Discovered a tunnel into a 17th century house

[glasshouse]

Found a well today whilst rerouting drains was covered over with a big slab then concrete its 5 foot wide and 3.5 meters deep

any money in it?

 

[renewablejohn]

Found a well today whilst rerouting drains was covered over with a big slab then concrete its 5 foot wide and 3.5 meters deep

Nice brickwork will clean up "well" for a piece of safety glass over the top to make a feature.

 

[glasshouse]

Found a well today whilst rerouting drains was covered over with a big slab then concrete its 5 foot wide and 3.5 meters deep

was it not 12 ft deep?

 

[7610 super q]

Any water in the tunnel ?
I've dug up similar heading in the direction of my house, but much smaller than that. I'd assumed a source of water for inside the house.

 

[Wurzeetoo]

A bit different but I remember as a young teen doing a shopfit on a post office in London somewhere and being told to put all of the rubbish downstairs so I carried it all down several flights of stairs and stacked it on the landing and went back up to find the guy who had the key to the what I thought was a steel basement door. He came back down with me and unlocked the door which opened onto a very large arched brick tunnel that had one single lamp by the door I was standing at so couldn't see far but when I stepped out into the tunnel you could see there was rooms off to the sides all the way down have no idea how big it was but seemed huge. The guy I was with could see i was amazed and told me it was built to hold prisoners during the Spanish armada and the tunnel extended all the way to the river where there was a dock and prison ships unloaded. and was then used as a mad house to house the insane and some criminals certainly didn't hang around after that chucked everything out the door and ran upstairs. Funnily enough I met a guy a few years later who had been in the same tunnel but had entered it from a mental asylum elsewhere and told the same story.

 

[phil t]

was it not 12 ft deep?

No it was 11.4829 feet deep

 

[Still Farming]

Metric ?

 

[Gator]

That's amazing!


Once was a time I'd have told you i was pretty confident it went to Fraggle rock - but that's a long time ago.

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Glad you didn't put the video on, that bloody tune would be going through my head all night

 

[Wellytrack]

Glad you didn't put the video on, that bloody tune would be going through my head all night

No problem, I wouldn't do such a thing.

 

[Still Farming]

Clangers be next ?

 

[Kidds]

Clangers be next ?

You think the tunnel could be a soup mine?

 

[Gator]

No problem, I wouldn't do such a thing.

 

[Jameshenry]

Today digging holes it was stoney going, so I wasn’t holding back with the metal bar. I smashed through 6 inch of slabs and found this tunnel, it’s about 3x3 ft and ends just where I was digging, there’s no proper lid on it just stoned over, it’s about 2 ft underground. It heads to the old 17th century hall, we don’t know how far it goes, pictures are from my phone with the flash on, we are about 20ft from the house.
Nobody knows about this tunnel, its had the same family in for generations and they aren’t aware of it.
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What could it be for?
I will get better pics tomorrow and take a proper torch.

I uncovered a similar size tunnel whilst land draining, and we found out it was the overflow drain from the old farmhouse waterwheel

 

[Spencer]

 

[Bones]

as well

 

[foxbox]

 

[mushnt grummmble]

as well

you can just press "watch thread" up the top of the page if you want to watch a thread

 

[foxbox]

you can just press "watch thread" up the top of the page if you want to watch a thread

That's not as much fun though

 

[Bones]

you can just press "watch thread" up the top of the page if you want to watch a thread

Smartie pants

 

[Spencer]

you can just press "watch thread" up the top of the page if you want to watch a thread

I’d just bought some new glasses and wanted to show everyone that’s all