This youth camp was built at Devil's Bridge, a popular tourist spot, probably between the 1920s and the 1950s. Accommodation was in a number of huts housing between two and eight children each with separate rooms for leaders and camp staff. A central hall, kitchen, toilets and showers were also provided: being unheated, the camp would only have been used in the summer months. There is very little information on this place either online or in the local archives but what little there is suggests that activities included hiking and beginner's Welsh classes and that the camp closed some time in the '80s or early '90s. There is no specific evidence that this was a scout camp, but all local sources refer to it as such and the layout seems to fit.
The place is now very overgrown and has suffered almost no vandalism, in part due to its isolated location. Most of the decay here is entirely natural and most of the windows still have their glass intact.
Cabins nearest the drive
More cabins and rhododendrons in bloom
Main building
The main hall has undergone a makeover courtesy of local kids with dubious poetry skills.
Towards the kitchen - the floor in here was very rotten and sat over a 2' drop.
Fuse boxes
Office or staffroom
Deeper into the woods
The front of this cabin had collapsed exposing the interior.
Another cabin
The interior was immaculate, probably much the same as when in use (except for the Foster's crate, obviously).
Open door
From the central open space
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The place is now very overgrown and has suffered almost no vandalism, in part due to its isolated location. Most of the decay here is entirely natural and most of the windows still have their glass intact.
Cabins nearest the drive
More cabins and rhododendrons in bloom
Main building
The main hall has undergone a makeover courtesy of local kids with dubious poetry skills.
Towards the kitchen - the floor in here was very rotten and sat over a 2' drop.
Fuse boxes
Office or staffroom
Deeper into the woods
The front of this cabin had collapsed exposing the interior.
Another cabin
The interior was immaculate, probably much the same as when in use (except for the Foster's crate, obviously).
Open door
From the central open space
Thanks for reading,
A