Lovely church.

Shhhh! Stop telling people about Dorset. 🤪

Dorset: the tetchy, “Blue-Badge County”, where Sundays are marred by the sound of retired folk, operating lawnmowers, chainsaws etc, instead of savouring the natural beauty; guess who visited, this weekend!

I do live near here! So thanks!

Hi gals, here is a tip. When you get to visit those lovely villages, to blend in with the ambiance wear floral summer dresses & flat shoes.

Morning you two, If I have my figures correct, that 2 bed cottage for sale in EXTON, is going for around £350,000. If I remember right, when I was a youngster, the Govt tried to do away with the County of Rutland, and amalgamate it with another County, but such a fuss was created that it got shelved.

We lived in Empingham, a small village in Rutland, next to Rutland Water ( largest man made lake in Europe. We sold our cottage and moved 5 miles into the small market town of Stamford last year. We now live next to the river in the historic centre of Stamford which is also a gorgeous place to visit - it regularly features in the Sunday Times best place to live in the UK competition (and won it twice). This part of the country is one of the best kept secrets - just as pretty as the Cotswolds but not crawling with tourists - you can walk for miles and hardly ever meet another person. I would highly recommend staying anywhere in Rutland or Stamford, we're only 40 miles away from Cambridge and 80 from London.

There are lots of village's all over Britain. You will be spoilt for choice. Good village shops like that bakery are a must.

Very much so

I went up Newcastle upon Tyne last month. That has some nice places

@@da90sReAlvloc I went last yr and loved it. Also beautiful Tynemouth a half hour metro ride away. If I could I’d love to explore more of Northumberland definitely the best kept secret for tourists

Exactly, there's loads of places like this around where I am

Try Alresford, Cheriton and its environs - lovely area.

I live on the Isle of Wight and it is stunning over here.

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Speak for yourself I die without my AC lol

The buildings that you see in this video are all heavyweight buildings so that they are cosy warm in winter (when heated properly) and cool in summer so there is no need for A/C. We have a moderate weight house and at the height of the summer last year when it was 40degC outside, our house was a comfortable 25.5degC inside. Our heating season starts sometime in November and finishes March/April depending on the weather. A/C as most people know it is not crazy expensive, it is basically heat pumps that supply warm or cool air that you see in many small offices and will be a cheap alternative to lpg and oil in places where there is no mains gas. This is the system that the Govt are promoting to reduce our gas consumption. It gets more sophisticated when you add humidity control that is really only suitable for large office buildings. The issue with 'A/C' is that it provides cool air to overcome the deficiencies of the building construction i.e. lightweight building that is exacerbated by high levels of insulation. Generally speaking, cooling air is around 3x as expensive as heating it for the same temperature change +/-, and of course that energy is used during the period when with other types of buildings it is unnecessary. Rutland is a picturesque county with classic sandstone houses, often with Switherland Slate roofs i.e. massive. The brick production in nearby Peterborough seems to have bypassed the county except in 1960's/70's although new developments are favoured with sandstone replica cladding, which doesn't sit right with precise modern houses.

@@clivewilliams3661 my a/c only gets me a couple of degrees lower in 1 room but as long as you sit in the direction of air flow you get the "standing in front of the fridge" benefit. Night times are awful in the heat. I need another unit to keep upstairs.

@@mandimoo87 It sounds as though the unit is woefully undersized. Is it a stand alone cabinet or a plumbed in split unit with a condenser outside? As I said, cooling the air takes 3 times the amount of energy for every degree than to heat it every degree so that if for example your house needs to cool from 30degC to 20degC it will use the same amount of energy as heating it from minus 10degC to 20degC. Therefore if you primarily require the cooling to perform then it needs to be 3 times as big as the one for heating. If the house heats up to an uncomfortable level then it is likely to be a lightweight building that has no thermal mass to modulate solar heat gain. You can insulate to lower the solar transmission but this is usually quite difficult to achieve as an insulated house tends to keep the solar heat in, double glazed windows are terrible in this respect. I would look to add shading where possible to reduce the solar gain and look to tacking the heat gain in the roof space. For most systems A/C (Air Conditioning) is the wrong term as to be A/C it requires humidity control that adds another layer of complication, most 'A/C' units are only heat pumps that heat when the refrigerant is flowing in one direction and cooling when flowing in the other, commonly they are called split units

@@clivewilliams3661 stand alone the bes I could afford. It's better than nothing and gets us to about 22-23 inside which isnt too bad. I am getting it vented into my Chimney soon so will be able to keep windows closed then

I've been to Earls Barton many times, when I lived in Northampton, as my cousin lives there and my ex husband's aunt lived there. It is lovely.

Why do you say scon, it has an e on the end as in stone not ston?

@@johngardiner6800 because that is the way I have always said it. It's a regional variation. I don't particularly care how a word is spelt, if it will be understood as is. I write scone, but I say scon.

I was brought up in Melton, and as a kid regularly used to cycle through to Exton and beyond. And to see the Vulcans, at nearby RAF Cottesmore. All before the lake was created. Rides through to Rutland were my favourite cycle rides.

Northamptonshire is beautiful my Uncle was a local, we spent many family Christmas's at their house...my Grandma, 4 adults, 7 kids & 3 dogs...Happy memories. Local & light from Abertawe(Swansea) South Wales 💜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌻

Love not local?! Sorry 🦄

Lots of English people do not know and/or appreciate their home country. They stay in their boring semi-detached suburban estates and then go to Spain for two weeks a year and the odd trip to an obvious UK coast resort. Most are ignorant of the UK's beauty.

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Bugger the children I would love to see that place!

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Yes and the Cotswolds is where all the luvvy media types live, (becasue it's near London,) which gives them a higher profile. There are nicer villages all over the UK.

Oh I LOVE the New Forest! It’s lovely

The villages look very different today than 100 years ago because of the clinical tarmac highways and street clutter that detracts from the original ambiance. Back then the street would have been dirt with potholes and ridges and meandering verges.

Exton is not on any major road - indeed, it is not even on a minor road, being on a short loop lane from the nearest minor road, so there is never any through traffic.

That’s interesting but also a little sad

I've moved to Herefordshire and miss Rutland and the Northampton village where I lived. There are some stunning villages in Herefordshire though and many are on the black and white trail which is through villages built of timber framed houses and cottages whitewashed with the frames painted black - they could do worse than visit Pembridge.

I can totally recommend my local The Fox and hounds on the village green in Exton .or your both welcome too stay with me in Exton 💕

They ruined that church! It should have been moved away from the reservoir in its entirety.

I agree with scon, Queen Lizzy famously used to say scon so thats good enough for me.

Yes! We are going to Clovelly!

Thank you!

Castle!! 🏰

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I live in Peterborough too, love Rutland and Stamford

Have you tried a Bodum travel cafetiere? Very handy, having resorted in the past to paper filters and a bent wire coat hanger 😁

So nice of you

These villages are dormitories in that they are used by the occupants to commute to the towns and cities during the day that can only be reached by car, hence few cars (and people). One of my clients lived in Empingham on the east side of the county and travelled into Leicester every day, others I know drive to Peterborough and commute to London daily by train.

I've grown up in the Surrey Hills area and know it well. I hope you've discovered Abinger, Holmbury St Mary and Coldharbour?. Lovely places with great pubs 😊

You're right. Lovely pubs. Love Abinger and Gomshall. I'm in Albury.

@@debbiebatten6088 Nice! 😊

It's NOT hotly debated. People have other things to think about.

They certainly appear to be!