Abandoned Places

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I find old abandoned places fascinating. If its safe and legal I will often stop for an explore

Anybody got anything interesting nearby? Am i alone with this love of urban exploration?

even churches and churchyards have me stopping by for a good look

I'd like to do it but not on my own! Anyone in and around the Oxfordshire area, let's go!

I am geeky about disused railway lines and railway heritage, and to a lesser extent, canals. This is a great website - I can spend hours looking at it: maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/?fbclid=IwAR1GNhpcZWQl0EY8wDbzsVVDSkSUqjJnMBhHC4GFIkLMjekD0IHrVbr0d80#zoom=5&lat=56.00000&lon=-4.00000&layers=1&right=ESRIWorld

I also love old concert halls and theatres and old schools.

@JuergenSchwarzwald me too! I follow some disused railway groups on Facebook. Also the Disused Stations website is great!

Search 'Virginia Waters' on 28DL - some amazing mansions there with huge back stories.
I spend a good chunk of my evenings on there!

@Purpleseaside just looked up Baron Hill mansion. Wow! If I ever go back to the area I must try and find it!

Following this.
I'd be too scared myself but like to watch on line.
I like swimming pools and theme parks. The abandoned Disney park is interesting

And j like the tours around pripyat
Its not nice to see anyone who is disrespectful of places and I did hear a sad story of people who were 'urban explorers'and kept going into a cottage but the lady was still living there just in hospital and the family found her home online
That's why I like the theme park ones. I also dont like the fake staging of rooms etc

Many years ago, in the 1997/98, I was walking with a friend through London, I think it was somewhere in west London. There was a completely abandoned hospital and the ward still had beds and all sorts of hospital paraphernalia. It was really weird. I wanted to go in and explore but my friend was worried that it wasn't safe it probably wasn't so we just walked on. It looked like something from another era.

Peacemaking.

There's a society for people if you (like me) like underground stuff www.subbrit.org.uk/

[quote Viryanth]There's a society for people if you (like me) like underground stuff www.subbrit.org.uk/[/quote]
just lost an hour on that! v interesting though