NEVER ENDING TUNNELS at Scraesdon Fort PLYMOUTH
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Scraesdon Fort, near the village of Antony, is one of several forts in South East Cornwall which formed part of the ring of forts surrounding Plymouth to protect Plymouth Sound and, in particular, the naval dockyard of Devonport from enemy naval attack. They were built as a result of a decision in Lord Palmerston's premiership to deter the French from attacking naval bases in the south of England.
Aerial view
Scraesdon Fort was designed in 1859 by Captain (later Maj General) William Crossman,[1] and was built by F Roach and Company, Plymouth.
Defensive caponier in the ditch around the fort
East wall and barrack chimneys
It was completed at a cost of £137,000. It is constructed in the Land Front, polygonal, near octagonal format. It has a dry ditch, and was designed to have twenty-seven 7-inch breech-loading guns on the ramparts.[2] By 1893 it mounted one 64 Pounder Rifled Muzzle Loading Guns, eight 7-inch Rifled Breech Loading (RBL) gun, two 32 Pounder Smooth Bore Breech Loading (SBBL) guns and two 5-inch Breech Loading guns.[3]
The upper level is 254 ft above mean sea level (AMSL) and the lower level is 173 feet AMSL.
The fort was used by the MOD as a training barracks, but it is currently empty, derelict and overgrown. It was[when?] used to train Royal Navy Artificer Apprentices from HMS Fisgard and HMS Raleigh; it is occasionally used now by Royal Marine Commandos recruits as part of their final exercise, as well as being used by local Army Reserve units. The fort is also used for airsoft events on an ad hoc basis. It was Grade II listed in 1968.[4]
A military railway. used from 1893 to 1903, connected the fort with the River Lynher at Wacker Quay, near St. Germans. It also provided a link to the main fort on the Rame peninsula at Fort Tregantle. The railway ran underneath the metal bridge and down a gradient, then went underneath the current A374 road, and alongside Wacker Quay. The locomotive shed was extant on the quayside until the late 2000s,when it was removed by Cornwall CC, who had been using it as a highways depot. and other remnants of the railway can also be seen . There was also an extensive marshalling area next to the east wall of the fort.
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I love the 'Derelict Plymouth Unearthed' lads ... Nothing pretentious about them - unlike some others we could mention ... Just good companions who enjoy exploring.
Yes they are good blokes.
Great explore, the brickwork and especially the stonework is excellent. That long curved staircase needs a grade 2 listing, in fact the whole fort does. Thanks for sharing it Matt and thanks to the Plymouth guys, always coming up with good explores. 👍
Well whilst it hidden away under MOD ownership... they will let it rot and fire weapons inside it.
Great drone footage of the fort,this place would have been magnificent back in it's day,massive complex thanks for sharing
What an incredible place! Excellent as usual Matt!
Brilliant explore Matt,
Wow I'm tired from just watching you climb all those steps! Amazing what they could build back then! ❤
What an amazing explore. Jeez.... I'd love to spend time in this place. The architecture is incredible, and the labyrinth of tunnels is jaw dropping. Great vid Matt.... as always. Just amazing 👏 Thank you 😀👍
another awesome vid thanks matt
love it,wish i was there
The architecture and construction is incredible.
LEGEND OF THE SECRET VAULT.
1st class video to watch thank you take care kind regards from me kenneth👈👍❤❤❤
Love this URBEX exploration. The size of that facility is amazing, and it blows my mind as to how it's not being used still. It would be an awesome SAS training fort, if anything. I could definitely see it as being an apocalypse fallback point for an organized crew.
THE START OF THE DRONE FLYTE..WOTS THE CHANCES TO SEE THE SHEEP IN THE FIELD IN A HEART ❤ SHAPE ..MUST HAVE KNOWN MATT WAZ FLYING..VERY INTERESTING..
Fascinating I like these lads your with no messing or screaming just proper exploring brilliant
Another cracking vid matt 😊
The derelict plymouth unearthed are great lads as well,
Is there a way in without the key do you know 🤣
There were some portals which you could scramble up into...
There used to be a tunnel which linked scraesdon with Tregantle. Whether they are the filled in / blocked up tunnels you found who knows but there is an old war department plan on Google images which shows it. Great vid 👍
This was just awesome to watch Matt. You really make good videos and it amazes me (as I live in Michigan USA) of ALL the war time bunkers that exist.
What a huge fort - miles of it! Love how solid the structure looks and in most places really dry.
Glad it’s being used for something - such a waste otherwise.
Love the music and drone footage👍
We’ve been there a few times with our army cadets - it’s a great place. Got another weekend there in May. Quite spooky at night - especially when I slept in the upper rooms on my own one night!
Awesome explore! 👍🏼 Love your filming style Matt, you cover everything and explain things along the way, that high pitched noise you picked up, did you ever find out what it was? It was freaky!! x
When i see those bricks and blocks, i think of the long-dead guys who placed each one there. Quality brickwork.
Love the transitions from the Boblov body cam to the DGI and Droneh!
This fort is forting amazing! It’s bloody MASSIVE! Slate ceilings and dunny deciders! It’s got it all!
Great job Matthew. Thanks !😎👍
I bet the bog dividers would have had some good graffiti done in chalk of naked women for the guy's enjoyment 😉 lot better than mind over matter
Always like such travels, love the drone views, wonderful land., interesting place. as above, so below. 👍 all the live🧡
been all round there Uncle used to keep his pigs in the fort early 50s. uncle and aunt lived in Scraesdon cottage it was bulldozed down into the railway tracks.. Sid and Flo Laythorn
we did training there with the Royal Marines back in the day.
Stunning 'Pink Floyd' music with the Droneh footage. Thank you.
For your interest, compare this with Landguard Fort, Felixstowe, Suffolk. Then compare withe fort near Statue of Liberty and then Alcatraz. So many common features and I suspect the brick work at Plymouth to be beyond the modern household brick, the very robust 'military' grade brick. The floors and steps look rather modern compared to the stone block walks. Interesting construction patterns in this.
Oi oi I agree James thank you for this insight for there is much to be learnt off its true nature 👍
@@mickeyfubar69 I have suggested the slits we are told were for guns to shoot through were really a kind of filter. The structures are always near water so I feel the original purpose is more to act as a dam/filtering machine to reclaim land. Of course it still leaves the question of how these could have been built. Certainly the entire African coast have these approx. 600km apart.
@@theenergyflowtribejamesbro1302 wow I must look in to this more James .I wonder if anybody know's off this on hear . Can I just say If it was that long ago how did thay billd it with just a horse and carts . Io io😮
@@mickeyfubar69 The construction was most likely cast on site in the case of stones. The strange thing is the slate in those toilets. Not exactly the first material I would expect or used as a partition.
@@mickeyfubar69 I don't know if you are familiar with the RV series Oak Island but if you see the box drain idea shown in this, I feel this is a similar function to these star forts. Personally I would take the TV series with a pinch if salt as the story of a retired postman and his brother does not quite ring true.
Fascinating. The rock in the tunnels is most likely petrified mud or mineral deposit. See Mother Shipton 's Cave where minerals will petrifying almost anything in a very short space of time. The engineering and quality of the structure is most likely the reason this remains as cost of excavation would be beyond any worthwhile gain. Interesting 'star fort' plan can be seen in the aerial images. The question is how and when was this really built.
It's completely encased... Tunnels are looped... I been absolutely everywhere in there... Just bat's 👌👌👌👌
What a massive place with plenty of different rooms and all those steps. Lots of historical secrets kept there in bet. Great explore xx
Another gem Matt, keep em coming. In regards to the high pitch sound could the source not be the coke bottle?
i was thinking same- its just like gas escaping through tiny wet gap like out of drink bottle
I find this most compelling🤔
Brilliant! You do a great service showing these unused mod places that they would rather keep secret from us. And which I would certainly never see or be able to explore myself. This is great stuff. Just found your channel and will sub. 👍
Having spent 22 years in the navy, and several stints at Scraesdon, I can assure you that very much like ranges, estates used in WW2, and other MOD historic sites, the public are not excluded just for spite.
Public Liability and the consequences of personal injury feature high on the reasoning, and the perhaps more obvious trend of 'explorers' to vandalise places many of which are in good order because of their being protected.
Scraesdon has, however, been used for airsoft games, but was also in regular use for marine and naval trainees for 'Murder In The Dark' exercises with the use of low-grade munitions, such as flare-traps, blank-firing exercises, and benign booby-traps of various kinds.
These sites are obviously fascinating because they almost always indicate tunnels, long-gone engineering and architecture, and distinct possibility of discovering something hidden, unique, and newsworthy.
The Dover tunnels show that when such places fall out of use and are just too big to actively secure, they are damaged and abused, and often taken way beyond commercially viable restoration.
'Keep Out' isn't an invitation, but as some of these MOD locations are in the hands of MOD archaeologists in the historical branch, it is possible to get permissions for active sites rarely seen, like a couple of gems in the Royal Dockyards and Whale Island.
Re: 48:00 . At the time you happened to visit this location and shoot the video, I was on the toilet with very severe constipation. During my intense pushing I let off some high pitched squeals and unfortunately it looks like they flooded the radius of the UK due to the intense energy used during the pushing, which is the cause of the strange noises at 48mins into the video. I apologise and my bowels have since returned to normality, so I don’t think this will happen again
This video was AWESOME! Ninja get away, "right under their noses..." lol. Badass view I dont like Heights either. I wonder if anyone that ends up living at the TOP will know that it's full of bird poo?! Lol
This is been on our radar for quite some time seeing that it's in Cornwall our neck of the woods
A long ladder and youre in.
You are absolutely correct Mathew today’s building materials are shizer, give me good old Victorian or Edwardian building any day.
There was polygonal masonry in those tunnels. Near the curved red brick partitions.
Wow! Awesome place! Amazing construction! Good job Matthew!!
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The fort is massive, with just endless stairs. Talk about getting some cardio in, while checking the place out. Awesome place too.
You running a go pro 9 by any chance? Similar sound to abom79's issue, wifi and bt getting turned off seemed to help that situation afaik.
Wow what a place! Great video matt, Thankyou xx
I twisted my ankle there doing an escape and evasion exercise in 1992. Did the interrogation phase in those rooms
WHAT DID I JUST HEAR THAT RIGHT..... YOU WOULD TELL THEM WHO GAVE YOU THE KEY....OMFG....
GRASS
Thanks Matt! Awesome explore!
For a start it’s not in “Plymouth” which is in England. It’s next to Anthony Village which is in Cornwall. When I was a child I would play there with my friends. Decades later the MOD re adopted it for close combat training. It is in reality very boring as the basement is not vast. When it was in use, Weir Quay on the Tamar river used to supply it with ammunition.
Ian would love this folk...😂
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I have extremely sensitive ears and I can hear that high pitched buzzing in several other parts of the video noticeably at 53:02 I wonder wtf it is ?
Yeah, I heard the high-pitched noise several times throughout the video, too. Sounds like electronics to me! 🤔
@@edam I been binging his first 500 explores for the last month or so. This sound has been produced in atleast a handful previous videos, i think one of them was in the office building that had some grow rooms, few hundred videos back or so.. Dont think it ever occured several times in one video like it does in this one.
it gas escaping from drinks bottle through tiny wet gap
Very Cool Matt Man The Engineering Whaaaa!!!
Tis like a game of tomb raider 👍
Wow…..! 👍
Wow a brick layers dream or nightmare how the hell did they start building that fort did they have caves or dig it out by hand then start laying the bricks from the bottom up or ??? Just amazing how that was made and how they carted all the bricks and cement sand etc just a colossal job and how many people was there to build it ?? Just amazing great explore Matt as usual stay safe x
Another top class SV Exploration, Stunning.
Who the tune Matt whilst drone flying 👍
its all in the video descriptions
did any one else not notice the bullet next to the scaffold tube @1:05:10 ?
Amazing indeed Matthew Thank you
I love your explanations Matt keep up the cool videos.
There's a meeting of minds 🤔🤨😂
Arrow loops or fighting loops. Looked on Google.
TWO NINE Commando Royal Marines.
Thank you Matt!
Wow Matt your on it boy experience excellent 👌 vid intro wow editing brill caricature the best
Very impressive brick work ,some of it reminded me of the placement of huge stones in in ancient temples. Very interesting video 💖
There are remains of a Star fort underneath there im sure thats why some tunnels are blocked.. built way before the fort you see now.. and normally built on an energy hot spot..
Would make a good bedsit complex that place!
Burried star fort 52:00 tunnel still filled with debris.
Used that place on the AACC way back when
That was out standing wow awesome
Nice )
Spent many an hour in those tunnels
Star fort
You'll sometimes hear a bugle being played and the place is pretty well haunted been in there few times with paranormal groups and picked up on loads
I just done me a break in... You make up some crap 🤣🤣 no bugles... I was in the rifles... Paranormal 🤣🤣 I went everywhere... Everywhere in there... 🤣🤣🤣
Wow this is literally on my doorstep and never realised it I need to go there is also a battery on the opposite side of road with my surname mentioned on it spot on guys as always thanks
that high pitch noise, i guess its whats-his-face and his coke bottle in his pocket, not done up properly and the lid got a little wet and it was bubbling out the gasses.. well that's what i remember it sounding like when i never closed them up proper..
Money shot @ 13:21 ( :
Is that GLOW STICK AT 1:18:45?
77 steps down first flight.
Wry dont you take some tools with you to see whats behind these places 😂😊
They are called firing slits , not portals. Embrasures are for canons and larger bore weapons.
Used to do CQB and clearing buildings, up there.
Hello mat and chat.
191 steps to the bottom.
MATT THERE NOT PORTELS THEY ARE GUN PORTS LOL
All tartarian history wiped keep searching we have been lied to since birth
but- we have records and financial accounts and descriptions of the works building these places- people witnessed and documented it.
you are delusional to promote the idea these buildings made by a lost civilization.
@48:00 decode that
Bats