Hello everyone
Today's exploration report is brought to you from the abandoned Minley Manor Farm, a site that I've been meaning to visit for some time. A couple of months ago, I was searching around on Google maps for a completely different site when suddenly the farm came into view. Unfortunately I get distracted all too easily but finally I have gotten round to visiting the place. I wasn't disappointed
History
The farm was built as part of a large manor, located further to the north, and was built by Henry Clutton in the 1860's. Very little information about the history of the farm exists online, but I think I can safely assume that it is currently being sold along with the manor itself. During the 1980's it was leased out to a riding school, but the buildings have been falling into serious disrepair ever since.
The Explore
If you ignore the reports of a gunman living at Sutton Hospital, then this is probably the most dangerous explore I have done to date, mainly because of the current state of the buildings. The place is quite literally falling down, and this is being accelerated by vandalism. Several parts have clearly been smashed up deliberately and there is evidence of fires being started in some of the rooms.
The closest railway station is nearly 3 miles away from the site - a distance I significantly reduced by cutting across country, but be warned. This route is not for the feint of heart, especially at 1 am in the morning. The explore began properly at around 2:45 am. I started out by recording video and then took the following photo's as the sun was coming up. You will notice more externals here than I usually post but this is only because of the nature of the place. Throughout the explore there was consistent (and fairly disturbing) banging coming from within the farm grounds. If you like this kind of scary thing, there's more in the video below. I still do not know what the source of the noise was.
Video
Externals
1. North gate
2. South side
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5. One of the two out-houses
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8. Entrance to the residential part of the farm.
Internals
9. One of the many fire places
10. Rear end of the entrance hallway.
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12.
13.
14.
15.
15b.
16. Into the stables
17. My kind of photograph
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19.
20.
21. I'm still not entirely sure what this is for. Anyone familiar with the horsey life?
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23. Entrance hallway in out-house #1
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25. In this shot, I'm standing on the threshold of the second out-house. No floorboards! :O
As I left the grounds, I found out that I was being watched the whole time...
Stay safe people
Today's exploration report is brought to you from the abandoned Minley Manor Farm, a site that I've been meaning to visit for some time. A couple of months ago, I was searching around on Google maps for a completely different site when suddenly the farm came into view. Unfortunately I get distracted all too easily but finally I have gotten round to visiting the place. I wasn't disappointed
History
The farm was built as part of a large manor, located further to the north, and was built by Henry Clutton in the 1860's. Very little information about the history of the farm exists online, but I think I can safely assume that it is currently being sold along with the manor itself. During the 1980's it was leased out to a riding school, but the buildings have been falling into serious disrepair ever since.
The Explore
If you ignore the reports of a gunman living at Sutton Hospital, then this is probably the most dangerous explore I have done to date, mainly because of the current state of the buildings. The place is quite literally falling down, and this is being accelerated by vandalism. Several parts have clearly been smashed up deliberately and there is evidence of fires being started in some of the rooms.
The closest railway station is nearly 3 miles away from the site - a distance I significantly reduced by cutting across country, but be warned. This route is not for the feint of heart, especially at 1 am in the morning. The explore began properly at around 2:45 am. I started out by recording video and then took the following photo's as the sun was coming up. You will notice more externals here than I usually post but this is only because of the nature of the place. Throughout the explore there was consistent (and fairly disturbing) banging coming from within the farm grounds. If you like this kind of scary thing, there's more in the video below. I still do not know what the source of the noise was.
Video
Externals
1. North gate
2. South side
3.
4.
5. One of the two out-houses
6.
7.
8. Entrance to the residential part of the farm.
Internals
9. One of the many fire places
10. Rear end of the entrance hallway.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
15b.
16. Into the stables
17. My kind of photograph
18.
19.
20.
21. I'm still not entirely sure what this is for. Anyone familiar with the horsey life?
22.
23. Entrance hallway in out-house #1
24.
25. In this shot, I'm standing on the threshold of the second out-house. No floorboards! :O
As I left the grounds, I found out that I was being watched the whole time...
Stay safe people
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