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Exploring the Quaint Village of Childrey – A Countryside Walk

☕️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Daveswalks 🙏 All support is hugely appreciated and it helps me keep the channel going! 💖 🚶‍♂️ Just Walking – No Talking A quiet stroll around Childrey, a picture-perfect village tucked into the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, just west of Wantage. At the foot of the Berkshire Downs and with the Ridgeway National Trail nearby, it’s ideal for a peaceful ramble. Expect thatched cottages, rolling views, and a place that feels plucked from a postcard. 🕰️ Highlights, History & Local Lore Childrey gets its name from Old English, meaning "Cilla’s stream." It shows up in Anglo-Saxon charters from the 900s and the Domesday Book of 1086. Back then it supported just eight households, with locals earning their keep through willow-weaving and sheep-rearing. The land was so prized that it soon caught the attention of wealthy abbeys and, later, ambitious Tudor yeomen who turned the village’s rich grazing meadows into quiet prosperity. The Church of St Mary’s, built around 1200 and remodelled in the 1400s, still stands quietly watchful. Should you visit, peer at the south wall and you’ll spot a “scratch sundial” etched by 14th-century hands—an early way to keep time by shadow! Just west of the village is Childrey Warren. The name's no accident—this was once a managed rabbit warren in the 1600s, when rabbit meat and fur were the delicacies of Stuart England. But long before the bunnies came the bones. In 2019, archaeologists uncovered 26 Iron Age skeletons here—likely ritual burials dating back more than 2,000 years. It’s the kind of discovery that makes you tread a little more thoughtfully. If you happen to be walking on Midsummer’s Eve, well—local legend says the Lady of the Vale still rides these lanes, blessing the new lambs in the hush of twilight. Oh—and one night in 1644, during the English Civil War, King Charles I stayed here at the manor house, hosted by the Royalist Fettiplace family. Just a king, catching some kip before the next battle. 📍 Walk Starting Point (What3Words): ///audio.stretcher.limelight 🗺️ Full Map of All Walks, Drives, and My Ever-Growing To-Do List: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/edi... 📽️ Walk Stats • Walk #266 • Time: 2:30pm – 7th April 2025, lovely English Spring • Difficulty: ⭐ 1 / 5 • Beauty: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 / 5 • Steps: 4,017 • Distance: 1.88 Miles / 3.03 km • Weather and Temperature: Another cracking blue-sky Spring day! Around 20 degrees. 🧍‍♂️ About Dave’s Walks Hi, I’m Dave! I’ve lived in the English countryside all my life and never tire of exploring it. What started as a love for walking slowly turned into a passion for filming it. I picked up a camera, hit record, and “Dave’s Walks” was born. These aren’t your average YouTube videos—there’s no talking, no music, no gimmicks. Just real-time, uncut walks through Britain’s most peaceful towns, villages, trails and coastlines. It’s slow TV with muddy boots. 🧭 New walks every Sunday at 11am GMT (3am PST / 6am EST / 4:45pm IST / 8:45pm ACST) 📊 Channel Milestones at Time of Upload • Subscribers: 52,552 • Total Views: 9,511,915 • Total Watch Time: 2,670,634 Hours → That’s 111,276 Days, over 304 Years of viewing! • Total Distance of all my recorded walks: 656.52 Miles(1,056.34 km) 💬 Want to Connect? Instagram:   / daves_walks   Facebook:   / daveswalks   ☕ Support the Channel • Become a Channel Member for ad-free early access    / @daveswalks   • Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Daveswalks • Direct to PayPal: https://paypal.me/DavesWalks?country.... 🙏 A big thank you to the 120+ Coffee Supporters and 150+ Channel Members who've helped so far – it means the world. Recent members include: Erdem Şen The Grinch LN Amybrooks Scott Roset Kroffustsnail Krusherking1 Barry Miss M Hilary Goldsmith Your support covers everything from petrol to overnight stays, parking, and gear—it really helps me keep filming. Thank you! 🎥 Equipment I Use • DJI Osmo Pocket 2 (Combo Pack) → https://amzn.to/3wpLHMc • Freewell Polarising ND Filters → https://amzn.to/3N0xQ4C • DJI Action Cam + Spare Battery → https://amzn.to/36yBTUY / https://amzn.to/3uxMMz1 • Extreme Pro 128GB Memory Card → https://amzn.to/3IqYBMi • Rode Micro Microphone → https://amzn.to/3L21HIg • Camera Suction Mount → https://amzn.to/3IsgdqT • Tripod → https://amzn.to/3ugFsay • Power Bank → https://amzn.to/3wECH63 (Affiliate links – buying through these gives me a small commission, even if you buy something completely unrelated. Handy, that!) 🖥️ Editing I use DaVinci Resolve Studio 19 for basic colour correction—mostly to tone down blown-out skies. The videos go straight from camera to YouTube. No talking. No cuts. No fancy business. Just walking. 🏷️ #walking #englishcountryside #slowtv #notalking #justwalking #villagewalk #oxfordshire #childrey