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From the air you can see just how self-contained Launde Abbey is, tucked into its own bowl of countryside in east Leicestershire. The big house sits on a terrace above the valley of the River Chater, with the old stable yard on one side, a dense belt of trees on the other and the walled kitchen garden and glasshouses laid out below. Beyond that the park rolls away in every direction, dotted with mature oaks, ponds and grazing stock, with the drive looping in from the ridge.
This quiet valley has a long history. Around the early 1120s the royal official Richard Basset and his wife Maud founded an Augustinian priory here. By the time Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the late 1530s Launde was a well-endowed religious house bringing in the thick end of four hundred pounds a year in income – serious money for a rural community. The king’s chief minister Thomas Cromwell had his eye on it and arranged for the lands to be granted to him, although he was executed before he could enjoy his prize.
It fell instead to his son Gregory Cromwell to turn the old priory into a grand country residence. He built a new house on the site, keeping part of the former priory church as a private chapel, and he and his wife Elizabeth Seymour – sister of Queen Jane Seymour – lived here until his death, when he was buried in that chapel. Their Elizabethan house set the basic footprint for the building that survives today.
Over the next two centuries the estate passed through several gentry families. In the early seventeenth century it was bought by the Smiths, then in the mid-eighteenth century by the Simpson family, who invested heavily in the park and plantations. In 1828 Mary Finch Simpson married Edward Dawson of Long Whatton and the Dawsons commissioned the architect Thomas Rickman to remodel the old house. During the 1830s he refashioned it into the tall, gabled, E-shaped country house in this photograph, giving it its present roofline, chimneys and large mullioned windows. The work and associated landscaping ran into many thousands of pounds, a major outlay for the period.
By the mid-twentieth century the upkeep of a place like this was becoming difficult. In 1957 the businessman Cecil Coleman and his wife bought Launde, paid for modernisation and repairs, and then gave house and grounds to the Church to be used as a residential retreat for the dioceses of Leicester and Peterborough. Later campaigns raised roughly a million pounds to upgrade bedrooms, services and public rooms so that the buildings could continue to earn their keep.
Today Launde Abbey is run as a Christian retreat and conference centre, welcoming groups and individuals for quiet days, courses and holidays. The aerial view shows the whole working community: the main house with its chapel wing, the old stable and service court, the rectilinear walled garden still growing fruit and vegetables, and the sheltering trees that mark the line of the former priory precinct. Nearly nine centuries after the first canons arrived, the site is still being used as a place of reflection and hospitality, only now with visiting parties arriving by car rather than on horseback – and occasionally by microlight overhead.
The castle where Henry VI was born. Aerial view of Pembroke Castle in Pembrokeshire - Wales UK aerial image
Aerial view of the Chapel of St. Alban - serving as the Giggleswick School chapel in North Yorkshire.
Built 1897 to 1901 funded by Sir Walter Morrison and marked Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
Designed by TG Jackson in the Romanesque Revival style.
Giggleswick aerial image
Aerial view of Crown Point depot in Norwich (very high definition collage stitched together from 37 aerial images) - Norwich Norfolk aerial photograph
De gauche à droite, entrecoupées par des canaux, les rives Riva Ca' di Dio, Riva San Biago et Riva dei Sette Martini à Venise, en Italie.
Une vue à partir de notre bateau de croisière.
Fondée peu après 528 par des réfugiés fuyant l'invasion lombarde, Venise fut la capitale pendant onze siècles, de 697-1797 de la république de Venise. Devenue aujourd’hui capitale de la Vénétie et située au milieu de la lagune vénète, entre les estuaires du Pô et du Piave, Venise est renommée pour cet emplacement exceptionnel ainsi que pour son architecture et son patrimoine culturel, qui lui ont valu en 1987 une inscription au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO (WHL-394).
Ici vous reconnaîtrez sans problème la halle aux draps et le "Mammelokker" la maison du geôlier. La place s'appelle le "Poeljemarkt"
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City view of Ghent from the top of the belfry
Here you will recognize easily the cloth hall and the "Mammelokker" the house of the jailer. The square is called "Poeljemarkt"
Aerial view of Hatfield House in Hertfordshire. Built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to King James I. It has been used as a set in countless films - UK aerial imagery
Aerial view of St Andrew & St Patricks church in Elveden - burial place of Ranjit Singh - leader of the Sikhs who once controlled a united Punjab. Suffolk UK aerial image
Great Yarmouth / Gorleston aerial image - Offshore platform under tow from the CPBS multicat Hound Dog & the TMS tug Christine. Entering the River Yare & Gt Yarmouth Harbour #GreatYarmouth #aerial #image #Norfolk #Aerialphotography
Castle Ashby aerial image - Northamptonshire. Built around 1574 to 1600. Landscaped by Capability Brown #CastleAshby #aerial #image #Northamptonshire #AerialPhotography
Crown Point train maintenance depot by night - Norwich aerial view #Norwich #aerial #image #GreatAnglia #Rail #aerialphotography
Norfolk aerial image
North Norfolk coast aerial view - Burnham Overy Staithe on the left (out of view), Burnham Deepdale & Brancaster Staithe in the distance. Scolt Head Island in the middle right
Photographed in full-frame detail using a Nikon D850, this is a high-resolution aerial image.
Aerial view of Eaton Park rose garden in Norwich - Norfolk UK - aerial image taken with a sub 250 gram DJI Mini 2.
Aerial view of the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, opening in 1864. He described the bridge as 'my first child, my darling' but died 5 years before it was completed.
cliftonbridge.org.uk/historical-timeline/
The bridge spans the Avon Gorge above the River Avon in Bristol - UK aerial image
From the air you can see just how self-contained Launde Abbey is, tucked into its own bowl of countryside in east Leicestershire. The big house sits on a terrace above the valley of the River Chater, with the old stable yard on one side, a dense belt of trees on the other and the walled kitchen garden and glasshouses laid out below. Beyond that the park rolls away in every direction, dotted with mature oaks, ponds and grazing stock, with the drive looping in from the ridge.
This quiet valley has a long history. Around the early 1120s the royal official Richard Basset and his wife Maud founded an Augustinian priory here. By the time Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the late 1530s Launde was a well-endowed religious house bringing in the thick end of four hundred pounds a year in income – serious money for a rural community. The king’s chief minister Thomas Cromwell had his eye on it and arranged for the lands to be granted to him, although he was executed before he could enjoy his prize.
It fell instead to his son Gregory Cromwell to turn the old priory into a grand country residence. He built a new house on the site, keeping part of the former priory church as a private chapel, and he and his wife Elizabeth Seymour – sister of Queen Jane Seymour – lived here until his death, when he was buried in that chapel. Their Elizabethan house set the basic footprint for the building that survives today.
Over the next two centuries the estate passed through several gentry families. In the early seventeenth century it was bought by the Smiths, then in the mid-eighteenth century by the Simpson family, who invested heavily in the park and plantations. In 1828 Mary Finch Simpson married Edward Dawson of Long Whatton and the Dawsons commissioned the architect Thomas Rickman to remodel the old house. During the 1830s he refashioned it into the tall, gabled, E-shaped country house in this photograph, giving it its present roofline, chimneys and large mullioned windows. The work and associated landscaping ran into many thousands of pounds, a major outlay for the period.
By the mid-twentieth century the upkeep of a place like this was becoming difficult. In 1957 the businessman Cecil Coleman and his wife bought Launde, paid for modernisation and repairs, and then gave house and grounds to the Church to be used as a residential retreat for the dioceses of Leicester and Peterborough. Later campaigns raised roughly a million pounds to upgrade bedrooms, services and public rooms so that the buildings could continue to earn their keep.
Today Launde Abbey is run as a Christian retreat and conference centre, welcoming groups and individuals for quiet days, courses and holidays. The aerial view shows the whole working community: the main house with its chapel wing, the old stable and service court, the rectilinear walled garden still growing fruit and vegetables, and the sheltering trees that mark the line of the former priory precinct. Nearly nine centuries after the first canons arrived, the site is still being used as a place of reflection and hospitality, only now with visiting parties arriving by car rather than on horseback.
Black Beacon
1913-1915 the RFC established an airfield and experimental site for weapons and aircraft testing
1918-1924 the site was largely dormant.
1924-1939 Used by the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment (A&AEE) mainly for bomb and machine gun testing.
1935 Radar Research led by Robert Watson Watt.
1939-1945 Secret testing of radar, weapons and electronic warfare.
1953-1971 Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) Testing of nuclear weapon components. Included construction of the pagoda blast buildings.
1971 the military withdrew.
1993 National Trust acquired the land to be nature reserve and historic site.
Aerial view of pagodas, bunkers and buildings on Orford Ness on the coast of Suffolk
Hello John, I'm carrying out some research on Orford Ness as an intern at the University of Exeter, and came across two brilliant aerial images of yours on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/john_fielding/54445823760/in/photos... and www.flickr.com/photos/john_fielding/54443303864/in/photos...). I'm helping create an ArcGIS Storymap as an open resource for heritage practitioners/academics that would be publicly available, and therefore wondered whether we could include these two images of yours in our storymap if we gave you full credit in the image information? This research is purely for academic purposes and not for profit. Many thanks,
Une vue de 2012.
Avec la pointe de Espagnols au milieu qui marque l'entrée de la rade de Brest..
les 12800 isos du D4 "dérawtisés" par DxO 10. ça passe.
2012 aerial shot from Brest city (foreground) to Camaret (background)at the blue hour .
Une vue à partir du 60e étage du gratte-ciel J.P. Morgan Chase Tower situé au 600 Travis St, Houston, Texas, USA.
À droite, on voit la Bank of America Center (1983) avec ses 3 pignons de granit rouge inspirés des maisons hollandaises. Depuis sa construction en 1981, la tour J.P. Morgan Chase dessinée par Ieoh Ming Pei (architecte du Louvre) est, avec ses 75 étages et ses 305 m, le gratte-ciel le plus haut de Houston.
Aerial view of the Norman Manorbier Castle (Welsh: Castell Maenorbŷr) in Pembrokeshire - Wales UK aerial image
Sheringham aerial image - Norfolk coast #Sheringham #aerial #image #Norfolk #Coast #NotFromADrone
Coastal North Norfolk aerial view
Photographed in full-frame detail using a Nikon D850, this is a high-resolution aerial image
aerial view of the north Norfolk coast - heading towards the Blakeney National Nature Reserve - Norfolk coast UK aerial image
Mountsorrel Quarry aerial image - north of Leicester. 754ft deep. On average, over 4 million tonnes of pink granite are produced from here each year #Mountsorrel #Tarmac #quarry #Leicestershire #AerialPhotography
Stoke Rochford Hall aerial image - Jacobean style Victorian country mansion in Lincolnshire. Once home to Kesteven College of Education. Now a hotel & conference centre #StokeRochfordHall #aerial #image #Lincolnshire #aerialphotography
Aerial view of Stoke Rochford Hall in Lincs
Aerial view of Norwich Station - also known as Thorpe Station. Built in 1886 replacing the original station built in 1844 - Norwich aerial image
Aerial view of cattle wading through the flood waters in the River Waveney valley after Storm Babet in October 2023
York Minster aerial image - the Cathedral & Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York! Started around 1080. Subject to fires in 1753, 1829, 1840 and 1984. #YorkMinster #aerial #image #Cathedral #York #NorthYorkshire
Rougham Control Tower Aviation Museum aerial view - former RAF Bury St Edmunds which opened in 1942 for the USAAF and closed in 1946. Rougham Airfield closed 2023
Suffolk airfield aerial image
Photographed in full-frame detail using a Nikon D850, this is a high-resolution aerial image