Caving

Imperial College Caving club

Imperial College Caving club is a relaxed, easy-going club dedicated to caving and canyoning in the UK and abroad. We go on regular trips during term time, with the emphasis on having fun away from the hassle of lectures and work. Founded in 1962, we are well equipped, experienced, and always eager to meet, teach …

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Morley Potholing Club

MORLEY POTHOLING CLUB is a small but active club based around Leeds/West Yorkshire area. The club is well established, affiliated to the Council of Northern Caving Clubs (CNCC), caving mainly in the Dales but also further afield. In addition to caving there are occasional climbing, walking and mountain biking trips organised. We are a friendly …

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Crewe Climbing & Potholing Club

Crewe Climbing and Potholing Club was founded in 1957 and is one of the largest and most well respected caving clubs active in the Peak District of North Staffordshire and Derbyshire. Despite our name, we now draw our membership mostly from the whole of the Cheshire and Staffordshire region, although we are mainly based around …

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Breifne Caving Club

BCC is active in promoting sports caving and speleological exploration in the Breifne region of the Northwest of Ireland.

South Wales Caving Club

SWCC is an active caving club based in Penwyllt, near Abercraf, fifteen miles North of?Swansea, South Wales. We have around 300 members from all around the UK as well as overseas. Our primary focus is caving in South Wales but the club has frequent trips to other UK caving regions as well as expeditions worldwide. …

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Rubber Duck Caving Clubgret

The Rubber Duck Caving Club was established in 1975 under the name of Crown Caving and Potholing Club as it originated from the late Crown Wallpaper social club in Bredbury. We changed the name when we started meeting in one of our local pubs and took the landlord on a trip, who insisted on taking …

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Chislehurst Caves

Chislehurst Caves are a series of intersecting man-made tunnels and caverns covering some 22 miles (35 km) in Chislehurst in south east London, England. From the mid-13th to early-19th centuries the ‘caves’ were created from the mining of flint and lime-burning chalk. Today the caves are a tourist attraction and although they are called caves, …

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Great Masson Cavern

Great Masson Cavern is one of two caves at the Heights of Abraham, Matlock, Derbyshire, England. Great Masson Cavern is notable for its lack of stalactites and stalagmites, as the cave is coated in a clay-like substance that inhibits deposition. However, it still has some rock formations such as “the Owl” and “the Rabbit”. It …

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Ingleborough Cave

Ingleborough Cave, first entered and made accessible in 1837, is one of the Yorkshire Dales finest examples of limestone scenery. A well lit concrete footpath leads you past huge stalactites, stalagmites and flowstones. Visitors are lead by our expert guides through a kilometre of awe-inspiring passages that are brought to life by formations and artefacts …

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White Scar Cave

White Scar Caves is a show cave in the civil parish of Ingleton, North Yorkshire, England, under Ingleborough in the Chapel-le-Dale valley of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It is a solutional resurgence cave formed in Carboniferous limestone, some 6 kilometres long.

Poole’s Cavern

Poole’s Cavern & Buxton Country Park is owned and managed by Buxton Civic Association Ltd. This charitable trust formed in 1967 to help protect the unique buildings and landscape of Buxton. Over the last 50 years Buxton Civic Association has acquired ten woodlands which were once part of the Chatsworth Estate. The woodlands were gifted …

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The Hellfire Caves

The Knights of St Francis of Wycombe or the Hellfire Club as it was later called was a natural progression from earlier clubs founded by Sir Francis Dashwood in the mid 18th. Century, such as the Dilettanti Society, which was started in 1733 to encourage interest in classical art and still flourishes, and the Divan …

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Gough’s Cave

Gough’s Cave is located in Cheddar Gorge on the Mendip Hills, in Cheddar, Somerset, England. The cave is 115 m (377 ft) deep and is 3.405 km (2.12 mi) long, and contains a variety of large chambers and rock formations. It contains the Cheddar Yeo, the largest underground river system in Britain. The initial sections …

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Kents Cavern Prehistoric Caves

The caverns and passages were formed in the early Pleistocene period by water action, and have been occupied by one of at least eight separate, discontinuous native populations to have inhabited the British Isles. The other key paleolithic sites in the UK are Happisburgh, Pakefield, Boxgrove, Swanscombe, Pontnewydd, Paviland, Creswell Crags and Gough’s Cave. A …

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Llechwedd

Llechwedd? is a visitor attraction near Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. It details the history of slate quarrying in the town and specifically the Llechwedd quarry in which it is located. The main aspect of Llechwedd is its Llechwedd Deep Mine Tour which has the steepest narrow gauge railway in the UK and travels over 500 …

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Pridhamsleigh Cavern

Pridhamsleigh Cavern is a cave on the outskirts of Ashburton, Devon, England. It is approximately 1.1 kilometres in length with a total depth of just over 50 metres including Prid II. Pridhamsleigh is a good site for novice cavers, making it quite muddy throughout. Pridhamsleigh is a good site for novice cavers, making it quite …

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Pen Park Hole

Pen Park Hole is a large cavern situated underground, at the edge of Filton Golf Course. The cavern was discovered accidentally in the 17th Century and the first descent was made by Captain Sturmy in 1669. The entrance is adjacent to the Southmead and Brentry housing estates of north Bristol. Pen Park Hole is the …

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Cavehill Country Park

The park is home to Cave Hill Adventurous Playground, archaeological sites, Cave Hill Visitor Centre, ecotrails, walking and orienteering routes.? Refreshments are also available in the Cellar Restaurant inside Belfast Castle. Cave Hill Country Park gets its name from five caves, which could be early iron mines, located on the side of the main Belfast …

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