 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm in the attractive Somerset village of Dunster today I've just come here to have a quick look around because I've got a bit of time in between doing the West Somerset Railway So this is the village centre. You can see the famous yarn market. We'll go to that soon And there's also the Tower of Folly above the village, which we will also hopefully get to But let's have a look up here because first I want to show you there's some gardens and there's the old prairie Which is now the parish church. So that's probably one of the most interesting things. The other thing Dunster is famous for I've already mentioned it's got the West Somerset Railway The station is about a mile away from the village. So as I said, it's not actually featuring in today's video Although I have been on the West Somerset Railway. I then came here on the bus The other famous thing Dunster is famous for is behind me somewhere there. Although we can't actually see it It's Dunster Castle. It's National Trust. It's well worth a visit. I have been there in the past You have to pre-book that at the moment and I didn't have as long as I'd have liked So I didn't really see the point. In going there today I thought I'd go back at a time, you know, when I can perhaps spend a day there and no doubt I'd love to make a video there. So, you know, watch this space. So as we come up here There's some rather nice gardens here. Dunster Village Gardens. So let's go and have a look at them and then Then we'll go and have a look at the church Here we are in the gardens So this is the Dunster Village Gardens. They're open Let's have a look. I believe this will take us through to where the priory Or what there is of the priory. So pan around you can see the tower I'm not going to try and pronounce its name. It's on screen now Because I've asked three different people how you pronounce it and they've all said a different Pronunciation so I think the best thing is I just don't say the name but you can read it and you can pronounce it how you think Well, look, this is a mulberry here Pretty bit early for the mulberries. Yeah, here we go round the mulberry rush. There you are. You can just see some there still green So I'm not ready to eat. They have to be They become very dark red before you can eat them. There's one. It's a bit more ripe There, can you see that one? But it would still be very sour if you ate it now The problem is with eating mulberries is the juice goes onto your fingers and I always look like I've got blood on my hands every time I eat one So yeah, perhaps best to leave them for today There's the priory church. That's where we're going to head to now There's hollyhocks taller than me And no doubt this worst area probably looks very nice a couple of months ago So once we go over the other side of that wall, well actually probably already we are in the grounds Of the old Dunster priory. I believe it's an old Benedictine priory. I don't know too much about it Um, because admittedly but it was a bit of an unplanned visit It's going on the west Somerset rail ended up at Dunster so four months will do a video here And come into here now. He said tithe barn there. That's part of the priory or would have been part of the priory again There's the holly which I'm going to try and walk up to There's the church So this is quite a big space in the middle of the village So it is worth coming here if you do want to come by train in the west Somerset Railway If you're spending all down the west Somerset Railway So if you're going from Bishop's Idiots to Dunster It's easy to be able to get It's a bit of a walk but it's worth it There's the tithe barn And the other interesting feature Is the dove coat here I'm going to head that way down to the village More nice gardens This little door It looks like I can't go in so that's going I see so we It's a small door. We're going Can't go any further than this but have a look at that You can see where all the doves would nest Um, but it doesn't look like there's actually any doves in there today. Just go outside and um Smells very nice smell of lavender Where does he sit? Down these gardens When I come to a garden like this And I see a tarp going off I'll have to go and see There it goes. I can never resist things Tarps like this so I've been Always find it fascinating To see the shoot gardens It takes us up. I think it's a dead end But we get Quite a good view Of the tithe barn Yeah, it just ends here So now let's go and have a look We need to get round there To the church We might catch glimpse of the castle soon As well. So like I said, I will one day Come here and do the castle There's also the mill It's all very fascinating So that is also well worth Visit the castle So let's go back out onto the road There's the church See where this takes us Some box hedging there I'm kind of assuming It's going to take us round to the church Admittedly, I'm kind of guessing my way now And then from the church When we walk back into the village centre We'll have a look at the old yarn market Because that's kind of The pretty nice famous image of Dunster And then I'm going to attempt To go up to the tower Right, what happens here Okay, so that's probably The village stall in front of me And this looks like The glitch gate Into the priory church So let's go from here And see what we can see Okay, so believe me The castle is up there It's hidden behind the trees If we can make it up to the tower Before we get a view Looking back across the church No doubt when we even get to the yarn market We'll see the castle towering So that's another interesting plant This is called a medlar bush Has these rather weird looking Fruits now, you actually eat them When they go rotten, so you don't eat them like that They're a bit sort of like pears But they have this funny sort of end to them I've never tried, I've bitten into them When they're a bit more matured And they're not really very nice But you can eat them, supposedly Here's the priory church I can just see part of the castle The estate, that building over there Is probably the gate house I do remember there being a couple of Ruin bits in the castle as well So no one's saying our last visit there Probably at least 15 years ago It was on a school visit And I did go with my family When I was a child So this is until this We're going to go out one of them Those ways out back to the village Have a look at the church, it's quite an impressive building Let's go inside I hope it's open I expect it probably is Yeah, it's open Let's go Into the church So yeah, this was once Part of the old priory It's quite warm, sometimes cold When you go in churches This one's quite warm Got a lovely Loot screen across the front Let's go around Let's go around this way first It looks like they do Perhaps do tees on a Summer Sunday, second half a bookshop Looks like there's all tables Layed out as if they were doing tees And there's lots of Postcards to buy And all sorts of things Let's have a look in here Into The chancel And the altar Very interesting church So what I'm going to do now Is I'm going to go outside And then walk back to the village And have a look at the yarn market And then we might go up to the tower So from the church What I've done, I've circumnavigated The top of the village Because we come to this view here Which is a rather attractive view There's the yarn market Down there, which I'm going to have a look at And there above is the castle So let's go down And see the yarn market It's always like these Parts you get In these villages in the west country They always fascinate me You never know where they're going to quite take you to So we come down here Classic Volvo That's the yarn market That's what we've come down here to have a look at Oh and by the way, this building here This is the yarn market hotel So as we come to here, this is the yarn market So we can go inside And have a look You can see quite a fascinating 16th century market And there's a picture That's in 1821 it says So here's the yarn market 17th century yarn market From the cup at the ceiling Quite fascinating It's quite interesting how you can actually see All of the loft And how roof is done From the inside So what we're going to do now We're going to go back outside The village And I'm going to try and I haven't got that long, I've only got back now So I'm going to try and find my way up to the tower So I'm now making my way up through the woods To the tower, but before I get to the tower I found some more ruins Must be part of it I don't know too much about this place I know it's all a folly Let's have a look up here There's another little turret here Quite exciting There's another little ruin There's more of a grand entrance So we'll have a look at this So if I wanted to walk to Minehead I could go that way, I have done that in the past I once got the train from Minehead Tube Done so I walked up to here Went about that way So let's go through here And then it looks like I've got quite a lot of steps to go up now To get to this tower So here's another little turret there Just see that one in the trees There's a great house, turret And a large way, so quite fascinating Mysterious place But I've now got off all these steps To go and find the tower itself That's been a bit of a walk up through the woods Up quite a steep hill But the gradient has now eased off There it is That's how I loom the head Looks like we probably can go inside I did come up here a few years ago Supposedly there was a secret passageway From here to the castle From here to the castle, a secret tunnel Sounds very sort of famous 5-ish Doesn't it? But I think it's all been filled in So I don't think it's going to be quite that exciting It was worth the time up this steep hill For To have a look at So here it really is just a folly Well that probably made quite a nice view From Done to the castle So here we go Here's a picture So if we could get on top We'll see what that painting shows The village and the castle Down there, let's go inside there and have a look So really it's just a big ground tower Just a big ground tower No floors I can't see there was ever a staircase There certainly Holes for there to have been a floor But there was a floor Must have been wooden and it's rotted away I'm assuming you must have been able to go on top Because it's going by the picture Let's go outside and have a look at the view Oh the last look up And let's see what we can Find out here It's like the overgrown path around here The village is down now, I was hoping we'd get a good view But maybe not Maybe to see the view We should come up here in the winter At some point And it's very overcast day to day Good job of not wearing shorts But the sea here Sorry can't even see the sea But the sea, it's just out there And so is, I'm not going to try and get through there So is the West Sunset Railway For that matter So well, here, Dunster Castle You might just be able to see The top of it Not sure if the camera is picking it out I can just see the Union flag flying On top of the tower So, I think Bit of an anti-climax, I really hope we see The village from up here But I think that pretty much concludes This little adventure around Dunster From the village up to the woods Up to this strange tower You'll have to find my way down now Get back on that bus So, I hope you enjoyed this video Thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment If you are having a trip on the West Sunset Railway Do allow quite a long time Allow longer than I did But it is worth coming to see And so is on the other hill over there Dunster Castle, so thank you very much From the tower above Dunster