Featured Caves

Caves featured in the weeks events: pre-rigged routes, pre-arranged leader access, privileged access and/or tours.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Copyright © Mark Burkey 2016

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

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.

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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

Redcliffe, Bristol Harbour

These historic caves comprise a complex series of artificial interconnecting passages and small chambers covering an area of about an acre.

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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.

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.

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Fairy Cave Quarry, Stoke St.Michael

Shatter Cave is one of the most beautifully decorated caves on Mendip.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

Copyright © Christine Grosart 2016

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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