Sandhill Park Mental Hospital, Nr. Taunton.

Hi everyone, this is my first report!

Copy & pasted from Wikipedia:
"Sandhill Park in Bishops Lydeard, Somerset, England was built as a county house around 1720. It was later used as a prisoner of war camp, home for handicapped children and later as a military and civilian hospital."

The grounds are supposedly haunted, and legend has it that many businesses have taken up residence in the buildings since the hospital's closure, but all have suddenly left with no clear reason, leaving lots of paperwork and equipment behind.

The site is made up of several buildings and walled gardens. The newer buildings are thoroughly trashed, there is not a single pane of glass that has been left unsmashed, and the walls are kicked in and scrawled over. The older buildings are less damaged, but many are in a sorry state. However, there are still many interesting discoveries to be had at Sandhill.

Anyway, less talk, more pictures.

Welcome to Sandhill Park, home of Blazes. We'll come to that later .


A switch and strange wall markings in what looks like an old barn.


Tennis courts


Acland house






3 Blue Tiles


Toilet


Firefighting hose


Hot drinks


One of the highlights of the place but very hard to get to, the fire engine. This was left behind by Blazes Fire Museum.






Inside the fire museum.




Museum cafeteria

Someone has broken the windscreen of the fire engine!! It was intact in February

very nice, very nice, excellent skillllllz

lillimouse said:

Someone has broken the windscreen of the fire engine!! It was intact in February

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Yeah, in fact every window in the fire engine is broken, it's filled with shards of glass. A real shame because it's a beautiful artefact.

The trashed "Sun Ward"

Great report and pics, LivingFire. I've been meaning to get over there myself at some point but never got around to it.
Welcome to DP, btw.

Ooh a big red fire engine, groovy. Looks like a fun place. Being haunted bonus, Evil Jim and I can go and scare the *&%£ out of some ghosts.

Hi LivingFire. If you read my comments from your inbox before I edited them out, please take no notice of them. It seemed funny at the time, then I realised it was thoughtless, so please accept my apologies.

Foxylady said:

Hi LivingFire. If you read my comments from your inbox before I edited them out, please take no notice of them. It seemed funny at the time, then I realised it was thoughtless, so please accept my apologies.

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Hahaha, no I didn't see them, but now I'm curious!

Thanks for the comments everyone .

hot drinks anyone?

Nice one man.

another visitor

Hello everyone!
Went up to Sandhill on 26th August on my bicycle from Taunton. Its easy to walk/cycle up from the locked gate which has a walkway space by the side. The old house was a proper stately home with perhaps an orangery at the side all looking over lovely countryside. In its day it might have had the Capability Brown landscaper influencing. I looked inside a few buildings mainly the single storeys. Saw an old printing machine left behind which could been used by an architect's office. Most of all I got very spooked and felt like running away. I've never seen such a badly vandalised site with everything trashed. It's not what you expect to see in a country area. Because I was alone I was limited to exploring and worried for my own safety. I think this would be a fab place for us DS members to meet up and expore.
Regards
William

Looks like a really nice place to explore. I'm shocked they left the fire engine - someone must have wanted to buy it.

Went there today, on first impressions i was hoping for something much like Little Poland but was still worth the mileage.

Some dodgy characters walking around, most likely looking for stuff to steal.

Some very interesting graffiti from the locals "If your still here then you have balls" great note about chavs as well.

Will upload some images once i've gone through them.

Fusion87 I've edited your post. Please read the site rules before posting again. Particularly the one about not no mention of access or security details.

ah right, forgot about that sorry.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardtharvey/

photos from sandhill, just tried to link it directly so the images would show up but it didnt work, does anyone know how?

did you not manage to get in the main house ? active pir in there tho

plz may i ask wot 'pir' is plz?

as you ask i second that, what is PIR?

sorry. always confused the hell otu of me. some kind of alarm i gather.