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Sentinel (Spitfire Island) added to Monuments in West Midlands by firstadekit on 19/08/2021

Sentinel is a 16-metre-high (52 ft) sculpture by Tim Tolkien, installed upon Spitfire Island, a roundabout at the intersection of the Chester Road and the A47 Fort Parkway.

It is near Junction 5 of the M6 motorway and the present day Jaguar Cars plant (the former Castle Bromwich aircraft factory). It shows three Supermarine Spitfires peeling off up into the air in different directions. The half-scale Spitfires are made of aluminium, with curving steel supporting beams which act as vapour trails. It captures the dynamics of the Spitfire in flight and commemorates the nearby Castle Bromwich factory where most of Britain's wartime Spitfires were built.

Firstly this is a busy junction, try to stay clear of rush hour, and the obvious precautions regarding traffic, take off away from driver visibility where possible so as to not be distraction and cause an RTC. Trying to fly 50 meters away is difficult, so use a sub 249g drone only within this area to keep within the drone code.

Secondly, seagulls. On this visit there was a colony of gulls that seem to use the Jaguar Land Rover Plant as home, probably a hot spot of left over food from workers. So whenever I got over that side (which the monument faces) then the gulls got interested which made getting good video footage frankly impossible, photos were a case of go in, photo, go out, repeat. I eventually gave up after several runs as didn't want a drone potentially falling on traffic after a gull attack.

Thirdly, this is just outside the Birmingham Airport FRZ, so don't stray!

If arriving by car use either the B&Q Car park or the Sainsburys car park near by. Both allow 3 hours free parking for 'customers only' be aware of the opening and closing times of the stores as the car parks do get locked up.

The best TOAL is where I've placed the marker, as this is a path on a gradiant and allows you to be higher up than the road giving a good VLOS.

The next best place is the opposite side of the A452 by the pedestrian crossing. There is a telephone junction box here which makes a nice stable TOAL point, however you are closer to traffic and could be a distraction to drivers, so use cauction, be sensible and only use this point at quieter points of the day.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_(sculpture)

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Co-ordinates: 52.51235, -1.797005 • what3words: ///ranks.bond.leads
The originator declared that this location was not inside a Flight Restriction Zone at the time of being flown on 18/08/2021. 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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