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megan-

28DL Member
28DL Member
I'm new and I'm not too sure how to structure this, I'm looking to find people near Leicester to start exploring with! I'm 16 and live around a 20 minute drive from the city centre. I'm well aware of the rules around urban exploring and I'd love some tips and help about how to get started, I wanted to start this a couple years back but felt it might be worth waiting a while before actualling getting into it :)
 

megan-

28DL Member
28DL Member
thankyou sm! I have given it a read and Ive been out a few times in my area but I haven't been able to find anywhere to really explore, I understand asking for locations isn't something I should do but I was wondering how I actually find them without pointers? I don't feel like I'll have much luck otherwise and I also don't know who the right people to ask about these things are.
 

Scoobysrt

Teim scoobs
28DL Full Member
The best way to get started is just put your area in the search box and work through all thevm threads. Make a list of 6 or 7 you would like to visit and work down it. Even better put pins for everything on Google maps then when you get somewhere you've got all the local ones already marked.

Look through all your local news resources for/from the last few months, search for keywords like closed, closing down, shut their doors, bankruptcy, no longer trading, due to be demolished etc etc.

Youll need to do some leg work, have a drive around and look for signs of places no longer active, you can often cross reference those places with your local news. As you can't drive yet you can obviously walk, take a bike, take a train or bus, get a lift etc.

Get on Google maps on satellite view, although it won't show up newly empty places it will show up things like disused railway tunnels that can be found by tracing disused tracks across the map, buildings that have been abandoned for a year or two but not seen yet, pumping stations, quarries etc etc.

The hunt for finding somewhere to explore is a major part of the hobby that people often dismiss, the chase and research is quite often more fun than eventually getting there to find its now houses or just a burnt out empty shell not worth photographing.
 

megan-

28DL Member
28DL Member
Welcome to The forum!

I’d recommend you give the the Survival Guide a quick read (28 Days Later Survival Guide for Newbies. | New Members Introduction), it’ll help get you started with he forum and provide you some good tips for getting on well with the hobby.

The best way to get started is just put your area in the search box and work through all thevm threads. Make a list of 6 or 7 you would like to visit and work down it. Even better put pins for everything on Google maps then when you get somewhere you've got all the local ones already marked.

Look through all your local news resources for/from the last few months, search for keywords like closed, closing down, shut their doors, bankruptcy, no longer trading, due to be demolished etc etc.

Youll need to do some leg work, have a drive around and look for signs of places no longer active, you can often cross reference those places with your local news. As you can't drive yet you can obviously walk, take a bike, take a train or bus, get a lift etc.

Get on Google maps on satellite view, although it won't show up newly empty places it will show up things like disused railway tunnels that can be found by tracing disused tracks across the map, buildings that have been abandoned for a year or two but not seen yet, pumping stations, quarries etc etc.

The hunt for finding somewhere to explore is a major part of the hobby that people often dismiss, the chase and research is quite often more fun than eventually getting there to find its now houses or just a burnt out empty shell not worth photographing.
thankyou so much, this is the best info I've got so far and it will definitely help, I'm likely to be able to be driven by friends so thankfully that won't be a limitation
 

Y8ZY

28DL Member
28DL Member
The best way to get started is just put your area in the search box and work through all thevm threads. Make a list of 6 or 7 you would like to visit and work down it. Even better put pins for everything on Google maps then when you get somewhere you've got all the local ones already marked.

Look through all your local news resources for/from the last few months, search for keywords like closed, closing down, shut their doors, bankruptcy, no longer trading, due to be demolished etc etc.

Youll need to do some leg work, have a drive around and look for signs of places no longer active, you can often cross reference those places with your local news. As you can't drive yet you can obviously walk, take a bike, take a train or bus, get a lift etc.

Get on Google maps on satellite view, although it won't show up newly empty places it will show up things like disused railway tunnels that can be found by tracing disused tracks across the map, buildings that have been abandoned for a year or two but not seen yet, pumping stations, quarries etc etc.

The hunt for finding somewhere to explore is a major part of the hobby that people often dismiss, the chase and research is quite often more fun than eventually getting there to find its now houses or just a burnt out empty shell not worth photographing.
This message managed to get me hyped for Google Maps lol
 
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