Map with: Google Map, or OS Explorer Map from Streetmap.co.uk

Other Sites Within 500m

Little Cave  Reservoir Cavity  Tower Rock Shelter  Landing Beach Hole  Monk's Well  Old Well Resurgence  Jubilee Cave  Hall Cave  Steep Holm  Five Johns' Cave  Tree Cave  Window Cave  White Cave  200 Steps Cave  Split Rock Cave 

 Go to the Main Mendip Cave Registry Search Page

Parsons Cave

Steep Holm.

NGR:ST 23093 60604
WGS84:51.33930, -3.10546
Length:2 m
Depth:0 m
Altitude:57 m
Tags:Cave
Registry:westmendip

A small arched roofed cave, well hidden on the cliff edge. The cave has the remains of walling across its entrance. 2m high 2.5m deep and 3.6m wide.

Alternate Names: Smugglers' Cave [2]

Notes: Was re-discovered in 1985 and suggested that this could be a smuggling cave hence the Alt Name Smugglers' Cave [2]. According to Steep Holm's Pioneers, this was rediscovered by Tony Parsons. Another reference in "The Story of a Small Island" (1993), where Stan & Joan Rendell say "we ... immediately named the larger one Parsons' Cave" - although in the original magazine article they put the apostrophe between the N & S !

 Search for this site in the MCRA Bibliography.

Photos from the MCRA Archive:

This entry was last updated: 2019-05-14 07:49:06

Errors or omissions in this information? Submit corrections/additions/comments for this entry to the registrars.

All database content Copyright 2025 Mendip Cave Registry and Archive.
Your use of this website is subject to the Disclaimer.
Web Registry software by Matt Voysey.