The Gate.
The entrance off the road, the first thirty metres of the track and about half the car park. It exists so you can see the queue before you spend an hour driving to it.
- Angle
- Fixed · 28 mm
- Live
- All year · Check before you drive
- Uptime, 90 days
- 99.5%
What it is actually pointed at.
The car park is the size the car park is, and the number of people who may be on this site at once is set by a planning condition rather than by us. On a bank holiday the queue reaches the road by half past nine and stays there.
This camera is the one genuinely useful thing on the whole of Gawping. Look at it before you leave. If the verge is full, it will still be full when you arrive, and you will have driven a long way to look at a hedge you could have watched from home.
No number plates are legible at this distance and the framing stops short of the public road. That is deliberate and it is covered in the rules.
Worth watching when.
| When | What you get |
|---|---|
| 08:30–10:00, weekends | The queue forming. If it is at the road, it will be there all day. |
| Weekday mornings | Deliveries, and about four cars. |
| Bank holidays | Do not come. Watch instead. That is the entire message of this page. |
| After closing | An empty car park, a closed gate, and a security light. |
Across the year, on this camera.
Quiet.
The best time to visit, and nobody does.
Busy at weekends, manageable midweek.
Full, most days, from opening.
Busy to the end of October, then quiet again.
The rig on this one.
The Gate
- Mount
- Gatepost bracket, 3.2 m
- Lens
- Fixed, 28 mm equivalent
- Stream
- 720p at 25 fps, 1.4 Mbps
- Framing
- Stops short of the public highway, by design
- Plates
- Not legible at this distance, checked and confirmed
- Uptime, 90 days
- 99.5%
Uptime is the rolling ninety-day figure. When the stream is not available this page shows the last good frame instead: A stamped still every five minutes, which for a queue is nearly as useful as the live feed.
The four things every camera here promises.
Fixed
No pan, tilt or zoom for anybody outside the farm office.
Silent
No audio on this camera or any other.
Pointed at us
No footpath, no neighbour’s land, no public highway in frame.
Fallback
A stamped still every five minutes, which for a queue is nearly as useful as the live feed.
The other cameras.
Nine others, all fixed, all silent, all pointed at this farm.
What is worth watching this month.
A table of the whole year, camera by camera, so you are not opening ten tabs to find the one with something in it.
