Aerial Video of Knavesmire House and Autumn Leaves Hexa 2

It's been pretty miserable on the weather front lately, nothing but grey skies and drizzle for the most part, so I was quite pleased to see a bit of blue sky yesterday afternoon and seized the opportunity to film some autumn colours on the trees at York Knavesmire.

I often overlook filming at the Knavesmire because it's sort of the default place to go and test RC flying stuff as it's a very large, open space. However, there are interesting elements to the Knavemire around the peripheries and there is also the race course and grandstands etc. I think I should do some more aerial videos here in the future with my Mikrokopter as I only made experimental films here before with some pretty aweful machines and cameras.

For this video I thought I would stay right in the bottom corner so I could fly along a straight tree-lined street, over the top of a wooded walkway and get some footage of a curious house and garden that's in the middle of the road. The house has always interested me, the way the road has been built around it and it remains stubbornly in place.

At 3:11 there is a little grey square of stone which is the spot where they used to hang people in York, most famously the highwayman Dick Turpin. In fact the name Knavesmire comes from this hanging spot, i.e. Knave meaning criminal and the Mire being the boggy ground the area used to be. In fact the whole area used to be kind of swampy until the king ordered it to be drained and have a horse racing course built there. Later on it was always contrived that Race Days would coincide with Hanging Days to create larger crowds for the races. It is said that they would hang people on trumped up charges if there were no legitimate hanging cases to coincide with a major racing event.

Anyway, in this aerial video I love the colours on the trees, and I really like the tree at around 5:00 that has a big splat of orange beneath it where the leaves have dropped from the branches.