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00:00She's Helen Skelton, he's Dan Walker.
00:06Daniel!
00:07Are we hanging today?
00:08Come on.
00:09Nice to see you.
00:10We are the best of pals.
00:11Which way are you going?
00:12Come on!
00:13Oh, you little cheeky rascal.
00:15Now I'll have to catch ya.
00:16And we're back, sharing our love of the great Yorkshire countryside.
00:20Is it lovely this?
00:21Are you still there?
00:23So we're off on new adventures.
00:26Oh my lord, it is really wobbly now.
00:29Let's not break it, it's been here a while.
00:31To discover even more inspiring natural wonders.
00:34That is very impressive.
00:36Mother Nature, you are showing off.
00:37And taking the highways and byways that lead to those little hidden gems.
00:42Oh, that does not disappoint, does it?
00:44That give Yorkshire it's truly special appeal.
00:47That's all a puffin!
00:48Puffins are great.
00:50We'll be meeting more of the lovely folk at the heart of God's own country.
00:55I want to hug you.
00:57And we'll marvel at the majestic wonder of Yorkshire.
01:01Even when we get old, we'll still play out.
01:03Okay, deal.
01:04Great and small.
01:06That, Helen Skelton, is Yorkshire.
01:09Yorkshire in the sunshine always puts a spring in my step.
01:25Yeah, that'll be it though.
01:27That was a kind of Yorkshire.
01:29Good.
01:30And Pateley Bridge on a day like this is the perfect place to be.
01:33I sang on the way in here because I feel like this is village fate, brass bands, maypole kind of territory.
01:40It's got all that going on us.
01:41Yeah.
01:42You've just walked over the river Nid.
01:43Okay.
01:44We are in Nidderdale.
01:45And our walk is going to take us from Pateley Bridge all the way to Ripon.
01:49I do enjoy Ripon.
01:51Today, we'll be taking a path right through the Nidderdale National Landscape, an area of outstanding natural beauty with some of Yorkshire's most incredible countryside.
02:05Heading east towards Ripon, we'll take in ancient landscapes and pass by man-made marvels.
02:11We'll spend time in hallowed halls and discover literary links in surprising places.
02:19But our journey starts here in picturesque Pateley Bridge, home to a real gem of a place.
02:26What do we need for a journey though?
02:27What's important?
02:28What do you need?
02:29Cakes or sweets?
02:30There's a great sweet shop in the town, the oldest in the world.
02:35Pateley Bridge is surrounded by open countryside and enjoys its reputation as being the only town in Nidderdale.
02:43It's a honeypot for tourists, drawn here by its quaint charm and award-winning high street.
02:49It has everything a visitor needs, which, in Dan's case, is sweets.
02:56Quaint, cute gift shops, coffee shops.
02:59Fish and chip shop.
03:00What's it like for you to walk up this street knowing that you can't go in all the shops because you've not really got enough time?
03:04Erm, I'm holding, can you see how tightly I'm holding?
03:07I'm holding my own hands behind my back.
03:09Because this sweet shop, this is a proper bit of history, this has been here for centuries.
03:13Every single sweet from your childhood will be available to you.
03:17Oh my goodness, this is cute!
03:18I know!
03:19They've sold sweets here continuously since 1827.
03:24Hannah Sayers is keeping shop.
03:27Do you do all the classic sweets?
03:30Most of them, yeah.
03:31We'll try to have as many as we can.
03:32Okay, fruit salads.
03:33Yep.
03:34Er, sherbet dim dabs.
03:35Yep.
03:36Sherbet fountain.
03:37Yep.
03:38Midget gems.
03:39I can see it.
03:40Midget gems.
03:41I feel like we're kin, because I used to work in an actual sweet shop.
03:43Really?
03:44Well, like this, with the glass jars.
03:45Just like this.
03:46And everyone used to argue over whether you could ask for a quarter or a hundred grams.
03:49Yeah.
03:50What are you?
03:51Quarters.
03:52Okay.
03:53What are your big sellers, Hannah?
03:54Er, so I would say the most popular are probably your rhubarb and custard.
03:57Love them.
03:58Pear drops, Yorkshire makes all the old traditional stuff.
04:00You came in, Hannah knew what you wanted.
04:01It was all happening right.
04:02These torpedoes are on me.
04:03I'm a licorice avoider, so I've never gone down that road.
04:04Why are you so pale, you see?
04:05How dare you?
04:06Customers come from all over the world to sample these old-time flavours, and for the
04:10personal touch.
04:11What sweets do you want, mate?
04:12Oh, what do you recommend?
04:13What sweets do you want, mate?
04:14Well, what do you recommend?
04:15I'd say I'm looking at the rhubarb and custard.
04:18Oh, I'd definitely do a rhubarb custard.
04:19Quarters of those.
04:20I would recommend, not that it's any of my business, but that is quite a high boiled
04:26And for the personal touch.
04:28What sweets do you want, mate?
04:29Well, what do you recommend?
04:31I'd say I'm looking at the rhubarb and custard.
04:33Oh, I'd definitely do a rhubarb and custard.
04:34Yeah, we'll go with that.
04:36I would recommend, not that it's any of my business,
04:38but that is quite a hard-boiled sweet.
04:40I'd recommend a soft chaser, wouldn't you?
04:41Yeah, sure.
04:42Something chewy, like a...
04:44You can't go past a raspberry and blackberry, can you?
04:46That's been back at Og, even a cola bottle.
04:49Do you like cola bottles?
04:51I always say, I've got loads of friends from the Southern Hemisphere,
04:54they don't get how old the buildings we have here.
04:56No.
04:57They're very old here.
04:58It's part of the reason I'm out and about.
04:59I love the history.
05:00Robert, enjoy your trip.
05:02I will do.
05:03Thank you very much and lovely to meet you.
05:04Lovely to meet you as well.
05:06Safe travels.
05:06See you later.
05:07There's loads of little nods to the past.
05:10That till is like a piece of jewellery.
05:11That till has been in Pairtler Bridge for over 100 years.
05:14Does that actually still work?
05:15Yep.
05:16Oh, fire it up.
05:17Oh, good, isn't it?
05:19That's the greatest noise ever.
05:20Can we have one more of those, please?
05:21Yeah, absolutely.
05:21Yeah, go for it.
05:22It's hard.
05:22It's harder than you think.
05:24Yeah.
05:26When you've a long walk ahead,
05:28it's important to have the right sweets to fuel your journey.
05:32Super sour fizz bombs might just be that sweet.
05:35I'll count you down.
05:36Three, two, one.
05:42It's horrible, isn't it?
05:43Oh, that's horrible.
05:44It's horrible.
05:45I can't get my legs straight.
05:49It will wear off.
05:50Glass.
05:51I've had that and it's like the salt.
05:54It's hard.
05:54It's like the salt.
05:58It's like the salt.
05:59What is...
06:00It's the worst thing I've ever had in my mouth.
06:05My whole body is, like, fitting.
06:08Who in their right minds are you going to fry them?
06:10That was the weirdest, weirdest thing.
06:13It's mad, isn't it?
06:13Yeah.
06:15Needless to say, we didn't stock up on super-south fizz bombs.
06:19From high, windswept moors and lush valleys to wide, green pastures,
06:31crisscrossed by ancient drystone walls,
06:34Niddiddale speaks of the timeless beauty of the Dales.
06:38Niddiddale is really impressive, isn't it?
06:40It kind of stretches out.
06:42There's a lot to take in.
06:43Just three miles east of Pateley Bridge,
06:47and you're into wide open country.
06:50We're headed for higher ground too,
06:52where a truly incredible spectacle awaits.
06:55Would you like a supply from the sweet shop?
06:59I think we've got enough supplies.
07:01We'd better get through, haven't we?
07:02It's not those dodgy ones.
07:03No, no, no.
07:05Bruce Allen?
07:06Oh, go on then.
07:07I'll have a fizzy-wizzy, I think.
07:09The views around here...
07:11Cheers.
07:12The views around here are sensational, aren't they?
07:14Like, just do a 360, and that is pretty good.
07:18Yeah, lovely.
07:19What?
07:20I'm a bit dizzy now.
07:25We're hiking up to the Cold Stone's Cut.
07:28At 1,375 feet above sea level,
07:31it's the highest piece of public art in the UK.
07:35That is a piece of art.
07:39This is the kind of art that works for me,
07:41because it is immersive.
07:42You can come on a walk, you can take it in,
07:45you can literally get involved in it.
07:46It's sort of big and impressive,
07:48and it makes you think in different ways, I think.
07:50And for me, that's what art is.
07:52Have you heard what the locals call this?
07:54I have.
07:55OK.
07:57Shall we get up there and see why?
08:04The artwork sits next to the Cold Stone's quarry,
08:07and is made of a series of platforms and pathways
08:09that take you right into the work itself.
08:17It's a good span, that stone, isn't it?
08:19Hal, what is the span of that stone?
08:21Well, I'm six foot six, so this one, look, wait for it,
08:24this is about, I have to get quite low there.
08:27There you go, what's that?
08:28Six foot six.
08:29You're getting a good view there.
08:30That is a gigantic quarry, isn't it?
08:38It's huge.
08:39It's very Planet of the Apes, isn't it?
08:40It's quite windy as well.
08:42Yeah, it is quite windy.
08:43It's all right, because I can go low.
08:45Oh, yeah.
08:45Get sheltered.
08:47Oh, yeah, it's quite nice down here.
08:48Is this what it's like?
08:49This isn't even the top.
08:52Apparently, the view is even better from the top of those walls.
08:55I can see your face, and I know you said walls.
08:59Ground the buzzer.
09:01High five.
09:03See you at the top.
09:07The work was created by the artist Andrew Sabin,
09:10who spent three years on the design.
09:12He took inspiration from the neighbouring quarry,
09:15one of the highest working quarries in the UK.
09:17OK, let's see if we can find Helen at the top.
09:21Oh, there she is.
09:24What's the view like from your turret?
09:26I think I've got quite a good view over here.
09:28Yeah, I think she got that.
09:32Hi.
09:34Oh, this is, I mean, that's a really good view of the quarry,
09:37but this is a really good view.
09:39Gorgeous, isn't it?
09:41I feel we need a picture from the top, don't you think?
09:43Yeah, this view is really, really impressive, isn't it?
09:45Come on.
09:47OK.
09:47Jump in, I'll use my long arm for this.
09:48Come on.
09:50You've gone a bit off the shoulder there, happy with that?
09:51I'm all right with that.
09:52OK, yeah.
09:53Cash.
09:54Look at that.
09:54There we are, with the whole of Niddardale behind us.
10:03Did you enjoy that piece of art?
10:06You're laughing because we've been here for a while and nobody has mentioned that to some
10:11people this might look like a body part.
10:13Yeah, it's my favourite piece of body part art.
10:16I like the fact that you've sort of had the cultural baton today.
10:19Yes.
10:20I'm taking care of food and drink.
10:21OK.
10:21We've done food.
10:22Yeah.
10:22Would you like a drink?
10:23I love one.
10:24Take the baton.
10:29Coming up, I discover there's nothing like a whiskey barrel for a good workout.
10:35Yay!
10:35I come face to face with a wild deer in one of Yorkshire's greatest gardens.
10:44Don't touch this one, all right?
10:45It won't like the smell of it.
10:47Other than that, enjoy yourself.
10:50And we explore the grandeur of one of the county's best buildings.
10:54Impressive, isn't it?
10:55That's got a serious wow factor, hasn't it?
11:05We're walking through some of the great North Yorkshire countryside.
11:20This is Dacre Banks in Nidderdale.
11:24Is this your sort of place you'd like to live?
11:27Look at the way I'm looking at that silage.
11:30It brings out the farmer's daughter in me.
11:33It is typically beautiful country, and there are surprises to be found, if you know where to look.
11:44Like here, a tucked away place where Toby and Jane Whittaker are distilling their own gin,
11:49and the Yorkshire Dales' first ever single malt whiskey.
11:54I'll pour Helen here for a tour of your wonderful distillery.
11:57It knows I like a drink.
11:58Oh, fabulous.
11:58So this is our starting post for the barley.
12:03It's been grown 15 miles away, actually, my brother-in-law's farm.
12:08Does he give you a good price, Toby?
12:09Definitely not.
12:11He's a farmer.
12:14Yorkshire is definitely, for us, that's the unique selling point.
12:19Nidderdale actually means barley of the sparkling water.
12:22Were you a whiskey drinker before this?
12:24Not that?
12:24Well, straight in.
12:26Wow.
12:29When the Nidderdale water, barley, and yeast have combined and worked their magic, they keep it in these.
12:37Well, the cask is there.
12:39Yeah.
12:39You can be kind enough to roll it.
12:40Just like this.
12:41So what you're saying is you want me to roll out the barrel?
12:43Correct.
12:43Yeah.
12:44Huh?
12:46Come on, Vimalin.
12:47Yes, if you get my...
12:48Try and get it as near to under there as possible.
12:50So what is actually happening?
12:52That's fine.
12:53Is there something in there?
12:54Yeah.
12:54We've got our distilled new-make spirit.
12:57Okay.
12:57You can see there's 200 litres there.
12:58That's from the distillation we did on Saturday.
13:01And we just need to fill up this cask.
13:03So I'll get it started for you.
13:04Okay.
13:05Basically, give it a good old yank.
13:07It might take...
13:08But just be careful.
13:09Don't stand over it like that.
13:10You'll smack yourself in the face.
13:12Okay.
13:15Oh!
13:15Yay!
13:17First time.
13:17I thought it was going to be really difficult to get at.
13:19Normally, they are.
13:21You've not seen the skeleton biceps.
13:24Here we go.
13:25In with that.
13:26In with that.
13:28And this is going in here for how long?
13:31Oh, this one's a big cask.
13:32So this will be going in for sort of seven, eight years.
13:35Wow.
13:35Yeah.
13:35Yeah.
13:36So eight years is quite the commitment, isn't it?
13:38Yeah.
13:39I mean, we'll taste it periodically.
13:40We might be ready before that.
13:41But generally speaking, a cask of this size will be sort of, you know, about eight, seven, eight years.
13:47But surely it's subjective, isn't it?
13:49It is, yeah.
13:50Because I like a gin and tonic.
13:51He likes a fruit cordial.
13:53Yeah.
13:53So how do you know when it's right?
13:55You can do certain things.
13:57Buy the best cask you can get your hands on.
14:00Make the best new mate spirit.
14:01But then it's up to the lap of the gods.
14:04Yeah.
14:04Obviously, oh, nice one.
14:06Now I'm going to smell.
14:07Oh, nice one.
14:09Do you want to lick this?
14:10On the whole, I prefer my spirits in a glass.
14:17And the barrel house is where the good stuff is kept.
14:21I've got the glasses.
14:22You've got to source the casks from various places and that all feeds into the end product.
14:27Yeah.
14:27We buy a lot in Scotland.
14:29But we also have source casks from overseas.
14:32From abroad.
14:34Should we have a sniff?
14:35Yeah.
14:36What am I sniffing for?
14:37Nothing.
14:37Just sniff.
14:38Just...
14:39Joy.
14:41Hopefully.
14:44I haven't got a very sophisticated palate.
14:49The most important thing is to smell and taste what you can smell.
14:53It smells great.
14:54Yeah, exactly.
14:55Doesn't it?
14:55Oh, it's got a lovely warmth to it, doesn't it?
15:02Let's be honest.
15:02We're enjoying this.
15:03Thanks.
15:05Cheers.
15:06Good health.
15:07Good health.
15:07Thanks for popping in.
15:08And good luck to you.
15:10Yeah.
15:10It's a heck of a thing you're doing and flying the flag.
15:13So, fair play.
15:14I know you'd probably like to stay here for the rest of your life.
15:22I'd like to live here.
15:23But we have to move on.
15:24Okay.
15:25I am going to have a look at some deer.
15:27Okay.
15:27In a park not too far away.
15:29Oh, dear.
15:29Not just you that can do some puns.
15:30Oh.
15:32Someone's had a whiskey.
15:33Frankly, my dear.
15:36What about you?
15:37I'm going to go and see some sensational rocks.
15:40Right.
15:40Well, we'll meet up.
15:42Catch you later.
15:42Bye.
15:54Refreshed after our mini swig, I'm striding out alone for the next ten miles through Nidderdale.
16:00My destination is one of the grandest sights in Yorkshire.
16:06Studley Royal Park is breathtaking.
16:13A World Heritage site with 500 acres of parkland, including the famous 18th century water gardens.
16:20My guide through these beautiful grounds is National Trust ranger, Gabby Crisp.
16:27Gabby, I think I need a history and a geography lesson.
16:30Can we do history first?
16:32Take me back.
16:32Who built all this and why is it so gorgeous?
16:35So this bit of the estate was designed by the Azelbees in the 18th and 19th century.
16:42John and William are kind of famed people for the design of the water gardens.
16:47John Azelby was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and after leaving public office in 1721, he turned his attention to Studley.
16:55Inspired by classical landscapes, he and his son William spent decades shaping this dramatic vision of nature, tamed and framed.
17:06The canal right beside us is actually the river Skell.
17:11It was first moved by the monks in 1132 when they built the abbey.
17:16From Fountains Abbey down the way, yeah.
17:17From Fountains Abbey just behind us.
17:19And then the Azelbees came in and decided that they didn't want a meandering river down here.
17:24So they straightened the sides, built the canal, and we now have the design of the water gardens that we have.
17:30The water gardens that Azelby laid out are amongst the best preserved in the UK, and haven't changed much since they were built nearly 300 years ago.
17:44And a lot of people will know this is a World Heritage site, the first in Yorkshire, but it's not because of Fountains Abbey, it's actually because of these water gardens.
17:53Absolutely.
17:54And the Deer Park.
17:54Yeah, it's the creative genius of the design of the water gardens and Studley Royal Park itself.
18:00With the ruins of Fountains Abbey, they did build it.
18:03They helped, they helped.
18:03Yeah.
18:04They did build it to say, look at the ruins, even though they didn't own them at the time.
18:11We've done the history, the geography as well.
18:12Wherever you look, there's a little temple in the trees up here.
18:16There's a building where you can view across the Half Moon Lakes, and then there's a turret poking through the trees.
18:22It's just so clever.
18:23Yeah, absolutely.
18:25And, you know, the views from Octagon Tower in the distance, they look out over all the water gardens.
18:30So the size of the estate that they had, you've got views through all the way.
18:33You know, looking straight down the canal, that's into the Deer Park.
18:36My eyesight's not amazing.
18:38Can I see some deer there?
18:40Yes.
18:40Yes, look at that.
18:42Right, let's go find them.
18:55Take a little detour from Studley Royal, and Nidderdale becomes the land that time forgot.
19:01Brimham Rocks is a landscape shaped by wind, rain and ice.
19:06Its towering formations carved from millstone grit laid down over millions of years.
19:12These uniquely shaped rocks are one of the real wonders of Yorkshire.
19:18Ranger Simon Hodgson has known them all his life.
19:24I grew up in North Yorkshire.
19:26It's my heritage.
19:27My parents used to take me here as a child.
19:29The rocks were formed 320 million years ago.
19:34It was actually a huge mountain range here, big in the Himalayas.
19:38At the end of the last ice age, talking about 10,000 years ago, it started getting exposed.
19:44The weather started taking action, and the glacier kind of scoured the earth in this area.
19:52You can actually see, they're called bedding planes here, but you can see how one forms, one forms on top, and another forms on top of that.
20:02And this is repeated throughout Brimham Rocks, making it a really special place.
20:10In places, the rocks have been bored through to create narrow tunnels like this one, known as the Smarty Tube.
20:21Yeah, it's a tight squeeze.
20:23I am six foot and it's not for the claustrophobic.
20:33So these rocks all have individual names.
20:36Sometimes they really resemble the name, and sometimes you have to use quite a lot of imagination.
20:41This one's actually called the Eagle Rock.
20:44But looking at it, I can't really see an eagle.
20:53The elements have helped shape this landscape, but since 2023, a new force has joined the effort.
21:00A hardy herd of belted Galloway cattle, brought in to help manage the land and reduce the risk of wildfires.
21:08They will basically take anything. They'll take leaves off trees.
21:12They will crash through bracken.
21:14And perhaps quite importantly, actually, they really target purple mowgrass or millenia.
21:20That can be a real fire hazard this time of year.
21:22And keeping a close eye on them is volunteer Gail Webster, who's here every day for a headcount.
21:35There's five here and the others are lying down in the heather somewhere, hiding from us.
21:39I'm sure we'll see them soon enough. Watch for the ears waggling. That's the giveaway.
21:44Any other issues? Fence line all right?
21:46Fence line's fine, yeah. Water trough's okay. Plenty of water for them.
21:50They're very charismatic animals and we specifically pick them because they're very docile as well.
22:00We need a breed that's going to get on well with visitors and also be very hardy.
22:06And they're very self-sufficient to belted Galloways.
22:09But they're doing an incredible job, aren't they, Gail?
22:10Yeah, you can see the contrast between the length of the grass here where they've been eating and the other side of the fence where, yes, it would have all been that length before the cows arrived.
22:20So they've instantly reduced the fire risk on site, which is brilliant.
22:23Deer have been part of the Studley Royal landscape since the late Middle Ages when it was a hunting ground.
22:45Today, around 300 red, seca and fallow deer species roam and graze freely, including nibbling away at the park's ancient trees, like this one, damaged in a storm, which has left it vulnerable.
23:00So this is one of the oldest cherry trees in the UK. It's seen at least 325 years, not necessarily looking at its best.
23:08It's only a tiny fraction of what it would have been once upon a time, but as long as it's still living and growing, we're going to do everything we can to protect it.
23:17You can see the first step we've taken is we've got the fence around it to try and keep the deer out.
23:23We're going to go and spray a bit of deer deterrent to try and keep them up.
23:26Oh, is that what this is?
23:27So that's what we've got here. If we can give you a pair of gloves to put on.
23:31Love gloving up. Let's do it.
23:32The spray is made from emulsified sheep fat. Apparently deer hate the pong of sheep.
23:40I can test out my inner leg measurement. I was once told it's the same as Julia Roberts.
23:44I might be able to do this without actually climbing. Look at that.
23:48It's near danger.
23:51Right. Where are we going?
23:53So if you take the bottle, we're going to spray these lower leaves.
23:56So some of these, all of this lot.
23:58They smell it and they go, no, thanks.
24:00I was thinking it'd be a little bit more pungent than that.
24:03It's not actually too bad, is it?
24:09And I know this is an important job, but also you get, you can have a moment, can't you?
24:14Just enjoy the splendor of a tree that's over three centuries old.
24:19Looks like I'm getting the dead eye from a deer.
24:26Checking us out. Looking through the gap in the tree thinking, what are you up to?
24:31Yeah.
24:32You're not spraying that sheep fat, are you?
24:34Absolutely. Going, that's where I was going to go for dinner and now you've just sprayed it, I'm not going to anymore.
24:38Don't touch this one, all right? You won't like the smell of it. Other than that, enjoy yourself.
24:44I've learnt a lot from you, but my biggest lesson today is that emulsified sheep fat actually smells quite nice.
24:50I might use it as my new deodorant. Right, let's spray away.
24:59Coming up, we play Spot the famous book character in Ripon Cathedral.
25:04It's actually quite a good view from there.
25:05Thank you, you can see the Queen of Hearts better.
25:07Yeah, and the cat.
25:09And I tread in the footsteps of a legendary Yorkshire writer.
25:15It's not an open sesame moment, is it? Oh, hold on a second.
25:18Is this the giveaway? Can I pull this?
25:20Yes.
25:22Okay, this is officially the coolest thing ever.
25:39Our journey through the glorious Nidderdale countryside continues with a stop off at one of the grandest buildings in the whole of Yorkshire.
25:54Hello, Daniel Walker.
25:56Hello, Helen Scott.
25:57You all right?
25:58With glasses off, are we?
25:59Well, I feel like you need to take glasses off to appreciate Ripon.
26:01It's beautiful, isn't it?
26:02I've got a little treat for you down here though, right?
26:04Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland?
26:05Yes.
26:06A fan?
26:07Oh, Alice in Wonderland.
26:08I've definitely dressed up as Alice in Wonderland.
26:10I feel like I need to clarify.
26:11Okay, you've taken this up a notch.
26:12I like that.
26:13When I was a kid, I dressed up as Alice in Wonderland because I'm a big fan.
26:17Right, okay, this is good.
26:18The current outfit is acceptable for our little tour to Ripon Cathedral.
26:22Come on.
26:26Have you been in there before?
26:27I have never been inside this cathedral.
26:29You're in for a treat.
26:37It's so impressive, isn't it?
26:44Look at that singing.
26:46That's got a serious wow factor, hasn't it?
26:53We're meeting John Dobson, the current dean, to explore this impressive space.
26:58Hello.
26:59Good to see you.
27:00Very nice to see you.
27:01How are you down there?
27:02Nice to meet you.
27:03How are you down there?
27:04Nice to meet you.
27:05Welcome to Ripon Cathedral.
27:06This is incredible.
27:07You've come on a good day.
27:08The sun's shining.
27:09You can see the light shining into the chairs, brining up the whole space.
27:14And it's been here for such a long time, isn't it?
27:16We are walking through historical corridors here, aren't we?
27:19It is true.
27:20On this site, where we are now, the first church here, which was a magnificent stone building,
27:25the first fully stone church in the north of England, was built in 672.
27:30Wow.
27:311,353 years ago.
27:33And we still have the crypt.
27:40It's all right for you down here, Helen.
27:42It's my height.
27:43It's not your height.
27:44Definitely not.
27:45St Wilfrid's crypt has been in continuous use since Anglo-Saxon times.
27:52He'd been to Rome.
27:54He'd seen the basilicas there.
27:55He'd sort of seen the lights, as it were, and the big time.
27:58And he thought, we're having one of those back home.
28:00And came back here to North Yorkshire, as we have it now, and built one.
28:05And he brought relics back from Rome, put them in here, and this would be a place of pilgrimage.
28:11Can I just check as well?
28:12Do we call you John, or Dean, or Dean John?
28:14Most people call me Dean John.
28:15Anybody call you DJ?
28:16I knew he was going to say that.
28:17Don't let him call you DJ.
28:18That's all right.
28:19Ignoring the DJ, I understand.
28:20Yeah.
28:21Yeah.
28:22Spin forward 1,200 years, and a certain Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's name crops up.
28:36Better known as Lewis Carroll, he spent many days of his youth here.
28:41His father, also Charles, became a canon here, a residential canon, in 1852.
28:47And it's thought that some of the features, well-known features of his writing of Wonderland
28:52and Alice, were prompted by things, inspired by things that he saw here in the cathedral.
28:58Some of the carvings, both in wood and in the stone.
29:03If you know where to look, you might just be able to make some of those characters out.
29:09Here we see, for whatever reason, a griffin chasing a rabbit, and rabbits going down a rabbit hole.
29:17So it's thought that, obviously, that might have inspired Lewis Carroll.
29:22And look up into the roof, you can just see a cat looking down at you, the face of a cat.
29:34Look there.
29:35Can you see?
29:36I mean, it's a bit of a stretch, to be honest with you.
29:38Not this one.
29:39The second one.
29:40Yeah.
29:41The gold face at the end.
29:43That's the cat's face.
29:45Oh, on this end!
29:47Yes, I see it!
29:48Thank goodness for that.
29:49I'm thinking, what am I looking at?
29:50Oh, yes!
29:51Yes, right on the end, yes?
29:52Oh, he's more grimacing than grinning, isn't he?
29:54But I like it.
29:59Above the cat, if you look, there's the Queen of Hearts.
30:01Should have thought, now we think about it.
30:03No, it's much more fun to have Helen.
30:04I don't know.
30:05We should provide cushions.
30:06There you go.
30:07Do you fancy joining us?
30:08You should have been here now.
30:09Seeing John?
30:10No, I'm happy to look down on you.
30:11OK.
30:13That is actually quite a good view from there, isn't it?
30:16You can see the Queen of Hearts better.
30:17Yeah.
30:18And the cat.
30:19Can you really see the cat?
30:20Let's see the cat.
30:21Let's see the cat.
30:22We've had enough down here now.
30:23We're quite solid, isn't it?
30:27Thank you so much.
30:28What a beautiful cathedral.
30:30I feel like we've learnt a lot today.
30:31Well, it's been a privilege.
30:32It's been a pleasure.
30:33Yeah, tell people about us and bring your friends and your family.
30:37And you know where the cat is now.
30:39I do.
30:41There's just time to round off all things Lewis Carroll with a Cheshire cat selfie.
30:49And yes, this cat was much easier to spot.
30:52Is that in the middle?
30:53Yeah.
30:54OK, hold on.
30:55Hold on.
30:56I'm going to go underneath it.
30:57Yeah, go low.
30:58There we go.
30:59Beautiful.
31:00Just a few miles north of Ripon is one of the finest late medieval houses in Yorkshire.
31:16I'm heading there to discover its link to another one of our great literary figures.
31:21What a gaffe that is.
31:27It's been the home of the Graham family since the early 1600s.
31:31I'm meeting the current occupants, Sir James and Lady Helena Graham.
31:39Hello.
31:40Well, this is a proper welcoming committee.
31:42Hello, Dan.
31:43Welcome to Norton Conyers.
31:44Hello, Lady Graham.
31:45Lovely to meet you, Sir James.
31:46Thank you so much for having me.
31:48This place is unbelievable.
31:50Welcome to a gentleman's manor house.
31:53Well, it's very nice to be here.
31:54I feel very privileged.
31:59Are these all Graham family portraits?
32:01Yes.
32:02I would say about 90% of them.
32:04Right.
32:05Yes, there's a few that aren't, but otherwise they're Graham's.
32:08So the first baronet of Norton Conyers is this little boy, and this is the 11th.
32:14Can I salute you?
32:15I love it.
32:16It's like my entire childhood dream to live in a house like this.
32:17It's like Narnia.
32:18There are more than 40 rooms in the house, including this one, said to have been slept in by James the second.
32:36Oh, proper bed.
32:37Indeed.
32:38What does it mean to you to have somebody of such significance to have slept in one of the bedrooms of your house?
32:49It gives you a kind of connection with history.
32:54The literary connections are just as impressive.
32:57Charlotte Bronte was a visitor and reportedly used this house as the model for Thornfield Hall, home of Mr. Rochester in her defining novel.
33:08Many of the arrangements of the house are echoed in Jane Eyre, and one of them is Mr. Rochester's bedroom, which is of course the best bedroom.
33:20It has south and west facing views.
33:23It's always the coldest.
33:25Right.
33:26Somewhere in this panelling is a secret staircase with another Jane Eyre connection.
33:36It's not an open sesame moment, is it?
33:38Oh, hold on a second.
33:39Is this the giveaway?
33:40Can I pull this?
33:41Yes.
33:42OK, this is officially the coolest thing ever.
33:46Where does this go?
33:47It goes up to the attic, and it's the shortcut that Mr. Rochester took from his bedroom up to his wife.
34:00In Jane Eyre, Mr. Rochester keeps his wife, who's mad, in the attic.
34:07Whether fiction or reality, it's clear that attitudes to mental illness were very different back then.
34:14It was a social disgrace if you had madness.
34:17You didn't talk about it, and you hid people here.
34:22We talk about history, don't we?
34:24Yes.
34:25And history sometimes has a very dark side.
34:26Yes.
34:27You know, this is the room in your house which really screams that at you.
34:37Coming up.
34:41Hello, Sarah.
34:42Hello.
34:43Is that for me?
34:44Yeah.
34:45Our decorating skills are put to the test.
34:46Premier League, isn't it?
34:47Premier League.
34:48I think you missed a bit, though.
34:50I can't be.
34:51Yeah, I am.
34:52And I explore the magnificent grounds at Norton Conyers.
34:57I do love a walled garden, and this is a particularly beautiful example of one.
35:07Helen and I have been walking through the spectacular Nidderdale countryside in North Yorkshire.
35:32I've taken a detour to Norton Conyers, a stunning late medieval manor house with equally impressive gardens.
35:39I do love a walled garden, and this is a particularly beautiful example of one.
35:48There's also an orangery, an ornamental pond, and everywhere you look, the gardens burst with colour.
35:55Keeping it all in check is Jack Casterly.
36:02Here he is, working the land.
36:07Jack.
36:08Hi.
36:09Hello, Dan.
36:10Hi, Dan.
36:11Thank you so much.
36:12I mean, this place is beautiful, isn't it?
36:14It's fantastic.
36:15It's got a vegetable garden, it's got fruit growing, it's got roses, it's got lots of shrubs.
36:21There's a glass house with peaches in it.
36:23As a gardener, it's a dream to work here.
36:26How far back are we looking?
36:31We're looking about 1700s, something like that.
36:34I think it's mid-1700s when the orangery was built, and then the walls were built as well.
36:41It originated as sort of like a pleasure garden, but fruit growing and vegetable growing for the house,
36:46and also cut flowers have always been part of this.
36:50The scale of the job is quite whopping, isn't it, when you walk round?
36:54I go with the seasons, really, so at the moment it's full hands-on with vegetable growing, fruit picking,
37:00and the apples will be ready in autumn, and then the ornamental plants, yeah, that's all season, all going round.
37:06So, yeah, yeah, it's a full-time job for a whole year.
37:09And can I ask you, what does a Dutchman who now lives and works in Yorkshire think of this county, think of this place?
37:14Yeah, well, it's a God's own county, isn't it? It's fantastic.
37:17You are an honorary Yorkshireman already. Thank you so much, lovely to meet you.
37:23It's been a stunning walk, but it's nearly at an end.
37:26There is, however, one last gem Helen says we can't miss.
37:38Leaving Norton Conyers, I'm heading for Skelton-on-Yore, or should that be, Helen Skelton-on-Yore.
37:44Now then, I was thinking why he wanted to meet here, and it's all becoming clear.
37:51St. Helens Church here at Skelton-on-Yore.
37:55Okay, yeah, it makes sense.
37:57Everything the eye can see does not belong to me.
38:01So who are we meeting?
38:02I've got to be honest, that was quite far down.
38:05We're going to meet some people at a pub, but not just a normal pub, a very special pub.
38:10Oh, intriguing.
38:11I've got my bum bag, let's go.
38:14The Black Lion is a brilliant example of what can be achieved when a community pulls together.
38:20When it looked like they were losing their pub, the locals stepped in.
38:26You must be Jane.
38:27Hi, I'm Helen.
38:28Hi, pleased to meet you.
38:29Hi, pleased to meet you.
38:30This is Dan.
38:31Hi, Dan, lovely to meet you.
38:32Thank you for having us.
38:33No, you're very welcome.
38:34You come in here and you can immediately smell newness.
38:37Yes, fresh paint and fresh varnish.
38:39Clearly, a lot of work has been going on here.
38:41Yeah, yeah, an awful lot of work's gone on here.
38:44So what's the story then?
38:46It closed down in 2019, just before Christmas, and then it was just left.
38:51And then, of course, weather happens, Covid happened.
38:55We held a village meeting, and we asked the village,
38:58do we try and save this, or do we let it go to developers?
39:02And everybody agreed, let's give it a shot.
39:07More than ÂŁ200,000 was raised to save the pub,
39:10and an army of volunteers got to work.
39:14Hello, Sarah.
39:15Hello.
39:16Is that for me?
39:17Yeah, definitely.
39:18All right.
39:19I'm more of a brush man.
39:20What's the deal then, Sarah?
39:21All the volunteers come every Saturday.
39:22OK.
39:23For pretty much the last year.
39:25So although we're all working hard trying to get it back to being a pub,
39:28it's actually been really good just meeting up every week.
39:32Premier League edge in here.
39:36Premier League.
39:37This is great.
39:39I don't have to do anything.
39:40You can stay.
39:41It's every Saturday, you know.
39:43Well, good job.
39:44Fair play.
39:45Good effort.
39:46I think you missed a bit, though.
39:47Oh, can't be.
39:48Oh, yeah, I have.
39:49Outside, there's a pond, a wildlife area, and space for the all-important summer evening pint.
39:55This is going to be our beer garden, just to the left there.
39:59We've got a nature area.
40:00Oh, that's great.
40:01And we've got a pond.
40:02And then over there, we're going to have some caravan pitches as well.
40:06How are you doing all of this?
40:07We're just doing it on a shoestring with kindness of other people, basically.
40:12Okay.
40:13People have donated plants all through the year.
40:16And if we hear that somebody's digging up a plant that they don't want, we're on it.
40:20You're in.
40:21We're going to dig things up out of people's gardens, seriously.
40:23Do you tell them first?
40:24Yeah.
40:25There's still plenty to do before the pub officially opens.
40:28But the landscape team have more than risen to the challenge.
40:33This is, I know it's a work in progress.
40:36But you can already feel, it's very special, isn't it?
40:39It's so impressive.
40:40And you've done it yourselves as well.
40:41Oh, yeah, there's lots of, lots of hours gone into this.
40:43Probably hundreds or thousands, maybe.
40:45And now we've brought it back to, literally, to what it is now.
40:48With lots of hard work, all the community have been involved.
40:52This was quite a quiet village before this project, wasn't it?
40:54Yes.
40:55I mean, I think this has really brought people out.
40:57You've met people who you wouldn't have met before.
40:58Totally.
40:59Or having conversations.
41:00Absolutely.
41:01Yeah, and you know.
41:02Which is amazing, isn't it?
41:03It really is, yeah.
41:04It's really brought this village together.
41:05I was just thinking, you can sit here in years to come and, you know, enjoy a drink together
41:09and say, we built that, we made that, this is our beer garden.
41:12It's not going to get built if we keep chatting.
41:14Yes.
41:15And what can we do to help?
41:16Tree planting.
41:17Yes.
41:18Go on, go on, go on.
41:23Oh, don't break the branch.
41:26It's the kind of place that just really makes you smile, doesn't it?
41:32Fair play, because I can't imagine this has been an easy thing.
41:35It's not, but it's been really positive.
41:38It's been inspirational seeing what the volunteers here have achieved.
41:43The perfect way to end a perfect walk.
41:46Cheers.
41:47I think that was a successful day.
41:49Yeah.
41:50We've covered a lot of ground.
41:51We have.
41:52We've started with sweets.
41:53We've made it all the way to cake.
41:55And a bit of history in between.
41:56Yes.
41:57Lovely conversation.
41:58Lovely people.
41:59Nice gesture cat.
42:00Yes.
42:01When you can find it.
42:02I think lying down in the cathedral might have been a low point for DJ.
42:06At no point ever did the Dean say you could call him DJ.
42:09He didn't say I couldn't though.
42:11Well, it's been a pleasure.
42:12I look forward to our next journey.
42:14To Skelton in Skelton.
42:15I know.
42:16I like it here.
42:23Next time.
42:24Alright.
42:25We hit the windswept hills in Wharfdale.
42:29I've now got granola seeds in my eye.
42:32Are you still there?
42:34And marvel at one of the true wonders of Yorkshire.
42:38I've got a touch of Indiana Jones about here.
42:40That is very impressive.
42:42Mother Nature.
42:43You are showing off.
43:10Yeah.
43:11How are you fruits.
43:12Yeah.
43:13They're provisions.
43:14So they don't think me hmm.
43:15It does break away.
43:16Yeah.
43:17.
43:18These verses are half year era.
43:20What.
43:21And then theæ.
43:22Wow.
43:23Looking in.
43:24Very much,
43:26more.
43:27Whatever.
43:28All Of Of Of The Number One.
43:30We continue.
43:32Have fun.
43:34Look,
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