old boundary into chow funds on Peter I'm not sure the boundary between George Cross and chow funds on Peter is in the same place as it used to be But where it certainly Was once so so I mean you get reminded we are in a residential area every now and then Having seen these trees I would say if they weren't here before the railway they must be About as old as rail we've got a couple of um fir trees conifers And you think these are lime trees So we're going to soon come out of the oval and when we come out of the oval We'll see a bit of a mirror image of what we saw the road splitting with this area in the middle and We will be Into chow funds on Peter. So this is the final little bit of wilderness We shall walk through There's a few fulias trees Or um Yeah, fulias is the latin name. It's also a common name. I can't think of um, there's various other names But yeah, so coniferous trees It's um, I've always enjoyed coming walking through here. We get to here Step over the little fence Here we are. We're back in the residential And well it was residential, but you know, I mean we're back on the road now. I know the sun's glaring behind us So let's go this way and show see what I mean the road over way Joins again and you got the oval in the middle. So about here I could probably say um that my hand is in chow funds on Peter But my head is in charge cross. That's how that's about here where was where the old boundary between the two was Well, I'm not sure if it's quite still the same. So we get to here This road here is latchmore avenue We're not going to go down there today We're going to continue down over way because I have a few things I would like to show you down here So we're leaving the oval behind Um, just up here. There's these free new houses. These are the newest um development down over way before they were here Approximately where these two were was a big retirement home, which was derelict for quite a long time and then where the final one was there was a little um rendered bungalow and um Once the bungalow which she about was there came empty the site stayed empty for a couple more years I've got a couple of pictures. I'll put one in now So you can see there the building or the retirement home that they demolished to create this little development of free houses And then um what we're coming up to As per the video's title the unfinished church. I'm going to show you the unfinished church But probably to most people pretty much people don't think of it as an unfinished church, but you'll see why I'm referring to it as an unfinished church That's forp house there. That's a private school So more turn of the century houses that one's even still got its original windows or maybe not original windows But it had old critical windows That house there's a bit newer. I can't see much of it because of this private hedge um So the church we have almost derived that It's just there. It's called all saints church and it's one of chaffel's and peter's churches There you go So that is all saints church now And I'll tell you why I'm saying it's an unfinished church So this is one of the three churches of chaffel's and peter the other one is down in the village center Which um, I showed you in my chaffel st. Peter Um video, so have a look at link on screen now. You see that the other one, perhaps we should go there one Days up at horn hill. Well, look at this one. This is all saints church Now the reason I say it's unfinished Is because it was meant to be much much bigger than it was if you have a look here Don't you think this is a bit of an unusual way To end a wall of a church now the reason I've done this is because this wasn't meant to be The end of the church what you see here was meant to just be The north isle the nave of the church was supposed to be here So I would have been standing probably where the altar would have been and then there's probably been a mirror image On this side where this piece of grass is so it's not a ruin church. It's just unfinished So probably never will be finished now if you have a look at the walls you can see see how there's these filled in arches So had they ever Made this part of the church the nave these bricks would have been taken out those windows would have possibly been taken out moved across to over there so Yeah, I've done many ruin churches, but I don't know if I ever quite stood in a church that was never built before So that's why I find this quite a fascinating church. This would have been built not really exact date But it was built after the railway. I believe I believe the idea was to build another church in chaff on st. Peter In chaff on st. Peter but as close to the railway as they possibly could so hence Why it's here as we said the old border George Cross is literally just up there. Have a look at this though There's a pillar here So you can see imagine a big arch would have come across here that would have been filled in There's there would have been another arch there and um when we get to here You can see Another wall so they probably would have built out this way And then might there probably would have been a big tower about here. They've since built I assume that's a vicarage there. There'd have been a big tower So it really was going to be a rather large church Hasn't even got a tower now. It's got a bell up there. So that is all it has for bell tower But yeah, there's been a big bell tower there towering above us and to show you Um the porch it church isn't open as I walked up to George Cross. I checked and it wasn't open But there you go. It looks a bit different here. It's very Looks more arts and crafts on this side. Um the other side looks more sort of gothic revival I think this side looks very arts and crafts. Um with the Tudor porch another thing I want to show you Which is quite a nice architectural feature. That's um called tumbled in see the brickwork. See how it goes down and in That's called tumbled in brickwork. So um, yeah, unfortunately, we can't go in perhaps serve one day we can But adding to the arts and crafts feeling you can see the herringbone. No, sorry basket weave That's called basket weave brickwork because if you look the bricks Sorry the lights missing is about the the bricks look a bit like basket weave and so we come out here I don't think they ever consecrated any ground here because there's no graves In what I suppose you could call the churchyard That's where the arts and crafts the big roof and the chimney. So sir, I have been in this church before It's a very pleasant church. But yeah, that's why I'm calling it the unfinished church because um It never was quite built to be the large church. It was meant to be so Just let you see the front. There was another little bell there So yeah, um The front of the church would probably been forward a bit here So that is all saints church chaff on st Peter the church which is Only about a third of the size it was ever meant to be just a couple of other things. Um overway Soon Joins or kill. I'm sorry not all kill right path course road just up there. So that's the main road that goes through to jive cross I remember here. They knocked a couple of houses down. They built these slacks of mansard roof There was another house there. They knocked that down and built flats Behind there's a bit. There's some gravel pits. There was a brick works here once So, um, I'm not sure exactly. Well, it's around before the railway was built There were brick works over there which should have been on the edge of chaff on st Peter so from outside all saints church. I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching and goodbye