GloucesterDorchesterPortsmouthLiphook, Hampshire
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Gear up.
Move out.
Hold your nerve.

Wartime tunnels, prison landings and woodland battlegrounds, thrown open for airsoft, candlelit tours, ghost hunts and hide & seek.

The venues

Each site has its own history and its own list of things to do.

Experiences

Choose your mission. Each one books on its own site.

UCAP Airsoft

Airsoft game day

Skirmishes in a D-Day bunker, prison wings and woodland, run by UCAP since 2007. Sundays, plus Wednesday nights at Bunker.

Gloucester · Dorchester · Portsmouth · Liphook, Hampshire

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Gloucester & Dorchester Prison Events & Experiences

Guided tour

Daytime walks through the wings and cells with guides who have worked in the prison service.

Gloucester · Dorchester

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Gloucester & Dorchester Prison Events & Experiences

Candlelight tour

After dark with a former governor: executions, the darker history and the ghost stories.

Gloucester · Dorchester

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Gloucester & Dorchester Prison Events & Experiences

Paranormal investigation

Guided ghost hunts with modern kit and traditional methods. No mediums, no staged effects.

Gloucester · Dorchester

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Gloucester & Dorchester Prison Events & Experiences

Hide & seek

The whole prison after dark. One seeker counts over the tannoy; everyone else hides in cells, kitchens and workshops.

Gloucester

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Gloucester & Dorchester Prison Events & Experiences

Investigators' night

The run of the site for paranormal teams, zoned and timed so groups don't cross.

Gloucester

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Groups, schools & hire

School visits

Crime and punishment on the landings, taught by former prison service staff.

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Venue hire

Wings, cells, the chapel and yards for conventions, launches, parties and car meets.

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Filming

Secure, walled sets with real cells. Luther and The Gold both filmed at Dorchester.

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