Walesby Church, Market Rasen.
Walesby Church Market Rasen
Located in a Lincolnshire town called Market Rasen, this medieval church that dates back to the 12th century stands tall on top of a hill nestled in the quaint village of Walesby, which is where it gets it’s name ‘Walesby Church’ However, it’s officially known as Holy Rood Church of Walesby.
Walesby Church
This beautiful church supports features of medieval architecture along side elements of Early English, Norman and decorative gothic styles. If you’re ever out and about looking for this glorious church, you won’t miss it as it’s tower rises above the beautiful uneven countryside. Walesby church is also known as ‘’Ramblers Church’’ more so by locals as it is a much loved location within the walking community due to it’s position in the Lincolnshire wolds. It is known to host events such as walking festivals, walking activities and more within the ramblers community.
To reach this church, you have to walk up a dirt track hill and situated to the right hand side, in amongst the beautiful rolling hills, the church is there to greet you. It really is a great place to go exploring. When we got there there was seemingly nobody around, apart from a lone artist who was sat painting in the doorway of the church. We checked our drone assist app before we sent our drones up to check there were no flight restrictions active. There were two drone flyers on this occasion so we took it in turns to fly our drones so that one of us could act as a spotter for the other drone user.
The views from the church were beautiful, It was a really great location to explore and we got very lucky with the weather too.
Once we had finished with our Airbourne activites we entered the church yard to get some ground footage of the church. It was then when we found the local artist in the doorway who seemed very interested in what we were doing, it’s always great meeting fellow creatives on our journeys. She then told us the church was in fact open for us to enter, She lead the way gave us a brief tour and then left us to it.
Inside the church it was very clear that it wasn’t a very ‘used’ church if you like, it was dusty and seemed a bit run down but that didn’t take away from it’s quaint beauty. You can clearly tell that the village of walesby really do look after this church.
Photo Gallery By Pink Dreams Productions.
Photo Gallery By Drone Alone.
If you’re local to the church, don’t just take it from our video’s and pictures. It’s really worth going to check it out for yourself and we’d love to know what you thought of it in the comments below.
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Exploring RAF Scampton
Come with us on our ‘Exploring RAF Scampton’ Journey. RAF Scampton is now a Former RAF station but was in the past home to the Dambusters and The Red Arrows.
RAF Scampton was opened in 1916 as a royal flying corps station and is now an inactive RAF base situated just past Scampton Village in Lincolnshire, UK. It was well known for its bomber operations during World War ll and is famously known for it being the home base for the famous ‘‘Dambusters’’ who were known for their execution of Operation Chastise. A mission that utilized innovative bouncing bombs on the vital dams in Ruhr Valley, Germany in May 1943. It later became the Home base for The Red Arrows in 1983.
Exploring RAF Scampton
Photograph by Drone Alone 2024
Unfortunately, In 2018 it was announced by the Ministry of Defence that RAF Scampton would be closing. Meaning that it was then time for the Red Arrows to relocate. The future of RAF Scampton is still uncertain and has been subject to speculation and changes.
We Took a visit to RAF Scampton, documenting what it looks like now. It’s sad to see all the amazing parts of it stood there, like ghosts of the past however, it’s a great trip back through history.
Photography by Drone Alone 2024
Photograph by Drone Alone 2024
Here are some fun facts about RAF Scampton;
RAF Scampton was initially known as Brattleby, which is a nearby village to Scampton.
RAF Scampton still today has it’s Grade ll Listed buildings, such like hangers and various other buildings dating back to Scamptons early years.
During WW2, Scampton was used for Glider training. Gliders were used to silently transport equipment and troops behind enemy lines.