Caves closest to pubs

[Boy Engineer]

I have heard tell of a mine accessible from a hotel cellar in Matlock but I'm not certain of the detail. Sure someone on here will know though.

It’s a level inside Hodgkinsons Hotel in Matlock Bath. I did a bit of digging there about 40 years ago and I think someone has done more since, and written it up in a PDMHS Newsletter. I’d look it up but I’ve pulled my CBA muscle.

 

[mikem]

There used to be a pub on Combe Down (or Foxhill) that had a glass covered shaft in the bar that looked straight down into the stone mine below. I have been underneath it at some point, but it was 40 years ago when I was a teenager, so it’s hazy which pub it was.

Possibly: "The miners gained access down a rubble wall lined staircase beneath the Hadley Arms stables and this still exists although capped over"

 

[mikem]

Otherwise you have the Forester & Flower, Bradford Road (a gastrpub that was the Forester's Arms); the Devonshire Arms, Wellsway; King William IV, Combe Road & the Horseshoe, North Road (which closed down in 2010)

 

[SqueezyPete]

The Linnet Inn in county Fermanagh is across the road from Boho cave, and has a wee room decorated entirely with stone rubble in a sort of cave homage. Not the closest to a cave by any means, but the best guinness-quality-to-cave-proximity-ratio by a mile

 

[Tripod]

It’s a level inside Hodgkinsons Hotel in Matlock Bath. I did a bit of digging there about 40 years ago and I think someone has done more since, and written it up in a PDMHS Newsletter. I’d look it up but I’ve pulled my CBA muscle.

That was the stuff of legend when I started caving in the late 1960s. The level was there as was the connection via a sough and shaft from the river bank, prior to road widening. There were stories about cavers emerging between beer barrels. A connection with the Devonshire Mine was dismissed by some as it "went in the wrong direction". Now we know more about Masson Hill drainage, the existing soughs and the proposed/ possibly driven soughs. This makes, the now lost level and connection into Devonshire Mine a possibility.

 

[Sean the Miner]

The Linnet Inn in county Fermanagh is across the road from Boho cave, and has a wee room decorated entirely with stone rubble in a sort of cave homage. Not the closest to a cave by any means, but the best guinness-quality-to-cave-proximity-ratio by a mile

it is classified as a cave in the Caves of Fermanagh and Cavan guidebook

 

[john green]

I remember going into a cave in Belgium were you walked in through the bar, out the back where they stored the empty barrels, got changed and the back wall of the area was a cliff with a cave in it, no idea what is was called now.

 

[Leclused]

I remember going into a cave in Belgium were you walked in through the bar, out the back where they stored the empty barrels, got changed and the back wall of the area was a cliff with a cave in it, no idea what is was called now.

Pub = au rocher
Cave = Trou Alexander