Video footage of our trip to West Park Lunatic Asylum, in March 2011. There's not a huge amount of this place left to see as it's being gradually converted into a huge housing estate, but it was originally a huge place covering some 63 acres and a veritable treasure for Urban Explorers. A great loss but inevitable eventually that such an enormous brownfield site would not escape redevelopment forever. Thankfully, Noble Park as it will become known, incorporates at least a few of the original buildings and it looks as though the Admin block and Water Tower will become key features of the redevelopment. There are the remains of 4 other Lunatic Asylums in the local viscinity - Long Grove, Horton, Manor and St. Ebbas being the others. All have now been converted into housing estates or demolished. More information about the Epsom Cluster can be found at www.thetimechamber.co.uk More information on ghost-of Urban Exploration can be found at www.ghost-of.org
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