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Basildon Park added to National Trust in South East by clinkadink on 10/09/2023

Parking & TOAL: 51.493479, -1.115587

The masterpiece of John Carr of York, this Palladian villa was built for Sir Francis Sykes between 1776 and 1783. It is a beautifully balanced building of warm Bath stone consisting of a main central block joined to individual pavilions by single-storey linkages.

Sykes was the youngest son of a Yorkshire yeoman farmer who made a fortune working for the East India Company on the great Sub-Continent. He held many important posts including Factor & Chief of Kasimbazara and resided at the Court of the Nawab of Bengal, until ill-health forced him to return to England in 1768. He bought Basildon from the estate of Viscount Fane, three years later. Sykes was a close friend of Warren Hastings, the Governor-General of India, who lived at nearby Purley Hall and, along with a number of other 'nabobs' resident in the vicinity, he helped give Berkshire its reputation of being the "English Hindoostan". He was created a baronet in 1781.

Basildon was inherited by Sir Francis' grandson and namesake in 1804, when parts of the house were still incomplete. Unfortunately, Sir Francis Junior inherited massive debts from his spendthrift father and, in 1838, the estate was sold to James Morrison MP, one of the richest of the early Victorian merchant princes. He was a famous art-lover who became instrumental in the setting up of the National Gallery. He exclaimed of Basildon, "What a casket to enclose pictorial gems!". His architect, John Papworth, undertook a number of sympathetic alterations at the house between 1837 and 1842, after which the family took up full residence in the best of Victorian traditions.

The last of the Morrisons died in 1910, after which Basildon often stood empty. It was used as a convalescent home for Berkshire regimental soldiers during the Great War, but subsequently fell into an increasing state of dilapidation. The estate was purchased by the 1st Lord Iliffe in 1928 in order to expand his Yattendon lands and the house was sold on to a George Ferdinando. This man had planned to have the place systematically demolished and re-erected in the United States! A scheme which, fortunately, never came to fruition, though many of the decorative fittings can now be seen in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

Miraculously, in 1952, Basildon was repurchased by Lord Iliffe's son and his new bride who set about restoring the place to its present splendour. Many fixtures and fittings were bought from other country houses whose fate was not so fortunate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basildon_Park

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Co-ordinates: 51.49878, -1.121342 • what3words: ///stealthier.curated.tumble

The originator declared that this location was not inside a Flight Restriction Zone at the time of being flown on 10/09/2023. It remains the responsibility of any pilot to check for any changes before flying at the same location. Landowner permission may be required before taking off.

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Shinewater Park, Eastbourne (By grandad1950)

A large recently developed nature reserve and recreation area on the outskirts of Eastbourne

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Co-ordinates: 50.80565, 0.286943 • what3words: ///precautions.grades.shade

Wray Windmill, Reigate and Banstead (By grandad1950)

A grade 2 listed tower mill now converted to a home

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Co-ordinates: 51.2448, -0.183348 • what3words: ///vital.stews.mutual

Allnabad, Sutherland, Sutherland North and West (By AlbionDrones)

Emptiness, Sutherland...

10 miles along a single-track road, on the way to Broch Dun Dornaigil, literally in the middle of nowhere, almost as far from civilisation as can be found in the UK, lies a ruined crofthouse...

The only sign of man - apart from the road - yet blessed with amazing views, I wonder what life would have been like here in the past, hard for sure, but a pace of life slower and more connected with nature than we currently have as a society...

Nearby, the Strathmore River cuts a gorse-lined gorge on the way to Loch Hope, in the shadow of Ben Hope, descending via some amazing and little-known falls - sadly we weren't in a position to visit the falls on this trip, but net time we will make sure to do so...

Car parking is roadside, there are a few spots where it is safe to do so, TOAL anywhere you see fit, but do check that EGR610 is inactive before flying - on this ay we arrived here at 315pm, and the FRZ was inactve from 3pm.

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Co-ordinates: 58.33927, -4.626995 • what3words: ///tags.valued.automate

Munlochy, Black Isle South (By Trainman)

Took off from the small car park that overlooks the bay at Munlochy.
Fly from an elevated position that gives great views and great flying possibilities.

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Co-ordinates: 57.55379, -4.249011 • what3words: ///fakes.dreamer.lyricist

Lewisham Castle, Kennet (By gasbag43)

Aldbourne is an attractive large village lying in a valley within the south slope of the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire

Fans of the TV drama series “Band of Brothers” may be familiar with the name of the village - "A" company of the US Army 101st Airborne Division, known as The Band of Brothers, was based at Aldbourne in 1944 in the months before D-Day. The headquarters of The Band of Brothers in Aldbourne was in The Crown Inn and is commemorated by a blue plaque on the wall outside.

About 1.5 miles south-west of the village is a small medieval earthwork – 68m in diameter - known as Lewisham Castle. Records suggest that the name 'Lewisham' came from its association with Louis the Dauphin, who held Marlborough Castle in 1216.

This type of earthwork is known as a ringwork

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Co-ordinates: 51.46309, -1.650674 • what3words: ///surprised.safari.frost

St Anne's church, North Wiltshire (By gasbag43)

St. Anne's Church in Bowden Hill, Lacock, Wiltshire, was built by John Gladstone (ithe elder brother of the Prime Minister of the same name) in 1856 as a parish church. It was dedicated to Saint Anne in celebration of the birth of a son in the Gladstone family.


The church's design combines Early English Gothic, Norman, and Romanesque styles.

The location offers superb views of the surrounding Wiltshire countryside, including the beautiful Lacock Abbey (National Trust) which was one of the Harry Potter “Hogwarts School” film locations.

TOAL was from a small car park 100 metres from the church and well outside the Raymill House airspace restriction zone which covers the village itself (Raymill House is a Grade II listed country house privately owned by Quenn Camilla)

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Co-ordinates: 51.41008, -2.091007 • what3words: ///fidgeted.spelling.vineyard

Bluewater Shopping Centre, Dartford (By richrab)

Bluewater Shopping Centre (commonly known simply as Bluewater) is a large out-of-town shopping centre in Stone (postally Greenhithe), Kent, England, just outside the M25 motorway ring, 17.8 miles (28.6 km) east south east of London's centre. Opened on 16 March 1999 in a former chalk quarry after ten years of building works, the site (including car parks) occupies 240 acres (97 ha) and has a sales floor area of 154,000 m2 (1,600,000 ft2) over three levels, making it the fifth-largest shopping centre in the UK.


TOAL was from the Winter Gardens car park as far back as possible.

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Co-ordinates: 51.43916, 0.270763 • what3words: ///froze.bowls.object

Wray Common, Reigate and Banstead (By grandad1950)

Not a lot of parking but loads of space to fly. The locals were very friendly.

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Co-ordinates: 51.24475, -0.187339 • what3words: ///broke.exchanges.invest

Balkaneil Church and Beach, Durness, NC500, Sutherland North and West (By AlbionDrones)

About as far away from anywhere that you can get, at the top left corner of Scotland, lies Durness, and a little further out, right on the corner of the road is Balkaneil.

Home to the Balkaneil Craft village - a collection of artisan's that provide a unique shopping experience at the far reaches of the NC500, it also holds the stunning beaches and ruined Church that are the subject of this video.

They are located on the edge of the Cape Wrath Firing Range, a military range and FRZ, so care needs to be taken to fly either outside the boundary of the FRZ, or to ensure that the range is not active when you want to fly.

I could only fly the AIR3 here as it was extremely windy - hence the drone bouncing around a bit in the 35mph winds - and given it was a fairly grey day the colours are a little muted, but they are true to what was seen, and it is both stunning and desolate...

There is some car parking at the Church, and toilets and food/drink available in the Craft village, which also has an overnight camper stop too...

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Co-ordinates: 58.57606, -4.76842 • what3words: ///mystified.plotting.soups

Queen Elizabeth II Bridge., Thurrock (By richrab)

The Dartford–Thurrock River Crossing, commonly known as the Dartford Crossing and until 1991 the Dartford Tunnel, is a major road crossing of the River Thames in England, carrying the A282 road between Dartford in Kent in the south and Thurrock in Essex in the north.

It consists of two bored tunnels and the cable-stayed Queen Elizabeth II Bridge. The only fixed road crossing of the Thames east of Greater London, it is the busiest estuarial crossing in the United Kingdom, with an average daily use of over 130,000 vehicles.

TOAL and Parked @ ///social.rips.bigger back of the warehouses on a public road.

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Co-ordinates: 51.4654, 0.258272 • what3words: ///puddles.hiking.broker


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