Crookham Manor

I found this place on Derelict Places a few weeks back and it was about 20 mins down the road from a mate who lived in Newbury. Since I was already passing the area on my way back from the airport, I stopped with a mate & my brother.

We spent a good 2 hours wandering the grounds and bumped into 2 college girls who were taking photo's of derelict places as a photography project.

They'd asked if we'd managed to get into the building yet, but sadly not - it would seem they were quite desperate to get in.















After spending time wandering the grounds, my brother discovered a possible entrance to the building. He took my LED torch and went off to take a look.

After standing around for about 5-10 mins, he came back and confirmed we could get into the building. It was quick and easy - college girls also followed as they were quite excited at the discovery. It would also seem that one of them had a police officer as a dad and she's discussed this site with him.

Apparently he confirmed that if entrance if already there and you're not breaking anything, then its not breaking and entering

























Despite seeing warnings that this site was alarmed, we heard nothing and no-one came in the 5 hours of wandering. This place is a gold mine and could easily go back and find even more which I could have missed.

Some of the floors are not in the best condition, but nothing gave way during our visit but we did indeed have to tread carefully.

There are loads more pics on my flickr page, please feel free to browse & add me

https://www.flickr.com/photos/demolished_86/

Great set of images and so much to see,thanks for sharing.

Nice report there..shame it's gone downhill very quickly.

Fab place this, smashing pics !

Nice set of pictures, looks like a good day.

I Liked That, Thanks.

Incredible place. Fantastic report. Tragedy places like this fall into dereliction...

Sad to see it's getting vandalised in there

Crookham is about to be renovated - the council has approved plans for this.

urban-dorset said:

Crookham is about to be renovated - the council has approved plans for this.

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I had heard about this and its fantastic news! Will look forward to seeing what it's developed into!

Shame it has been vandalised. Nice shots and report all the same

awesome images

great report

Fantastic photos, what a day out!
Thanks for sharing

What an amazing place this must have been originally. Excellent photos - thank you.

went there on Monday , travellers have moved in , place is covered in rubbish and trashed , wanted to spend a good few hours there but as I was on a solo visit the company was slightly intimidating , managed to get inside , but in terrible condition

That old organ amazes me! Two manuals, (presumably pedals) and only three or four speaking stops? That's a lot of work for not very much sound. Nice to see the trackers though - a lovely example of the organ builder's art.

Thank you for posting this set.

catwoman said:

went there on Monday , travellers have moved in , place is covered in rubbish and trashed , wanted to spend a good few hours there but as I was on a solo visit the company was slightly intimidating , managed to get inside , but in terrible condition

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Do you mean they've moved into the house, or the grounds?

catwoman said:

went there on Monday , travellers have moved in , place is covered in rubbish and trashed , wanted to spend a good few hours there but as I was on a solo visit the company was slightly intimidating , managed to get inside , but in terrible condition

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was there anything left to see ? was thinking if traveling down for a look around / photograph Thanks

Did bloody well to walk away with those shots! very nicely done indeed!