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Sandon Hall added to Historic Buildings in West Midlands by D0c.Col on 06/06/2024

Set in 400 acres of Parkland, the grade II listed Sandon Hall, is a 19th-century country mansion in Staffordshire, and is the seat of the Earl of Harrowby. Historically, before the Norman Conquest, Sandon was owned by Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, before passing through a succession of notable owners, until it came into the possession of the Erdeswicke family, through Margaret, a descendant of Sir William Stafford. Margaret married Thomas Erdeswicke in the 12th year of the reign of Edward III in 1339.
Sandon was eventually inherited by Sampson Erdeswicke, a notable antiquary, and in 1593 he married Mary Neale, widow of Everard Digby, and mother of the recusant Everard Digby who was executed in 1606 for his part in the Gunpowder Plot. Their son, Richard Erdeswicke, sold Sandon manor in 1631 to his half-brother George Digby in order to help settle his debts, but unfortunately Richard was to meet his end whilst languishing in Fleet debtors prison in 1640. The tombs of the Erdeswickes can be found in the nearby Sandon parish church.
The manor was passed onto Jane Digby, who married Charles Gerard, 4th Baron Gerard. Their descendants included Elizabeth Gerard, who married James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton. A lawsuit concerning the estate was the pretext of a duel in 1712 where both participants died of their wounds. As a result the estate descended to Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke, who replaced the old moated manor-house with a new house built by Joseph Pickford of Derby.
In 1776, Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Baron Harrowby, purchased the estate. After a fire in 1848, Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby, rebuilt Sandon Hall in a neo-Jacobean style in 1852. Today the current owners, Conroy and Caroline Ryder, 8th Earl and Countess of Harrowby, have renovated parts of the magnificent house and estate that both can be used as a beautiful backdrop for public and private events.

The Hall is a private residence and pretty secluded in the estate but I had full access hours before a wedding that was taking place on the day of the flight. They do have open days so check out their website for details.

You can park at the nearby All Saints Church just off School Lane (opposite the Dog and Doublet Inn on the A51) and access by foot from the edge of their grounds but you still have to get close to maintain VLOS.

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Co-ordinates: 52.85577, -2.065639 • what3words: ///export.scarves.cleanser
The originator declared that this location was not inside a Flight Restriction Zone at the time of being flown on 29/05/2024. 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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