Guess the landmark

Rowena
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We're challenging you to guess this UK landmark!

Hint: This particular landmark is in the South West!

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  • TimboC
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    Salisbury Cathedral.

  • Tinwheeler
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    It’s Salisbury Cathedral although the clue of South West threw me as it’s closer to London than to the 'proper' South West😂

  • DavidKlyne
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    I wondering if its Salisbury Catherdral?

    DAvid

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  • Cornersteady
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    I hope no one is cheating and using google lens?

  • Tinwheeler
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    Yeah, it makes all such games pretty pointless these days 🙄

  • DavidKlyne
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    My picture was taken by my own fair hand and comes from my website.At the time we were stsying at the CC&C site in Salisbury which is a relatively easy walk into the City from the site.

    David

  • TimboC
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    Not guilty

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  • SteveL
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    I also thought it was Salisbury but was put off by the south west designation. I know in the past the CAMC had some fairly strange views on where sites were located but their current south west offer does not include Wiltshire.

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  • Tinwheeler
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    Indeed, most of us think of the SW as being those 4 counties and even then the north bit of Somerset is dubious. But Wiltshire - nah. As I said, it’s getting close to London.

  • Takethedogalong
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    That’s the new cathedral at Salisbury. Old one is slightly further North🤭 Not much left of it though. 🤣

  • Frank Gill
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    Even Gloucestershire is now included in the southwest, anything past Exeter is up north for me !

  • Rowena
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    Thanks everyone for your guesses and also the great pictures shared!

    If anyone has a picture of a UK landmark they are happy to email me community.manager@camc.com I can use these in future posts. I can reveal later who took the pic!

  • Rowena
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    We have another landmark! Post your guesses in this discussion.

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  • Takethedogalong
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    🤔 no idea on this one. Might be some sort of WW2 leftover🤷‍♀️ might be a Neolithic mud hut🤷‍♀️ Lovely blue sky though.

  • DavidKlyne
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    I am stumped but then again its not a particularly clear picture.

    David

  • peedee
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    edited February 13 #17

    A trig point? I thought it might be

    this

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    but it doesn't quite match. However, Google Image was my friend

    peedee

  • Bakers2
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    Is it the pyramid in Sussex?

    I've never seen it but heard about it on an episode of Excess Baggage on radio 4. It's stuck in my mind

    I don't think it's a clear sharp photo sadly, and looking up the Sussex pyramid, at Brightling apparently, it doesn't look dissimilar.

    Of course the colour of the sky may suggest much further afield 😉 and certainly not lately 🤣🤣

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited February 13 #19

    I think the images are deliberately being made unclear to be honest. I made the image smaller and that made it sharper. It looks like it’s made out of stone to be honest, with a possible chimney/smoke hole on one side. We have a remarkably similar pyramid of unused steel slag just off the A1 near Ferrybridge, but I don’t think it’s that🤭

    I had to Google it, never been so didn’t know about it.

  • DavidKlyne
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    @Takethedogalong having been interested in photography from when I was quite a young lad, Box Brownie then and years later moved on to Canon SLR's I find it difficult to accept out of focus pictures. Sorry if that sounds a bit of photographic snobbery! Interestingly, following up on your comment I noticed the original photo in this thread is also not clear but the ones posted by members are. It might be the source of the originals that is the problem. Sometimes images are protected which might cause the issue?

    David

  • Tinwheeler
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    Either way, David, they're not conducive to comfortable viewing or to encouraging posting.

  • Takethedogalong
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    Yes I agree, I find out of focus stuff very off putting. All I could make of this one was what looked like stone, foreground looked like heathland, and an amazing blue sky. I think the Club has to have images to use in a certain format, but not very well up on sizing or other requirements. I do now know what and where it is, but only because I did some digging with Mr Google.

  • MikeyB
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    Didn't know it but Google lens has suggested it is -

     Prince Albert's Cairn, also known as the Balmoral Pyramid, located on the Balmoral Estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 

  • Takethedogalong
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    @MikeyB you spoiler😄 If you Google you aren’t supposed to give the answer, it’s cheating.