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Pride Park Stadium, Derby added to Sporting Venues and Arenas in East Midlands by D0c.Col on 23/04/2025

THE EVER CHANGING FORTUNES OF DERBY COUNTY FOOTBALL CLUB

Derby County Football Club is a professional association football club in Derby, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system (At the time this video which was published during the 2024/25 season).
One of the 12 founder members of the Football League in 1888, Derby County is one of only nine clubs to have competed in every season of the English football league system (126 seasons up to the end of the 2024–25 season), with all but six of those being in the top two divisions.
The club was founded in 1884 by William Morley as an offshoot of Derbyshire Coun-ty Cricket Club. Its competitive peak came in the 1970s when it twice won the First Division and competed in major European competitions on four occasions, reaching the European Cup semi-finals as well as winning several minor trophies. Additionally, the club was a strong force in the interwar years – finishing league runner-up twice in the 1930s – and winning the first post-war FA Cup in 1946.
The club's home colours have been black and white since the 1890s. The team's nick-name, The Rams, honours its links with the First Regiment of Derby Militia, its mas-cot being a ram, and its regimental song. They have a long-standing rivalry with Not-tingham Forest, with whom they contest the East Midlands derby.
The best era for the club was in the 1970s when Brian Clough and Peter Taylor took over and led Derby to its greatest glory. Starting at 18th in the Second Division in 1968, Clough and Taylor acquired Alan Hinton, Roy McFarland, and John O'Hare, then clinched the influential signing of Dave Mackay to lead the club to 1st place in 1969, and promotion to the First Division. Derby went on to finish fourth in 1970. Due to financial issues the club were banned from competing in Europe but went on to win their first ever Football League Championship in 1972. Though Derby did not retain their title the following season, they did reach the semi-finals of the European Cup, where they lost to Juventus. Clough's frequent outspoken comments against football's establishment eventually led to him falling out with the board of directors at the club, and Clough and Taylor left in October 1973. Such was their impact on the club that, 37 years later, a 9 ft (2.75 metres) bronze statue of the pair was erected out-side Pride Park in commemoration of their legacy.
After finishing in 12th place in their first season back in the top flight league, the club left the Baseball Ground, its home of 102 years, to move into the new 33,597-seat Pride Park Stadium for the 1997–98 season. The Baseball Ground was demolished six years later and a memorial was eventually erected in memory of its role in Derby city history.
A sudden decline at the turn of the millennium saw three years of struggle for the club and in April 2006, a consortium of local businessmen led by former vice-chairman Peter Gadsby purchased the club, reducing its debt and returning Pride Park Stadium to the club's ownership in the process.
Over the next decade, or so, the club had mixed fortunes, various owners, and a change in it’s stadium name, only for it to return to it’s original name of ‘Pride Park Stadium’ some years later, and is currently on its longest spell outside of the top tier.
Clowes Developments (UK) Ltd purchased Pride Park from Mel Morris on 17 June 2022 and remains the current owner, as the club competes in the second tier in the 2024–25 season.

Park right in front of the stadium for free (non match day). In the heart of Derby City so plenty to see if your in the locality.

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Co-ordinates: 52.91492, -1.44729 • what3words: ///worker.united.learn
The originator declared that this location was not inside a Flight Restriction Zone at the time of being flown on 20/03/2025. 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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Cublington Spinney and Airport Monument, Aylesbury Vale (By BituWilliams)

This a secluded little spinney that no one really knows about. I never see anyone there. There is seating and lots of trees along with some wires.

This is a great location to go if you want to train your FPV drone and only really worry about hitting trees and not other people or buildings. There are three parts to the spinney where you can train by dodging benches, trees, small wooden huts etc..

You can bring the family. The kids can run around =, whilst you fly and someone else watches as your spotter.

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Co-ordinates: 51.9113, -0.777093 • what3words: ///exulted.swatting.masterpiece
Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury Vale (By BituWilliams)

This is a public footpath that leads to the boundary of the National Trust land where Waddesdon Manor is located. On a sunny morning before anyone arrives at the Manor, you can take off and get some very good views of the manor without disturbing anyone.

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Co-ordinates: 51.84218, -0.937449 • what3words: ///churn.weeknight.sediment
Bury Wood Camp, North Wiltshire (By gasbag43)

Bury Wood Camp hillfort is a well-preserved Iron Age hillfort located on a promontory of Colerne Down in Wiltshire.

The enclosed area is large as you can see from the photo - approximately 9.2ha and surrounded by a ditch 4m wide and up to 1m deep, with an outer rampart up to 1.5m high on the east and northwestern sides and up to 2m high on the southwestern side, across the neck of the promontory.

The contours of the land provide excellent natural defences to the north and east sides. On the southwestern side, where there are no natural defences, there is a further ditch 4m wide and 1m deep and an outer rampart up to 2m high and 3m wide

The building of the hill fort can be dated to about 350 BC, but various Neolithic and Mesolithic flint tools were found, indicating a much earlier use.

As well as its historical significance, it’s a lovely location for woodland exploration (by foot and drone)

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Co-ordinates: 51.46454, -2.262797 • what3words: ///collapsed.irritable.hosts
St James the Great, North Wiltshire (By gasbag43)

North Wraxall is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire. The village is about 6 miles (10 km) west of Chippenham, just north of the A420 road between Chippenham and Bristol. The parish includes the village of Ford and the hamlets of Upper Wraxall, Mountain Bower and The Shoe. The population of the entire parish at the 2021 census was only 372

In North Wraxall itself, the parish church is St James the Great, a small, but beautiful Grade1 listed 800 year old church, built of Cotswold stone, set in the heart of an unspoiled village

The oldest parts are 13th-century. The baptismal font and south porch are 14th-century. The north aisle was rebuilt in the 18th century.

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Co-ordinates: 51.47419, -2.263377 • what3words: ///escapes.doctors.durations
Membury Camp, Kennet (By gasbag43)

Membury Camp, or Membury Fort, is the site of an Iron Age hill fort located in England on the borders of Wiltshire and Berkshire counties, (the majority of the site lies within Wiltshire).

The site encompasses 14 hectares, and is situated in the south-western corner of a small plateau. The circular earthworks are completely shrouded in trees and inside the walls it is mostly arable farmland. To the northeast, in the Berkshire segment, the camp is totally wooded by a small copse, Walls Copse, which covers a quarter of the site

The east side of the earthwork has been partly destroyed by the construction of a wartime airfield, RAF Membury. The site has not been excavated but a number of prehistoric finds have been found in the vicinity.

There is a public footpath that runs through the site and bridleways to the east and south of the site. A busy motorway lies to the immediate north and northeast. The motorway services station Membury services, and the wartime airfield, RAF Membury, also lie to the immediate north east

It is a scheduled ancient monument. Significant finds have included flint artefacts from the Mesolithic era, and flint tools from the Neolithic era, prior to the Iron Age.

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Co-ordinates: 51.47526, -1.566582 • what3words: ///creeps.mallets.land
Tooting Bec, Wandsworth (By grandad1950)

A large 158 acre public open space with lakes, a lido, athletics tracks and lots of space to fly

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Co-ordinates: 51.43359, -0.143359 • what3words: ///refuse.dozed.upset
Grittleton House, North Wiltshire (By gasbag43)

Grittleton House is a country house in the village of Grittleton, Wiltshire, about 6 miles (9 km) northwest of the town of Chippenham. It is a building of historical significance and is Grade II listed on the English Heritage Register.

On this site stood a three-bay Jacobean manor house, dating from 1660. The estate was bought in 1828 by Joseph Neeld, a London lawyer who had inherited a substantial sum, and Grittleton became his country seat.

In 1988 the house was designated as a Grade II listed building.

Many notable people have been residents of the house, but between 1951 and 2016, it was for a time an independent school. It was non-denominational and non-selective, so that classes were made up of pupils with a wide range of abilities. It offered pupils small classes and claimed to teach traditional family values, courtesy, consideration for others, and responsibility - in 2008, the average class size was 15, and the school fees for day pupils were between £4,620 and £7,455

In its time, it had a number of notable pupils –
• Jamie Cullum (born 1979), jazz-pop singer-songwriter
• Emma Pierson (born 1981), actress
• Angelica Mandy (born 1992), actress, best known for her role as Gabrielle Delacour in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The school closed in July 2016, when it had around 150 children, aged between two and sixteen

Today it is a venue for events, particularly weddings.

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Co-ordinates: 51.51864, -2.201804 • what3words: ///reprints.sprinkler.excavate
Grovely Castle, Salisbury (By gasbag43)

Grovely Castle is the site of an Iron Age hill fort in the parish of Steeple Langford, in Wiltshire. It was once defended by a triple line of ramparts – a single rampart survives.

The remaining rampart stands approximately 3.2 m (10 ft) high, with 1.5 m (4.9 ft) deep ditches, although ploughing has damaged the earthworks in some parts of the site.

Excavations have uncovered the remains of five human skeletons within the ramparts.

A circular enclosure of 35 to 40 m (115 to 131 ft) is evident in the hillfort interior when viewed by drone. There is also a later bank and ditch which runs through the hill-fort from south-west to north-east, and is probably part of an extensive surrounding Celtic field system.

Not much remains of the castle visible at ground level, but its outline is clear from the air. The location is recommended not just for it's historical context, but the valley in which it sits is worth a flying visit all on its own - pretty small Wiltshire villages, rolling hillsides, and Langford Lake nature reserve is just a few minutes from the castle site

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Co-ordinates: 51.12066, -1.932478 • what3words: ///countries.fidget.ribs
Clearbury Ring, Salisbury (By gasbag43)

Clearbury Ring is an Iron Age hillfort in the parish of Downton, Wiltshire, approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) due south of Salisbury city centre. The site is a scheduled monument and straddles the boundary with Odstock parish

The fort occupies a prominent hilltop overlooking the valley of the River Avon and is immediately adjacent to the Clearbury Down Site of Special Scientific Interest

Clearbury Ring encloses an area of approximately 2 hectares (4.9 acres); the rampart is well preserved and consisted of a single bank with a ditch outside it. The fort had a single entrance on the north-west side, consisting simply of a 10-metre (33 ft) wide gap with a causeway across the ditch.

The fort is overgrown with tree cover.

To the south-west of the fort are the remains of a lynchet, consisting of a steep 2-metre (6 ft 7 in) high scarp that runs parallel to the fort's defences. Two other lynchets have been identified near the fort, although they are not as well-preserved, together with faint traces of ancient field boundaries.

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Co-ordinates: 51.01865, -1.783798 • what3words: ///stowing.pining.dined
Allington Castle, Maidstone (By SteveClark)

A lovely place to fly, a superb building to photo/video and so close to to Allington Marina - 2 for the price if 1. This TOAL site is not ideal with overhanging trees and a narrow path to use but is manageable. Car parking is about 400m away.

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Co-ordinates: 51.29339, 0.511894 • what3words: ///brand.retrial.matchbox

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