Industrial and derelict locations to film in the United Kingdom
39 of them, 35 with a photo and 6 with practical details the location publishes itself. 5 have a documented shooting history. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build.
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Aerospace Bristol
Industrial & derelict
Aviation museum on the former Filton airfield site with a hangar housing a preserved Concorde alongside earlier Bristol-built aircraft.
Capacity: 500 · Spaces for hire include the Concorde Gallery and Balcony, the John James Theatre (raked seating), the Studio Space, and the Miami, Washington and New...
Amberley Museum
Industrial & derelict
Open-air industrial heritage museum on a former chalk quarry near Arundel, with narrow-gauge railways, a lime works, workshops and period industrial buildings.
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Industrial & derelict
Nineteen fifties Baltic Flour Mills on the Gateshead quayside converted into a gallery, keeping the brick silo walls, with tall open galleries and a rooftop river view.
Battersea Power Station
Industrial & derelict
Decommissioned Thames-side coal power station with four white chimneys, its turbine halls and boiler house now restored inside a mixed-use redevelopment.
Seen in: The King's Speech, Children of Men
Event spaces include Control Room A (max 220 people), the Arcade Food Hall (max 600) and The Cinema in The Power Station (max 350).
Big Pit National Coal Museum
Industrial & derelict
Former working coal mine at Blaenavon in the South Wales valleys, part of a World Heritage industrial landscape, with pithead buildings and an underground tour.
Blaenavon Ironworks
Industrial & derelict
UNESCO World Heritage ironworks in the South Wales valleys with ruined blast furnaces, a water balance tower and rows of furnished workers' cottages, hired for filming and photography.
Cromford Mills
Industrial & derelict
Arkwright's water powered cotton mill complex of 1771, the earliest of its kind, with gritstone mill blocks, wheel pits, leats, yards and a walled site by the Derwent.
Crossness Pumping Station
Industrial & derelict
A Victorian sewage pumping station in south east London, its ornate cast iron interior housing a restored beam engine and hired for filming.
Dean Clough
Industrial & derelict
Former Crossley's carpet mill complex in Halifax, a chain of Victorian stone mill buildings around courtyards now used as offices, galleries and studios.
Discovery Museum
Industrial & derelict
A free museum in Newcastle housed in Blandford House, an Edwardian former Co-operative Wholesale Society warehouse, with galleries and a turbine ship on display.
Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower
Industrial & derelict
Former Royal Navy armaments depot at Priddy's Hard, Gosport, with magazine buildings and quaysides on Portsmouth Harbour, welcoming TV, radio and commercial filming.
Fort Amherst
Industrial & derelict
Napoleonic-era fortification above Chatham with brick ramparts, gun batteries and a network of tunnels cut into the chalk.
Geevor Tin Mine
Industrial & derelict
Former working tin mine on the Cornish coast near Pendeen, with headframes, processing mills, underground tunnels and dressing floors preserved as a museum.
Seen in: Poldark
Kempton Steam Museum
Industrial & derelict
Edwardian water pumping station at Hanworth with two triple expansion steam engines in a tall galleried engine house, plus boiler house, yard and narrow gauge railway.
Seen in: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Holmes & Watson, Poirot
Landguard Fort
Industrial & derelict
Coastal artillery fort at the mouth of the River Orwell near Felixstowe, rebuilt in stages from the seventeenth to the twentieth century with gun casemates and magazines.
London Museum of Water & Steam
Industrial & derelict
Victorian waterworks in Brentford with a brick standpipe tower, working beam engines, boiler house, workshops and a cobbled yard, hired for filming and events.
Seen in: Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks, The Bill, EastEnders
Museum of the Gorge, Ironbridge
Industrial & derelict
Former riverside warehouse at Ironbridge, part of the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site of 18th century ironworking remains along the River Severn.
National Mining Museum Scotland
Industrial & derelict
Preserved Lady Victoria Colliery with winding engine house, headframe, pithead baths, workshops and a surrounding Victorian mining village.
National Slate Museum
Industrial & derelict
A former slate quarry workshop at Llanberis in Snowdonia, with working machinery, a giant waterwheel and quarrymen's cottages preserved on site.
National Waterfront Museum
Industrial & derelict
Industrial history museum in Swansea Marina combining a restored 1901 dockside warehouse with a slate and glass extension, open galleries and quayside outside.
Old Billingsgate
Industrial & derelict
The former Victorian fish market hall on the Thames in the City of London, a column free riverside space hired for productions and functions.
Three hire spaces: the Grand Hall (47,000 sq ft / 4,300 sqm, sit-down dinner 1,800 / reception 2,500 / conference 1,200), the Gallery (10,000 sq ft /...
Orford Ness
Industrial & derelict
Shingle spit on the Suffolk coast used for decades as a secret military testing site, with derelict laboratories, pagoda-shaped test buildings and a lighthouse.
Papplewick Pumping Station
Industrial & derelict
Victorian waterworks of 1884 with two working beam engines, ornamental ironwork columns, stained glass, a boiler house with six Lancashire boilers and a cooling pond.
People's History Museum
Industrial & derelict
The national museum of democracy in Manchester, housed in a former Edwardian hydraulic pumping station beside the River Irwell, with galleries and an events space.
Rhondda Heritage Park
Industrial & derelict
A former colliery in the Rhondda valley, South Wales, preserved with pithead buildings and winding gear as a mining heritage museum.
Royal Gunpowder Mills
Industrial & derelict
Former explosives works at Waltham Abbey with 21 listed buildings, canals, tramways, blast mounds and 175 acres of woodland closed to the public.
Royal William Yard
Industrial & derelict
Georgian naval victualling yard in Plymouth built of limestone and granite, with a brewhouse, bakery, cooperage, slate roofs, a gatehouse arch and its own harbour.
Salts Mill
Industrial & derelict
Former Victorian textile mill in the Saltaire World Heritage village near Bradford, a vast stone and iron structure now used as galleries, shops and offices.
Snape Maltings
Industrial & derelict
Former Victorian malting complex on the River Alde, its brick maltings and kilns converted into a concert hall, galleries and shops.
The Custard Factory
Industrial & derelict
Former Bird's custard works in Digbeth turned into studios and shops, with brick factory blocks, iron walkways, loading bays, painted yards and canal frontage.
Tobacco Dock
Industrial & derelict
A Grade I listed early nineteenth century dock warehouse in Wapping, with exposed brick vaults and cast iron columns hired as an events space.
13 event spaces including the Great Gallery, Little Gallery, Dock Gallery, Quayside areas, Vaults and meeting suites, in a Grade I listed building...
Trinity Buoy Wharf
Industrial & derelict
Former lighthouse testing wharf at the mouth of the River Lea, with a lightship, converted shipping-container studios and dockside sheds.
Verdant Works
Industrial & derelict
A restored nineteenth century jute mill in Dundee with original machinery and mill buildings, run as a museum of the city's textile industry.
Woodhorn Museum
Industrial & derelict
A former colliery near Ashington in Northumberland with preserved pithead buildings, a winding engine and headstocks, run as a mining heritage museum.
Woolwich Works
Industrial & derelict
Arts venue in five restored Royal Arsenal munitions buildings in south east London, with brick halls, exposed roof trusses, rehearsal rooms and open yards.
Bentwaters Parks
Industrial & derelict
Former USAF cold war air base near Woodbridge with hardened aircraft shelters, a control tower, bunkers, hangars, runways and empty roads.
Seen in: One Shot, Space Cadets
Fleet Air Arm Museum
Industrial & derelict
Naval aviation museum on the working airbase at RNAS Yeovilton with historic aircraft, a Concorde and hangar interiors, welcoming TV, radio and commercial filming.
SWG3
Industrial & derelict
A converted warehouse and former whisky bond in Glasgow's Yorkhill, now a multi room venue used for music, events and film and television production.
The Old Truman Brewery
Industrial & derelict
Former East End brewery complex on Brick Lane with converted vat rooms, yards and warehouse floors hired as event and shoot space.
Industrial and derelict locations elsewhere in Europe
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