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Read's Grotto Gruffy Field Mine Rabbit Mine Dibble's Mine Tyning's Farm Swallet Daccott's Hole Great Swallet G.B. Cave
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Gruffy Field, Charterhouse-on-Mendip.
NGR: | ST 47747 56201 |
WGS84: | 51.30252, -2.75092 |
Length: | 5218 m |
Depth: | 228 m |
Altitude: | 255 m |
Tags: | Cave |
Registry: | mcr-cs |
Initial constricted passage leads to roomy stream passage intercepting two large chambers then a dangerous choke, followed by a further section of well decorated streamway and an even longer section of fossil passage.
Alternate Names: None recorded.
Notes: Currently the deepest cave on Mendip.
Digging not permitted without authority from CCC Ltd.
10 Figure NGR recorded with differential GPS June 2010
Hydrographic Feeds: Read's Grotto.
Hydrographic Resurgences: Cheddar risings
Surveys:
Charterhouse Cave, Moody, P & Moody, A., 1984
The Charterhouse and GB Cave System, Atkinson, A., 2012
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This entry was last updated: 2017-10-10 13:13:51
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