Wimpole Avenue
The famous double avenue of over 1,200 trees extending 2.5 miles south from Wimpole Hall was originally composed mainly of elms but these were wiped out by Dutch elm disease
Month: August 2026
Grimes Graves
Many thanks to Dr Jennifer Wexler, English Heritage’s Curator of History and historian of prehistoric sites, for permission to use my drone to captures images of this unique stone-age flint
Former RAF Alconbury
RAF Alconbury was one of those many RAF bases that, from WW2 until closure, was exclusively operated by the USAF. Most famously, in the 1980s and 1990s, it was home
Mullard RAO
The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory This is the western part of the site, nearest Barton Road. For my earlier images of other radio telescopes at the eastern end of the
The American Cemetery
The American Cemetery at Madingley, near Cambridge, contains the remains of 3,812 American war dead from World War II, marked by 3,732 Latin crosses and 80 Stars of David. Alongside
Crop Marks In The Drought
A few years ago, on a historical Google Earth view, I spotted a remarkably crisp and complex set of crop marks just north of Cambridge, between the A14 and Landbeach.