Hot Air Balloon Flights Over East Midlands
The Ballooning Business offers you the opportunity to go ballooning in Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. You will be able to view the English countryside from a new perspective, savour the pleasure of seeing the world wake up or enjoy the sunset whilst drinking your champagne, served in crystal glasses from a table spread with a linen tablecloth.
Balloon Rides Over Northamptonshire
Take a balloon ride from Northampton and you may see many stately homes such as Castle Ashby, Althorp (Home of Princess Diana), Holdenby House, Cottesbrooke Hall, Whittlebury Park, Stoke Pavillions and Stowe School as well as flying over the beautiful Nene Valley with its lakes and rivers and the famous playgrounds of Billing Aquadrome and Wicksteed park. The renowned motor racing circuits of Silverstone and Rockingham can appear on your flight as well as Towcester Race Course and Santa Pod Raceway.
Balloon Rides In Bedfordshire
Balloon flights over Bedfordshire provide the likelihood of a view of the Airship Hangars at Cardington, the base for the R100 and R101, as well as the world famous home of the Shuttleworth Collection near Biggleswade. The Duke of Bedfords' wildlife park at Woburn is probably the best known of the various animal parks in Bedfordshire, much as Millbrook Proving Ground is one of the pre-eminent motor vehicle testing facilities in the UK.
Balloon Rides In Cambridgeshire
Go ballooning near Peterborough and you may see a fine view of Peterborough Cathedral or Longthorpe Tower as well as a sight of the Fens. The eastern part of the Nene Valley is a picturesque part of the countryside and through it runs the Nene Valley Railway, home of Thomas the Tank Engine. Grafham Water Centre provides a base for water sports and adventure activities and the area around the lake is open for cycling, birdwatching and general leisure use.
Balloon Rides Over Leicestershire
Champagne Flights from the Leicester area may provide the opportunity to see Leicester Cathedral with its 220 foot spire, or the grounds of Stanford Hall or Rockingham Speedway. Leicestershire is one of only three counties entitled to produce Stilton cheese and Quenby Hall also produces Red Leicester cheese.
Balloon Rides From Buckinghamshire
Our flights have been known to pass near the concrete cows in Milton Keynes and the Snowdome. You might also see Bletchley Park, The National Codes Centre, formerly known as "Station X" and the main site where the decryption, code named Ultra, of the messages produced by the German Enigma coding machines was done.
Balloon Rides Over Oxfordshire
North Oxfordshire has many sites to be seen from the air, Banbury Cross, the Renault F1 headquarters at Enstone, Sulgrave Manor home of George Washingtons ancestors, Hook Norton Brewery, the splendours of Blenheim Palace to name but a few.
