Thanks to John for the pictures. On discovering a video game called the Upper Reaches my imagination got carried away. The Upper Reaches has been boarded up now for well over two years now …
The Upper Reaches has three levels to explore with around 50 boarded up rooms,
There are many high fences to keep you out, overgrown gardens, and a water mill entered through a watery cavern.
Horrible monsters, from giant weeds to killer rats, lurk in the overgrown carpark.
Discover the secrets of the nearby monastery, and the Old Gaol where Broad Face glowers menacingly where he was hung.
What of all those donations that pilgrims made to the Abbot over the years? Are they still buried beneath the Abbey Gardens? There could be a sizable horde. Discover the healing potion unknown to modern science made by the last apothecary – or something even more intriguing in the boarded up rooms of The Upper Reaches.
It’s a disgrace, the council should sort it, now.
Don’t forget the secret tunnel to the chamber of St Helena. Find the map of the True Cross and the sacred splinter she sent back to Abingdon.
Don’t miss the ghost of the first Town Crier and his box of buns.
Find the bones of the original town planner who forgot to allow for Roman chariots thundering through the settlement on their way to Silchester, resulting in the first traffic jam in Ancient Britain.
….. and the link to the portal on the Old Gaol lawn, oh and the ancient charter granting unlimited powers to a certain local developer.
Brilliant! The first picture really does make it look like a hauted place. Complete with sign fallen off…