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Alphabetical Index
By County : By Type
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The Aeroplane Graveyard
A collection of Cold War jets and aviation relics ranging in age from the 1960s to the early 1990s, slowly decaying in a Sussex copse. (Sussex)
Alderbrook Hall
See under Plas-y-Gwernant below
Arun G. H. Q. Stop Line
This WWII anti-invasion stop line consisted of anti-tank obstacles, traps, pillboxes and other defences, here is a list with photographs and descriptions of the defences on the stretch of the line from Lower Beeding to Slinfold.
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Bailing Hill Cabin
A derelict farmworker's cabin believed to have been used as a Women's Land Army Hostel during the Second World War (Sussex: opens in new window)
Barrow Hospital
The remains of the second Bristol City mental hospital, built to the then progressive colony plan. Opened in 1939, plans for expansion were interrupted by the war and never resumed.
It latterly suffered from poor management and lack of facilities and was closed in 2006 after being named 'Britain's dirtiest hospital'. (Somerset)
Baynards Brickworks
80 acres of heavily toxic wasteland incorporating a derelict brickworks, chemical laboratories, decontamination plant and a pair of Mid-Victorian cottages standing empty. (Surrey)
Bedham Mission Church of St Michael and All Angels
A modestly-sized ruined Victorian church that also served as a school for farming and charcoal burning communities. (Sussex)
Beedingwood
A remarkable house built in 1876 for philanthropic bacon merchant Thomas Denny. It later became part of a pioneering rehabilitation hospital for people with stress-related mental disorders. It closed in 1983 and was burned down in 2007 after these photographs were taken. (Sussex).
Berwick Wood Fuel Depot
Part of a vast underground storage facility for aviation fuel, built in the 1940s and still partly in use for defence aviation supply. (Gloucestershire: Opens in pop-out).
Betchworth Quarry/Limeworks
See under Box Hill Quarries below.
Capel Blaencaron
An isolated Calvinistic Methodist chapel and parsonage by the side of a mountain road (Cardiganshire)
Ysgol Sul Blaenwyre
A Calvinistic Methodist school-chapel on an isolated mountain road in rural Wales (Cardiganshire: Opens in pop-out)
Blue Prince Mushroom Farm
A closed Mushroom Farm in the shadow of a major airport (Undisclosed: opens in new window)
Box Hill Quarries
A complex site comprising two chalk quarries with the remains of kilns, limeworks and tramways. One of the quarries became a narrow-gauge railway museum in the 1960s, but both have now fallen into decay.(Surrey)
Boys' Village
The ruins of a holiday camp established in the 1920s by philanthropic industrialist Lord Davies of Llandinam for the sons of miners in his collieries. (South Glamorgan: West Aberthaw)
Brockham Quarry/Brockham Lime & Hearthstone Works
See under Box Hill Quarries above.
Bronwydd
A gothic fantasy of a mansion designed in the 1850s by R. K. Penson for the Baronets Lloyd of Bronwydd and abandoned to the elements after the war (Cardiganshire).
Bron-y-Berllan
A ruined 18th century farmhouse overlooking the ruins of Strata Florida Abbey (Cardiganshire: opens in new window)
Buckland Sand & Silica Co.
A sand processing plant and quarry founded in 1925 to produce high quality sands for the glass industry which closed in 1990 after a buyout (Surrey: opens in new window)
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"C" Woollen Mill
A small but industrious mid-Victorian Welsh woollen mill which once sent products all over Britain. In 1962 the mill closed for the last time and has been frozen in time ever since (Undisclosed)
Carmarthen County Infirmary.
See under Priory Street Hospital below.
Chichester High School for Girls
The redundant campus of a still active school which was founded here in 1908. Latterly used as a teacher training centre, it is now derelict and partly inhabited by homeless people and drug users (Sussex)
Christ's Hospital Station.
See under West Horsham below.
Cocking Limeworks
After more than a century of lime production, Cocking Limeworks closed in 1999. Most of the buildings, machinery and heavy plant left behind are now being reclaimed by nature. (Sussex)
Convent of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
A Victorian convent and grounds vacated by the community of carmelite nuns in 1994, with a once beautiful chapel devastated by deliberate fire in 2009. (Undisclosed)
Cranleigh Brick and Tile Works.
See under Baynards Brickworks above.
Cuckmere Haven Anti-Invasion Defences
Second World War anti-infantry pillboxes, gun emplacements, anti-tank obstacles, ditches, pillboxes and support buildings built to guard against anticipated Nazi landings at Cuckmere Haven.
(Sussex)
Cwmystwyth Lead and Zinc Mines
An extensive mining landscape littered with the shafts, adits, tips and buildings of a lead and zinc mining concern that collapsed in 1921.
(Cardiganshire)
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Derry Ormond Halt (M. & M. R.)
A small but well-preserved Great Western Railway halt on the dismantled Carmarthen and Aberystwyth line. (Ceredigion)
Devil's Bridge Scout Camp
A small village of wooden huts built in the woods where generations of children once holidayed. (Cardiganshire: Opens in pop-out)
Ditsworthy
An arson-ravaged Victorian villa in the shadow of Gatwick Airport (Sussex: opens in new window)
Dorking General Hospital Nurses' Home
Disused nurses' residences on an operational hospital campus including the badly fire damaged former home of the late 19th Century intellectual C.G.B. Allen (Surrey)
Dorking Greystone Limeworks
See under Box Hill Quarries above.
R. A. F. Dunsfold Battle Headquarters
A Second World War bunker built to co-ordinate airfield defence in the event of a full scale attack by hostile forces (Surrey)
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Ebernoe Common Brick & Tile Works
The restored remains of a small 18th century brickworks including kiln, pits and moulding shed on Ebernoe Common. (Sussex)
The Epsom Cluster
A photographic record and history charting the rise, decline, abandonment and redevelopment of the West Park, St. Ebba's, Horton, Long Grove and the Manor; the five great Edwardian hospitals and asylums which made up the 'Epsom Cluster'. (Surrey)
Esgair-Mwn Lead and Zinc Mines
The small concern that was Ceredigion's last metal mine reprocessed spoil tips from an earlier leadmining operation for previously discarded zinc until the 1950s. Today much still remains, including the ore dressing mill, mine office, shafts, incline and tramways (Cardiganshire)
Ewhurst Brick Works
Established in the 1920s and closed in the 1980s, this disused brickworks has found use as a habitat, a playground, a blank canvas and even a fishery. (Surrey)
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Field Place Pump House
A strange case: when the landowner decided to demolish this disused estate pump house, all the machinery was left in place after the walls and roof had been razed. (Sussex: opens in new window)
Frongoch Lead - Zinc Mines and Lletysynod Farm
An abandoned metal mine and mill complex, hydro plant and a traditional Welsh farmhouse in the uplands of Ceredigion. (Cardiganshire).
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Ysgoldy Gogoyan
A long-closed but well-preserved single room schoolhouse at the centre of a small hamlet in the Teifi Valley (Cardiganshire)
Graylands Farm
A 19th Century dairy farm in the Sussex Weald. The complex comprised a row of cottages, cowsheds, barns, stabling and later cattle stalls, all now converted to housing
(Sussex)
Graylingwell Hospital
The former West Sussex County Lunatic Asylum was opened in 1897 and served the population of West Sussex for over a century before closing in 2003. (Sussex: opens in new window)
Greystones Motel &: Trecastle Services
An abandoned and trashed motel and restaurant complex in South Wales last occupied by protesters against the burying of diseased sheep carcasses in the area in 2001 (Brecknockshire)
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Hang Man Barn
This gaunt, near-skeletal barn has, according to legend, a gruesome history as the place of execution for those condemned to death (Sussex: Opens in pop-out)
Hollywood or Horton Lodge
A badly fire-damaged Georgian mansion latterly used as a hospital annexe and care home, situated within the Epsom Cluster of Mental Hospitals.
(Surrey).
Horsham U.K.W.M.O. Monitoring Post
A small bunker built in the 1960s to be used by a team of volunteers as a base from which to monitor blast effects and fallout patterns and to warn the public and local authorities of immediate danger in the event of a nuclear attack (Sussex)
Horton Hospital
One of the Epsom Cluster of Mental Hospitals built in the first years of the 20th Century, largely redeveloped for housing but with a few original features such as the chapel and superintendent's house remaining unconverted. (Surrey)
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An anti-aircraft gun site built in the early years of the Cold War to shoot down enemy bombers, part of the NUCLEUS/IGLOO scheme of air defences. (Surrey)
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Kingsfold Nurseries
A small independent plant nursery which formerly supplied municipal flower beds. Also the first place the author ever worked. (Sussex: Opens in pop-out)
Kingswood Wesleyan Chapel
A roofless Victorian chapel in the suburbs of Bristol. Last used as a dance school and now badly damaged by fire and neglect (Gloucestershire)
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Laporte Earths
A hellish maze of conveyors, silos, calciners, mills and pipes used to produce granular fuller's earth for the chemical industry and for common cat litter. Closed in 1997, the site also includes offices, laboratories and a working men's club. (Surrey)
Lawns
See under Baynards Brickworks above.
Leswidden China Clay Works
An extensive complex of settling tanks, holding containers, kilns and flues used to wash and process china clay until the 1920s (Cornwall)
Leswidden Radio Station
A small hut on a Cornish moor with a small but significant part in the history of global telecommunications. (Cornwall: opens in new window)
Llanon U.K.W.M.O. Monitoring Post
A bunker built in the late '50s from which to monitor bomb power and fallout patterns in the event of a nuclear attack (Cardiganshire)
Lletysynod Farm
See under Frongoch Mines and Lletysynod Farm above.
Longhurst Lodge
A derelict Elizabethan Revivial keeper's cottage which stands at the start of an abandoned coachroad leading up to the site of a mansion destroyed by fire in 1979 (Surrey)
Lowerbarn Cottages.
See under West Horsham below.
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Mid Wales Hospital
A large turn-of-the-century psychiatric institution nestled amidst the Brecon Beacons and slowly rotting from the top down after conversion plans fell through in 2008 (Brecknockshire)
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Morfa Uchaf
This abandoned cottage will be familiar to anyone who travels regularly on the Coast Road towards Aberystwyth. A typical one-room Welsh longhouse, stables and a workshop adjoin to the north. (Cardiganshire: Opens in pop-out)
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Netherne Hospital
A walk around the mostly converted Surrey County Lunatic Asylum taking in a few of the less polished corners. (Surrey: opens in new window)
The Nook.
See under Dorking General Hospital Nurses' Home above.
Nutbourne Brickworks
A substantial 1930s brickworks site abandoned by its last operator over ten years ago. The works comprise sheds, workshops, offices and factory buildings, soon to be demolished to make way for houses (Surrey)
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Oddstones
A much-vandalised traditional stone cottage and some interesting stuff in sheds (Sussex: opens in new window)
Okewoodhill Radio Beacon
A former Air Traffic Radar beacon in rural Surrey (Surrey: opens in new window)
Old Buck's Head
A c.16th century cottage whose listing application was thrown out because of unsightly 1970s extensions. It was demolished a year after our visit to make way for an executive mansion. (Surrey: opens in new window)
Olmarch Schoolroom
An old Congregationalist chapel and schoolroom hidden in the bushes beside a busy road. (Cardiganshire: opens in new window)
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Peterwell
The ruined home of a despotic squire who shot himself having amassed huge gambling debts. (Cardiganshire: opens in new window)
Plas-y-Gwernant (Alderbrook Hall)
The dynamited ruins of a fine Welsh Georgian mansion deemed too expensive to maintain. (Cardiganshire: opens in new window)
Portsmouth Greyhound Stadium
An iconic 1930s dog-racing track that closed in 2010, mid season, to make way for an already ailing redevelopment initiative which is turning Tipner into a ghost town. Now being fast destroyed by vandals. (Hampshire)
Pound's Naval Shipbreakers
Portsmouth's famous shipbreakers, littered with the remains of various naval craft spanning more than a century. (Hampshire: opens in new window)
Priory Street Hospital
A derelict hospital in the centre of Carmarthen, founded in 1846 by voluntary contribution as a pauper infirmary and closed in 1996 (Carmarthenshire)
Pseudonymous Mill
An eighteenth century flour mill and attatched house extended in 1914 and last used by an agricultural merchant's business. Bought by developers in 2007, it has apparently been abandoned mid-conversion. (Undisclosed)
Purdown: Bristol No. 6 H.A.A. Battery
The bunkers, magazines and gun mounts of Purdown 'Percy' Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery now stand overgrown in the shadow of Purdown BT Tower but were once an integral part of Bristol's defences against air raids. (Bristol)
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Rowhook School
A long disused single-room Sussex schoolhouse later used as a mission room. Subject of an ultimately pointless legal battle in the 1980s, it now stands empty and decaying (Sussex)
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Shipley Special Duties Control ('ZERO') Station
A once top secret underground radio/telephone intelligence relay station to be manned by the ATS Auxiliary Unit in the event of a successful Nazi invasion (Sussex)
Silian National School
A decaying village schoolhouse closed in the 1970s. Latterly used as a village hall, until 2007 it housed a WWII roll of honour (Cardiganshire)
St. Mary of Pity
A much vandalised 1960s Roman Catholic church and presbytery closed in 2003 and still containing much of the paperwork, furniture and service sheets from when they were last used. (Surrey)
St. Matthew's Mission Church
A small church established as a mission of Llanbadarn Fawr in 1871 and closed at an unknown date within the last 15 years. Currently awaiting conversion to a 4 bedroom house. (Cardiganshire)
Parish Church of St. Michael, Llanfihangel Penbedw
A small parish church with mediaeval origins, much altered in Victorian times and then abandoned in the 1970s. (Pembrokeshire)
Stammerham Junction/Cottages.
See under West Horsham below.
Stormy Limeworks
A blue lias quarry and limeworks which fed the iron and steel works nearby with lime for the blast furnace. (Glamorgan: Opens in pop-out)
Swallow's Tiles Ltd.
A well-preserved small-scale Victorian tile and terra-cotta works which produced handmade clay tiles in the traditional way until forced to close in 2008.
(Surrey)
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Tangley Place
A Victorian mansion and later laboratories used by the M.A.F.F. as a field station for animal testing. Closed in 1996, devastated by arson and now demolished. (Surrey)
R.A.F. Tangmere
The remains of a large Battle of Britain airfield closed in 1970, slowly disappearing underneath housing estates and businesses. (Sussex: opens in new window)
Fferm Tan-y-Foel
An abandoned hill-farmhouse in an advanced state of decay surrounded by semi-derelict farm buildings (Carmarthenshire)
Tatsfield B.B.C. Receiving Station
A former BBC technical station which monitored domestic and foreign broadcasts and in 1957 was the first place in Britain to recieve signals from the Russian satellite Sputnik I. (Surrey)
Trecastle Services.
See under Greystones Motel above.
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Wassell Mill House
A Georgian miller's cottage and former schoolmistress' residence with some interesting original features. Demolished in 2012.(Ebernoe; opens in pop-out)
Whitefield's Tabernacle
An historic nonconformist church established by Methodist pioneers George Whitefield and John Cennick in 1741 and the large Victorian Gothic church built to replace it.
(Gloucestershire).
Welsh Martyrs' Church
A recently derelict Roman Catholic church in the modernist style still filled with the parahenalia of church life and liturgy. (Cardiganshire).
West Horsham
The railway boom town that never was: A large tract of derelict land comprising the overgrown platforms of Christ's Hospital Station, a disused barn, an old railway cutting and two derelict cottages. (Sussex: Opens in pop-out)
West Park Hospital
A sprawling redbrick complex built to house London's insane. West park is the last remaining of the Epsom Cluster, Europe's largest concentration of psychiatric hospitals and is currently awaiting redevelopment.
(Surrey).
Weyhill Services
East- and Westbound services on the A303 (T) closed after a devastating fire in 2004 (Hampshire: opens in new window)
Worplesdon Laboratory.
See under Tangley Place above.
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