 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm just out on my daily exercise, I'm going down a footpath on the other side of Chalmers and Jals. I've been for a big long walk around from Chalmers and Peter. This road here, which I'm just coming out onto, is Mill Lane, which we have been down before. When I did my River Misbourne series, we had a look at the ford. But today, we don't need to go to the ford to find water on Mill Lane. Have a look at this. There's water coming out of these gates. This appears to be some sort of waterworks and the water is pouring out of here. So the Misbourne really is quite full, well overflowing as you can see. I'm not entirely sure what that place is, but obviously I don't think there's... So we shouldn't do water, but I think there's supposed to be water pouring out the gates like this and flowing off down Mill Lane. So what we'll do is we'll walk along through here, at least that all the water looks nice and clean. I'll show you the ford and then we'll walk down to Chalmers and Giles Village Centre. We'll have a look at the flood waters there and we'll go down in the valley to Chalmers and Peter. I did make a video a couple of weeks ago. I didn't speak in it. I just walked around filming the flooding in Chalmers and Peter. So do have a look at the link on screen now, but have a look at that. Water flows off around the corner. We're going to go, once we've finished with this, to get to Chalmers and Giles, we're going to walk down that footpath there. So that's just under a course of a mile away, is the village centre. But have a look at this. Warnist water pouring round here. The main course of the River Misborn is just the other side. This is the old mill building. The course under here, which would have been dug for the mill, which doesn't always have water. I have a feeling when I did my River Misborn series, there may not have been water in that section. Certainly is today. The water is pouring off the ground there through the fields. And then as I just get out of the water, we get to here. I can show you the water. So that's the other course of the River. I'll just drove through the flood waters now. They've got to go through the forward. So thanks for leading us to the island. It's completely surrounded by water. There goes the car through the forward. I'm just going to walk past the forward. And then I'm going to head back towards Chambers and Giles. So have a look at this. This is where there's supposed to be water on the old name. And luckily the bridge is still... That said, I've got wellies on. If you didn't have wellies on, then you'd have a job to get here. Because whichever way you come to here, you've got to walk through water. Because there's water coming off on this side as well. And we'll just look at that. It's just pouring out the fields there. And it seems to have flooded this bit of the lane. And if we have a look into the field, looking towards Amisham, that is not normally a field full of water. That's supposed to be a field, but it seems to have become a lake. So yeah, the River Misbourn was almost dried up when I walked along it back in May. In fact, it was dried up at one point between Chambers and Chambers and Giles. But it's gone to the complete opposite today. So I'm just going to now head over to Chambers and Giles. Want to have a look and see what's going on down there. So here we are in Chambers and Giles Village Centre. This isn't a flood. This is just a village pond. The village itself seems to be okay from the flood water. But as we turn around here, that's where the water flows from the pond through to the River Misbourn. Here is the River Misbourn. As you might be able to see, beyond there, all these grassland areas and fields are all a bit waterlogged. So what we're going to do now, we're going to walk through that towards Chambers and Peter and see how we can get on. I'm just going to have to hope it's not too deep. I have got wellies on. But we can get through it. So here we have half closed off bridge, crossing the bridge. And we get to here. I literally step off the bridge to feel like a pirate walking the plank into the water. It's fairly shallow. I'm going to cross this grassland area. We're going to head off in that direction down there. It's not too bad. But unless you've got wellies on, I wouldn't suggest you come walking into this part of Chambers and Charles. Look at that bench there. It's surrounded by water. And what I find rather amusing is here, we have a board that says Riverside Path. But the Riverside Path has now quite literally become the river. So we're going to head off around here and it is getting a little bit deeper. You may have seen, towards the end of last year or was it early this year, I made a video over in Denham called Dangerous Bridges and Floods. And that was where the river cold and flooded and damaged some bridges. And we had quite a lot of fun walking through deep flood waters a bit like this. Here we have the mizborn flowing off onto the path. And now the path's gone up slightly. So it's not too deep here. Compared to about there, where it was really quite deep here, it's not too bad. I think it's going to get deeper. Yeah, so this really, could almost do this in walking boots. But now, yeah, it's getting deeper again. So I really wouldn't suggest you come down here unless you've got wellies. To another lone bench, just completely surrounded by water. The river itself flows just along over there. It's quite a nice place. You carried a picnic and had it on a ruck. You just sit here and know that probably you're going to be the only person sitting there. Mind doing that. Come and have lunch here one day. So we get to, you can just see the river along there. And you may just be able to see the parish church behind. And in front, well, on the other side of the river in front of the parish church, that's the pub garden of the Merlins Cave Pub. If there wasn't a pandemic on, I'd have probably gone and had a pint, but we'll look forward to that later on in the year, hopefully. As we get to just up here, I can see ahead of us, there's a bit of a boardwalk, so at least I won't have to worry about walking through flood waters. I do quite enjoy it, but occasionally there could be the odd bit where you don't realise how deep it is and you put your foot in and the water comes over the top of your wellies and you have to walk home with cold wet feet. It doesn't happen to me yet, thankfully, today. Well, here we are, on to dry land. It's quite funny here, so where is this boardwalk? The reason there is this boardwalk is this area is usually quite waterlogged anyway, because there's a spring in there and water would flow out into the river. But now, water's flowing the other way. It's flowing from the river back into the spring and then it floods out into the field around there. So here's the end of the pub garden of the Merlins Cave. And there's the parish church. And now, it's more how you'd expect it to be, a riverside walk. Except to get to this nice bit of riverside walk you've got to walk through flood waters. It didn't look too bad, this next section. It's all very different, though, to when I did my Mistborn series and I walked the whole of the River Mistborn. There was water here in Chalfonson Jolls, but it had dried up between Chalfonson Peter and Chalfonson Jolls. There's some springs, though, upstream of Chalfonson Peter. So that kept it flowing. Well, it was actually dried up until it was simply flowing around this area at Christmas. And then what happened was it would peter out just up there somewhere. So a few of the times on my daily walks I'd go and see where the floods, or not the floods, where the water ended. And even when it snowed at the end of January it wasn't flowing all the way through. It was when the snow melted that the river began to flow all the way through. That footpath would take you, if you go that way on the other side, no, sorry, you go this way on the other side of the bridge down by the churchyard. That takes you back to the village centre. If you go that way, that's one way to Chalfonson Peter. But I'm going to go to Waterlogsway. So I'm going to go across here, across these fields and we'll see what we find further downstream. We're at the village of Chalfonson Jolls behind us. You can just see the church over there. We've come to a slightly higher section of ground, but you can see there's a river flowing along there. Which makes me wonder, does this always come up? I remember the last time we had a big flood was in 2001. And I don't think I'd have been too young to have gone out on my own. So I remember seeing Chalfonson Peter flooded. I didn't walk up here to Chalfonson Jolls. So ever, this is quite normal for that course to spring up. As I said, in those bushes over there there is a spring and I said the water flowing into the spring. So it looks like it's flowing through this path again. So I'm going to walk through it and then what I'm going to do, I'm going to follow the footpath that heads off down the fields in that direction and I have a feeling I'm going to be walking through probably quite a lot of water. There is another path, which runs more almost parallel to the river, although you can't really see a lot of the river because it's in bushes. I walked down there the other day and that was waterlogged all the way along. I don't know why, it basically goes straight along there. I'm going to go along the edge of the field along there. So it looks like I'll be above the water level but I think when we get to the end of the field I'm going to have a lot more walking through water to do. So let's see what I find when we get up there. I've just come along the footpath a little way, quite muddy but not waterlogged but now look what happens. I'm going to have to start walking through the water again. All the way through to the end of this field. It looks like I'm stepping into a river here. Well, certainly yes I am. But it is supposed to be just a normal public footpath. It's not normally waterlogged like this so it's probably going to take me a bit longer than it would if I was just walking normally. So I'm going to keep walking and when we get to the end up there I'll show you what we find. Well that's been fun. I've just been wading my way down the flooded path. We're just coming up to a style here which will take us out into the next field and then I'm going to follow across over the river. There is somewhere up there. It's a bit strange this path because there's no real way you can actually get out. I'll show you what I mean in a minute because whichever way you go you've got to cross the river and there's no bridge. That's not really a problem but when when the river's not dried up it can be a bit of a problem especially if you haven't got wellies on. I don't actually know if I'm going to get through here. I think I probably will but it really is that area there is really deep. My wellies are just about getting me through. Excuse me my microphone why I just got caught on that orphan bush. So we get to here. This is the path which obviously we intend to do but we might have to slightly step off the edge. So I get to this style wobbly style surrounded by water. So what I'm going to do I'll just show you while I'm standing here if I was to follow the path that way that takes you to the cut of the river which is also full of water. When you get to the end there's no way out and I went down there the other day and I couldn't get through the river. I had to climb over a willow tree which branch is just about came on to the other side of the river. It was too deep for me to walk through the river. So I'm going to head in that direction to where there is a sort of a thord and I just hope I can get through because if I can't things are going to be interesting so I might have to come all the way back and it really will be a pretty long walk. So I'm going to jump down now and work out how I'm going to get through well I think I can actually just oops, yeah that's I think if I had stepped off the edge of the style there I would have probably gone down not to waist height but a fair bit so I had to step right over to that side and here we are back on dry land so I'm going to make my way over there to the river and just see what I can find really in this field full of sheep I've just come over from that style to the actual official so back in around Christmas time the water was stopping just in those bushes and then when it snowed it flowed to around there and it petered out around there here's this extra man made cutter set about so somehow there must be like a pipe under here the water flows through now as for the footpaths one of the official footpaths goes straight across up there and joins the main footpath from the chaff on some beaches chaff on some jolls but where we're going we're going to go to where there's a sort of a ford up there whether we're going to get through it or not I don't know the river really meanders here around the field there's a sheep walking off he probably won't know if I'm doing and he's running now look at that I've never seen that much water here in the river usually it's just a trickle but it really is quite full here I'm heading to over there you may just be able to see there's some people just there they're walking along the path towards chaff on some jolls so I'm going to follow quite clearly this path here and I'll see what happens when we get to the ford up there so I've just come across the field even that was a little bit more waterlogged than I'm used to now it's here it's not through this gate but there's another gate which will take you onto that main footpath from chaff on some beaches chaff on some jolls so this is where I'm hoping I can cross the river because it should be about at its shallowest here so let's have a look see how I get on that that log there that was across the river like that which made quite a lot of fun to balance your way across the river but it's not there now I think I'll be alright getting across here it's just about not too deep so I can get through here so here we are crossing the river Miss Bourdon a fairly shallow point normally the river is so shallow you can pretty much just walk along the whole river in your wellies but once you've had a lot of rain it does occasionally fill up so what I'm going to do now is walk along this path along here there's a little style just there by that gate and then I can walk along to chaff on some Peter and I'll show you what's going on with the river in chaff on some Peter here we are in chaff on some Peter just up there is meal Meadow the village is not far that way I thought we'll do this little detour over this footbridge here because as you can see I've got to step into the water again we've got a few more floods to walk through and this isn't too bad because when I walked through the I just come this way so if we go through here we go around the corner and have a look at that and have another what appears to look just like a big pond to walk through and this is where it starts to be it's starting to cause a few problems have a look at the allotments I do feel sorry for the people who've got allotments down here because it means it's all under water so it's not too deep I can get through here I do remember back in 2001 when we had the really big floods you could not get through here but you'd need proper waders on ones that come up to sort of here you couldn't have walked through here and well as I just stood in the hole there went down deeper than I expected it to so here I'm coming out now of the flood water leaving the flood water behind this short cut down here towards Charleston Peter village centre so we're now arriving into the village of Charleston Peter just something I wanted to show you here before we go into the village centre have a look at this plaque here that shows how it used to look I did do a video series where I did all these plaques at Charleston Peter because there is quite a few of them so do have a look at the link on screen now you'll be able to see that this bridge though I've always found fascinating it's called the Vic Wooden Bridge he's someone who helped rescue the river when I was a child there was a much lower bridge here and water even when it didn't flood would frequently flow over the top of this bridge now what used to happen here the river used to go directly that way but after the floods of 2001 they cut this new cut through there so it has a straighter route and possibly means it's less likely to flood because I remember in 2001 we had water flowing all down this path the residential building that's here today wasn't here there was an older building it was called Elwood House and it was demolished maybe about 2004-2005 and replaced with this one it had an identical twin or almost identical twin in Charleston Joels which was also demolished and replaced so as we get to here I'll just show you this little bit of river here so this was the pub garden there used to be picnic tables and swings about where the river is the river flew along where the wall is and used to be a little duck pond much smaller than what we had in Charleston Joels but there was always water even when the river dried up there was always some water for the ducks which was quite nice so as we cross here is the village carpark now under here is a culvert which takes what's known as the back stream I'll just show you it bubbles out here so that's the great ham pub just there you might be able to see the water bubbling out there well that is the back stream I did do a video called tributaries of the river Missbourne have a look at another link on screen now and you'll be able to see that video where I looked at some of Charleston Peter's river Missbourne tributaries so we are now coming right into the village centre it's starting to get a little bit dark but we've almost finished the Charleston Peter parish church now this is where things get a little bit more interesting it's not as bad as it was a few weeks ago but a couple of things to show you here is where the river's culvert is under the road now with really heavy rain what it's done is it's brought a lot bigger twigs down and as you can see they're stuck under the culvert so the problem is if we get a lot more heavy rain the river flows faster it's going to bring more twigs down and could potentially block the culvert this could overflow and we could have a flooded village a few weeks ago after the heavy rain we had see where they've now fenced off the road that was completely flooded it looked more like a canal than a river and it seems to have stopped now which is good I actually do quite like having the road closed but it's not good for businesses in Charleston Peter have a look at what's going on there here where they've fenced off the road unfortunately there was a sewage pipe and water was bubbling out going into the river so the river downstream to Charleston Peter was polluted but hopefully it will wash itself through so it has done some damage to the road surface it looks like they have been along and put some new tarmac in that certainly wasn't there the other day and then we have this section here which is completely fenced off but one thing I was thinking is if we go and have a look at the main precinct car park which isn't the prettiest part of Charleston Peter I mean it's a bit of a you've got this really really nice view here of the parish church and then you turn round and this is what you've got the precinct but this is normally full of cars so one thing I thought I think it's quite nice with no cars I mean yes I do agree let's get the road open again but imagine if because you've got another car park literally over there behind the church and you've got a car park over there behind Barclays this was closed off and became like a plaza could be a really nice area if you think about it the river itself would be well let's work this one out the river goes under the street just there so it must be directly beneath my feet would flow across to over there you could effectively undo this section and have the river flowing through here again obviously have a road bridge and then this area here could be just like a nice plaza you've got costa just there so when times are normal you could have chairs here and people sitting here river could be here and you could have a few trees planted, a few benches and then the river would disappear under the shops just there there could be a few more trees and benches here it could be a really really pleasant area and as I said the other car park is literally just over there I can even see some cars in it so that's my fault I don't know if anyone would agree with me on that but I think that could make what is the not most attractive part of Chalfonson Peter just seem a little bit nicer anyway that's what's going on in Chalfonson Peter a few weeks ago though I was able to get quite a nice reflection of the church reflected here so I hope you enjoyed this little video I do hope for the sake of the business in Chalfonson Peter though as interesting as the floods are they do stop but I hope you enjoyed this video thank you very much for watching please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment and from a rather different looking Chalfonson Peter video centre, goodbye