Holsworthy drone survey, Devon

We measure Holsworthy at close to 36.3 miles from Exeter, reached by the A3072, cutting west past Okehampton towards the Cornish border. That puts it one of the longer runs we do regularly, and it's one of the journeys built into how we plan a week's work rather than something we treat as a one-off.

Holsworthy sits on the same pricing system as the rest of Devon: address and brief decide the number in EX22, not which side of West Devon the job happens to sit on.

The same weather rules apply in Holsworthy as anywhere on the West Devon round: a flight gets pushed back for wind or rain, and it's treated as normal, not a cancellation.

For Holsworthy, being further along Devon changes nothing about the registrations carried: CAA operator status, checked in EX22 the same way as an Operator ID and Flyer ID would be anywhere else on the West Devon round.

Around Holsworthy, EX22 included: A modest Victorian and Georgian centre, terraced and detached cottages, a very large proportion of working farms, barns and agricultural sheds in the surrounding parishes, and post-war estates. It's the kind of spread that means the brief changes street to street across West Devon.

Locally, in Holsworthy: A small market town on the Culm Measures plateau of north-west Devon, on open rolling farmland with the Deer valley below and the Cornish border a few miles west. None of that stops a EX22 survey happening, it's simply factored into the flight plan alongside the address and the brief. Holsworthy viaduct is the kind of local landmark that makes a EX22 address in Holsworthy easy to picture, not far from Ruby Country farmland.

Aerial photography on its own gets asked for around Holsworthy too, usually for a sale, a planning application, or simply a record of a EX22 property, separate from any condition check.

Holsworthy sits within West Devon, Devon, which is how we group the round internally as much as how the EX22 postcode reads on an envelope.

A EX22 job in Holsworthy sits on the same West Devon run as Bude, Bideford and Great Torrington, which is usually how one trip out from Exeter covers several bookings rather than one.

Booking for Holsworthy starts the same way as anywhere in EX22: tell us the postcode, what needs looking at, and the dates that would suit. We confirm rather than promise a slot first.

Nothing about West Devon changes what happens after the flight. A written report within 48 hours goes out for Holsworthy the same way it does for a EX22 job right in Exeter.

The same run usually takes in Launceston as well, and closer to Holsworthy itself, Stanhope Park and Tamar Lakes are the kind of landmarks that make an address easy to place before we've even driven out.