Wezzit - Somewhere Peaky?

jonnybellman

jonnybellman

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A bit random, but I've seen this photo online, tagged as "Peak District" but nothing else to describe or locate.

Wondering if anyone here has an inkling where this could be?

P.s. it may not even be in the peaks.

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pwhole

pwhole

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Can't say I recognise it, but then there are several fragments of the Peak District (mostly SW/W side) that I've never been to, mainly as I don't drive, so I wouldn't write it off just yet. But that limestone also looks a bit 'funny' for round here (trying not to sound parochial!).
 
AR

AR

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That looks like a quarry/stone mine working to me - I don't immediately recognise it as being in the Peak but if it's in a quarry that doesn't cut into any old man's workings or natural I may not have ever looked around it.
 
pwhole

pwhole

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I forgot to add earlier that with that much water there, you or someone else would have looked at that long ago - if it was a cave at least.
 
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mikem

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Google lens tries to match it to cave springs hollow, where the jack Daniels distillery is - it isn't, but looks similar...
 
Pitlamp

Pitlamp

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AR said:
That looks like a quarry/stone mine working to me - I don't immediately recognise it as being in the Peak but if it's in a quarry that doesn't cut into any old man's workings or natural I may not have ever looked around it.
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Good point - the very slight greenish tinge in the water suggests it's got a bit of an algal bloom, so maybe static (as in accumulated water in a stone mine entrance or a quarry).
 
Alex

Alex

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I thought I saw this online in Birmingham underground, which is the US Birmingham, so might not be the UK or my memory is faulty which is more likely.
 
Pitlamp

Pitlamp

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I guess the final test is if someone fairly local can swing by and take the same photograph!
 
Pitlamp

Pitlamp

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Nice one Jonny; I think you've nailed it.

Another thought; Simon is very unlikely to have missed anyting but it's never easy underwater and the vis doesn't look perfect. Is it worth checking the place out in the long hot spring drought that we're all hoping we'll get this year? (Lord knows we deserve one after all this incessant rain!) Maybe the place will dry up?

If anyone does, even if there's no passage leading off, please post something here so a note can go in the next sump index.
 
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mikem

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From ukclimbing: "There is a scarey cave/ partially collapsed mine which somone bolder than me is welcome to develop into Derbyshire's first f9":
www.leicestershirebouldering.co.uk

Ticknall Lime Yards

Some bouldering can be had on the shattered limestone blocks of Ticknall Lime Yards. Ticknall is in Derbyshire but is still closer to Leicestershire than Carver's Rocks and Anchor Church Caves . With...
www.leicestershirebouldering.co.uk

Some history (calke abbey not chalk):
www.ticknalllife.co.uk

Ticknall Limeyards | Ticknall Life

The Thringstone Fault crosses the parish of Ticknall from east to west, separating the Coal Measures clays to the south from the upthrust Carboniferous
www.ticknalllife.co.uk www.ticknalllife.co.uk

& more (which shows the collapse of "the dripping wells"):

4 Ticknall, Derbyshire - Unique Publications

The rain had stopped but the road through Ticknall, the A514 between Leicester and Derby, is a busy one and I was finding it difficult to get my bearings. I
unique-publications.co.uk
 
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AR

AR

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Being down at Ticknall explains why I haven't visited and pwhole thought the lime beds were "wrong" for the Peak :D
 
jonnybellman

jonnybellman

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Pitlamp said:
Nice one Jonny; I think you've nailed it.

Another thought; Simon is very unlikely to have missed anyting but it's never easy underwater and the vis doesn't look perfect. Is it worth checking the place out in the long hot spring drought that we're all hoping we'll get this year? (Lord knows we deserve one after all this incessant rain!) Maybe the place will dry up?

If anyone does, even if there's no passage leading off, please post something here so a note can go in the next sump index.
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I certainly lean on other peoples experience and information, so will happily feed back if I go for a nosey and find out anything worth noting.
 
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