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St Cuthbert's Swallet
Cave in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the cave in Northumberland, see St Cuthbert's Cave.
St Cuthbert's Swallet is the second longest, and most complex, cave on the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. It forms a major part of the Priddy Caves system and water entering this swallet re-emerges at Wookey Hole.[2] St Cuthbert's Swallet is part of, and lies underneath, the Priddy Pools Site of Special Scientific Interest.[3]
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Location | Priddy |
OS grid | ST 543 505 |
Depth | 145 metres (476 ft) |
Length | 6.7 kilometres (4 mi) |
Geology | Limestone |
Access | Bristol Exploration Club |
Cave survey | Geological Conservation Review/Bristol Exploration Club |
Registry | Mendip Cave Registry[1] |
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It is named because of its location in the St Cuthbert Out parish of Wells, and was originally called St Cuthbert's Pot.[4]