Wookey Hole Caves (/ˈwʊki/) are a series of limestone caverns, a show cave and tourist attraction in the village of Wookey Hole on the southern edge of...
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Wookey Hole is a village in Somerset, England. It is the location of the Wookey Hole show caves. Wookey Hole is located in the civil parish of St Cuthbert...
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in caves around the country. In addition, many tourists visit show caves such as Wookey Hole Caves. Cave diving is a niche technical area of caving practised...
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Gerry Cottle (section Wookey Hole)
13 January 2021) was a British circus owner and the owner of the Wookey Hole Caves in Somerset. He presented the Moscow State Circus and Chinese State...
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February 2009. "Mendip Caves: Wookey Hole Catchment". British Geological Survey. 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2009. "Mendip Caves: Cheddar Catchment". British...
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Cheddar Gorge (redirect from Cheddar Caves)
two main commercial show caves and the visitor centre, which is operated by Longleat-owned company Cheddar Gorge and Caves Ltd under director Hugh Cornwell[citation...
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the 1930s. Caves of the Mendip Hills "Swildon's Hole". Mendip Cave Registry & Archive. Retrieved 30 March 2012. "Mendip caves: Wookey Hole catchment"...
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Mendip Hills (section Caving and cave diving)
for caving and cave diving, as well as being popular with climbers, hillwalkers and natural historians. Wookey Hole Caves and some of the caves in Cheddar...
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water entering swallets in the limestone and rises from the ground at Wookey Hole Caves in the Mendip Hills in Somerset, and runs through a V-shaped valley...
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exploring Wookey Hole Caves and in the 1890s, Balch was introduced to the caves of the Mendip Hills. One of the oldest established caving clubs, Yorkshire...
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of Wells. Wookey is often confused with its sister village Wookey Hole (2 miles to the north), site of the Wookey Hole Caves. The name Wookey is thought...
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Swildon's Hole Thrupe Lane Swallet Wookey Hole Caves The following are all within Derbyshire unless otherwise stated. See also List of caves in the Peak...
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Churchill. The site was purchased in 1931 by Wookey Hole Caves Ltd. The site is close to Wookey Hole village and caves and offers views across the Somerset Levels...
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cave diving in the late 1930s, notably at Wookey Hole in Somerset. Passages through caves are often blocked by a submerged section, or sump. Cavers in...
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Cave-diving is underwater diving in water-filled caves. It may be done as an extreme sport, a way of exploring flooded caves for scientific investigation...
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Penelope Powell (category Cave diving explorers)
a pioneering cave diver. She was Diver No. 2 for the first successful cave dive using breathing equipment in Britain at Wookey Hole Caves in the Mendip...
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Herbert E. Balch (category British cavers)
started investigating the Iron Age cave dwellers in Wookey Hole Caves, embarking on a four-year study of the caves along with other members of the Mendip...
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Glastonbury and its closeness to the Somerset coast. Also nearby are Wookey Hole Caves, the Mendip Hills and the Somerset Levels. Somerset cheese, including...
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United States Wookey Hole Caves, Somerset, England Yagodinska Cave, Western Rhodope Mountains, near Smolyan, Bulgaria (the longest cave in the Rhodope...
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factory, flying, and plans to electrify Wookey Hole, "the caves of the Druids". Eight pages of chapter 8, "Wookey Hole", were removed when the novel was reprinted...
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Cheddar, Somerset (section Gorge and caves)
largest gorge in the United Kingdom and includes several show caves, including Gough's Cave. The gorge has been a centre of human settlement since Neolithic...
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became interested in the caves of the Mendip Hills, particularly Swildon's Hole which they believed connected to Wookey Hole Caves. They proved this by putting...
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forest. Wookey Hole Caves - the name Wookey is derived from the Celtic (Welsh) for 'cave', "Ogo" or "Ogof" which gave the early names for this cave of "Ochie"...
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Weathercote Cave White Scar Caves Wookey Hole Caves Yordas Cave Flowstone found in Mammoth cave. Location map of wind cave. Wind cave. Actun Box Ch'iich' Actun...
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May 1948. "Cave divers's death at Wookey Hole". Wells Journal. 22 April 1949. Lovelock (1963), pp. 99–101. "Third boy dies in Giant's cave". Daily Herald...
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of the cave, up to Diamond Chamber, which is the end of the show cave today. Electric lighting was installed in the show caves in 1899. The cave is susceptible...
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also used Betchworth Quarry as the surface of an alien planet and Wookey Hole Caves as the site of an alien mine. Additional location shooting took place...
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Outline of recreational dive sites (section Blue holes)
Flooded cave system in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico Chinhoyi Caves – Group of caves in north central Zimbabwe Cocklebiddy cave – Large flooded cave in Western...
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