I know it's been done plenty of times but this place has always fascinated me for some reason.
After spending ours on Google and looking through old OS maps Id finally located this little place buried in the woods.
Not really an explore so much as a nice walk. It's that overgrown you could walk straight past the place without noticing it especially with the tress in leaf and a thick carpet of ferns and the dreaded himalayas balsan.
There was very little history to be found online.
The only details I could find were from a gripping report titled "The hydrogeology of the Chesterfield Matlock and Mansfield District" As exciting as this geology report was it only briefly mentions the borehole twice (see attached pics). It seems a borehole was sunk and a pumping station constructed in 1924 to supply drinking water, I can't find any info on when it closed.
There are rumours of satanic gatherings and local stories of a hooded figure that haunts an area of the river known as the black pool and the ghosts of a woman and a dog who Wander the place - How long before we see a YouTube video titled "haunted secret bunker pump house in the woods, bones found and we nearly died so called the police - oh and smash the subscribe button"
The pump house sits buried amongst the trees and due to the bore hole still squeezing out water under artesian pressure the area was a bit of a Swamp. The building looks as if its starting to subside and has developed a crack on its left hand side.
The place has a real nice atmosphere and was everything I'd imagined.
Rusting machinery, trickling water, one tasteful piece of graffiti by coloquix, Waterfall and old pipework make this a super little place.
The capped well outside the building did shit me up tho, I looked down through the missing manhole down into the debris littered f*ckknows how deep water and quickly jumped back down to the ground. There would be no escape if you fell into that place.
I did attempt to follow the pipe along the rive and made it all the way down to where the wooded are finished but all I found was millions and millions of vicious wood ants ants.
Hope you like the photos, I've chucked a couple in from an unlocked ROC post and watch tower that I found on the way.
The oldest image I could find online
Little watch tower and ROC post
After spending ours on Google and looking through old OS maps Id finally located this little place buried in the woods.
Not really an explore so much as a nice walk. It's that overgrown you could walk straight past the place without noticing it especially with the tress in leaf and a thick carpet of ferns and the dreaded himalayas balsan.
There was very little history to be found online.
The only details I could find were from a gripping report titled "The hydrogeology of the Chesterfield Matlock and Mansfield District" As exciting as this geology report was it only briefly mentions the borehole twice (see attached pics). It seems a borehole was sunk and a pumping station constructed in 1924 to supply drinking water, I can't find any info on when it closed.
There are rumours of satanic gatherings and local stories of a hooded figure that haunts an area of the river known as the black pool and the ghosts of a woman and a dog who Wander the place - How long before we see a YouTube video titled "haunted secret bunker pump house in the woods, bones found and we nearly died so called the police - oh and smash the subscribe button"
The pump house sits buried amongst the trees and due to the bore hole still squeezing out water under artesian pressure the area was a bit of a Swamp. The building looks as if its starting to subside and has developed a crack on its left hand side.
The place has a real nice atmosphere and was everything I'd imagined.
Rusting machinery, trickling water, one tasteful piece of graffiti by coloquix, Waterfall and old pipework make this a super little place.
The capped well outside the building did shit me up tho, I looked down through the missing manhole down into the debris littered f*ckknows how deep water and quickly jumped back down to the ground. There would be no escape if you fell into that place.
I did attempt to follow the pipe along the rive and made it all the way down to where the wooded are finished but all I found was millions and millions of vicious wood ants ants.
Hope you like the photos, I've chucked a couple in from an unlocked ROC post and watch tower that I found on the way.
The oldest image I could find online
Little watch tower and ROC post
