Wezzit - Somewhere Peaky?

[jonnybellman]

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]

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]

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.

 

[Pitlamp]

I don't recognise that as anything in the Peak District.

 

[pwhole]

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.

 

[mikem]

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

 

[jonnybellman]

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

Ha I'd already tried that and found the same results. Quite the mystery so far!

 

[mikem]

What site did you find pic on? People obviously visit it a lot

 

[Pitlamp]

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.

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).

 

[jonnybellman]

So I think I've found it. Ticknall lime pits (South Derbyshire). Can't see any exact photos to match, but looks very similar.

CDG seem to have something related to it, but I'm not a member to view the article.

Ticknall Lime Pits Archives - Cave Diving Group

cavedivinggroup.org.uk

This would also tie up with it being quarried?

Potentially mystery solved.

 

[Pitlamp]

Here's what the CDG Newsletter says about it. Typically for Simon, the description includes useful detail and does seem to match.

 

[jonnybellman]

Here's what the CDG Newsletter says about it. Typically for Simon, the description includes useful detail and does seem to match.

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Awesome. Really appreciate the snippet. It does sound about right. Although disappointing to hear it doesn't seem much if a dive. Maybe one for when I'm reeeeaallly bored

 

[Alex]

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]

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

 

[jonnybellman]

A bit more internet search. Might save someone the trip haha. I appreciate the help folks

 

[Pitlamp]

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.

 

[mikem]

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

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):

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

& 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

 

[mikem]

At least 9 interior views on:

Limeyards · Derby DE73 7JT

★★★★★ · Fishing lake

www.google.com

 

[AR]

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

 

[jonnybellman]

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.

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.