Wrexham: Cave explorers' escape from flooding tunnel at Nant-Y-Frith

[danthecavingman]

Watch terrifying footage of cave explorers' escape from flooding tunnel in Wrexham

A GROUP of amateur cave explorers have released footage of their terrifying escape from a flooding tunnel in Wrexham.

www.leaderlive.co.uk

Never heard of this place before?

 

[Mrs Trellis]

It long claimed to be the highest village in wales but this has been shown to be erroneous. There are lead veins in the sandstone and silica has been quarried there. There as a limeworks there so perhaps the "tunnels" are remains of that industry.

 

[Stones]

It's in fact a lead mine drainage level and not a cave

 

[Fulk]

And so would it flood as dramatically as claimed?

 

[cap n chris]

Sage advice from them to check the weather forecast before heading underground. The attention-seekers, however, decided to "brush off" the evidence before their eyes and then documented and published their endeavours. Eye roll anyone?

 

[pwhole]

"The cave explorers had to quickly flea the flooding tunnel."

That's a newspaper, apparently - 'The Leader'. Or should it be Leeder?

 

[braveduck]

It's in fact a lead mine drainage level and not a cave

Does not look like a Lead Mine level to me ,much more like a natural cave .

 

[RobinGriffiths]

He added: "We stumbled upon caving about six months ago, it looked terrifying but great fun. A little later me and Jamie were out and saw this tiny hole in a rock with a drop and just thought - shall we do it?

"We went and got some headlights and a rope, and just squeezed in. Now it's an everyday thing....

Does that mean they go into the same hole day after day?

Looks to be workings in the Cefn y Fedw sandstone - probably ganister or some other high silica rock?

Think I might have to have a look come spring.

 

[tony s]

Very small old lead workings in Nant-y-frith Gorge ("the Wedding Cave" - absolutely no flood risk there despite the staged excitement!

 

[AnthonyB]

This would be the "cave" in question. Sorry for the not so great photos the only ones I've got to hand where on Facebook.

Some of the Nant-y-Ffrith flows in via the passageway in the 1st photo, before dropping down a large hole in the floor. About 20 ish meters downstream is the 2nd photo, the water rejoins the main stream off photo after a further 50m iirc.

 

[Mizmazmoz]

Further downstream from the wedding cave. Locals call it the thunder cave, an adit of about 250m where you get to a waterfall. (from the Nant-y-ffrith stream). I've only been in at lowish flows and it's knee height water.... So if it was raining heavily i imagine it would get higher.

Not sure what they were doing in there for a couple of hours though. Apparently it doesn't go much further in than the waterfall.

 

[mikem]

Probably spent 2 hours looking for them (they do say caves, not singular), but yes, it is just clickbait (for the paper as well as the originator)

 

[Bob Cromer]

At least they got one thing right, "amateur"