John Fielding Aerial Images

The Broads could be a complete book - evolving history, discoveries, wildlife, sports, economy, less known broads, new broads ... future ... + aerial beauty!

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Sandringham House, Norfolk - bought in 1862 by Queen Victoria as a country home for her son Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII). The present house was built 1863–70 and remains the Royal Family’s private Christmas retreat #SandringhamHouse #aerial #image #Norfolk

Ranworth Broad aerial image. Formed from medieval peat digging between 12th & 14th centuries when locals cut turf for fuel. When sea levels rose, they flooded & became the broads. Now a National Nature Reserve managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust & in the Broads National Park.

Trimingham’s St John the Baptist’s Head Church. In the Middle Ages it housed an alabaster carving of the saint’s severed head, linked to the famous relic at Amiens & pilgrims came here to venerate it. It was lost at the Reformation but the name endured. #Trimingham #footage

Whimpwell Bay takes its name from the medieval village of Whimpwell, once standing on this stretch of coast. The settlement was abandoned centuries ago and the sea later claimed the site, leaving only its name on the map and these fast-retreating dunes as a reminder. #aerial

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Lovely article about our Norfolk lost villages book in this month's KL Mag. Fab aerial photos, as ever, courtesy of @john-fielding.bsky.social 👇

Looking over the southern arc of Whimpwell Bay towards Eccles & Sea Palling. It shows the effectiveness of the sea defences south of Happisburgh. #Eccles #aerial #Norfolk #Coast #CoastalErosion

How about that! Lovely high shot towards Lowestoft. I do the same on commercial flights, too ... try to pick out places I recognise.

Happisburgh last Wednesday afternoon #Happisburgh #Norfolk #Coast #aerial

A solitary Broadland church on the edge of Threehammer Common. St Peter’s at Neatishead began as a medieval chancel, was rebuilt around 1790 after its tower and nave collapsed, and has served the parish continuously since the Middle Ages. #Neatishead #aerial

A solitary Broadland church on the edge of Threehammer Common. St Peter’s at Neatishead began as a medieval chancel, was rebuilt around 1790 after its tower and nave collapsed, and has served the parish continuously since the Middle Ages. #Neatishead #aerial

Cromer in north Norfolk - winter aerial view #Cromer #AerialPhotography #Norfolk #coast

RRH Neatishead, Norfolk – the secure 2022–23 HYDRA site now housing the RAF’s Type 92 long-range Lockheed Martin radar, relocated from Trimingham. The radar itself dates from the mid-2000s and remains part of the UK’s and NATO’s air-defence picture. Operated for the MoD by Serco.

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RAF Neatishead, Norfolk, once the nerve-centre of Britain’s Cold War air defence. Built in the 40s, it became the longest-serving radar station in the world. The white dome houses the modern Type 92 radar, while the surrounding bunkers trace decades of evolving radar technology.

Walcott, Norfolk – aerial image. This coast has retreated for centuries, with deadly floods in 1953 & damage again in 2007 & 2013. Today the seawall, rock revetments, groynes & Bacton–Walcott sandscaping scheme battle ongoing North Sea erosion & rising seas #Walcott #aerial

At Walcott?

Walcott, Norfolk – aerial image. This coast has retreated for centuries, with deadly floods in 1953 & damage again in 2007 & 2013. Today the seawall, rock revetments, groynes & Bacton–Walcott sandscaping scheme battle ongoing North Sea erosion & rising seas #Walcott #aerial

Salthouse’s medieval church sits on the edge of what was once a wide tidal inlet. St Nicholas was built in the 14th C when the coast here was alive with trading creeks. By 1600s the marshes had silted, the shore moved north & the great shingle ridge formed the landscape we see today. #Salthouse

Salthouse’s medieval church sits on the edge of what was once a wide tidal inlet. St Nicholas was built in the 14th C when the coast here was alive with trading creeks. By 1600s the marshes had silted, the shore moved north & the great shingle ridge formed the l'cape we see today

Holme Pierrepont Country Park, near Nottingham with the 2,000m Regatta Lake of the National Water Sports Centre beside the River Trent. Built on former gravel pits in 1970–71 & opened in 1971, it hosted the first National Rowing Champs in 1972 & the World Rowing Champs in 1975.

If only they could invent a fruit filled pastry, they could be really busy ... and double the number of holiday homes.

Aerial image: Eccles in Norfolk - in 1086 a thriving village with 2000 acres under cultivation. By 17th century 300 acres remained. Today, nearly all lost to shifting dunes & coastal erosion #Eccles #Norfolk #Coast #coastalerosion #aerial

North of Castle Rising you’re looking at the ghost of the Babingley estuary – once a broad tidal arm of the Wash with creeks, saltmarsh & a small medieval port. From the 1300s it silted up & by Tudor times drainage had tamed it into the flat grazing marsh & farmland you see today #CastleRising

Marsh Farm - Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s future home in Wolferton, Norfolk. It just made it into the frame at the top of this aerial view of the village #Wolferton #MarshFarm #Andrew #Norfolk #aerial

Hold on though ... there's one more you haven't seen.

You know ... it's my favourite, too. Put in a lot of enjoyable time getting it to look like this.

+ the staff, security, hangers-on etc.