'hello all! Just a note to highlight that this video was filmed several weeks ago before the current Government guidelines on social distancing and restrictions on travel. Also - spelling error noted and updated. Tick.

Thank you for the video, i must admit i moved away from the area in 1978 but seem to recall a visit there in the early 60s, Our history is something to be proud of and must never be swept under the carpet.

I love and watch all things Vicki!

Keep up the wonderful work. Your enthusiasm is contagious!

Loved this. Thank you Vicki. We got married at Berkhamsted Town Hall and had some of our wedding photos taken at the castle. As a local I’d pronounce the “ham” as “um”. Something like bur-come-stead!

Oh I've missed this piano tune..

Just love the music with these videos. Thanks Vicki.

Fantastic, all the best ingredients: trains, castle, Vicki being brilliant, castle, history, trains, more Vicki, castle, trains. More please!

What a pleasant little virtual outing. Thanks Vicki.

Fascinating, thanks Vicki!

Fascinating. I love the in-depth style of this video. I think it's much more your type of thing.

it is great to see vids on places close to London for a nice day out. As a tourist I appreciate these tips

Vicki, your style of presenting is wonderful and such a pleasure to watch and listen too. Barry.Devon

Hello Vicki, thank you for another interesting video, I may be a railway and aviation nut, but you can't beat a good castle, especially a ruined one, the history is in the scars, you and Geoff stay safe, all the best, Stephen.

Oooo another Vicki Explores yes!

It’s castle time! The Normans won a battle at Battle, I find that hilarious. The duck is certainly enjoying that moat

I really miss the UK! :( I'm so looking forward to our next year's holiday with a road trip across the English coast! Thanks for the Explores series, it's super interesting and inspiring :) And it always brings me back to my favourite country.. :)

Thank you, enjoyed the information,

That was absolutely beautiful! I learn so much from your channel. It makes me want to wander

Brilliant video! I love visiting castles and enjoy railways to so perfect day out for me! I used to love visiting as a child when most of the long distance trains were loco hauled!

Very interesting! Thank you for visiting and giving the history on this, and other, places not in the usual guidebook. Next trip to England!

I love these little history lessons. Thanks, Vicki xx

Haha, great video. Watching while in the centre of France near Bourges on this lovely Sunday afternoon but I live just half an hour from Berkhampstead castle. Keep up the good work please Vicky!!

Very interesting as I didn't even know that Berkhamsted had a "Castle", so very interesting find out and thank you Vicki for this well shot & edited video.

Great Video and nice to see a mention of Rugeley as well.

Another lovely summers day!

Vicki, you are so knowledgeable on history.

I've passed Berkhamsted many times at about 100mph on the train, so it was interesting to learn the history. I'll get round to visiting one day.

Thanks for this. Very interesting.

Thank you, Vicki : I have missed seeing your beautiful face and hearing your lovely voice - as well as the castles, natch!

I smiled at the derelict castle's stone being plundered for new buildings. Definitely easier than digging your own. :D

Could you possibly do a video on Hemel Hempstead (Boxmoor) station Vicky. It is the station just before Berkhamstead heading north. You will find the remains of the old Nickey Line?

great video. live just up the road in Tring. Castle is a lovely place to visit.

Obviously a lot of training went into making this short film, which, by the way was very informative. Every time I've been through Berkhamstead, I must have been sitting on the other side of the train because I've never known about the castle. Thanks Vicki.👍

Wow I had no idea there was a castle there. Great place to visit. 👍🏼

Watching a ton of _Time Team_ which I recently discovered made me _cringe in horror_ when you said that the 19th-century railroad actually _cut through_ the castle. I can just _hear_ archeologists expressing utter disgust at how the hamfisted navvies just plowed through all that archeology without a care in the world, and probably robbed away stones to boot.

I don't have much affinity for medieval history but who can resist a good castle?

I love Vicki explores, when will you be exploring again? Soon I hope, but safely of course. 💕😁

Thanks for the video. Rugeley Trent Valley is one of my local stations incidentally.

Great castle, been there on many an occasion.

Thank you, I have noticed the ruins while flying past on intercity trains and wondered about them, mystery solved.

Lovely film. I had no idea Berkhamsted even had a castle and I grew up only eight miles away. How did I miss that? Maybe I just forgot.

Vicki I miss your videos, will you be doing any more Vicki Explores

watching from Hong Kong 🇭🇰

fascinating

Excellent very informative and done with natural enthusiasm

I always hoped to call by Berkhamstead at some time while working WCML freight trains for DBSchenker. I found Vickie's video very interesting.

So good

YAY! A Vicki Explores! 😊

I'd love to see a Vicki Explores Tattershall & Coningsby Tattershall has a castle and an old railway station on the old Lincolnshire Loop Line which you could talk about, Coningsby has a large church with a clock with only one hand and an RAF base where many of the WW2 planes are kept (including one of the last 2 remaining Lancasters that can fly) The two villages are full of history. I think that Vicki would love it!

Nice video!

Brilliant👍👍

Thanks Vickster!

keep up the good work Vicky love your videos

When restrictions are lifted you should come explore the (freight only) Leicester to Swannington route. Two excellent castles (Ashby de la Zouch and Kirby Muxloe) right next to the railway, plus a few disused collieries/quarries if you have the time!

These are always interesting and enjoyable.

Love Berkhamsted Castle because you got the trains going by every 10 minutes(ish)

Why did they build the castle so close to the station? No wonder it fell down.

Thank you for this, brilliant vlog

epic video!

I in berkhamsted, I’m disappointed in myself. I should of said hi, big fan

You could have visited the old ruin that is Ed Reardon too :)

Well you live and learn ,I'm 68 and have lived in the St.Albans area all my life and had no idea there's a castle there.

Othe conveniently located castles would include Berwick on Tweed (the remaining castle wall is cut through by the ECML, but the Elizabethan star fort is fine), Conwy (railway goes through the castle grounds) and Conisbrough (5 minute walk up hill to the restored keep)

Fascinating. I see the Castle is now defended by Canada Geese.

You should’ve gone there on Whit Monday they have a festival thing, there used to be a beer tent but I think that’s no more. Oh to those in the know it’s Berko! Welcome to the people’s republic of Hertfordshire Vikki,enjoy our Catuvellauni lands.

Did this as a school trip in Year 7 at primary school. Me and a friend walked round twice. Could've done with this video prior as the teacher didn't exactly sell it!

Ahh Vicki i always look at the castle when i travel from Bletchley To Euston but never been there one day i may get off that train for a visit. Marc in Bletchley Towers

#allthecastles please :)

Surely once restrictions are lifted the first has to be Vicki Explores ... Barnard Castle.

wish these were longer!! just 5 minutes?

The only thing I really knew about William the Conqueror was "1066" and "Hastings", I had no idea he just wandered about Southern England kicking ass, lol

what a lovely singing voice

Interesting

I used the work at Berkhamsted station and I knew about the peace treaty.

How did I miss this?? I apparently forgot to click the bell thing 🙈

I wish your vlogs were longer. Much longer 😀👍

You’ll have to visit Horden it recently opened only two bus services serve the station Go North East 209/210 both are a mini bus service running from Peterlee depot

I'll look out for it next time I pass through on a train (whenever that will be).

No P in this one Miss Vicky. 😀

And now a new released single. Vicky sings there is a train. LOL. Good video though. Oh and the B-Side includes Geoff singing oh i do like to be beside the daySave. 😂

Castles are cool but holy crap is English weather bad - I miss a few things about Blighty but def not the weather! Great video :)

All the Castles \o/

nICE

These days, the spelling has settled on Berkhamsted, but that was only actually finally decided on in 1937. Prior to that, there are dozens of different spellings - Berkhampstead, Berkhamsteed, Berkampsted, etc, etc - and those do persist in some places, either just through longevity* or copying older sources. More interestingly, it's a name which has a non-intuitive pronunciation, and which isn't quite in common with the standard "rules" of pronunciation (nor well enough known that people learn it as an exception). The local pronunciation is closer to Berkum-sted. (Or, for people who can read IPA: /ˈbɜːrkəmstɛd/ ) * For example, a surviving** "Town Class" narrowboat, built 1936, has its name spelt "Berkhampstead", which was a valid spelling at the time. ** Although, being pedantic, it's probably the case the original "Berkhampstead" was scrapped by mistake and "Ayr" was renamed to cover up the error.

That’s my town

Flints held together by mortar... even when there’s facing stone (often plundered for later construction) that’s at the core. When the flints are deliberately exposed because there’s no money fir facing stone, they’re often split and the prettiest halves used as decoration. Or so it’s struck me on visits to England.

The disadvantages of having a castle so close to a busy trainline.

About time

hello do you know when the next live stream is? for the night quizzes?

At least the trains interrupting you are high speed and short. In the US you'd be looking at 5-8 minutes for each one to pass.

Nice

How come you haven't done crossregaul abbey? It's got a rather gruesome tale worthy of Vickie explores

Interesting to see a small Castle close by to the railway station in Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire. Must be a good sight when travelling on the train and passing by at over 100mph on the West Coast Main Line. Plus at Lichfield Trent Valley station new lifts have been installed. Perhaps you and Geoff should go there again. www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk/about-us/news-desk/new-passenger-lifts-open-lichfield-trent-valley-station

Aah Berkhamsted, what ever happened to Coopers?

Interesting. I would have expected it to be pronounced Berk-um-sted. Just goes to show you never know. And nice to know they have such good train service.

Can u go to Hemel Hempstead next

Hi , could you do a video for Swanage Railway ? As they need all the money and help they can get !

Can you do a live Stream

Berkhamsted, no P. With the emphasis on the last syllable. Not BerkHAMPsted...