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New Year Hole

Fairy Cave Quarry, Stoke St.Michael.

NGR:ST 6565 4755
WGS84:51.22610, -2.49329
Length:61 m
Depth:18 m
Altitude:168 m
Tags:Cave, Lost
Registry:mcr-en

A 12m high, narrow rift led to a choke with a chimney to a high level passage above.

Alternate Names: Fairy Cave 12, New Year Cave

Notes: Discovered by quarrying, January 1968. Destroyed.

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