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Un-named Hole - 2 Garlick's Rift Balch Main Chamber Plummer's Hole Spectacles Hole Un-named Hole - 1 Hobgoblin Hole Un-named Hole - 3 Balch Cave Balch Erratic Passage - 1 Duck's Pot Balch Erratic Passage - 2 Elf Crack Balch Pool Passage Clay Pit Fernhill Cave Pixie Grotto Conning Tower Cave W/L Cave Gnome Rift Balch Aven Chamber Balch Coral Grotto Fairy Cave Quarry Rumble Tumble Hole Shatter Cave Bunny Hole Weekend Rift New Year Hole Snare Hole Hillier's Cave Great Shaft Fairy Cave Culdesac Pot Un-named Hole - 4 Blow Hole Buddleia Hole Rose's Rift Short Life Pot Un-named Hole - 6 Price's Purgatory Hillwithy Cave Tucking Fight Rift Withyhill Cave Withyhill Flood Rising Quarter Way Up Hole Half Way Up Hole St. Dunstan's Well West St. Dunstan's Well Cave St. Dunstan's Well East St. Dunstan's Well North Stoke House Garden Tunnel Hyatt's Hill Cave Frog Lane Dig
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Fairy Cave Quarry, Stoke St.Michael.
| NGR: | ST 6576 4764 |
| WGS84: | 51.22692, -2.49173 |
| Length: | 76 m |
| Depth: | 18 m |
| Altitude: | 183 m |
| Tags: | Cave |
| Registry: | mcr-en |
A 13m shaft yielding a small passage which ended in a muddy choke close to Duck's Pot. Partway down the entrance shaft, a chamber could be entered from where a roomy but dangerously unstable passage could be a followed to a choke which lay directly below the original entrance to Balch Cave, of which it doubtless represented a northward continuation.
Alternate Names: Fairy Cave 7
Notes: Discovered by quarrying December 1961. Destroyed.
Surveys:
Plan of Christmas Hole, Giles, Jim, 1962
Christmas Hole, Giles, Jim, 1962
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