Wentworth Woodhouse Stately Home - Added to Historic Buildings in Rotherham, Yorkshire and the Humber

Where to fly your drone in the UK
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I have just added this to the map of places to fly your drone at Drone Scene:

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Situated in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

Wentworth Woodhouse is the largest, privately owned estate in the UK and has been used as a location for a number of movies and TV series including:

Films:

Darkest Hour
Downton Abbey (movie)

TV Series:

Victoria (ITV)
Gentleman Jack (BBC)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (BBC)
Charles III
Billionaire Boy
The Irregulars (Netflix)
Bodies (Netflix)
The Regime (HBO)
Most Haunted (Sky)

The originator declared that this location was not inside a Flight Restriction Zone at the time of being flown on 07/04/2025. It remains the responsibility of any pilot to check for any changes before flying at the same location. Landowner permission may be required before taking off.

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What a really nice shot of my house… wakes up… oh not my house… Looks nice.

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Does it take any special permission to fly and film or photograph there?

I’m considering going in the morning, well before opening time of 10am, to get early day lighting.

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Well, I went ahead and flew it the other morning. Just posted some pics I took.

I went before opening so as not to deal with any pedestrians or traffic. And the light was pretty good, too.

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Where did you TOAL from? Thanks / Ian

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There’s a TOAL and parking marker on the map already, but if Jon @cadrepilot took off from somewhere else it’d be great if he could add more useful markers :smiley:

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I’ve just added a new Take Off And Landing marker to this location @Badwolfe :slightly_smiling_face:

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I’ve added markers for parking and TOAL.
I parked at the Gunpark, Free Public Parking, on B6090 and walked in.
I walked in past the estate to a 3-pronged fork in the road. Left is private, right goes to visitor parking, center is a path along a fenceline. I took the path along the fence. At just under 150 meters, the fence cuts to the right/south, and I followed it for a bit (perhaps 30m) on the side away/east from the estate. That put me about centered with the estate, just outside the fence and away from anyone’s interested. Gave me a good VLOS of my my drone while flying, too.

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