hi i have recently been trying to get some research on the area around winsor hill quarry. according to the mendip cave registry Windsor Hill Flood Sink 1 is a Short drop and bedding plane enlarged by blasting. went down there today, and the dig at the end of the cave looked interesting. is there any reason why digging ceased there, as so much effort was put into making a rail system. the reason i ask is because i have a project further down the valley with a cold draft coming out. the vertical range between the bottom of Windsor Hill Flood Sink 1, and my dig further down the valley is 12m. in Belfry Bulletin No 374, June 1979 - Viaduck Sink - the opening campaign it says
After their success at Thrupe Lane the Thrupe digging team turned their attention to Windsor Hill an area always thought to be of great promise by older members of the B.E.C. Simon Meade-King (WSG & Wxxxxx) has sent the following report for publication in the Belfry Bulletin.
Some two miles north of Shepton Mallet lies an area of limestone scarred by the complex of the Windsor Hill quarries, now disused, and pierced by the track bed of the old Somerset and Dorset Railway on its solitary path over the Mendips from Shepton Mallet to Radstock.
The quarrying operations have revealed various small caves which have attracted the attentions of cavers over the years. Though small in themselves these caves hinted at the possibility of a large cave system taking the considerable drainage which sinks in the area.
Just beyond the quarries the railway crossed the deep wooded ravine of the Ham Woods Valley by an impressive viaduct. Almost in the shadow of this viaduct a sizeable stream sinks in the floor of the valley, to re-emerge three miles to the west at St. Andrews Wells after dropping nearly 300ft via the limestone. Viaduct Sink, as this swallet is known, together with Windsor Hill Sink a few hundred yards away, form the most easterly of the ten Sat. Andrews feeders. These feeders stretch from Biddlecombe Swallet, just to the north east of Wells to Windsor Hill in the east, and include Thrupe Lane, the only sink to have yielded a major system to date.
The principle geological feature of the Windsor Hill area is the sandstone ridge of Maesbury, a mile to the north. This provides a catchment area for the streams running off its southern flank. Below the Maesbury ridge is a superficial layer of head, Thrupemarsh, which gathers the surface water before it crosses the Lower Limestone Shales and sinks at the limestone boundary.
and also was wondering about the Nancy camel cave and how it was formed does it relate to the sinks further up ham woods valley. Nancy's camel cave was supposed to have good potential apart from all the poo. and viaduct sink showed sign's of a bigger system but was never found. i am also looking for anyone that needs a project to work on, it's getting to much hard work by myself and i need assistance.
After their success at Thrupe Lane the Thrupe digging team turned their attention to Windsor Hill an area always thought to be of great promise by older members of the B.E.C. Simon Meade-King (WSG & Wxxxxx) has sent the following report for publication in the Belfry Bulletin.
Some two miles north of Shepton Mallet lies an area of limestone scarred by the complex of the Windsor Hill quarries, now disused, and pierced by the track bed of the old Somerset and Dorset Railway on its solitary path over the Mendips from Shepton Mallet to Radstock.
The quarrying operations have revealed various small caves which have attracted the attentions of cavers over the years. Though small in themselves these caves hinted at the possibility of a large cave system taking the considerable drainage which sinks in the area.
Just beyond the quarries the railway crossed the deep wooded ravine of the Ham Woods Valley by an impressive viaduct. Almost in the shadow of this viaduct a sizeable stream sinks in the floor of the valley, to re-emerge three miles to the west at St. Andrews Wells after dropping nearly 300ft via the limestone. Viaduct Sink, as this swallet is known, together with Windsor Hill Sink a few hundred yards away, form the most easterly of the ten Sat. Andrews feeders. These feeders stretch from Biddlecombe Swallet, just to the north east of Wells to Windsor Hill in the east, and include Thrupe Lane, the only sink to have yielded a major system to date.
The principle geological feature of the Windsor Hill area is the sandstone ridge of Maesbury, a mile to the north. This provides a catchment area for the streams running off its southern flank. Below the Maesbury ridge is a superficial layer of head, Thrupemarsh, which gathers the surface water before it crosses the Lower Limestone Shales and sinks at the limestone boundary.
and also was wondering about the Nancy camel cave and how it was formed does it relate to the sinks further up ham woods valley. Nancy's camel cave was supposed to have good potential apart from all the poo. and viaduct sink showed sign's of a bigger system but was never found. i am also looking for anyone that needs a project to work on, it's getting to much hard work by myself and i need assistance.