Visited with a non member,
We visited a couple of months back, nice walk with still some features left, getting my car blocked in by pikeys on the way out made for an interesting day, they gave it away a bit with a trailor and 3 tesco trolleys in the back
Done many times but here is some history
Monkton Farleigh ammunition depot utilised an old stone quarry below a plateau some 450 feet above the valley floor in which ran the main line railway that was its principal source of supply. Before the depot could be commissioned, an efficient means was need to bring in ammunition from the railway at Farleigh Down Sidings. The sidings were just over a mile from the depot as the crow flies but more than four miles by road along steep and tortuous country lanes
Monkton Farleigh Mine is the largest of the three Central Ammunition Depots and consists of 80 acres of tunnels and storage districts.
Built during WW2, it was decommissioned in 1965 and sold off in 1976.
Some pics
We visited a couple of months back, nice walk with still some features left, getting my car blocked in by pikeys on the way out made for an interesting day, they gave it away a bit with a trailor and 3 tesco trolleys in the back
Done many times but here is some history
Monkton Farleigh ammunition depot utilised an old stone quarry below a plateau some 450 feet above the valley floor in which ran the main line railway that was its principal source of supply. Before the depot could be commissioned, an efficient means was need to bring in ammunition from the railway at Farleigh Down Sidings. The sidings were just over a mile from the depot as the crow flies but more than four miles by road along steep and tortuous country lanes
Monkton Farleigh Mine is the largest of the three Central Ammunition Depots and consists of 80 acres of tunnels and storage districts.
Built during WW2, it was decommissioned in 1965 and sold off in 1976.
Some pics
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good report and pics also.
