south wales

This was an unplanned visit - saw an opportunity as I drove past and, thankfully, took it. It's worth noting that, should you visit, the gatehouse is occupied by an irate lady and at least two Great Danes. She wasn't best pleased to see me as I was leaving History The Coach House and stables...

During March 1994, I spent some time looking at colliery remains in South Wales. This included Maerdy and Tower collieries, the latter of which closed the following month. Whilst I was in South Wales, I took the photographs reproduced in this reports and scanned from the original coloured...

Was on a brief trip to South Wales with little planning recently when I came across this gem. Having already seen Cwm Cokery, I was struggling to find more industrial ruins to go and see. After having a look at Penallta and Navigation Collieries, albiet unable to gain access, as well as quick...

Hi everyone, This is my first post in here, I have done a few explores but not taken many photos, but thought I would post some on here :) I'm from South Wales / Forest Of Dean area. Couldn't gain access to the location but still an interesting explore with two vehicles (I only pictured one)...

Yesterday’s explore and one of the coolest ones to date, the overflow tunnel for the waterworks near the Brecon Mountain Railway. Due to not knowing what the tunnel is actually called and countless hours of researching tunnels and history of welsh tunnels on google, there is not much history...

A recent adventure - The Morlais Tunnel, also commonly known as Morlais Junction or The Miler. I have walked The Miler previously, when I was around 16 years of age when myself and my friends used it as a shortcut when we were late home - although, it never seemed as eery back then. History...

When I first mentioned to my friends who are involved in the urban exploring community and have been for a while, most recommendations where “go to Talgarth asylum and have a look - you’ll soon know if this is for you”. Well, that’s exactly what I did... not for long, due to being stopped by the...

Stumbled across these abandoned terraced houses whilst out on a walk not so long ago. There's not much history to be found about the place but from what I have found out from history forums and speaking to an elderly gentlemen whilst walking back down the mountain, these houses belonged to the...

I've always loved exploring around this spot, purely because there's always something new to find whenever I go there. Outdoors, the winding wheels still exist and still turn (in the wind). You have to climb through a gap in the fence to get to these structures properly but a majority of the...

Going through memory cards from last year I found this little gem, the Pen-yr-Orsedd quarry. Although many of these quarry buildings are slowly returning to nature there's a certain level of photographic derpy-ness about them that I love. Maybe it's the fact that most derelict surface stuff in...

Hello there, I'm Dan. My partner, Seb and I made this account hoping that it will be an easy way to start keeping tabs on our explorations and site visits. I am a natural history student, and I'm particularly interested in wildlife photography, with a digital SLR, I hope to find some more photo...

I’ve been visiting the site for a while before actually joining as I kind of wanted to get the basics pinned on how people present themselves here as well as the do’s and don’ts etc. Buzzing to see so many of the reports here are informative & helpful and people’s photography is immense! Small...

Thought I’d pop over to this forum and say hey before I get back into my research. I’ve been looking at getting into the whole urbex thing for a while but as I can’t drive yet it’s kinda hard for me to go to places other than my local towns. Anyway I hope that perhaps I can find some neat...

Hello everyone. My name's Luke, I'm 17, and I've never explored before. I've been closely looking at it on youtube however, so there's that. I hope to explore within due time the Witchurch abandoned hospital so yeah. I'm excited to explore that. So that was my Introduction if you have any...

Hi guys, I'm Rob, 34 years old and I live in South Wales (Newport area). I've never managed to get out and do any exploring yet so I'm very new to this. I often find myself wondering what's about in my area so I guess there's one way to find out... Looking for some people in my area to...

Wenallt AAOR bunker Abandoned in the late 70's the bunker is sealed from the outside world aside from two narrow entrances. I visited twice throughout November. Entrance to the bunker was a tight drop around 10ft, with ledges assisting decent. upon leaving we found a second exit through a...

First report, so tell me if I need to add/remove anything. The building: It's proving difficult to find any real history on this building, but it was closed around 2010 as a new comprehensive school wthe as built near by. Before it closed, there were three buildings in Cowbridge being...