A view of Claydon House in Buckinghamshire. Claydon house, now owned by the National Trust, was built and owned by the Verney family. It is a Grade I listed building. Filmed with a DJI Mavic 3, using the telephoto lens.
I like all these old houses. But for proper posh, just a few miles from this one is one of the Rothschild's houses, Waddesdon Manor. I'll see if I have enough footage of that one to make a video - though again I suspect it would have been using the telephoto lens on my original Mavic 3, which isn't the best for quality, sadly, as can be seen from this video.
Such a popular, upstanding family tthat a railway junction was named after them. Or, more likely, they had a big hand in building the railway and, therefore, were entitled to put their name to Verney Junction.
@@theboy-uk Yeah, back in the day when rich people had a plan and invited investors to take a punt on that plan. The whole 19th century railway network was built that way. OK, some branches never turned much of a profit but people had a rail service in far-flung places and could board a train from Nowheresville in Scotland or Wales towards whichever Big Smog took their fancy. Fast forward 170 years and we have HS2, a tax-payer funded, government-run abortion of a project. No risk involved, a bottomless pit of money to splurge, no deadlines to meet, no investors nagging about delays or costs. The Verney family will be laughing in their graves. Old Oak Common to Curzon Street is not quite what the government promised us. All the sensible stuff was ditched early on: the direct connection to HS1; the spur to Heathrow etc ... I'm miffed not because so much money has been wasted and environmental damage done. It's the fact that, on paper, there was a worthwhile vision for the future of our railway network but the government was/is, hopelessly, not up to the job of realising that vision. The Verneys had to deliver on their vision otherwise the money would dry up.
@@theboy-uk My family had a church named after them in Northumberland and a village sprung up from it. Kirkharle and East Harle, where my family originated from. Sadly no inheritance for me though.
Lovely flight capturing this wonderful property. Great video 👌 ❤
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the trip around Claydon House :)
Smooth flight around amazing building.
Thanks - I do struggle with that amount of zoom to keep the subject central!
That’s a nice house. A lot neater than the giant house I was at last weekend.
I like all these old houses. But for proper posh, just a few miles from this one is one of the Rothschild's houses, Waddesdon Manor. I'll see if I have enough footage of that one to make a video - though again I suspect it would have been using the telephoto lens on my original Mavic 3, which isn't the best for quality, sadly, as can be seen from this video.
@@theboy-uk I’ve always kept away from flying around people’s homes but, sometimes I’m tempted if the place is unoccupied.
@@StevieProton Indeed, privacy plus just purely causing concern is enough to keep me a long way back as a rule.
Such a popular, upstanding family tthat a railway junction was named after them. Or, more likely, they had a big hand in building the railway and, therefore, were entitled to put their name to Verney Junction.
Given that Verney Junction is probably around 1 mile as the crow flies, they probably owned the land!
@@theboy-uk Yeah, back in the day when rich people had a plan and invited investors to take a punt on that plan. The whole 19th century railway network was built that way.
OK, some branches never turned much of a profit but people had a rail service in far-flung places and could board a train from Nowheresville in Scotland or Wales towards whichever Big Smog took their fancy.
Fast forward 170 years and we have HS2, a tax-payer funded, government-run abortion of a project.
No risk involved, a bottomless pit of money to splurge, no deadlines to meet, no investors nagging about delays or costs.
The Verney family will be laughing in their graves.
Old Oak Common to Curzon Street is not quite what the government promised us.
All the sensible stuff was ditched early on: the direct connection to HS1; the spur to Heathrow etc ...
I'm miffed not because so much money has been wasted and environmental damage done. It's the fact that, on paper, there was a worthwhile vision for the future of our railway network but the government was/is, hopelessly, not up to the job of realising that vision.
The Verneys had to deliver on their vision otherwise the money would dry up.
Really nice, love these old places, such a grand old place. I see they even had their own church as well. Not bad eh?
Not many people can say they have a church in their garden, 50 yards from the house!
@@theboy-uk My family had a church named after them in Northumberland and a village sprung up from it. Kirkharle and East Harle, where my family originated from. Sadly no inheritance for me though.
@@davidharle952 Impressive 👍