Easton Maudit and Bozeat

Solar panels will be positioned on land in view from the villages. Travelling out of Easton Maudit by car, on foot, bicycle or horseback will take you past huge arrays of panels in all directions. Farming, walking, natural wildlife and beautiful open-sky vistas will all be severely impacted for at least a planned 60 years.

The footpath below with Easton Maudit church ahead, cuts through a field to be covered in solar panels.

Historic Easton Maudit village, largely owned by Castle Ashby, will be surrounded by solar industrialisation

Around 700 acres of farmland around Easton Maudit will be lost to solar panels and associated construction. The fields are outlined in red below, showing the impact on Easton Maudit and its neighbouring villages and hamlets.

The conservation village of Easton Maudit faces enclosure by the steel and glass of Green Hill Solar industry in a continuous arc of 290 degrees, spreading up to Bozeat and towards Strixton. Many houses are Grade II listed and built from local stone, with the Grade 1 listed Church of St Peter and St Paul dating back to 1320: an inspirational landmark to surrounding villages. Neighbouring the church is the former parkland of Easton Maudit Hall surrounded by four mature Cedar of Lebanon trees, gracing the local landscape. From the churchyard, the uninterrupted views across agricultural land, permanent pasture and woodland across stone walls, hedgerows and brooks to church spires of neighbouring villages, will be lost to solar arrays and security fencing. Beautiful and ancient footpaths and bridleways that lift the soul, offer year-round changing views dependent on the seasons and the farming calendar, including towards the castellated roofline of Castle Ashby. These will be severely impacted by Green Hill Solar, including the route to Horn Wood – mentioned in 14th century documents – flanked by mature oaks and stone walls. The natural habitats of deer, hares, badgers, birds and countless other wildlife will be invaded by the glare of tilted panels, ‘danger of death’ signs, security fencing and new buildings. The essential character and amenity of historic Easton Maudit will be destroyed, permanently lost to today’s inhabitants and future generations.

The view from Easton Maudit Church of St Peter and St Paul, to St Mary’s Church in Grendon, will be infilled with solar panels

View towards Sharplands, Grendon: the field in the foreground will be covered by black, glinting solar arrays

Standing on the brook bridge (Grendon/Easton Maudit road on the left): the view up the hill to Grendon church will be obscured by solar panels in the field beyond

On the footpath with Grendon and the brook behind, heading towards Easton Maudit church: another field to be filled with solar panels

View to Easton Maudit from footpath to become a scene of industrialised agricultural land

Agricultural land growing valuable crops between Easton Maudit and Grendon to be replaced by solar industry

Farmland to be lost to solar industry

View south from derelict barn towards Easton Maudit: acres of farmland to become a solar landscape

View from Grendon brook towards Bozeat with Easton Maudit church in background: fields to be industrialised with solar arrays

Field behind and beyond the bridge covered in solar industry

On leaving Grendon and passing Top Lodge, the fields beyond the brook towards Easton Maudit will be industrialised by solar panels