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Balch Pool Passage W/L Cave Balch Erratic Passage - 2 Balch Erratic Passage - 1 Balch Aven Chamber Balch Cave Balch Coral Grotto Shatter Cave Bunny Hole Spectacles Hole Balch Main Chamber Un-named Hole - 2 Plummer's Hole Hobgoblin Hole Christmas Hole Elf Crack Un-named Hole - 1 Garlick's Rift New Year Hole Fairy Cave Quarry Un-named Hole - 3 Gnome Rift Duck's Pot Rose's Rift Great Shaft Pixie Grotto Clay Pit Rumble Tumble Hole Short Life Pot Fernhill Cave Culdesac Pot Un-named Hole - 4 Un-named Hole - 6 Weekend Rift Buddleia Hole Withyhill Cave Hillier's Cave Fairy Cave Price's Purgatory Snare Hole Hillwithy Cave Blow Hole Tucking Fight Rift Withyhill Flood Rising Quarter Way Up Hole Half Way Up Hole Hyatt's Hill Cave St. Dunstan's Well Cave St. Dunstan's Well West St. Dunstan's Well East St. Dunstan's Well North Stoke House Garden Tunnel Parfitt's Cave Post Hole Rusticle Holes Withybrook Slocker
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Fairy Cave Quarry, Stoke St.Michael.
| NGR: | ST 6574 4757 |
| WGS84: | 51.22629, -2.49201 |
| Length: | 73 m |
| Depth: | 14 m |
| Altitude: | 167 m |
| Tags: | Cave |
| Registry: | mcr-en |
Bouldery crawls lead to a narrow streamway with sumps. This is the remains of Balch Cave Lower streamway. CSS dye tested connections with Withybrook Slocker (2 hours) and Saint Dunstan's Well West (1.5 hours) in 1975.
Alternate Names: Fairy Cave 10
Notes: Reopened August 1967 by quarrying. Floods to roof in extreme conditions.
Hydrographic Feeds: Withybrook Slocker (CSS 1975 - 2 hours)
Hydrographic Resurgences: St.Dunstan's Well West (CSS 1975 - 1.5 hours)
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