 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm outside the church in Longmarsden today. This isn't the Longmarsden that's associated with railways where old trains go to be stored and where the detrain project is developed where they convert old district line trains into detrains for use on the Arla White and the Bedford to Bletchley line. This is Longmarsden in Hertfordshire. I'm standing outside the church. This is the new church. Unfortunately it's not open so we can't go in but I'll show you a couple of things. It's quite an interesting flint-built church so you can just see how durable the flint is and how the water really just runs off it. The only thing with flint is it's not very good for corners. So all the water just simply runs down here. It doesn't look like it's really since it's been built. I try to have a lot of work on it. So as I said this is the new church. It's not open. It hasn't got a tower. The bell's outside there. We're going to have a look for the old church. I'm also going to have a look around the village and we'll perhaps walk up to the next village and pat in them and just have a look at this area which is right on the border of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. The nearest town is actually Ellesbury which of course is Buckinghamshire. So there you go. There's the church. But we are at this moment. We are in Hertfordshire. The sun's coming out. That's good. So we're going to leave the church behind. It's a shame we couldn't go inside and we're going to walk up to Chapel Plain and that's where we should find the remains of the old church. So one more. One more same church. It's nice big lime trees in the church yard. So we're just going to follow the path, follow the road down through the village centre. There wasn't a railway station in this village but I believe this is called Station Road because down that way there was a railway station on the railway line from Cheddington to Ellesbury. It was the branch off the West Coast main line to Ellesbury. It didn't join up with the Great Central Metropolitan Station at Ellesbury. So perhaps one day we'll do a video on that although it's not a footpath so we might have to do it in the car and just see what we can see of the railway but that's a bit of a draw at some point. So yeah, there was a railway station. Not really here but for the village. So it's just up here where this chapel lane is so we're going to go up there. The other thing that apparently happened here, in 1751 they lynched the last witch or the last witch lynch in England took place by the village pawn. I have a feeling the village pawn might be up there by the old church. I'm not entirely sure though so we'll just go up there anyway and we'll certainly look for the old church and see if we can see the pawn. So here we are, this is a rather attractive village centre. We have the chapel lane so we're going to go up here. There you get a view looking that way into the village. So let's go up here and find the old church. Before we go up the chapel lane I just noticed this footpath sign. It says Annick Farm which seems funny that there's a farm... because Annick is miles away, it's up in Northumberland. It's where Annick Castle was where they filmed parts of Harry Potter. There's also going to be a heritage sign at Annick eventually. So it already is there but I have to go up there one day. But anyway, not today. So it's Annick Farm that way. There is also a house around here called Dover Castle so it's quite an interesting place. So we have just come up there. We're about to go down there chapel lane and I just wanted to quickly show you. Here we have the War Memorial. And it's interesting to see just around here there is a sad thing happened in the war. A plane crashed here. So I'll just let you have a look at that. As I said, we are now going to walk up there on Chapel Lane. I'm going to go and find the old church. So I've just come down Chapel Lane from where we were by the War Memorial. I believe the pawn where the witch lynching took place was a lady called Ruth Osbourne, the last witch to be lynched. She was up there by the War Memorial and this stream now follows along Chapel Lane. So perhaps there was a spring up there. And we're coming up towards the old church. As you can see this little area here. This was a church farm. It's now been converted into barns. Interestingly, I just found a London and South Western railway company. So that must have come from the old railway line which I mentioned earlier. So there's the stream. We're going to find the churches. We found this is church farm here. So we can't be far away from the church. I have a feeling it's going to be up here in these trees here. So it'll be interesting to see. I'm not quite sure what to expect, but I know there is some remains in the old church. Oh yeah, that's called old church cottage. So it's got to be here. In fact, I think it is here. Yeah, here we go. We come to here. This is the old church of long last. So let's go in and have a look. There's a few gravestones here. So this church was also known as a chapel of ease. There's quite a lot of information on it here. You can see on the map. We're just there, old church farms. There's possibly a manor house here. We'll have a look at the site of that in a moment. It was eventually demolished in 1882. And the new church we saw earlier was built to replace it. So I'm pretty standing in the nave here where these trees are. And here is the remains of the church tower. So there's just a little door here. So this would have been inside the church. Let's see, looking up. You may have seen, I did a video a while ago. I'll put a link on screen now about a year ago called, what was it called? It was a village called Cold Christmas. And it was a very mysterious village over in Hertfordshire. And there was a similar church now to this day. But that one was said to be haunted with all sorts of strange things happening. So as I said, do look at the link on screen now. There we go. You get a nice view of the church. Unlike the one at Cold Christmas, this one hasn't been filled in there. The one at Cold Christmas, I believe, to be completely filled in. But you might be able to see inside that one. I'm saying we can't go inside. I'm not ladder and see the view from above, but I don't think I'm going to. So the manor house was possibly over there. What I'll do, I'm just going to go back to that interpretation board, because there was a picture of what the church would have looked like or did look like. There was a photo taken of it before it was demolished. I'll let you see now before we go. Then I'm going to make my way across the fields to pattern them in the next village and there's the old church cottage. We're almost pretty much in their garden. There we go. There's a picture. That is what the church used to look like, right? So I'm going to now make my way back out onto Chapel Lane, and I'm going to head in that direction over to Patterham. I've now walked about a mile across the fields from Lone Marston, and we're just coming up to the edge of Patterham. So here's the church. So we're going to have a look at the parish church. I'll just go around the other side. I think it's unlikely to be open, but we'll try. We're going to go down there, Avenue of Lime Trees to the church. Another stone and flint church. You can see quite a lot of its chartals, pretty much all flint, but the actual name itself is stone, but with flint in between. And then the tower is stone and flint. We'll have a closer look at that in a minute. Let's see if we can go inside. It's called St. Mary's. There's a little bit of information there. Let's go out, we'll just walk around the church yard. And now I'm going to, as I said, head on to the village. I'll find the Grand Union Canal. There's no railways in this village. If you want the flattest walks I've done for a long time, nearly all the walks I do, I'll try and find a hill or something to go up. This walk is just dead flat. Let's have a look at the style of the church. So you can see the stone and the flint. See how the stones warn away more. The flint is... I'm almost at the back of the church. And as I said, I'm going to head on to the village and see where the walk takes us. So what you see over there are those fields. Although we're actually in the heart of the church here, that's all the Vale of Ellesbury out there, which is in Buckinghamshire, very close to the water. We're going to end up in Buckinghamshire quite soon. When we go on to the Ellesbury on the canal, we'll be... I think we'll just walk across about three-quarters of a miles worth of fields from Pluttonham, now across the border from Hartfordshire into Buckinghamshire. I'm coming up to a weak bridge. This is going to take us over the Ellesbury Armour to Grand Union Canal, which I'm then going to walk along to Not Far from Longmars and then I'll walk back across the fields and I'll have to complete it approximately a four mile from the bridge. There's some lorries that have grounded on here. It's quite a real humpback. There's the canal. So that is looking towards Ellesbury that way. And this is the direction we're going to go in towards the junction with the main branch of the Grand Union Canal. So let's go down. We'll go down and under the bridge just because we can and it's fun. There's the bridge. I'll give one more view looking towards Ellesbury. Let's go under bridge number eight. So I'm going to walk now along here for about a mile and a half, two miles. So as I said earlier, this has been about the flattest walk I've ever done. Hold on, I just want to show you what I can cut over the hedge. Can you see the hills up over there? I know you can't see much. That's Wendover Woods. So that's the hills above Wendover. So I'll give you an idea. So between here and those hills is another Armour to Grand Union Canal. Wendover Arm which is currently has no water on. We did feature a bit of it when I walked along the old railway line to RAF Halton. But one day I will go and we'll do perhaps I'll do a video on this one and a video on the old Wendover Arm at some point in the future. But I'm now going to walk along back towards Longmust. I've now come about a quarter of a mile along the canal. Just back there is the lock by the lane into Putnam There's a lot of water coming in for it. Almost makes me wonder is there too much water because I don't know a huge amount about canals, but having a look up here the water is really flowing through here. It might just be that it's the standard procedure. I know you do get water flowing over the top like this, but to me just that there's a lot of water let's just have a look. As I was saying about Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire though currently in Buckinghamshire although about where the other lock is at lock is in Hertfordshire, so I've gone from Buckinghamshire back into Hertfordshire. I'm now in Buckinghamshire, but although there's no sign to say anything as I leave this lock here I will be back into Hertfordshire and I'll stay in Hertfordshire until I get back to my car in the village. You can see the water really is flowing through here quite quickly. It might be quite normal but I just wondered is there too much water or maybe it's because the boat hasn't come through for a while so I'm going to continue right up there now another mile or so before I find my way back to the village of Longmaster. I'm now coming to the end of my section of the walk along the canal. I'm here at bridge number 5 just before a lock. I shall leave the canal and head across the village of Longmaster. I just mentioned it earlier but I can show you better here in this field. That's Wendover Woods over there up on the hill. Wendover Woods is the Wendover Arm of the canal so perhaps one day we'll do that. I really would like to have a stream here. A lot of streams out here I reckon if I had come here a few weeks ago it probably could have been quite flooded. The stream actually goes here it's feeding the canal that you can see it's coming into the canal here so yeah we'll continue on to bridge number 5 over bridge number 5. We'll have a look at the lock from on the bridge. I have been all along here a few years ago I cycled along the whole of this arm so I have done the whole arm but like I said perhaps one day I'll do a video specifically on the outskirts we are and another one on the Wendover Arm. Looks like we've got to go under before we go over. Let's go under it's more fun. I was saying back at the other lock about the amount of water it just doesn't seem there's as much water coming over this lock I mean I know yes we saw there's a little stream there obviously feeding it so this is interesting talking of the stream we are going to go over the bridge but since we're here it's called Gudgeon stream number 9 lock so that must be the name of that stream we saw so that way it's looking towards the main canal we'll do it another time we'll go over bridge number 5 and then across the fields it's probably not even quite a mile and we'll go back at long mast this is bridge number 5 there's our final look that way towards the main granary and canal and then that way looking towards Ellsbury through the Willow trees so I'm now going to continue that way over the fields that's Longmaston so here we are we are finally back in the village of Longmaston where we started to walk so I've done approximately a four mile circle walk to the centre so I enjoyed that over to Putnam and back along the canal and here we are back to where we started so I'm going to get in my car now which we're about to come to drive home and go out for another walk another day so I hope you enjoyed this video thank you very much for watching from the attractive village in Hartfordshire of Longmaston goodbye