This video was filmed on 16th August 2021 using an iPhone 12:
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There has been minimal editing of the video using LumaFusion:
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My iPhone has recently been damaged so please excuse any glitches in the video. Thank you for watching. Take care and be kind to others. Adam
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Hello and welcome. I hope you enjoy this video. It is 6am in the morning, today we are walking around Bradford on Avon. Bradford on Avon is a town in the west of Wiltshire, in south-west of England. It is quiet now. It can get busy later in the day and is popular with tourists. Bradford on Avon is just over 100 miles drive from central London and can be a two to three hour train journey from Waterloo Station, London. Today we started our walk along the Kennet & Avon canal now we are walking around the old Grade 1 listed Tithe Barn. The barn was built around the 1330s and is one of the largest of its kind. Taxes in the form of goods would have been taken from the towns people and stored in the barn. Originally the barn was owned by Shaftesbury Abbey in 1539 the abbey was dissolved and it became a farm. In the 1970s the barns were purchased by Wiltshire Council. The barn is usually open everyday from 10:30am to 4pm and is free to the public. Check times on the English Heritage website if you plan to visit and would like to go inside. As we carry on we walk over the River Avon that runs through the middle of Bradford on Avon. In the 17th and 18th century the river used to power wool mills, and Bradford on Avon prospered. Later the English woollen industry moved north to Yorkshire and the last mill here closed in 1905. Today the old mills have been converted into shops, restaurants or housing and the river, like the canal, is mainly used for leisure. During the day the you may see rowers or paddle boarders up-and-down the river. We eventually leave the river and head into the centre of town, where we meet the road. The main road through Bradford on Avon can get quite busy, a well used route between the town of Trowbridge and city of Bath. First though we wander down some alley-ways and side-streets coming out at the Holy Trinity Church, built around 1150. When we meet the river again look out for the larger old mill buildings along the side of the river. Bradford on Avon has so many interesting old historic buildings you could spend all day soaking up the history. Movies and TV shows that have been filmed here include: Robin of Sherwood (1984), Creation (2009), Wolf Hall (2015), The White Princess (2017), Amazon Prime’s The Spanish Princess (2019) and Netflix’s Cursed (2020). At the end of our walk we can see the Grade 1 listed Town Bridge. The bridge was originally a narrower packhorse bridge and widened in the 17th century. In 1643 during the English Civil War, Royalists seized control of the bridge on their way to battle. There is a small building on the bridge, originally a chapel, later used as a town lockup (prison cell). Thank you for joining me on this early morning walk and finding out a little bit more about the town. Please do leave a comment, or like the video, it is lovely to hear from people all over the world. If you have never been to Bradford on Avon I hope this video helps you feel a little closer to it. If you have then I hope you enjoyed reminiscing as we walked around. It gives me great pleasure to make places like this accessible to people.