Featured Caves
Caves featured in the weeks events: pre-rigged routes, pre-arranged leader access, privileged access and/or tours.
Bath Swallet
Lodge Wood, Burrington Combe
Bath Swallet lies in the most northerly of a line of mostly dry swallet depressions running south-east of Mendip Lodge Wood on the northern flank of Blackdown.
Charterhouse Cave
Gruffy Field, Charterhouse-on-Mendip
Until 2008 Charterhouse Cave was completely overshadowed by its much larger and more celebrated neighbour, G.B. Cave, but in that year the terminal boulder choke in the smaller cave was passed after a dig lasting 26 years, and the passages explored over the next three years exceeded all expectations.
Eastwater Cavern
Eastwater, Priddy
Eastwater Cavern has often been described as a true 'caver’s cave', and as an introduction to the typically steeply inclined passages of Mendip, it is hard to beat.
Fairy Cave
Fairy Cave Quarry, Stoke St.Michael
The initial section of this cave offers very little technical difficult or discomfort and makes a modesty interesting trip suited to beginners.
GB Cave
Gruffy Field, Charterhouse-on-Mendip
The highlight of a visit to G.B. Cave is the large stream passage known as the Gorge, which forms an enormous continuous void with the very impressive Main Chamber.
Gough's Cave
Cheddar Gorge
This fine, partially fossil resurgence cave is famous both as a show cave and as one of the richest Palaeolithic sites in the country.
Hilliers
Fairy Cave Quarry, Stoke St.Michael
Hillier's Cave represents a downstream continuation of the main streamway of Withyhill Cave and forms part of the complex drainage pattern which feeds St. Dunstan's Well resurgence to the north-east of the quarry.
Redcliffe Caves
Redcliffe, Bristol Harbour
These historic caves comprise a complex series of artificial interconnecting passages and small chambers covering an area of about an acre.
Reservoir Hole
Cheddar Gorge
Reservoir Hole is an unusual and spectacular cave. Its present extent is the result of ingenious and often difficult excavation, during which great care was taken to preserve the cave and its many fine formations.
Rod's Pot
Mendip Lodge Wood, Burrington Combe
Along with Goatchurch Cavern and Sidcot Swallet, Rod's Pot is one of the 'Top Three' Burrington caves. Its popularity is based on its sporting aspects - particularly the crawling and climbing.
Shatter Cave
Fairy Cave Quarry, Stoke St.Michael
Shatter Cave is one of the most beautifully decorated caves on Mendip.
St Cuthbert's Swallet
Priddy Minery, Priddy
St. Cuthbert's Swallet is undoubtedly the most complex cave system on Mendip and ranks second in length to Swildon's Hole. The cave consists of a steeply descending entrance section which carries the main stream beneath a multi-level network of passages, chambers and boulder ruckles.
Swildons Hole
Priddy
Swildon's Hole is the longest and most popular cave on Mendip, offering a wide variety of trips from the easy yet inspiring Upper Series for the novice, to strenuous and challenging undertakings for the seasoned caver.
Templeton Pot
Higher Pitts, Priddy
This is undoubtedly the most heavily engineered dig site in the country, and as a testament to the ingenuity and dedication of the cave digger's art it really takes some beating.
Upper Flood Swallet
Blackmoor Valley, Charterhouse-on-Mendip
From the Blackamoor catchment area at the head of Velvet Bottom a sizeable stream sinks in the valley floor to feed the Cheddar Risings, 210m lower and some 5km away to the south-west.
Wookey Hole
Wookey Hole, Wells
Long renowned as a show cave, Wookey Hole has been the scene of many notable 'firsts' in British cave diving history and still offers considerable scope for upstream exploration. The show cave section is a series of interconnected grottoes and chambers with a number of high-level extensions.
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