A wonderful sign-off with Jack traveling down the lanes he loved so much; and us along as guests. R.I.P. Jack, you are sorely missed.

No advert breaks every five minutes with recaps to tell you what you watched five minutes ago. No zoomy camera cuts, no stock music, just 25 minutes of beauty, history and vital information about our way of life. Thank you for this.

I am a Lifelong fan of all things Jack Hargreaves. Shortly after getting married we moved to Cann near Shaftesbury, and on my first jaunt into town who should drive past in a Blue Suzuki but the man himself. I truly felt that we were in the Country and have always treasured the sighting of a Hargreaves in its natural element.

No mobile phones no internet a wonderful time miss it like mad.

Just beautiful. R.I.P. Jack, you are sadly missed

What a wonderful film. What a beautiful county Dorset must be...still? Jack Hargreaves is so sadly missed. His like will never be seen again.

Fantastic ! What a GEM we lost when Jack passed away. They say 'When an old man dies, it's like a Library burning down', well that sums Jack up completely ! R.I.P. Jack. Thanks for sharing his videos. Take care 🙂

My grandfather loved the programmes Jack Hargreaves presented. After each programme he'd then explain more about what had been shown on the programme. A wonderful time to have lived in. Even though I'm only 64 I miss those old times. The horses, slow pace of life, wonderful times. When I was 10/11 I used to help the local milkman deliver milk at weekends and during school holidays. This was done with a horse & cart (the horse's name was James. I'll always remember than!). Great memories.

Jack taught me everything I needed to know about angling/horses/lurchers/ferreting and rabbiting, etc. He was a real country, Gent. There's never been anyone like him since. RIP mate. You're missed even decades after your passing.

The black dog following the cart was my beautiful Bramble . We lived on the farm in Ibberton. . Thank you I could see him again x

Good old days When hotels were for holidays. When you got ill doctors would even home visit When you got toothache dentist would see you same day. When a crime occurred the police would attend. It wasn't perfect but it was a damn site better than nowadays.❤

I wonder if those villages have now all been populated with Chelsea tractor owners and all the locals homes have become second or holiday homes. Unfortunately money talks and our traditions are lost forever. Great series of programmes Jack made, totally unique, social history now, many thanks 😊

glad i was born in1967 had to go hop picking when i was 12 used to cry getting up at 5am in a wet field ..would not have changed it for the world looking back whats happened to this country now utter disgrace ,,,SHAME ON ALL YOU POLITICIANS 💔

I have watched many of Jack's videos and have been amazed at how he used to explain things on his programmes clearly just by speaking and with a few home-made props, without fancy graphics, hysteria or fake drama. What a pleasant change from present day programmes!

Every man needs a uncle or father or grandfather like jack. He would be a better man than 95 per cent of the so called men these days.

This is one of the loveliest videos of the English countryside I've come across. I would also add that at about 14 minutes the merging of the trotting and the music was quite an effect.

That’s tonight’s bedtime watching sorted 👍

So sad that I remember this and 50 years forward , change has send us backwards to a world that Jack would not recognise 😢

Just did this exact pub crawl with my dad to honour jack, even stopped by at belchawell church and passed by his home. Long live jack!

If he saw the state of the UK today he would be mortified.

What a wonderful film thank you David for giving everyone the chance to see what a wonderful country England once was. Its definitely declined since this was made.

Jack understood our countryside well, unlike Countryfile today.

Hello from the East Riding of Yorkshire. Jack was a wonderful human being, a man of the land. If there where more people like him our country would be a far better and safer place to be. I never got the chance to meet Jack, which is a shame but I shall never forget him and his wonderful programmes. I am 68 now and i love our green and pleasant land, I sometimes wish I had been born in Jack's time. I would have seen a better Britain despite world wars and hardships. I truly believe that people had more respect towards each other. Thank you for a wonderful program. 👍

Jack saved the very best til last, I have had a beer or two in all of those pubs I have chatted to the man himself in one of them,on few occasions. I haven’t been round much of the route on a horse and cart, all though I did travel part of it in the same way. I have ridden it many times on a motorbike, which arguably is as good. Thank you so much Dave for sharing these videos, they are now a valuable historical document of a time not so long ago. In the time since this was filmed the area has changed again, as Jack predicted!

These programmes are fantastic - but quite sad in that they show a time that will never again be enjoyed.

This should be prescribed on the NHS .

Just what the doctor ordered for a rainy Monday morning in 'modern' England (lifted me up).

i'm British and I'm 60 years old. This was on telly when I was 13. That aside, the photography was great. The horses heads shadows in the lane... The camera man had an eye for beauty. A dreamlike quality. I don't believe I've ever seen this, Thank you very much.. p.s. We didn't see much of the pubs!

Thanks to you Dave for showing these old films based on Jack Hargreaves. I must have seen most of them when they were originally broadcast, but that hasn't spoiled my enjoyment of every one. R.I.P Jack. Sadly missed.

Back when TV was good and life was much much better ,

Used to watch Jack way back when I was a child what a great knowledgeable man he was

I do hope that's not the last Old Country we're going to see!

growing up in the Southern TV region as a kid in the 1970s, this theme music instantly reminds me of Sunday roasts dinners

What wonderful times, never to be seen again.

Innocent times. Sadly never to be repeated.

Dear old Jack. A lovely gentle programme that probably could't be made now as there are no vacuous celebrities all having a go at one another.

As a teenager I used to do the stickin up in the skittle alley at the Oak. Was paid about 50p and a plate of chips iirc. Nice to see the street I grew up in on here, we were living there at the time this was filmed. Some journey that btw! It was a school friend's family that ran the tea house at bakers folly, not there as a tea house now.

I live in Dorset and work as a bin man and regularly visit this area on my rounds- still extremely beautiful, especially very early mornings when no-one else is around. The tea shop isn't there anymore but still a good spot to have lunch.

My cousin Bunty worked with Jack on the How panel and I met him on a few occasions. Watched all his TV and it is quite painful to view this video. He always supported our local show and his knowledge especially of fishing was immense. A lovely man. God Bless the legacy he left for the future.

England is very beautiful - I’m proud to have been lucky enough to have been born here.

At my mother’s cremation back in May. I had the music played, as a tribute to Out of Town which was her favourite tv programme, encapsulating all the things she loved, being a Moonraker born and bred.

Greatest presenter ever

Thank you Dave for this wonderfully perfect Sunday evening video. What I wouldn't give to be on that wagon and enjoy that day with Jack.

A minefield of information,He knows the history of his neighbourhood x the flora and fauna X the pubs .A brilliant series.

This green and pleasant land. Thanks Dave. First class.

Beautiful Countryside. Great Show this was, and 85 seems like yesterday. Men like Jack & Fred Dibnah brought this past to us on their Television shows, and I am grateful to see these again, but said because that past is long gone now. I hope our Anglo-Saxon heritage stays alive.

The England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿I loved as youth,gone for Eva destroyed by pollies.

My Gran kept a country pub from 1947 to 1980. She always had great chunks of bread and cheese on the tables. My mother said that it stopped the men going home for their dinner as many had come in straight from work. A couple of pints and some bread and cheese and they'd stay till closing. Good business woman my Gran lol.

I was born in Shaftesbury in the late 50's and had a great aunt who lived in Child Okeford. My grandfathers family lived just a few miles north of here around Fontmell Magna and Shaftesbury. Jack lived at Belchawell and the pubs can be found at Okeford Fitzpaine, Ibberton and Milton Abbas. The whole area is so peaceful and absolutely beautiful. This film brought back a lot of memories. 🙂

I was born in 1963 and grew up in Southern TV land! Jack's wonderful programmes were hugely influential on me. I'm so very pleased that his work, thanks to Dave Knowles, has been brought to established fans and a new audience. Bless you Jack, and thank you Dave.

This is a world I would gladly go back to in an instant! The world we live in today knows very little of the countryside and the skills involved in maintaining farm land and woodland. I am grateful that when I was young the countryside was on my doorstep. My grandmother, when we visited could open her French doors straight out onto open farm land. I bet if you stopped 100 people in the towns now and asked them to identify trees for instance, most could only name 5. The fields I played still showed the old ridge and furrow in places from medieval farming methods.

I can remember watching his programs in my younger days. I never watched much TV as a child, but I still remember him with a fondness. Life was so much simpler in those days, we were no angels and still got a clout from the local Bobby when caught. Thanks Jack.

I used to go to those pubs back in the 60s. Royal Oak in Okeford Fitzpaine, The Crown in Winterborne Stickland, Hambro Arms in Milton Abbas. The country lanes are still the same.

Tried to find the pubs on Google Earth: Starting point Jack Hargreaves house in Belchalwell The Royal Oak in Okeford Fitzpane The Crown in Winterborne Stickland Hambro Arms in Milton Abbas Tea House - probably Bakers Folly, now Westhill Camping GPS 50.8661°N 2.2964°W

I remember watching Jack the very first time round - loved his programs. R.I.P Jack - like the rest of our beautiful country.

As a child of the 1970s who grew up in rural Oxfordshire, there were still echoes of this type of life hanging on. I cannot decide for certain whether progress is a good or bad thing (almost certainly good, but we did lose something).

Jack forgot more information than all of us will ever know....it feels like England died with him

God bless.. No one like him and there never will be again.. What a legend.

Ah remember those days when the people you met in the street actually understood what language you spoke. God bless England it was a beautiful place.

I live in Dorset and remember watching as a child of around 7 or 8. I'm 51 now and the change I've seen over the years is huge. All the horse fields that were, and so much of the farmland is all filled with housing. I feel sad for my memories of the past. I know you can't live in the past but life was so much simpler then

What an enjoyable episode. Such beauty mixed with a feeling of loss for the old ways of England. Thanks for publishing Dave. These videos mean a lot to me.

All that knowledge without using Google. How times have changed. RIP Jack.

2:46 View from Knoll Farm towards Sturminster Common and Broad Oak 3:14 Okeford Common 3:29 View towards Win Green 3:51 Roome Farm 4:06 Okeford Fitzpaine 4:07 Lower street, Netherway Farmhouse 4:28 The Royal Oak - Lower Street, Okeford Fitzpaine 5:05 Higher Street 5:26 Turning for Okeford Hill 5:35 St Aldhelm’s Church, Belchalwell 6:59 Garlands Lane looking towards Belchalwell Street 7:28 Ibberton Village Hall 7:40 The Crown (currently The Ibberton) - Church Lane, Ibberton 9:05 Woolland 11:21 The Manor House, Droop 11:29 Manor Farm, Droop 11:50 St Mary’s and St James’s Church, Droop 11:58 Droop Cottage, Thickthorn Lane 12:21 Bungalow on Marsh lane 12:25 Marsh lane looking towards the back of Bulbarrow 13:05 Hatherly Farmhouse 14:00 looking towards Dorset Gap 15:02 View from Ansty Cross towards Aller and Melcombe Bingham 15:17 Probably Hilton Bottom 15:38 Hilton 16:04 Thomas’s Hill Plantation 17:14 Milton Abbey 18:04 Pidgeon House Plantation 18:28 Milton Abbas 19:01 The Hambro Arms - The Street, Milton Abbas 20:42 View from Woolland Hill (Bulbarrow) 21:44 Baker’s Folly 22:45 View towards Ibberton The route is about 18 miles starting from the pub in Okeford, going via Ibberton and Droop to Ansty Cross around Bulbarrow Hill. Milton Abbas is out on a phallanx, so the route is there and back through Hilton. On returning to Ansty, Cuckoo Lane goes to the top of Bulbarrow, and then it's back down Ibberton Hill to Baker’s Folly.

I used to watch this lovely man with my dad when I was young. I still love to see any of the programs. They bring wonderful memories and I Lear so much still

Lovely series, with an easy relaxed and informative delivery. Pity about some of the negative comments from idiots......

I knew many great Elms as a young boy in 1950s ! Owls & Jackdaws found a home within their hollow branches & trunks! I recall seeing great nails protruding from some trees so as to form hand/ footholds to gain access to these birds nests ! Later years I motored along lanes flanked by much younger Elm trees whose canopies were so dense that even on brightest Summer day was quite cool & darkish ! I never thought such trees could vanish!

These films are very valuable.

We have lost so much.

What a lovely ending to the series, Dave. Beautifully done as always, and what a pity there's nothing like it any more. Thank you!

Absolutely beautiful, unfortunately this wonderful film makes my heartbreak for the utter destruction of our green and pleasant land , heritage and culture.

Loved watching Jack Hargreaves programmes when I were a young boy growing up in London.

I remember watching Jack in a children's programme called, 'HOW' explaining how things worked in that calm melodic voice of his. It was nice watching this, it brought back memories.

As a young teen I used to love watching Jack on Southern Television

His wisdom ,country code ,and love of life ,i will never forget...!

Brilliant, the good old days the one and only Jack Hargreaves

This reminds me of staying with my grandmother, when I was a child in the 1960s, and she lived in Somerset. The sound and sights of the summer and the friendliness of the people. I know it is now a cliche, but no-one locked doors - the houses in the village were all open and everyone knew everyone. Fresh eggs and milk and my grandmother making the butter and bread for breakfast - with the butter formed by wooden mould, complete with a thistle pattern on top of the block of butter. It really is a lost world, a lost England - now present only in my memory - or seeing the occasional video like this. It was such a happy childhood and such a great place to spend the summer. I'm not sure many realise what has been lost.

I must have watched this video over a 1000 times and still enjoy listening to jack talking causally about the slow pace of country way of life.

I live in Okeford Fitzpaine, the location of the 1st pub - The Royal Oak. All the pubs are still there and operating. The Ibberton (previously The Crown) in Ibberton and The Hambro Arms in Milton Abbas. Sadly the Tea room on Bulbarrow hill is no more. It’s now a private residence. I have to agree the views from Bulbarrow are magnificent

Wish it was still like this, Jack was brilliant, got me into fishing and country life, my dad always did say one day we will be back to the horse and cart.

Delightful program , i watched as a boy Sunday lunch time, mainly for his fishing trips and tips.

I'm from Dorset and watching this reminds me of everything we have lost . Many fields and hedgerows now covered in concrete. If Jack was around now he would weep. He certainly wouldn't attempt to ride on that cart today through villages without putting himself in harms way.

I would go back to those times tomorrow they seemed more trustworthy safe and people did have more respect 3 cheers for jack 👍

Absolutely beautiful. Peaceful and easy pace of life.

I’m a Child Okeford boy, well, 64 year old chap! Jack often seen in the Oak and sometimes the Baker Arms in our village.

Its funny, Jack speaks of 'modernity'. Its a word I only came understand a few years ago and now utterly reject. He understood the damage being caused nearly 40 years ago.

Draught Cider, good Bread, good Cheese, and Jack Hargreaves to have a chin wag with, what more could you want.

Just dreaming now but true so sad in the 50s and 60s when I was growing up it was a good time but now it's so sad

I miss nice, honest, informative programmes like these. Nostalgia at its best. Thank you.

God bless you Jack may you rest easy in your elm box 👍

Greetings from South of France, where I've been walking some Camino routes. Just prior to that I walked the Cotswold Way then almost all the Peddars Way. Camping out. Just to record that the English countryside is beautiful, flourishing, more biodiversity than here in Occitane where birds are few and crops many. Jack, we owe you a debt of gratitude. THANK you

Looks as close to paradise as you can get anywhere times gone forever sadly a different world and not for the better.

Such a relaxing programme used to watch this when I was young boy 👍

Great memories of watching Jack and trying to work out what the mystery object was before the end of the show.

A fantastic record of country life from a time long past, beautifully presented by a first rate communicator, and now preserved for future generations to learn from. Thank you Jack, and thank you Dave Knowles for allowing us to enjoy these programmes once more. They are timeless and just as relevant today as they were when first broadcast.

wonderful memories i loved watching Jack

I could listen to Jack all day what an informative story teller, very sadly missed.

Love these episodes it takes me back being born in 1960,a much simpler hands on time ❤

Life was much calmer then I do so miss it 😔

I absolutely love these Jack Hargreaves videos. I live nearby. Doing this pub crawl is on my list. I don’t have a horse and cart so I might need to borrow a bike.

Thanks again for putting this on here Dave. Every time I hear Jack’s voice and the enchanting theme tune I’m transported back to my childhood in the 70’s, catapult and penknife in my pocket, heading to the woods with my late brother to build dens. Makes my heart ache.