M25 weird field

[calibrax]

Anyone know what's going on in this field? it's next to the anticlockwise carriageway of the M25 just after J6 of the M25.

There are little fenced off areas dotted around, and some area with concrete pipes sticking up. It's been like that for a couple of years now. I can only think that maybe Super Mario owns it, and uses it for training...

http://goo.gl/maps/zcCmr

[HoHoHo]

From memory it was dug up many years ago with all sorts of st dumped within and I had assumed they were or gas release or similar.

[vikingaero]

There's the Strategic Steam Reserve underneath it.

[elliotff]

These was a landslide in this location a few years ago.
Apparently they were put in to stop it happening again.

http://www.geotechnics.mottmac.com/projects/m25fli...

[Lawbags]

I've been wondering this also!

I know that just a few miles west, where the new lakes have been dug, the guy digging them found that the area had been used for an illegal landfill.
Maybe the same happened here?

[Ozzie Osmond]

Lawbags said:

I've been wondering this also!

Me too.

As always, PH finds an answer!

[vikingaero]

Head North along Flowers Lane and the road becomes Quarry Road. There's a fantastic number of underground Firestone/Hearthstone quarries/mines running west towards the A22 and the M23.

Check out The Wealden Cave and Mine Society: http://www.wcms.org.uk

I'm one of the members/tour guides. The mines are currently closed because of Bat Hibernation Season but will reopen at Easter.

[Lawbags]

vikingaero said:

Head North along Flowers Lane and the road becomes Quarry Road. There's a fantastic number of underground Firestone/Hearthstone quarries/mines running west towards the A22 and the M23.

Check out The Wealden Cave and Mine Society: http://www.wcms.org.uk

I'm one of the members/tour guides. The mines are currently closed because of Bat Hibernation Season but will reopen at Easter.

It appears we have met before! I be The Riddlers. We did a big trip to Dover once

[vikingaero]

Lawbags said:

It appears we have met before! I be The Riddlers. We did a big trip to Dover once

Nice to hear from you Loz! I've done virtually nothing urbex in the last year.

[Lawbags]

vikingaero said:

Lawbags said:

It appears we have met before! I be The Riddlers. We did a big trip to Dover once

Nice to hear from you Loz! I've done virtually nothing urbex in the last year.

Likewise mate. There isn't a huge amount that appeals to me at the mo.
You local to Godstone etc then?

[vikingaero]

I'm in Maidstone. I take a lot of tours underground in Godstone and Reigate, so if you ever need a trip with a photography friendly guide then let me know - I have keys. Digging in Godstone and might help with the NT dig at Fan Bay where they plan to turn it into an unrestored NT site open to visitors.

[750turbo]

I was once told, that things like this were actually Nato Arms Dumps..

(I may have been in the pub at the time though)

[vikingaero]

Arms Dumps would often have been served by a railway line in the wartime era. There were no major motorways to move vast quantities of munitions other than on A Roads that pass through towns and villages which was too risky. Google Corsham Central Ammunition Depot, Monkton Farleigh and for a bit of fun the Strategic Steam Reserve. The SSR always gets raised in pub lore - someones dad/grandad worked underground in the 70's/80's where there were hundreds of working steam engines stored....

[Lawbags]

vikingaero said:

I'm in Maidstone. I take a lot of tours underground in Godstone and Reigate, so if you ever need a trip with a photography friendly guide then let me know - I have keys. Digging in Godstone and might help with the NT dig at Fan Bay where they plan to turn it into an unrestored NT site open to visitors.

Do you have any info on Churchills bunker in Reigate Hill by the way?

[vikingaero]

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