DCA
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The DCA has received the following message from the landowners of the wood where Devonshire Mine is located:
Pete Knight
DCA Projects Officer
For those that do not know, the owners live at the edge of the wood where the mine is. They have been highly supportive of responsible cavers and we are grateful to them for the additional entrances we have been permitted to use since they purchased the property. If local cavers (and other visitors when restrictions allow) can continue to let DCA or PDMHS know about any issues with litter, graffiti or damage to the gates that would be appreciated and we can try to do something about it quickly.I wanted to let you know we?ve put a couple of signs up saying ?please keep out, private garden? by the wall near the cavern.
Would you mind just letting the caving community know that this doesn?t apply to them, I don?t want them to think we?re stopping people using the cavern. It?s just that this last year has been really awful in terms of people using the area around the cavern as a toilet, and groups of people drinking etc. there and going into the Devonshire when they really shouldn?t be. We had one group who went down there in white track suits with no equipment and just a phone torch ? they?d come over on the bus from Chesterfield!
Pete Knight
DCA Projects Officer