Windrush is an extensive stone mine located just outside Burford on the A40 in West Oxfordshire. It is an extensive system. Members of Gloucester Speleological Society opened up the entrances, surveyed and fully documented this system. This is now being published in A4 with ~180-200 colour...

Firstly, thanks to all of you that attended and supported the HE talk. It was much appreciated. A full write-up will be in Descent 301, but just to keep you all engaged.... During the weekend of HE the rains came. Rain and Redhouse do not mix well. Very few trips were made subsequent, each...

I am pleased to report that conservation work in Slaughter Stream Cave (Wet Sink) has now been largely completed. The cave is now open for visiting parties. The cave has been fitted with a new lock. The keys cost £25 each so we will ask for a returnable deposit as their number is limited and we...

Please buy your copy, if you haven't already of Descent 299 for news on this exciting breakthrough following extensive digging over the past two years. For any intending visiting parties please be patient whilst we complete essential conservation measures. The cave is not open to visitors until...

Please don't climb the ladder up the Flow Choke at the end of the aforementioned passage. One side is snapped and the passage ends just beyond anyway. It will be removed/replace in due course.

Just wandering if anyone excited by Paul Taylor's presentation at HE of the potential (soon to be?) Slaughter Master System has had a sneaky peek in the last week. Only that one of the entrances wasn't as we left it last Sunday. The on-going work is in progress and you really need to know the...

One yellow and black tape karabiner and 4 to 5 steel maillons (should have red tape) dropped Friday evening 7th July. If found could you drop of at NPC please and a Gloucester SS member will collect. Thanks.

For any team planning on visiting Wet Sink entrance to Slaughter Stream Cave over the next couple of weeks. There is a blackbird nest with 4 newly hatched chicks at the bottom of the shakehole about 1m up a tree near where the (normally dry) waterfall enters. Please don't hang around the...

A carabiner has been found on the first P hanger of the first pitch (Balcony) of Wet Sink, FoD. Must have been left between 29th August and 7th Sept. It has a clear marking. Let me know details so I can return to owner.