The beef farm at the centre of UK mountainboarding
BBCFrom a distance, it could be a working farm like any other.
But take a closer look at the rolling fields just outside Gloucester and you might spot the flash of a helmet rushing down the hillside or a cloud of dust left behind four wheels.
This is Bugsboarding Mountainboarding Centre in Maisemore, the nation's last mountainboarding centre and - for the first weekend in August - home to the UK National Mountainboard Championships.
Nina Bubb, who runs the centre, has spent 23 years transforming what was once an empty field into a purpose-built track designed to bring aspiring mountainboarders into the sport.
The track started out as a site for scrambler bikes but after noise complaints she and her husband decided to set their sights on mountainboarding which - in the early 2000s - was seeing a boom across the UK.
"We have purpose-built it over the past 23 years - it's been a lot of hard work," she said.
Bubb added she is proud of the work they have put into the centre around safety as well as creating a space for people to experience and practise the sport.

Before Covid Bubb explained there were 11 centres, but one by one they shut down as people "couldn't afford to keep the doors open".
Despite this, she said, interest in the sport was growing - especially following the introduction of skateboarding to the Olympic Games.
"It's all terrain, all weathers, any time, any place - it's one of the best sports," she said.
"It's the first board sport anyone should learn because we teach you how to turn and stop, when [in] a lot of the other sports you don't have that option."
While the closure of so many other centres has been bad news for the sport, it does mean Gloucestershire has become a hub for those at the top of their game.

One such rider is Amon Shaw, who grew up in the area and was recently placed first in the downhill competition at the mountainboarding world championships in South Africa.
"I just love it because you spend a lot of time outside and it's just kind of doing something a little bit dangerous which gets the adrenaline going," he said.
"There's so many nice like-minded people to ride with and a nice little tight-knit community."
Bugsboarding, he said, had become a "hub" for the sport. "It's going strong and it's going to here for a long time I hope," he added.

The arrival of the UK championships, held across the first weekend of August, has brought enthusiasts from around the world - including 2025 freestyle champion Margaux Rowland from Bordeaux.
"The mountainboarding here is really, really great. We have the best feature I can ever ride here," she said
As for why people should think about getting into the sport, she said the "possibility to do anything you want" was the major draw.
"You just need to try [it]," she said. "You want to enjoy a moment of freedom and have fun - focusing on having fun is the best thing you can ever do."
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