Caves · South Wales
GB cave
GB cave is a cave in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 45 min–1.5 h
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
GB cave is a named cave entrance in the United Kingdom. Coordinates: 51.3028°, -2.7530°. This entry is part of The Great Britain Guide, a free, ad-free, open-data tourist directory.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Severn Estuary SSSI
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: The Cheddar Complex SSSI
- National Nature Reserve: MENDIP
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Mendip Hills
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
GB Cave is a cave between Charterhouse and Shipham in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. The cave was first entered on 19 November 1939, after ten months of digging, by the University of Bristol Spelæological Society, and was named in recognition of the two members, F. J. Goddard and C. C. Barker, who had done most of the work involved in its discovery. The cave is located within the Cheddar Complex and the 17-acre GB Gruffy nature reserve and is close to Charterhouse Cave, the deepest cave in the region. Ladder Dig broke through in 1966 to gain access to the extremely well-decorated Bat Passage. The entrance to the cave is kept locked, and access is controlled by the Charterhouse Caving Company.
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Background
Description
GB Cave is remarkable for the Gorge, a river-passage up to 6 m wide, 12 m high and 90 m long, which opens into the even larger Main Chamber (20 m wide, 23 m high, 122 m long). Together these two form what was thought to be largest known space under the Mendip Hills, until the discovery of "The Frozen Deep" in Reservoir Hole in 2012. Further into the cave is the Great Chamber, another large space, and a number of other chambers in the cave that are well decorated. The trace elements magnesium, strontium and barium have been found by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) from three Holocene speleothems taken from the Great Chamber.
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- Coordinates
- 51.3028, -2.7530
- District
- Somerset
- Parish
- Cheddar
- Postcode
- BS40 7XT
- Parliamentary constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills
Sources
- osm: n894380789 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: GB Cave (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: GB Cave.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is GB cave?
- GB cave is in South Wales, United Kingdom (postcode BS40 7XT), in the parish of Cheddar.
- Is GB cave a protected site?
- Yes — GB cave is part of the Severn Estuary SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the The Cheddar Complex SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- Is GB cave free to visit?
- Yes, GB cave is free to enter.
- How do I get to GB cave?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode BS40 7XT. It sits within the Wells and Mendip Hills parliamentary constituency.