Kilve Beach

Kilve is Somerset's slice of deep time: vast grey limestone pavements striped with shale, laid out in sweeping curves that only make sense from the air. Top-down shots of the wave-cut ledges at low tide look like contour maps, and the ruined medieval chantry and oil retort chimney near the car park give you land subjects too. The Quantock coast here is quietly excellent for pilots — no National Trust ownership, no airport FRZ, and modest visitor numbers even in summer, mostly fossil hunters working the foreshore. The land is part of the East Quantoxhead estate, which runs the honesty-box car park; TOAL from the foreshore below high water keeps things simple, or use the rough grass by the car park away from other visitors. Two things to respect: the cliffs are actively eroding and shed rock, so don't encourage anyone to stand under them by hovering there; and Hinkley Point's nuclear licensed site sits about six kilometres east with restricted airspace over it — no reason to be anywhere near it, but know it's there before you go exploring along the coast. Big spring tides expose the most rock; flat calm evenings give mirror reflections in the ledge pools.