mendip caves

[ditzy 24//7]

What is your favourite cave in the mendips?

 

[cap n chris]

http://ukcaving.com/board/index.php/topic,1375.0.html

 

[ditzy 24//7]

ok thanx cap 'n chris will have a look at the link now

 

[whitelackington]

:alien:
Cow Hole

 

[badger]

GB

 

[Razzerip1]

Apart from the obvious, how did the mendip caves get there individual names.

Cuckoo Cleeves for example.

 

[Les W]

You can purchase "Who was Aveline Anyway" by Richard Witcombe, from the Wessex Cave Club or all good caving retailers.
This details how cave names and places within caves were named.

It is very good although I don't own a copy myself (yet) so I can't look up Cuckoo Cleves for you. Sorry. 

Perhaps somebody who owns a copy could enlighten us 

 

[damian]

Perhaps somebody who owns a copy could enlighten us 

The cave depression was pointed out to Paul Dolphin of the Wessex in 1947 by Bert Russell of Rose Cottage, Priddy, who claimed to be one of the last of the lead miners. He called the field, Cuckoo Cleeves, using a name which can be traced back to the 16th Century. It means simply Cuckoo Cliffs or Cleft, and in ancient documents appears in such forms as Goceclyves and Cocoseclyffe. The locality was significant because it was a boundary marker for the St. Cuthbert's Out Parish. In the 17th Century there is a reference to Morse's Stone at Cuckone Cleeves bt by 1752 this has become "the stone called Cuckoo in Cleeves". Whether this was a standing stone or a rock outcrop is unclear.

from Richard Witcombe's "Who was Aveline Anyway?"

 

[paulf]

Stoke Lane - Even the crawling in water & the Sump if it keeps all the Formations looking good it's well worth it !!

 

[andymorgan]

Perhaps somebody who owns a copy could enlighten us 

The cave depression was pointed out to Paul Dolphin of the Wessex in 1947 by Bert Russell of Rose Cottage, Priddy, who claimed to be one of the last of the lead miners. He called the field, Cuckoo Cleeves, using a name which can be traced back to the 16th Century. It means simply Cuckoo Cliffs or Cleft, and in ancient documents appears in such forms as Goceclyves and Cocoseclyffe. The locality was significant because it was a boundary marker for the St. Cuthbert's Out Parish. In the 17th Century there is a reference to Morse's Stone at Cuckone Cleeves bt by 1752 this has become "the stone called Cuckoo in Cleeves". Whether this was a standing stone or a rock outcrop is unclear.

from Richard Witcombe's "Who was Aveline Anyway?"

According to the book 'Don't Tell I, Tell 'Ee: An affectionate look at the Somerset dialect' a cleeve is steep slope.

 

[whitelackington]

I thought a cleeve or cleave was a narrow rift.

 

[martinr]

I thought a cleeve or cleave was a narrow rift.

I thought it was a cave, as in Cuckoo Cleeve?

 

[whitelackington]

If Upper Flood Swallet is now Mendip's fifth longest natural cave

and as Eastwatwer is the fourth longest

as Eastwater recently got a bit longer
how much longer will UFS have to be
to get
the drop on Eastwater? :-\

 

[Tree Monkey]

Not much!  Watch this space! :tease:

 

[graham]

Watch this space!

or  8)

 

[whitelackington]

Looks like the heat is now on for the race between Eastwater and Upper Flood Swallet
to top three Kilometres :

 

[tony from suffolk]

So what's happening in Eastwater then chaps?

 

[whitelackington]

So what's happening in Eastwater then chaps?

I think The B.E.C. are desparately trying to extend it Tony from Suffolk
They got a new thin person round trip a year ago.

 

[Tree Monkey]

If Upper Flood Swallet is now Mendip's fifth longest natural cave

and as Eastwatwer is the fourth longest

as Eastwater recently got a bit longer
how much longer will UFS have to be
to get
the drop on Eastwater? :-\

The latest survey of Upperflood shows it's length currently standing at 2.8kms!

 

[Les W]

I think The B.E.C. are desparately trying to extend it Tony from Suffolk
They got a new thin person round trip a year ago.

Think you will find it's a joint BEC - Wessex team.