This website uses cookies to improve your experience. List of Plans of Abandoned Mines Deposited In The Home Office Under the Coal And Metalliferous Mines Regulations Acts Corrected to 30th June 1889. Buchanan Castle is very much a case in point. I hung around long enough to see the light fading and the eeriness crank up a few notches before my nervy walk back to the car. With Halloween upon us, there seems no better time to bring my recent findings together for an explorative look at some of my favourites to date. This was really interesting. Diving right in, this place is amongst the most atmospheric of them all. Ironstone. Subscribe to Blog via EmailEnter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Found north of Glasgow just outside of Lennoxtown, the negative atmosphere and dread emanating from this place is truly chilling….despite the unexpected presence of Celtic’s state of the art training facility next door.

It remained as a family home until 1925 before it was de-roofed (a common tactic that necessitates that no tax needs to be paid) in 1954. Please visit the shop if you wish a copy of any of our photographs or if the image is not for sale please contact us. Consider supporting our work by becoming a member for as little as $5 a month. A scenic canyon with thick forests and historic ruins. If you have been following my activities on social media in recent months, you’ll likely have noticed that old, abandoned and derelict places have featured regularly. This list of derelict places has unquestionably focussed on mansions. Its exterior walls have been consumed with creeping vegetation that would please Poison Ivy herself; interiors are dealing with armies of shrubs, bushes and full-grown trees. Plans were floated in the last fifteen years to convert the site to flats. Supposed to be the “Ayr Hard Coal”, Coal. In the non-Monty Python World, the Cave of Caerbannog is really the abandoned Tomnadashan Mine. Built for George Murray, the fifth Earl of Dunmore, its imposing style, set in vast rural grounds, says much about the desire for opulence. I’m learning that, although hundreds were destroyed in the 20th Century in particular, there remains dozens of derelict places of this ilk begging to be researched and visited. Families come and go. Hi Hazel, hmmm that’s a shame. A 3-storey building of the Norman castle style, its for-decoration-only battlements immediately deliver a You Are Not Welcome Here message that only intensifies under further scrutiny. My interest in poking about derelict places started here earlier this summer.

This Abandoned Coal Mine In Scotland Is Now A Modern-Day Stonehenge Coal is going out of business in Scotland. Featuring as the makeshift hospital where Claire was treating war-wounded, even the savvy location scouts saw the grim visual potential of the place.

Would you want to live here?!? Wondering if you can guide which of these is actually attainable and realistic to attempt to reach if I were to prioritize one or two throughout my visit. Much of the northern end of the House has completely collapsed, trimming its size considerably. Johnstone, Splint, Lady Grange, and Coxrod. Built in the 1820s, you can find it in relatively decent condition in a remote spot near Airth in Central Scotland. It's a steep climb up the hill. Pyotshaw, Main, Splint, Virtuewell, and Kiltongue, Coal.

Scotland's first free lending library which protects literacy through inheritance. Her ghost is still said to frequent the sad ruin that would once have been a magnificent home. Stories of malnourishment and physical abuse have surfaced as well with grotesque claims of inhumane treatment and conditions for those residing here. Try looking for CALDWELL HOUSE. Not maintained or carefully monitored they are not safe to explore and great care should be taken in and around them. Virtuewell, Kiltongue and Upper Drumgray, Coal. Both Cambusnethan and Crawford were designed by renowned architect James Gillespie Graham. Lusciously set to the south east of Loch Lomond and to the west of Drymen, this mysterious mansion was constructed in the 1850s for the Montrose family by James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose. I’ll admit it, I’m hooked. She’s a powerful beast and isn’t the type to take some bricks and mortar as any sort of barrier to her Right to Roam – resulting in vibrant growths throughout. Please click below to consent to the use of this technology while browsing our site. Or Buchanan and Lennox too as they are in the same vicinity (about 30 mins apart). Finding a good place to park can be difficult, as you must make sure you aren't blocking the single-track road. Great stories and served to fuel my quest for authentic Scottish history even further! In its time it has served as a hotel, restaurant and a mock medieval banqueting hall. I am almost entirely certain that there is a much simpler way but no matter, I’m in no mood to revisit my ineptitude. He was promptly arrested and treated here and was never to be a free man again. The only one on this list undergoing any sort of concerted effort at preservation, the Friends of Cambusnethan Priory are nobly doing their utmost to prevent further deterioration. shame they have left it, it’s a beautiful place and building. then look at the adjoining roof its marley tiles,ON A LISTED BUILDING are you kidding me, then you walk round the building and look at the cast water drops some are missing others are broken and water from roof coes through the entries to cast and in some places there are no water rhones, so the consequences of this is ,two fold the stone gets saturated, and as the front of the building has a lower level due to construction at the front the ground gets saturated, in turn the foundation stones gets saturated, thats what happens when you give a property like this to someone with no building background, mind you the council are delighted its of there hands now,,its was run as a home for unmarried mothers for a while , bearing in mind its a a list building, i was kinda shocked and stunned to find that a internal stone staircase had been removed and replaced by a fabulous modern steel fire escape WOW what clown allowed that, , outside entrance is a portico, where the 3 keystanes all had movement due to shrubs growing there gaps as wide as 40mm were apparent yet no one bothered, i called council they dint want to know it was up to lease holder ,i asked if they visited the building annually to inspect it, no comment after that no one would speak to me, so i called listed building told them what i had seen inside and out, the fire escape in steel , never knew about was the reply, marly majors on roof unaware of it, burst downpipes and damage underground , and the( voosars) i.e.