Caves · South West England
Longwood Swallet
Longwood Swallet 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
Longwood Swallet is a named cave entrance in the United Kingdom. Coordinates: 51.2983°, -2.7385°. 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: 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
The Longwood Swallet is a cave near Charterhouse, in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. The cave is part of the Cheddar Complex SSSI and is connected to August Hole. It is 1.65 km in length and reaches a depth of 175m. The cave was discovered in September 1944 by boys from Sidcot School. The picture shown is not the Longwood Swallet, it is Longwood Valley Sink. Longwood Swallet's entrance is lidded concrete block construction. A (non-free) picture of Longwood Swallet entrance is available here The cave is locked and access is controlled by the Charterhouse Caving Company. There is a warning sign posted at the entrance to the cave about flooding. This has always been a problem, but is more pronounced due to the extraction of water from the spring at Charterhouse. When the pumps owned by Bristol Water stop this can cause a flood wave to travel down the stream and into the cave.
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- Coordinates
- 51.2983, -2.7385
- District
- Somerset
- Parish
- Cheddar
- Postcode
- BS40 7XT
- Parliamentary constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills
- Official site
- www.somersetwildlife.org
Sources
- osm: n894370977 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Longwood Swallet (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Longwood Swallet?
- Longwood Swallet is in South-West England, United Kingdom (postcode BS40 7XT), in the parish of Cheddar.
- Is Longwood Swallet a protected site?
- Yes — Longwood Swallet is part of the The Cheddar Complex SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the MENDIP National Nature Reserve.
- Is Longwood Swallet free to visit?
- Yes, Longwood Swallet is free to enter.
- How do I get to Longwood Swallet?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode BS40 7XT. It sits within the Wells and Mendip Hills parliamentary constituency.