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Speedwell Cavern is one of the four show caves in Castleton, Derbyshire, England. [1] The cave system consists of a horizontal lead miners' adit (a level passageway driven horizontally into the hillside) 200 metres (660 ft) below ground leading to the cavern itself, a limestone cave. The narrow adit is permanently flooded, so after descending a ...
Castleton SSSI marks the northernmost extent of carboniferous limestone within the Peak District. Underground, the area has important cave systems, including Eldon Hole, located near Eldon Hill . The karst drainage systems connected to this protected area include Peak Cavern , Treak Cliff Cavern and Speedwell Cavern .
Peak Cavern: Castleton Derbyshire 6026 130 Plunge Hole Buxton Derbyshire 9 15 Poole's Cavern: Buxton Derbyshire 244 0 Reynard's Cave Ashbourne Derbyshire 12 0 Rowter Hole Castleton Derbyshire 1044 182 Speedwell Cavern: Castleton Derbyshire 6929 235 Suicide Cave Castleton Derbyshire 137 27
At the foot of the pass is the entrance to Speedwell Cavern, a karst cave accessed through a flooded lead mine, and which is a popular tourist attraction. [ 1 ] In the 1930s, Winnats Pass was the location used for annual access rallies in support of greater access to the moorlands or the Peak District, around the time of the Mass Trespass of ...
Poole's Cavern: Buxton 244 0 Reynard's Cave Ashbourne 12 0 Robin Hood's Cave* [13] Chesterfield 290 Rowter Hole Castleton 1044 182 Speedwell Cavern: Castleton 6929 235 Suicide Cave Castleton 137 27 Thirst House Cave: Buxton 58 0 Titan: Castleton 2086 196
Titan is a natural cavern near Castleton in the Derbyshire Peak District, and is the deepest shaft of any known cave in Britain, at 141.5 metres (464 ft). [1] The existence of Titan was revealed in November 2006, [2] following its discovery on 1 January 1999 after cavers discovered connections from the James Hall Over Engine Mine to both Speedwell Cavern and Peak Cavern.
Castleton is a village and civil parish in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, England, at the western end of the Hope Valley on the Peakshole Water, a tributary of the River Noe, between the Dark Peak to the north and the White Peak to the south.
Oscar Hackett Neil Moss (28 July 1938 [1] – 23 March 1959) was a British student who died in a caving accident. A twenty-year-old undergraduate studying philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford, Moss became jammed underground, 1,000 feet (300 m) from the entrance, [2] after descending a narrow unexplored shaft in Peak Cavern, a famous cave system in Castleton in Derbyshire, on 22 March 1959.