Finally made my Old Isleworth Walking Tour to the London Apprentice along the RIver Thames скачать в хорошем качестве

Finally made my Old Isleworth Walking Tour to the London Apprentice along the RIver Thames

After so many requests especially for those who are now living outside of London, I finally managed to walk around and do a video around the Old Isleworth. Apologies, it was a bit longer this time because I tried to walk where many have asked me to look around. I hope you enjoy watching this video of Isleworth Town. The weather is a little bit gloomy but still a fantastic walk. I commenced my walk from the Old Bells Almhouses, this is now called Raybell's Court in Linkfield Road. I then explored the lovely St John's Gardens and went out to St John's Road. I passed the Bridge and looked over the Duke of Northumberland River where the sluice gate to ancient river that starts from Lampton is located. I carried on to the junction of Twickenham Road and then went down to the Silverhall Park, I crossed the river and managed to pass the Ingrams Almhouses in Mill Platt Road built in 1644. I then followed the road and came across the Mill Basin where the remains of the old water wheel is located. I then went down to Church Street and pass the historic London Apprentice. I then continued my walk to the beautiful All Saints Church and visited the site of the Plague Pit where 149 people died during the Great Plague of 1665. I then ended my walking tour to the bank of the River Thames where I pass through the Town Wharf and enjoying the new developments in the area. Pls subscribe to my YouTube channel and like this video. Thanks. FACTS ABOUT ISLEWORTH: Isleworth has been a riverside settlement for over 4000 years. Neolithic remains have been found between Syon House and Brentford, and a Roman settlement is known to be situated on the ham in Brentford. Origin of the name Isleworth 695 – Gislheresuuyrth – from an Anglo Saxon Charter 1086 – Gistelesworde – The Domesday Survey 1301 – Istelworth – Roll 1415 – Ystelworth – Roll 1540 – Istyllworth – Local documentation 1593 – Thistleworth or Gistelesworth Norden and Lysons, historians 1635 – Istelworth and Istleworth – Moses Glover Map 1635 (two spellings on map) 1702 – Istleworth – shown on a memorial in the parish church 1742 – Isleworth – on an engraving by Thomas Preist Medieval Isleworth The Domesday Book 1086 mentions a settlement in Brentford recorded as Gristelesworde in the hundred of Honeslaw. The Hundred of Honeslaw includes the parishes of Isleworth, Heston and Twickenham. There was a priest, 2 Knights and 117 villeins, borders and cottars resident in the village, with two mills and and a fishing weir. There is no record of the time when the first church was built. The tower of the present church is 14th Century. All Saints Church There was a religious house in Isleworth under and beside the present Syon House. This Abbey housed a Swedish order of Bridgettine Nuns who built Syon Abbey. Tudor Isleworth In 1539 Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries and the Bridgettine nuns were forced to leave Syon and settle in Flanders. In 1541 Queen Katherine Howard was imprisoned at Syon for three months. The Royal Barge that took her on the fateful journey to the Tower of London left from Isleworth stairs. King Henry VIII died in 1547 and his body was rested over night at Syon on route from Westminster to Windsor for burial, with a large train of knights and noblemen some four miles long following the hearse. The King had been dead for two weeks and the remains were swollen. The body of Henry rested in the Church which is assumed to be in the Abbey at Syon. The Isleworth Ferry The ferry at Isleworth started in the reign of Henry VIII. This crossed the river from the steps in front of All Saints Church and went across the Thames to Old Deer Park. A second ferry was established in Isleworth towards the end of the reign of George III. This was situated at Railshead in front of Gordon House and carried pedestrians and carriages to Sheen. This ferry was still operating in my youth (approx 1959) and the Ferry man was Mr Con Dargon. Life & Death in Isleworth One 17th Century resident Sir Thomas Ingram came to Isleworth in 1656 and lived in Shrewsbury Place which stood on the site of Lion Wharf. Sir Thomas founded the oldest alms house in Isleworth in 1664 in Mill Plat. The great plague of 1665 took the life of 149 local residents. A stone in the church yard marks the Plague Pit. Many of the victims in the City of London were shipped out by barge and buried in Isleworth.