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Walpole Bay Tidal Pool added to Beaches and Seaside Resorts in South East by gimbalflight on 18/04/2022

Parking is free just to the east of the pool in the carpark. Quite a steep single road down so be careful of pedestrians and other road users.

TOAL was from the beach. It was quiet but I imagine in the summer would be much busier.

Info on Walpole Bay Tidal Pool taken from The Historic England Webpage. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1421296?section=official-list-entry

Summary
A tidal sea bathing pool built in 1937.

Reasons for Designation
Walpole Bay Tidal Pool, one of two tidal pools designed by Margate's borough engineer in 1937, constructed in concrete blocks reinforced by reused iron tram rails, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Structural engineering interest: an ambitious project because of its scale, the weight of each concrete block, and that work needing to be carried out day and night because of the tides; * Scale and design: impressive in scale and shape, occupying 4 acres and three sides of a rectangle, the sides 450 feet long diminishing towards the seaward end which was 300 feet long; * Social historical interest: provided an improvement to sea bathing at the period of the greatest popularity of the English seaside; * Degree of intactness: intact apart from the loss of the two diving boards which do not often survive; * Group value: situated quite near the remains of the 1824-6 Clifton Baths (Grade II), an 1935 lift and the other 1937 tidal pool.

History
Walpole Bay Tidal Pool was built in 1937, one of two tidal pools constructed at the same time in Margate, the other at Marine Terrace opposite Cliftonville Lido. Both were constructed in order to make it possible for large numbers of people to bathe in the sea at all states of the tide because, owing to the gradual slope of the beach and the considerable tidal range, low water mark at spring tides could be as far as 300 yards from the promenades.

The pool covers over four acres and its dimensions are 450ft long, 300ft wide at the seaward end and 550ft long at the landward end. It cost circa £7,000. The top level of the wall was arranged so that the pool was completely submerged at every tide, ensuring a sufficient change-over of sea water twice a day. Fresh water springs rise from the beach within the walls providing fresh water from the floor of the pool. Originally two diving boards were provided.

PLAN: three sides of a rectangle, longer at the landward side where there is no wall. There is a break near the landward side of the western wall. The dimensions are 450ft at the sides, 300ft at the seaward side and 550ft at the landward end.

DESCRIPTION: built of interlocking concrete block walls with concealed iron tram rails running about 5ft deep into the chalk foundation and up to within one foot of the top of the wall. The wall is two or three feet wide, about two or three feet deep at the landward side but increases in depth towards the seaward end to enclose a pool about seven feet high at this end. There are two-foot wide overflows in the top course six inches below the top of the wall so the top water line is always six inches below the top. There are four flights of steps with iron handrails and three penstocks are fitted in the outer walls in order to empty the pool, which took about two hours.

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Co-ordinates: 51.39307, 1.404185 • what3words: ///trend.state.ears
The originator declared that this location was not inside a Flight Restriction Zone at the time of being flown on 15/04/2022. 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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National Lift Tower and Franklin's Gardens Rugby Ground, Northampton (By richrab)

The National Lift Tower (previously called the Express Lift Tower) is a lift-testing tower built by the Express Lift Company (a lifts division of the General Electric Company off Weedon Road in Northampton, England. The structure was commissioned in 1978 with construction commencing in 1980 and was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 12 November 1982. It has been a Grade II Listed Building since 1997
Designed by architect Maurice Walton of Stimpson Walton Bond, the tower is 127.5 metres (418 ft 4 in) tall, 14.6 m (47 ft 11 in) in diameter at the base and tapers to 8.5 m (27 ft 11 in) at the top. The only lift-testing tower in Britain, and one of only two in Europe.

Franklin's Gardens (currently known for sponsorship purposes as cinch Stadium at Franklin's Gardens) is a purpose-built rugby stadium in Northampton, England. It is the home stadium of Northampton Saints and Loughborough Lightning. The stadium holds 15,249 people. It is also a conference, meeting, and events venue, as well as the only Premiership Rugby ground with its own cenotaph, the setting for a ceremony every Remembrance Weekend.

I was at max allowed height, so could not get a top down picture of the tower.

Quite a strange location as the tower is in the centre of a hosing estate, parked on the street in between the tower and the stadium

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Co-ordinates: 52.23885, -0.921164 • what3words: ///sticks.trails.spend
West Bay, West Dorset (By richrab)

West Bay, originally known as Bridport Harbour, is a small harbour settlement and resort on the English Channel coast in Dorset, England, sited at the mouth of the River Brit approximately 1.5 miles south of Bridport. The area is part of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site.

The beach and harbour were quite busy so TOAL was from public carpark back from the seafront.

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Co-ordinates: 50.71108, -2.763053 • what3words: ///finest.inherits.dance
Charmouth, West Dorset (By richrab)

Charmouth is a delightful unspoilt seaside village set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with a fantastic beach world renowned for its fossils.

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Co-ordinates: 50.73355, -2.900051 • what3words: ///cult.degrading.wiggly
Kings mill, Horsham (By grandad1950)

Kings Mill or Shipley mill is a traditional smock mill built in 1879. Tricky access as the local path is closed and so a bit of a trek across the fields of Knepp Estate is needed

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Co-ordinates: 50.98486, -0.372586 • what3words: ///pitching.crackling.hormones
Pittenweem Harbour, St Monans and Pittenweem (By outRAGEis)

Really easy access to the harbour. Just park up at the Crazy Golf and it's free for 2 hours which is more than enough time to get down to the harbour. Follow the path down and within 5 minutes you're there ready to fly and the harbour and village are small so there's not too many tourists around either.

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Co-ordinates: 56.21175, -2.728295 • what3words: ///fewer.rinse.tomorrow
The Lindsay / Lord Wantage Monument, Vale of White Horse (By gasbag43)

Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage, was a soldier, politician and philanthropist.

He co-founded the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War, which later became the British Red Cross. He was also the first man to win a Victoria Cross in the Crimean War

He died in 1901. Lady Wantage erected a monument to Lord Wantage in 1903.

The monument stands on a Bronze Age round barrow adjacent to the Ridgeway at Betterton Down near Lockinge, Oxfordshire.

As well as the historical significance of the monument, the Ridgeway national trail and the ancient barrow on which it stands, the area is surrounded by gentle rolling Oxfordshire countryside and beech tree clumps

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Co-ordinates: 51.55659, -1.390071 • what3words: ///replaying.signs.earl
Scutchamer Knob, Vale of White Horse (By gasbag43)

Scutchamer Knob, also known as Cuckhamsley Hill is an early Iron Age round barrow on the Ridgeway National Trail at East Hendred Down in Oxfordshire.

Originally called Cwichelmeshlaew or Cwichelm's Barrow, it is recorded as having been the place where King Edwin of Northumbria killed Cwichelm of Wessex in AD 636 and, in the Middle Ages, became the meeting point of the shire moot (or market) which was abolished in 1620.

It was long thought to be the actual burial place of Cwichelm but the mound has been excavated several times without serious finds.

The barrow is privately owned but there is free public access through a metal kissing gate.

Free parking is nearby in an informal car park on The Ridgeway

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Co-ordinates: 51.56237, -1.342778 • what3words: ///chainsaw.goal.bills
Cherbury Camp, Vale of White Horse (By gasbag43)

Cherbury Camp is a multi-mound hill fort-like earthwork north of the village of Charney Bassett in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire. The site is connected to the village by a footpath although there is no public access to within the fort itself.

The fortification was protected by three ditches and embankments, a stream and a marsh. It had an entrance on its Eastern flank. It is larger than its better known counterpart, Uffington Castle (location also on Drone Scene), on the Ridgeway. The location may seem odd compared with the many hill forts however, it was strategically placed at the narrowest neck of land between the River Thames and the River Ock.

In structure and unusual siting, it resembles nearby Hardwell Castle (location also on Drone Scene). Its current form may date from the latter part of the middle Iron Age, most probably from after 200 BC

Legend has it that the local inhabitants of Uffington Castle travelled the intervening 6 miles to raid Cherbury Camp, where King Canute and his invading army were encamped. However, a young shepherd boy spotted them and blew his horn as a warning to the Danes. They are said to have consequently prevailed in the subsequent battle, which took place at the crossroads halfway between Charney Bassett and Buckland. The area became known as Gainfield as a result.

However true or otherwise this local legend may be, the horn, known as the Pusey Horn, is now housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

The site is a scheduled monument

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Co-ordinates: 51.66396, -1.460023 • what3words: ///matchbox.jumbled.soccer
Seven Barrows, West Berkshire (By gasbag43)

Seven Barrows is a Bronze Age bowl barrow cemetery, 4-hectare (10 acres) of which are designated a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, at Upper Lambourn, Berkshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust and it is a Scheduled Monument.

Nationally important for its archaeology as well as its wildlife, this ancient and atmospheric site has a wonderful variety of chalk grassland flowers and butterflies -the area is an unimproved chalk grassland with a rich flora and over 100 species of herbs have been recorded. It is also very rich in insects, especially butterflies, including small blue, brown argus, chalkhill blue, dark green fritillary and the scarce marsh fritillary.

The Seven Barrows site (there are actually 30 of them in the vicinity) may have been one of the first areas to have been cleared by early humans from woodland to create arable pastures

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Co-ordinates: 51.54396, -1.527164 • what3words: ///mystified.plantings.pushing
Oaks Park, Sutton (By grandad1950)

aerial view of the 53 hectare Oaks Park in Carshalton in the London borough of Sutton. Extensive parkland , trees and public open space. Another wide open space to fly in south London

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Co-ordinates: 51.33773, -0.168539 • what3words: ///open.riots.assume

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