Abandoned psychiatric hospital in Scotland

These are some pics I took last year at Bangour. It was a psychiatric hospital in Scotland which opened in 1906, and the last ward closed in 2004 once newer facilities were completed nearby. It was an entire village with a little shop, a school, a church, and housing, but it was all just abandoned after the wards closed. Housing and all. It now has a great post apocalypse feel to it, it's an entire village so there are roads with vegetation growing on to them, overgrown paths and crumbling buildings.

It became a war hospital during the second world war, and has since been used as a set for a film with Keira Knightley and Ian Brody, and as a testing area for decontamination in the even of a chemical or nuclear attack.

As you can see, lots of boarded up windows from ghost hunters trying to sneak in!

Recently there has been talk of developing the area, although a couple of the buildings are old enough to be listed so those won't be pulled down, but some have already started to come down.

So apologies for the shots not being so great, they were taken on a phone, also some of the more creepy/dilapidated buildings at Bangour are fenced off. People have tried to break in a lot in the past to see the insides and no doubt for some amateur ghost hunting and "urban" exploring (although when visiting it doesn't feel so urban ;) so there's security and fencing now. I love to walk my dog up this way so it'll be a real shame when it's converted to homes, especially that there is some lovely woodland and wildlife around. Although I guess it's better than using genuine greenbelt land to build on.

The picture of inside was taken by putting my phone up to holes in some of the board covering the windows, so they aren't anything special, but hope you enjoy!