ChrisJC
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Definitely. A gem!Cwm Cipwrth. Possibly before renovation?
Chris.
Definitely. A gem!Cwm Cipwrth. Possibly before renovation?
Correct of course. I would also have accepted Gilfach, even at the start of the 70s we argued about the best name. I have not been back there since the summer of '72. It was a great place even without "renovation". My party trick was to lift the balance bob with only two fingers.Cwm Cipwrth. Possibly before renovation?
Another clue. I had thought this was in the Cave Registry, but apparantly not. This snippet is on Cris Ebbs' Caves of North Wales website (https://www.cambriancavingcouncil.org.uk/registry/CoNW/)
"Oh yes. I remember going in there with candles when I was a boy. The entrance was in the middle of the field where the quarry now is, and it ran straight into the hill (south-west) under the road. We could walk in for ooh 50 yards, but it gradually went smaller and we were scared to go further because of the bats....... I used to work in the quarry as a lad, and in 1923 we quarried down on top of the cave and used it as a haulage way under the road, but some years later it had to be made larger, and now there is nothing left of the cave to see".
Source: North Wales Caving Club newsletter No 30 (June 1975) .
Looks like you have it. You can have the pleasure of naming it!!...and mentioned in "The Netherworld of Mendip" apparently.
Looks like you have it. You can have the pleasure of naming it!!
I'm off up North tomorrow, planning a walk on the Allotment possibly via the Settle chip shop that Pitlamp praised a few weeks ago.
Having gone back to look at this again, just out of idle interest, I find Robin is wrong and both the sink and the cave are on the Cambrian Cave Registry, although the cave looks like a recent addition.Another clue. I had thought this was in the Cave Registry, but apparantly not. This snippet is on Cris Ebbs' Caves of North Wales website (https://www.cambriancavingcouncil.org.uk/registry/CoNW/)
"Oh yes. I remember going in there with candles when I was a boy. The entrance was in the middle of the field where the quarry now is, and it ran straight into the hill (south-west) under the road. We could walk in for ooh 50 yards, but it gradually went smaller and we were scared to go further because of the bats....... I used to work in the quarry as a lad, and in 1923 we quarried down on top of the cave and used it as a haulage way under the road, but some years later it had to be made larger, and now there is nothing left of the cave to see".
Source: North Wales Caving Club newsletter No 30 (June 1975) .
No, it is a fair distance from that.Is is the sumped cave in Pistyll Gwyn Quarry?
I have made the same mistake myself in the past.Ah yes. You're right. I blame the UI though! I assumed you get a global search if you didn't select an area, but you just get zero reults