Huntingdon Riverside Park

A rare inland spot with genuine published permission, which is exactly what makes it worth the trip. Huntingdonshire District Council's drone guidance explicitly allows recreational flying in most of its parks and green spaces under CAA rules, naming only two exceptions (Hinchingbrooke Country Park and Paxton Pits), and Riverside Park is not among them. That clarity is gold in a region where nearly every scenic site is National Trust, RSPB or Wildlife Trust and off-limits. The park runs a couple of kilometres along the River Great Ouse with mown hay-meadow grass for clean take-offs, the handsome medieval Old Bridge, and Hartford church nearby for classic riverside compositions. Airspace is effectively unrestricted: RAF Wyton to the northeast ceased flying in 2013 and holds no active FRZ, and Cambridge's zone is over 20km away, though a same-day airspace check is still wise as air-ambulance activity uses the Wyton area. It's a town-edge park, so it's moderately busy at weekends and in summer; fly early on a weekday for calm and space. The council reserves the right to ask you to stop, so fly courteously around walkers and anglers. Portholme SSSI meadow lies just upstream, so avoid overflying it during the bird-nesting season.