Sheffield is the steel city — a place that made the knives, forks, spoons and surgical instruments that equipped Victorian Britain and the world beyond. Its abandoned places are the...
Leeds is the capital of West Yorkshire — a city built on wool, flax and engineering whose Victorian industrial infrastructure is now progressively being abandoned or converted. The Egyptian-revival flax...
Cornwall's abandoned landscape is defined by one industry above all others — the tin and copper mining that made the Cornish coast one of the most intensively industrialised landscapes in...
Northern Ireland carries a unique weight in British urbex — a small country whose abandoned landscape spans medieval castles on basalt sea stacks, Victorian linen mills that employed tens of...
Leicester is one of England's most historically layered cities — the place where Richard III was buried under a car park for 500 years, where Roman Ratae Corieltauvorum's walls still...
Kent is England's oldest county — the gateway through which the Romans, the Normans and every subsequent wave of traders and invaders entered Britain. Its abandoned places carry three thousand...
Bristol is a city of contradictions — Georgian merchant wealth built on the slave trade, a Victorian industrial port, and one of England's most creative post-industrial cities. Its abandoned places...
Top 5 Abandoned Places in Newcastle – Urbex & Derelict Buildings Newcastle upon Tyne sits at the heart of one of Britain's most industrially historic regions — the Tyne Valley...
Birmingham is England's second city — the city of a thousand trades, where metalworking, jewellery and automotive industries drove the British economy for two centuries. Its abandoned places carry that...
Edinburgh is one of the most architecturally extraordinary cities in Europe — a medieval Old Town above a Georgian New Town, a volcanic rock crowned by a castle and an...
Nottingham is Robin Hood's city — but also the city of lace, bicycles and the East Midlands coalfield whose Victorian infrastructure left behind some of the most atmospherically extraordinary derelict...
Manchester was the world's first industrial city — where the cotton mill replaced the handloom and the workers built the trade union movement. Its abandoned places carry that industrial weight:...
