Pooles Cavern - Buxton

DISCOVER BUXTON’S HIDDEN ‘WONDER’. Poole’s Cavern is found deep beneath the limestone hills on the edge of the historic Derbyshire spa town of Buxton. This secret underground world once echoed to the sound of a glacial river that scoured the rock for millions of years. Everywhere Spectacular crystal stalactites and stalagmites adorn the vast chambers. Over 3000 years ago, cave dwellers sheltered in the chambers. Romans worshipped and traded here and legend tells of a medieval outlaw,...

 

 

The Original Blue John Cavern and Craft Shop - Castleton. The Blue John Cavern in the Peak District is a series of caverns considered to be the finest range in Great Britain. Our Cavern Tours are of immense educational interest showing clearly how the caverns are formed in limestone strata and how the limestone itself had much earlier been formed by the deposits on the floors of great oceans which have long since receded, as the fossilised remains of marine animals now show. The Cavern is well illuminated by electric lighting. Very... 

 

 

Treak Cliff Cavern - Castleton. Enter an Ancient Underground Wonderland in the Heart of the Peak District National Park. Your guide will explain how miners in the 1750's constructed a tunnel using only hand tools to reach the Blue John Stone deposits inside the hill. You will see veins of Blue John Stone across the cave roof, and 'The Pillar', the largest piece ever found. Your guide will point out fossils in the limestone rock which formed the hillside above you 330 million years ago. You enter the mysterious...

 

 

Speedwell Cavern - Castleton. The Speedwell Cavern is one of the four show caves in Castleton, Derbyshire, England.It consists of a horizontal lead miners' adit (a level passageway driven horizontally into the hillside) leading to the cavern itself, alimestone cave. The adit is permanently flooded...