I have just added this to the map of places to fly your drone at Drone Scene:
Land owner permission requirements unknown.
Bolton Abbey in Wharfedale, North Yorkshire, England, takes its name from the ruins of the 12th-century Augustinian monastery now known as Bolton Priory. The priory, closed in the 1539 Dissolution of the Monasteries ordered by King Henry VIII, is in the Yorkshire Dales, next to the village of Bolton Abbey.
The estate is open to visitors, and includes many miles of all-weather walking routes. The Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway terminates at Bolton Abbey station one and a half miles/2.5 km from Bolton Priory.
Iām of to Bolton Abbey soon with my family and Bolton Abbey is on the Drone Scene map but on their website it says no drone flying.
If I canāt fly there thatās fine but how far does this restriction apply around the abbey ?? as there are other attractions in the area. The abbey is just NW of Leeds Bradford airport well outside of its Class D airspace.
Hope I can find somewhere to fly when we go.
Thanks in advance
Lots and lots of threads on here about similar rules and they almost always conclude āThey can stop you taking off/landing, but they canāt stop you flying in the airspace. So find somewhere else to take off and land and youāre fineā.
That said - looking at their website, the estate is huge and includes 48 of the surrounding farms and 1500 acres of woodland. Good luck figuring out what is/isnāt āthe estateā and then finding a suitable TOAL spot.
Hi, Niko. Yours is yet another query that can be answered in short with: They can forbid you from taking off, controlling and landing (TOAL) your craft from their land but they donāt own the skies above it beyond a height that allows them āreasonable enjoyment of their propertyā. So if you can find a public space nearby that you can fly from, follow the drone code, and maintain a sensible height, youāre good to go.
Most recent thread thatās covered this extensively is this one:
When I got to Bolton Abbey I didnāt find any no flying drone signs. Does the estate have to post these as the only no flying was on the website ?
As it happened I didnāt fly just in case!!
I said that to them you have drone footage but spoken to 2 diffrwnt people and they told me no fly zone and if caught action will be taken , just passing on info
Just want to mention something to take into consideration ā¦
Whilst public rights of way do give you the right to pass and re-pass along a route, the land you are walking on is still owned by someone. That landowner is within their right to say ānoā to you toal from that land.
In most cases the first we would know about that is if the landowner or their representative approaches us when weāre flying, and tells us.
When that happens, if you pack up and move on - no harm done.
However in this case the landowner has explicitly told said āno toalā from their land. It puts you in a weaker position should you be discovered flying from a public right of way cutting across the estate.
