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The History Further reading: https://www.sussexias.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/34-2004.pdf https://www.cementkilns.co.uk/cement_kiln_shoreham.html https://www.southdowns.gov.uk/app/uploads/2022/06/Industrial-Archaeology-Study-Shoreham-Cement-Works.pdf...

Heyy, im Lauren, from portsmouth. Been to quite a few places now, exploring with my other half. Travelling all over West and East sussex. Would love to chat with others close by and make a little community round here.

History This place has held many names since its construction in the 1870s: St Cuthmans School, Wispers School, Stedham School just to name a few. Built by architect Richard Norman Shaw, the school’s architecture is somewhat breathtaking. It was initially constructed as a private residence up...

My first post here, and wanted to start with a bang. I’ve seen many people talking about this place and really wanted to see for myself. Fernhurst Research Station opened in 1945, and its main purpose was to research crop protection chemicals, specifically fruits. In 1951, a conference was...

History Constructed between 1874 and 1876, Wispers was designed by renowned architect Richard Norman Shaw for stockbroker Alexander Scrimgeour. In 1928, the estate was acquired by Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, a passionate aviator who added an eastern wing and built a hangar on the grounds...

History The mine was active from the late 19th to early 20th century worked by a contractor named Perrier and a sand-digger called Tom Nickham. The sand was sent to the Midlands by train from Pulborough Station for use as moulding sand for making iron castings. The mine tunnels are driven...

Information: Just to classify, I visited this location in September 2024, locating the actual site was not too hard if you stick to the path. There was no security, only a few wire fences that have rusted. Quite a bit of graffiti, but that didn't take away from the old machinery and buildings...

Hey everyone, my names Ewan and I live in Crawley, West Sussex. I have been casually urbexing for about 6/7 years but apart from my most recent visits, I have not done much since before covid! I'm 26, part of the lgbt+ alphabet mafia 😄 I'm looking for friends to visit new places in and...

BEDHAM CHURCH [Nr Petworth, West Sussex] My 15 year old daughter has been studying Photography as a GCSE and expressed an interest in ruins of old structures and the decay as nature starts to take back. I decided to take her here as it is a fairly easy and harmless place to access...

Cocking Lime Works and Quarry, Cocking, West Sussex - June 2022 Nice and easy explore this one (assuming you take a look at a map rather than brazenly striding away from the path as we did), with a pleasant selection of cable elevators in the chalk and the main crusher/kilns also relatively...

History - Cisswood House is one of England's most established and well recognised country house hotels, built in 1928 for the then Chairman of Harrods and his wife Cissily. It’s a reasonably sized hotel holding 51 bedrooms, swimming pool, 2 bars, gym, huge tea gardens for visitors. Cisswood...

Hi I'm new to the site but have been exploring for around a year, this is my introduction, I'm based in West Sussex in Bognor Regis and have primarily been to places within West Sussex but a few in Croydon, with a to do list of places in East Sussex. If you're from my area or interested in...

This is my first report so please tell me if I need to change anything or should do anything different next time. The History The Fernhurst Research station was a weed killer research facility for protecting the fruit industry from weeds. The ICI Plant Protection Division was founded in 1926...

This was the last explore @Landie_Man and I did after we did Shoreham. There was a definite end of the day feel here, as we spent about half an hour or so here. A brief history: the house was built in a Greek Revival style in 1825 and became a care home sometime in the 20th century, before...

Shoreham Cement Works History nabbed from @KPUrban_ 's brilliant report: https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/shoreham-cement-works-upper-beeding-july-2020.124129/ With operation starting in 1883 the works' began life as the Beeding Portland Cement Company with a production of over 140...