My friend Catriona was working on the Cathedral and gave me a tour while the scaffold was up. Stood next to the pinnacles on the top of the tower, walked above the ceilings over the nave and transept and went in the gallery behind the West Front. There are holes in the wall through which the choir would sing on Holy days, so it sounded like the statues were singing.

My bestie and I stay in Wells twice a year, we nip in and out to Glastonbury, we love the contrast of the two.

It’s funny reading the comments as I have lived in Wells my whole life and seeing people amazed by our landscapes really pleases me as to be fair I take it for granted

The view down the street towards the cathedral is awesome, magnificent. There are almost words. Got to get out the thesaurus.

Visited Wells in 2017. Beautiful and the evensong was amazing!

This is one of the most wholesome videos/channels I have ever seen on this website.

I love British villages, churches and cathedrals.

I love Wells, it's so beautiful ❤️

Living very close Wells my entire life (17 years) and it being my main source for local shops and all, I never really take the time to look and appreciate the real beauty tourists such as yourself see in the city. It's lovely watching videos such as these to have another view on things I really do take for granted as they're always surrounding me.

Julia has awesome hair! I'm sat watching Hot Fuzz and now I wanna visit this place! My birthday is coming up so maybe I'll treat myself to a couple days there. And hopefully a tour if I can find one :)

I have never visited the city of Wells .It is amazingly pretty .Thanks for that quick trip around Wells!

Thanks Richard and Julia. Great to see the city. The alms house terrace was amazing.

unbelievably beautiful - Thankyou

Though this doesn't get enough views, thanks for exploring , really love to see such places

Thank you Richard and Julia for a wonderful video

😯😯😯😯😯!!! Jaw dropping indeed Julia!!! Please, please Richard go back to Wells & do a proper tour!🙏 One of your history walk & talks! Pleeeaaasssseee!!!!

Planning on going to Glastonbury in September, I will definitely be popping to Wells for a look, It looks beautiful, thanks for the video. :-). Love the colour of Julia's hair. Blessings from Jersey. :-).

I've just started to watch your travels Richard and subscribed really found Glastonbury very interesting and it's great to get an insight before visiting an area thanks.

Beautiful. Wells my favourite City. Its worth going to see the clock when it is chiming.

It was great to see Wells, I lived in Shepton Mallet & worked in Wells, so for quite a few years I was in Wells almost every day. I had forgotten how beautiful Wells was, or quite possibly as a callow youth I didn't appreciate it. Might I suggest that when you are able to get back to Somerset, that you possibly visit during Carnival season. It is November, so distinctly chilly, but local pubs and carnival clubs will spend best part of a year building floats that are "themed" and covered in lights and they are towed in procession at night, around the streets of numerous Somerset towns, Such as Wells, Shepton Mallet, Glastonbury, Bridgewater etc. It really is quite spectacular. If you search youtube you will find some videos.

Ahh, went yesterday and it was a good day out. Happy times pre 2020 change of times.

Great video, I never realised Wells had so much history left above ground. Nice one.

Absolutely Gorgeous. Was wondering what's all in Somerset, as my Grandmother was born, lived in orphanage in Batb. Thank you for filming Wells. Can't wait to be in England myself within the next few years. Lots to do in the mean time. But England is on my mind a lot. Thank you for this video.

We are heading to wells for a camping trip at the end of this month, we will be stopping in on Glastonbury and most of the surrounding area so I have been following you on your travels to scout out the area.

I heard that the street of cottages is the oldest residential street in Europe. Amazing place.

Great video! Its a beautiful place! :)

Enchanting Richard.We must all club together and hire a charabanc to Wells.

you would not find such a splendid and magnificent cathedral in such a small city anywhere in europe, not even in Italy, such building belongs to much a larger city

Smallest city in England, not Britain; two cities in Wales, St Davids and St Asaph, are even smaller and both are the size of villages! By the way, you should definitely explore the high street and market square of Wells next cos that's where the proper city centre is!

So so beautiful totally makes you sad to whst England turned now

Wells is truly stunning - I must go and visit when we go down there in the summer. The large gothic building to the left of the cathedral is Wells Cathedral School’s music department and much of the Vicars Close is owned by them too... (the school is one of the oldest in the world having been founded in the 10th century!)

I see this every day I live here

Wow!

The "different" looking house in Vicars Close replaced one of the originals lost in a fire.

Wells is not the smallest British city, that description belongs to st Davids in West Wales.

Almost no words ..

Wells is a marvellous place to visit and the cathedral is outstanding. It is such a shame you did not have time to go inside so perhaps you will be able to fit that in next time because it is well worth a visit. There are some notable architectural features, including the huge scissor arch across the nave. Visit www.wellscathedral.org.uk/history/timeline Thanks for showing us this lovely city.

oh yeah Edgar Wright's hometown and where hot fuzz was filmed

Thanks, Richard and Julia, for your interest in the lovely city of Wells! I'd just like to point out that it doesn't claim to be Britain's smallest city - it is arguably England's smallest city (on the traditional definition of a place with a cathedral church, and discounting the City of London, which is just part of the enormous metropolis); there are a couple of 'cities' in Britain smaller than Wells, including St. David's in Pembrokeshire, Wales, and Brechin in Angus, Scotland (although by the contemporary definition of a Scottish city, Brechin is NOT a city!). I rather disagree with Richard saying "You couldn't get more different from Glastonbury" - actually, they share spiritual origins (sacred wells or springs), and a long history of Christianity. Admittedly, today the town of Glastonbury is more notable for its colourful and fascinating new-age spirituality, alongside the reminders of its Christian heritage: Glastonbury Abbey (mostly destroyed in the English Reformation under Henry VIII, but with beautiful surviving remnants such as the Abbey gatehouse) was one of the most important Benedictine monasteries in the whole of England; Wells, by contrast, never had a large religious house but was established as a bishopric in Anglo-Saxon times, in 909 A.D. Please do come back to Somerset. As a resident of just 9 years, I find Somerset people to be very warm-hearted, friendly, open, and generous! The county itself is often by-passed or just 'passed through' by tourists on their way to the better-known holiday spots of Devon and, especially, Cornwall. Nevertheless, Somerset richly rewards a closer look; whether the Levels, Exmoor, the Quantocks, the Mendip Hills, or the very varied towns and villages, there's much to explore and enjoy! Sumorsaete Ealle! (The motto means "All the people of Somerset" and is a line from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of 878 when they rose up under King Alfred the Great to liberate Wessex from the Danes.)

Richard, Wells is Enland's smallest city, bur St David's in Wales is the U.K.'s smallest city.

I absolutely love Richard's accent :-) Is that a southern accent?

Isn't Wells England's smallest City and St Davids the smallest in UK?

Ding-Dong Bells,we are in the tiny town city of Wells! Does Julia aspire? To match her hair,to the purple robes of the choir! It really is an amazing sight! What’s it like? When lit up at night!!!

How did you manage to find a parking space😁

Felt a little cheated. Not much of the Cathedral but a long walk past the Alms Houses.

Harry Potter, eat ya heart out. top videos rich la, would you come Liverpool?

The lovely Julia has nice teeth

Let nothing perish

"Smallest City in Britain"? Sorry - that honour goes to St David's, Wales. Even the City of London is smaller than Wells. I visited Wells many times when I lived in Dorset - it's one of the places I really miss now that I live in Sussex. I need to find some excuses to go that way again.

It’s hot fuzz

I believe St Davids is the smallest city in Britain, Wells may well hold the tittle of smallest city in England though as St Davids is in Wales, and I have been there several times. Of course I could be wrong as Ive not checked this fact and have been known to get these things wrong in the past ;) Perhaps someone else can confirm or otherwise?

At the other end of the architectural spectrum, i wonder if you still get up to shrewsbury from time to time because the shire hall (council offices) are being fought over. to demolish (and make way for monotonous brick housing) or not to demolish. built in 1967 the building is the epitome of then, complete with funky concrete planters and balls outside. personally, i think this one is so 'far out' that it should be saved but it would be entertaining to know what people from further afield think.

Not alms houses but homes of the Vicar's Choir. Interesting history if you look it up.

St Davids is Britain's smallest city, sorry.

Did you meet the Baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells...?

Sad to think with such beautiful Christian buildings that Islam is the fastest growing religious confession in the UK and world and its adherents have the lowest average age out of all the major religious groups. Between 2001 and 2009 the Muslim population increased almost 10 times faster than the non-Muslim population due to the highest birth rate among the world's major religions. London closed 500 churches and opened 423 new mosques with hundreds of Sharia courts operating across the country.

You should probably do some research before you visit places, you sounded a bit ignorant at times and the little purple fairy that tagged along is annoyingly weird and didn’t really need to be there. Apart from all that negativity it was an ok video. Cheers

Horrible posh place ... rip off tourists shops... you’d pay arm and leg for a pick a mix there... not my cup of tea Wells... never liked the place to tell you truth ...