• Mendip Rocks, Earth Science Lecture Day

    Mendip Rocks are holding a number of presentations on Saturday 17th October as part of the Earth Science Week. Talks will include:-

    Anjana Khatwa, award winning presenter and writer: "The Whispers of Rock: Stories from the Earth". Vince Simmonds, archeologist and cave explorer: "Echoes of the Ice Age: A Pleistocene Record from Mendip Cave Deposits" Of particular interest will be the recent find, the Woolly Rhino Skull that is now in Wells Museum. Owen Dukes - Geologist (Tarmac) "Mendip Mineral Resources"

    Click here for details

OFD1 Access route change

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Due to some friction with local land owners there has been a change to the access route.

If you are walking from the SWCC HQ: take the road down the hill, past the start of The Pant footpath on your right, and after about another 350m, just past Powell?s Cave, climb over the metal gate (pictured) on your right. You can then descend across SWCC owned land to the entrance. There is no clearly defined path on this route but there are orange tape markers on trees to show the way ? ? ? ? on map below.

You should not use the garden of the cottage at Y Grithig to get to Ogof Ffynnon Ddu I (Bottom Entrance). In addition, you should no longer use the previous route to the cave via the footpath (known locally as The Pant x x x x on map below) which starts 150m or so past the houses as you go down the hill. Access to the cave entrance from the bottom of The Pant is no longer possible as you would be on private land which cavers do not have permission to cross. You should not park or change in the bottom lay-by or in the road leading past Y Grithig as there is no longer access via this route either.
 

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