Visited here with my friend.
I went on my own the week before but ended up on the wrong site, it was hailing and I couldn’t find a way in. Armed with better information we went the following week and spent about 4 hours here, lots of walking as it’s spread over a fairly large site set on a cliff face.
The decay here was amazing, I love stuff like this it’s far better than nans houses that have been ransacked and tourbussed. The bus has stopped here previously but right now they’re all over the abandoned zoo so we didn’t see another soul whilst there. The floors are proper dodgy in places and pigeons have taken over a part of the main building with juveniles who were surprisingly tame and mums sat on nests. Obviously we respected the nesting and left them to it.
History -
The site contains a number of large, former education buildings that comprised Foxwood School, which was a Special Educational Needs (SEN) School. The site and buildings have been vacant since 2016, when the school was amalgamated with the Highview School in Folkestone.
Foxwood wasn’t a ‘traditional’ school site and they used one of the few flat pieces of land as a summer play space and to hold the school fete. It also had a 6 a side football pitch which was used once or twice a year. The space around it, being uneven was variously used as planting or vegetable growing space to enhance classroom learning. It was also occasionally used in the summer as a playground.
It was not used as a PE space as it was down a significant slope from the classroom blocks which meant that staff had to both support and supervise transitions. PE took place on the playgrounds outside the buildings or in the hall in the main house. IT was the only bit of flat grass on the site, but it wasn’t by any stretch of the imagination a ‘sports field’.
There are plans to demolish the school and build homes in it’s place.
I went on my own the week before but ended up on the wrong site, it was hailing and I couldn’t find a way in. Armed with better information we went the following week and spent about 4 hours here, lots of walking as it’s spread over a fairly large site set on a cliff face.
The decay here was amazing, I love stuff like this it’s far better than nans houses that have been ransacked and tourbussed. The bus has stopped here previously but right now they’re all over the abandoned zoo so we didn’t see another soul whilst there. The floors are proper dodgy in places and pigeons have taken over a part of the main building with juveniles who were surprisingly tame and mums sat on nests. Obviously we respected the nesting and left them to it.
History -
The site contains a number of large, former education buildings that comprised Foxwood School, which was a Special Educational Needs (SEN) School. The site and buildings have been vacant since 2016, when the school was amalgamated with the Highview School in Folkestone.
Foxwood wasn’t a ‘traditional’ school site and they used one of the few flat pieces of land as a summer play space and to hold the school fete. It also had a 6 a side football pitch which was used once or twice a year. The space around it, being uneven was variously used as planting or vegetable growing space to enhance classroom learning. It was also occasionally used in the summer as a playground.
It was not used as a PE space as it was down a significant slope from the classroom blocks which meant that staff had to both support and supervise transitions. PE took place on the playgrounds outside the buildings or in the hall in the main house. IT was the only bit of flat grass on the site, but it wasn’t by any stretch of the imagination a ‘sports field’.
There are plans to demolish the school and build homes in it’s place.
