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Soothill tunnel is the only tunnel along the 4 1/2 mile spur, between Batley & Beeston junction via Woodkirk the tunnel is 659 yds long running from west to east runs beneath Quarry lane. The west portal lies in a step cutting with a retaining wall, both made of stone & in average condition the...

December 2025 Visited with @Mr Budge on a grand tour of Yaaaaaaarkshire tunnels, this being our fourth success of the day after Lee Bank, Clayton, and Greenside — confidence levels high, common sense rapidly declining. We rocked up at the tunnel portal and quickly found our way inside...

Sweet leaf is a continuation of the Batley beck with the Batley bus station culvert and Monument and transporter culverts below it . Scouting on maps there looked to be a few more underground sections to explore further upstream not sure if they would be up to much ? but nothing ventured...

Clerk Green Engineering Bit of a hidden gem this place IMO, though its not really hidden at all. I was in 2 minds whether to post but believe has been reported prev & has certainly been all over fb & the papers by Sheffield's finest! Forgive me here but any prev reports must of been a bit...

History: Construction began on a hospital located on Carlinghow Hill in 1881. The Earl of Wilton officially opened Batley and District General Hospital on Easter Tuesday 1883. The hospital would go on to serve the town for more than 100 years, with a number of extensions and improvements...

Having done Transporter ( again ) and the culverts under batley bus station i just needed to get monument done to complete the jigsaw . Parking up in the same place as before outside the Asda around 8am i climbed over the wall and was in the batley beck with no problem at all. The whole system...

Soothill (Woodkirk) Tunnel: Opened: 1890 Closed: 1953 659 Yards long. The Great Northern's 4¾ mile connection between Batley and Beeston Junction, on the Leeds branch of the East Coast Main Line, opened for goods traffic in July 1890, with passenger services introduced a month later. The...

Had been having a nosy on maps and was alerted to a possible culvert under the bus station at Batley , Speaking to Nuboid who is familiar with that area having done Monument he told me that it was uncharted ( so to speak ) which meant it probably wasn't much if anything at all , undeterred with...

After a little trip up the transporter t'other day thought I'd do the rest of it upstream which is called Monument Again, I won't bore everyone with all the details, like transporter, its been done before on numerous occasions and there is nothing further to add in terms of it's history and...

History All I know is that it opened in 1929 and was named Batley Hospital, until the progression of the NHS in 1948 when it was then known as Batley & District Hospital. The hospital closed in 1988 and later reopened as a care home, closing its doors for good in 1996. A Muslim all girls...

HISTORY Construction began on Cottage hospital located on Carlinghow Hill in 1881. The Earl of Wilton officially opened Batley and District General Hospital on Easter Tuesday 1883. The hospital would go on to serve the town for more than 100 years, with a number of extensions and improvements...

The Old Batley and District General Hospital Batley, England March 2020 - We're not too far removed from Crissis deacon's brilliant report of this place, but here's my interpretation from my visit in early March 2020. - HISTORY Construction began on a hospital located on Carlinghow Hill...

Explore: little remains inside the building with very few items shining light on the original use of the building. the main attraction left is the level of decay of the building, paint stripping from the walls, water and fire damage etc. not too much else to say about the explore as it was...

Wheelwright Grammar Schools were founded due to a bequest made by John Wheelwright (d.1724) in his will. In the 1960's the school had around 450 boys and was administered by the County Borough of Dewsbury Education Committee. The building later became part of Kirklees College as The Batley...

Could be a first this one, haven't seen this on here before. One of our guys spotted this place on his travels, it had been ravaged by fire but some of the building was still intact, and once we got in, the place was actually a lot better than we first thought. Couple of snooker tables had been...