RNAD Trecwn Massive Secret Valley in West Wales 4k
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- This place is huge.... and largely unexplored. It has an intact train depot and rail staging throughout the base to take the trains into the bunkers to deliver or load weapons into many of the extensive "magazines" in the hillside. As we havent explored it and want to see this more on the map we are gifting this to the Urbex world to see what you can come up with.
Dont be fooled though even though this place looks dead it has quite a capable security presence which we encountered 20 years ago when the base, unused, as it is today managed to rumble up 20 or so security to search for me when I tried to get in for a look. 20 years on, nothing has changed and for some strange reason dispite being "on the market" and "looking for people to use the site" the site remains DISUSED but in 100% immaculate condition. Do you smell a rat here....
That too many security guards for a closed base... hmmmm.... lets bust this bullshit wide open and find out what gives.
Happy Xmas Urbexers... and be safe.
I went there in the late 70's hauling missiles and torpedoes all the way from RAF Honington in Suffolk to be stored. No driving hours regulations in those days for the military. used to stay in a lovely B&B in the village. Thank you for posting.
I served my time there as a Fitter / Welder with the PSA (Property Services Agency) Government body responsible for maintaining Government buildings from 1978 to 1982.What a great place to work,full of characters,boy's always up for a bit of fun.I worked with a great bunch,really looked after me,never forget them.They were, Paul Hosgood( Fitter) Ken James (Fitter Turner) John Owen ( Welder) Grayham Jones (Fitter 40yrs service)
Raymond Harris( Welder) Ronnie Hale (Welders mate) Albert Hatfield ( Fitter Turner) Edgar Evans (Fitter)
and the boss Ivor Carty.What a great bunch of boy's,I was very lucky working there.
Brilliant piece of film, I was born in Church road, Llanychaer, 1951 in what were MOD flats, i was 3 when my Father who worked at Trecwn was transferred to RNAD Lodge Hill , in Kent .( shut in 1960) we then went to Gosport, RNAD Priddy's Hard, where my father worked till his retirement in 1983.
I have been back many times over the years to Fishguard as we had many friends in the area but obviously never into Trecwn itself, nice to see some shots of where my father would have worked.
Some of my friends worked in Trecwn right up to its closure. I will have to have a chat with them about it.
I lived on this base growing up. Dad went in loads of times. You wouldn't believe what's in it, spectacular.
Watched about 14 hours of video today, but my brother has watched for years. Absolutely loving this channel! And a fellow Welsh man, too! Excellent work, Matt.
Great aerial imagery, just imagine what lies beneath the hillsides deep underground!
Its got to be good... you know its a goldmine of footage. Whos going to be first?
TheSecretVault maybe the reason it’s still guarded due to military secrets?
@@TheSecretVault Military secrets for certain. Do your research on Niels Bohr, Carlsberg and the Manhattan Project. That project is ongoing. RNAD Trecwn core piece, billions put into it.
Wow! Trip down memory lane for me. I lived at 25 Hill Road, Trecwn, from April 1961, until February 1966, when I left home at 18 years of age, when I moved to London. I worked in RNAD Trecwn from Easter 1964 until February 1966. I knew a John Venables at Fishguard Secondary School, from 1960 to 1964. I've just been watching a Drone Video of the RNAD Trecwn Valley, although most of the underground Magazines are no longer visible, due to all the trees which have grown up over the years. I notice that Hill Road no longer exists and many of the houses on Barham Road are gone, although the SASO's house is still there. I still remember most of the names of the people I went to school with, many of whom also went to work in the Depot at RNAD Trecwn. Be nice to know how many of them still live in the area. Most of us who lived at Trecwn, were English and children of men who worked in the Depot. Some left Trecwn before 1966, when their fathers were Posted elsewhere; one of the penalties of being Civil Servants.
I worked there. I left in 92 to go to other bases but always thought that it was the most beautiful place anyone could work at. I still have relatives in the area so look in on what's happened to the old stomping ground. It's not really a secret, it was bought out by a company who span a load of waffle about developing the site and creating 400 jobs. After purchase the number dropped to 200 then again down to 40. They did nothing for years until a court order made them sell it to another group with promises of development. Still nothing has happened. There were opportunities of renting out buildings and workshops but I believe that there were issues with that also. The train tracks are the property of the rail companies and keep up with the maintenance, the internal narrow gauge rail has all but been removed and given to other historic sites to use.
The "Bunkers" are not bunkers at all but storage areas called magazines. During the WWII items were stored in them from places like Parliament and Buckenham palace. The base was an armaments depot, it put together bombs, mines and shells used by the RN, which were then stored in the magazines. The magazines have a design the if there was an accidental detonation of considerable force it would destroy the supporting pillars (hidden within the walls) that would collapse part of the roof to quench any fire and prevent a chain reaction of the other armaments. At full capacity each one of the 58 Magazines were capable of storing 250,000 Tons of explosives. (Big bada boom). But the safety precautions were very tight that to be honest it would probably take a deliberate act to set anything off.
There were other magazines not used for explosives (6 additional ones) which were much smaller and were decommissioned and sealed/destroyed due to instability in the rock bed and structurally unsound many, many years before its closure. The main magazines are roughly 200m long and 30-50m wide. with some of them having the rail tracks on one side and the raised storage area on the other so that forklifts could move the cargo from the trains easily.
I would suggest that if you wanted to look around to talk to whom ever owns it now and ask for a tour. if a reasonable size group goes and posts things about it on line they might consider it free advertising and be happy to let you in. An invite is so much better than trespassing.
I just wish they would do something with the place and help the local economy out, create jobs, just something, Random thought, it would make one hell of a golf course, with loads of space for a luxury hotel/Spa.
I know someone who tried to operate out of there but the owners imposed such bullshit contracts they pulled out. In otherwords we pretend like we want your buiness but infact we dont. See Corsham for a classic example of this thinking. It seems like as if its another one of those "closed but could be reopened quickly if needed" loads of bullshit the govt does to hide its secret standby bases.
Nice footage and what a beautiful view, that is a heck of a huge place, thank you for filming this
Beautiful part of the world. Cheers.
I have just watched this again and it suddenly occurred to me that there are also many hidden paths/roads/ tracks behind the tree's that would have led to the other magazines. I hadn't noticed them before. There was also a scandal some years back when all the tracks were removed from the magazine area's as they were made of a special bronze alloy, spark proof and lessened the chance of static sparks igniting any of the explosives, someone made a small fortune....
Awesome! The hidden land of my ancestors. Thank you!
Very nice! I spent 5 years at the nearby base US Navy base at Brawdy and don't recall hearing about this, or perhaps I heard and never realize how close it was(the memory fades over 30+ years). Certainly there wasn't a lot of talk about it.
Brawdy had the underwater hydrophone listening station... which apparently is still there.
@@TheSecretVault The Brawdy Facility was closed in 1995 and the Facility is no longer used by the military. The main building has been mostly gutted since then.
@@GasCityGuy sorry...a bit late to the party. The British Army took over after the RAF decided to leave.
I believe it's now called Cawdor Barracks or something similar.
Trecwn is a wonderful secret location. You get the feeling mysterious things are going on there.
I live not 10 minutes away.
When political voting is required we pop down to the car park and do our thing in a little portable library. All very quaint.
I've worked with many people locally who once worked their.
Every person cannot speak highly enough about experience they had working there. They all talk about the good old days...Whatever they did 🤷♂️
WOW. What an amazing place. I thought I been everywhere in Wales. Missed that !! Awesome drone filming. Thank you.
Narrow valleys make for excellent bases. Highly defensible and below radar. But all the real action is going to be way below the surface. Close to the sea so they can cool the reactors. Nice footage.
Great video amazing drone shots.
EXCELLENT drone footage!!!! Great video matey. We've got into this one several times, there is a way, in fact several if you're looking. The first few times we had free rein, not a soul. The last time there was an hourly drive up and down but mainly I'm guessing because of demolition work, and diggers etc etc, making way for a Bioplant that never materialized. We got in to tunnel No11 but they are all sadly bricked up now.
When I visited in Aug 2020 one of the tunnels only had three blocks in place so it was possible to climb over them and in. This was on the inside edge of the bend in the valley about half way along the depot. I'd guess a number of 6-12 sort of area.
Do you have any photos or video?
They were pretty much identical to the magazines at Milford Haven.@@TheSecretVault
The first season of SAS : Who Dares Wins was filmed here in 2015, and they went on to say that It was used as an SAS training facility for a while .
Amazing! For years I’ve suspected things still going on up there.
Me too... and i was surprised how large the security force was for a DISUSED base.
An amazing place to investigate, cant wait to see what unfolds here, and some great clues from Matt. Google image view shows passenger airplane flying over with a rainbow shadow, I thought it was military planes,or the red arrows to start with..
It was an awesome place to work. Official secrets act was signed by all employees though.....
@@GeraintDafis There is no limit to the official secrets act.
@@martyjones200 The nature of it's creation is a PLANETARY WAR CRIME you will come to find
@@Matt-xw3oj wtf are you on about?
@@Matt-xw3oj You are correct.
@@martyjones200 He meant you have betrayed your own kind, by keeping those "other" people's dirty secrets. It's no secret really.... "Nothing shall be hidden, that won't be revealed." Almighty Creator. HE sees ALL and will reveal it, as the very word secrecy is repugnant in an open and democratic society.
I am sure this site was used for one of the channel 4's 'SAS: Who Dares Wins,' programs with Ant Middleton
Thats an interesting bit of info.
Definitely filmed there , just watched series 1 on 4s catch up online .
I can also say , and also vouch for this Programme taking place .
Courtesy of Wiki 🤗
@@TheSecretVault The owner has a partner who is part of the Winogradski family ie Michael Grade/Lew Grade. Very strong connections to film/tv/propaganda businesses.
I visited this recently, had a look round a few parts and one of the underground magazines. A lot of the magazines are blocked with large concrete blocks or secured doors. No sign of security on our visit but clear signs that they patrol the site on a regular basis in vehicles. There's still quite a lot of building activity going on, it's not clear why the site is being maintained.
I never realised that place was so vast! I was shown around some of the units when I was looking for a unit to let. As far as I know they are available for letting. Prices weren't bad when I was looking some four or five years ago.
Let me guess.... they screwed you around nad you didnt manage to get to let anywhere? This seems to be the usual story with this place. Pretend its available for rent but not let anyone rent there.
@@TheSecretVault It's weirdly deserted, or was a few years ago, for a company wanting to rent out their units. Arrangements were very vague and we decided to make other plans elsewhere. I now live just down the road from the place but haven't ventured in since I moved here.
@@Electrowave I do want to go back as im a bit sad i couldnt film the whole length of the place and also that I couldnt see closer. My new zoom drone would do a much better job.
@@TheSecretVault Sounds like a great idea :-)
Actually quite scary with all the rail could easy be a natzi camp
Again super drone photography. If it was me my drone would be at head height going in. Lol.
I wish I cvould have gone down low but it would have lost signal very shortly after going in as too many bends so had to go high or signal reasons. Would be nice to walk it tho with the drone in front.
@@TheSecretVault I did see a vid on UA-cam a person nodded a drone to use a mobile phone network for signal. 10 miles or more. But remote like that could still be tuff. Great vids buddy keep them coming. Think I was a mole in past life, as I love all stuff underground lol.
I think I remember my dad saying my grandpa helped to build it and my dad worked there from around 1980 to 1992. Sad to see it unused.
For any potential Urban Explorers keen to get in there after seeing this. Take note of how clean and well maintained the fences, roads, tracks, and lawns are....
This is NOT a deserted site, and you will get in a LOT of trouble VERY quickly if you try to sneak in!
This is true... for a DISUSED site they employ a lot of security, which makes zero sense... and points at a bigger plan.
I've had a look round the site. The vehicles do appear with little notice. It's clear that the tracks are regularly driven.
I had an odd experience with matt green SUVs that came racing up the track to the reservoirs. No idea who they were or what they were doing.
good if you want to start a musroom farm or wine celler the navy dont need it as we dont have one
Just dont show it to anyone from Wilts, they will have a growroom in there... or maybe thats why its so tightly secured... hint hint.
Pretty cool. x
This camp was used by a TV show I think, one of the SAS challenge shows.
Great footage! Did you have to ask for permission? I went to the gates today..rang the office and asked if I could have a look. Haha! But no luck🙄☹️I only live about 2 miles away..
No permission. Best not to... youll often be told no. For the last 20 years this place has been off limits and with its own large team of security. Go figure!!!! Some of us figure its on care and maintenance for the MOD under the very plainly now false guise of being sold off. Yeah pull the other one.
It’s absolutely huge!
iv been in to Trecwyn a fue times and seen the bunker as well and ther ar 5 or 6 relley big bunkers in west wales but you haft to look hard for them
Can you tell us what you saw at Trecwn and where some of the others are plz.
disused nuclear bunker at Templeton airfield is good to see in west wales
this may help to find other bunkers -
Supply trains would run from the site to both Fishguard harbour, Neyland
for Milford Haven, and Pembroke Dock. At Fishguard the line extended
beyond the ferry terminal at Fishguard Harbour railway station, continuing along the breakwater to a single line spur, allowing for transfer of munitions to Royal Navy ships.
and ther is a bunker in west wales in Pembroke Dock on the rode - connacht way and the bunker looks over the water and you can see on google maps as well
WHAT one has to ask, is this site costing me and thee (tax payers) to keep this place on a care & maintenance basis every year ?
This is my neck of the woods, know the area well
Great place to have a smuggling operation going.
WOW! This place is MASSIVE! Any idea of the actual length? You mention at 5.33 that this is an entrance for trains. It may be my eyes but could see no evidence of track bed? Cautionary note to anyone thinking of going for a nosey. I have a horrible feeling you may come out glowing in the dark...
You could work it out from google earth hmmm... lemme do that for ya.... approx 3.1 miles long
they developed the star wars program there!
more info require on that one hehe
If you do go under ground with Drone
Switch to Manually, not GPS, 🛰️
No signal under ground 🧱
Brilliant video and write up i deffo small a rat
Thats a whopper...
Did you misspell the name Trecwn (should be Trecwn) deliberately?
No tyhats very well spotted. I just spelled it how I thought it was spelled... haha... changing the title now. Sadly burned into the video tho. Not rendering that again.
@@alexanderallison480 Nonsense. Cwn is a variant spelling of cwm, so it's 'township in the valley'
I’m up for trying an explore here.
Im from here.
There are loads of photos of this place on google.
I literally lived above that place lol
Do you have any stories to tell?
Are you sure this is wales
It’s not raining lol
I can see my house!
Do you really live next to the base. I will call in and fly from your land if you do actually live there...I need a good place to take off from.
I worked there 1980’s
Can I ask was there any large bunker there or just lots of magazine bunkers into the hills?
TheSecretVault No large bunker despite all the thoughts people have about the place. Storage for convention armament only and no Nuclear weapons. I have been in every building in the depot so can make that statement. Quite a lot of photos on the web of various buildings. Great drone footage.
@@arweldavieswoodturning Thanks for the reply. Are any bits of it easy to get into for a look. Mostly interested in the Magazines. I understand the owners are pillocks who say they are interested in business and then every single time jack up the prices or introduce awkward terms which just drives people away. I understand thats why it has sat idle for 20 years. Do you know much about this? I can imagine its worth asking for a look when they are like that.
TheSecretVault I’d be interested to know some more if you find out I’m fairly local! I know they’ve got strict with security recently! A friend of mine did tree work in there but now they just cut the trees and bring them to the gate for him.
@@TheSecretVault The owners are the Manhattan Loft Corporation. Clue is Manhattan..think of a project.
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