devon

I'm sure some that will know of the 'hidden' ww2 communication bunkers dotted around the coastline, the remaining sections of railway, tunnels and various other structures from the 50/60's along with multiple smuggling and mining tunnels that are within the North Devon area. I'm looking for...

Whilst down at the Jurassic coast accidently came across this gem... When it opened it had a restaurant, bar, gym, swimming pool, squash court and sauna. It has been abandoned since 2004/5 and has had numerous offers for planning permission for new hotels and apartments although they have all...

Hello everyone. Today we visited very odd and old place. We spotted it while driving past. I tried to do research but I can not find any info about it at all. It seems to be an old church which was turned into stables and pig houses.

Hey there! I started actively urbexing last year but wondering if there's anything decent in South Devon or surrounding areas. I live in Torbay and there's not much there that I haven't seen. Anyone got any suggestions?

History The firm was set up in 1831 by Edwin Tucker in Ashburton who traded as agricultural merchants, seedsmen and maltsters. His son, Parnell chose to move to the buildings current site, beside the railway, close to Newton Abbot train station in 1898. The building was designed by William...

Bishop's Court in Torquay was once one of the premier places to stay. Panoramic views over Torbay, exclusive rooms and listed parts of the building added up to a prime location in the whole of Devon. In 2010, falling business lead to parts of the hotel being converted into apartments, leading...

History The china clay works at Marsh Mills were begun in the early years of the twentieth century when a large pan-kiln was constructed to dry the china clay which was brought down from the clay pits at Lee Moor by pipeline. A pan-kiln is a primitive form of drying liquid china clay by a...

Adrenaline-filled explore last week at the Corbyn Hotel. As soon as we found the open window at the back, we scooted through and immediately heard the alarm, the sign of those damn motion detectors. The main noise seemed to be coming from the reception area, this in the end turned out to be...

known about this one for a while and decided to have a look, we had a look around for any entrances and found a gate that was open just enough to squeeze through into the back of the airport . first we had a look in some outbuildings that were heavily vandalized, still,some very old computer...

Woollen Mill in North Tawton, Devon. Been posted in the past but nice to see updates. It has been tidied up and site cleared to make way for building works. They have knocked down the site nearest the Gregory Distribution yard and now started building houses. Soon to build more houses and...

History Built at a cost of £4000, Tavistock guildhall was opened on 5th October 1848 and is one of the earliest surviving purpose built combined police station and courthouse in England. The building was paid for by the dukes of Bedford using their wealth generated by the mines in the local...

On a very warm, sunny Easter Sunday myself and two friends ventured to South Devon to the Tides Reach Hotel. Being 22C the beach was packed, we had parked up in the Pay & Display car park opposite and spent a few hours enjoying the sandy beach. Patiently waiting for beach-goers to head back...

Me and 4 friends drove an hour to South Devon on what was just a photo lead I found on someone’s Facebook, and when we got there we weren’t disappointed, this stunning hotel was what we found. Although gaining access to the actual main building itself posed multiple challenges and was hugely...

I visited in October 2018 but only now been able to post. While looking around I bumped into the police as I was coming out. They where nice and let me finish looking around. The tunnels are regularly used by drug users so the police walk through most of the time. 3 main areas to this site...

HISTORY "The Wenford Dries were built in the early part of the 20th century (probably post-1907) to serve the china clay pit at Stannon on Bodmin Moor some 7.2km to the north east. Liquid china clay was carried in a pipeline from the pit to the settling tanks behind the dries. The dries operated...

EXPLORATION After seeing some other forums for this place, I decided to go there myself, on a cold foggy morning, which really helped set the tone, and hide from the workers... I visited this place in hope to find a particular warehouse/factory that is no longer in use, however this aim was not...

HISTORY Built at the beginning of the 20th century to process raw china clay following extraction, Wenford Dries is a huge derelict china clay factory in the quiet countryside of Devon. The building is reported to be the longest Listed building in the UK (over 500m long) and has been derelict...

First visit and upload to this website. Decided to go to a fort that hasn't had many posts about it. We managed to look around the outside of the fort, finding many old buildings and rooms of such. However, we did manage to see a corner of the fort that seemed to look unusual, so decided to...

Currently touring the country with exploring with josh and exploring with Cody from youtube, and I took them to this neat little resort. The owners live on site and own a restuarant next to it, so we went inside and bought some food and chatted them up. After getting on their good side they...

Hey - I’m pretty new to urban exploring and I’ve found passion in it, I’ve been looking through the threads and some of you have found some incredible places! I’ve been to a few locations (mostly Devon) but finding it extremely hard to find things that still exist (Ilford polish camp, wall park...