What types of abandoned places are covered on Whatevers Left?

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Whatevers Left is a UK-focused urban exploration site that documents abandoned asylums, hospitals, industrial sites, underground structures, leisure buildings, military sites and other derelict places. If you want to browse by the kind of location rather than by date or popularity, the site's navigation is organised around exactly those categories.

Main categories on the site

The navigation lists these groups:

  • Asylums – former psychiatric hospitals and county lunatic asylums
  • Hospitals – general and specialist hospital buildings
  • Industrial – factories, warehouses and similar sites
  • Underground – tunnels, shelters and subterranean rooms
  • Leisure – cinemas and other recreational buildings
  • Military – defence-related structures
  • Other – anything that does not fit the categories above

Each category acts as a browsing entry point, so you can go straight to the type of place you are interested in.

Examples within each category

The asylum section is the most heavily populated, with named sites including Cane Hill, Cherry Knowle, Denbigh, Deva, Fairmile, Gartloch, Glenside, Graylingwell, Hartwood, Hellingly, High Royds, Lancaster Moor, Mid Wales, Pen-y-Fal, Rauceby, Runwell, Severalls, Springfield, St Cadocs, St Edwards, St Lawrences, St Marys, Stanley Royd, Stratheden, Sunnyside Royal, Tone Vale, West Park, Whitchurch and Whittingham.

Other categories are represented by individual explores, for example:

Category Example explore
Asylums Springfield Hospital, Tooting (February 12, 2021)
Hospitals Bristol Royal Infirmary – Old Building (October 1, 2018)
Industrial Robert Fletcher & Son Ltd – Greenfield, Oldham (January 23, 2018)
Underground Brislington War Room, Region 7, Bristol (October 5, 2020)
Leisure Plaza Cinema, Port Talbot (January 28, 2018)
Other Bank of England House, Bristol (September 20, 2022)

Geographic spread

The documented locations are spread across the UK rather than concentrated in one region. Examples include:

  • England – Coulsdon, Sunderland, Plymouth, Taunton, Epsom, Bristol, Portsmouth, Oldham, Leith, Radlett, Chester
  • Scotland – Montrose
  • Wales – Cardiff, Ruthin, Port Talbot

So if you are looking for a particular part of the country, the category pages and explore listings are likely to include something relevant.

How to browse

You can approach the site in three ways:

  1. By category – use the top-level navigation (Asylums, Hospitals, Industrial, Underground, Leisure, Military, Other) to see all explores of that type.
  2. By recency – the "Recent Explores" section lists the newest additions with dates.
  3. By popularity – "Most Viewed" ranks explores by view count, with Cane Hill Asylum (15,534 views), Cherry Knowle Asylum (14,641 views) and Sunnyside Royal Hospital (13,086 views) at the top.

If your interest is specifically in former asylums, that category is by far the deepest. If you want industrial, underground or military sites, those are present but represented by fewer individual explores.