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Conkey Hole

Warleigh, Bradford on Avon.

A lost cave that is mentioned in local history books. The current position is a poor guess based on Hamm's and Skrine's descriptions below.

Alternative Names: Cankery Hole, Dry Arch cave

Notes: Hamm (1953) writes "There was a chapel or church on the hill above Warleigh near "Dry Arch," where revels were held on Palm Sundays up to 1810. The fun ended in so many fights the magistrates had to stop these meetings then. The cave was called "Conkey Hole" and was supposed to lead through to Farleigh. Many bones were found there, so that people thought it must have been where the battle of Farleigh was fought in the Civil War."

In December 1899, Wheatcroft, described an outing he went on to Warleigh. He wrote "A little below Cankery Hole and close to the picturesque avenue of beech trees in the wood below the Bradford Road, can be seen the site of "old Sally's cottage".

Skrine (1882) wrote that the ruins of Sally's Cottage were located in the Warleigh Home Wood.