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Manifold Valley CavesCave / Rock Shelter
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Darfar Ridge Cave Cave / Rock Shelter |
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Falcon Low Cave / Rock Shelter |
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Mill Pot & Cave
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Nan Tor Cave / Rock Shelter |
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Old Hannah's Hole Cave / Rock Shelter |
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Ossum's Crag Cave Cave / Rock Shelter |
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St Bertram's Cave / Rock Shelter |
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3 sites Thor's Cave Cave / Rock Shelter |
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The Manifold Valley (River Manifold = river of many folds/bends) is a long steep sided limestone valley. It begins kinda near Ecton and winds and gouges its way southwards several miles through the hills of Wetton continuing on a few miles farther before meeting up with the River Dove. Close to St. Bertrams Cave at Beeston Tor the River Hamps joins the Manifold. There's roadside parking at Wetton Mill, SK095 561, near to the Nan Tor Caves it's then just a case of working your way southwards with the map references for the caves, most have a vague sorta path leading up to them. For St Bertrams Cave, park at SK100 543, unless you wanna make a longer walk of it and continue south from Thor's Cave to Beeston Tor Farm. An excellent place to spend the day.....it's sorta Creswell Crags on steroids....and even better some of the caves aren't gated. If you time it right during a good dry spell the River Manifold may or may not be visible.....it disappears into a large swallet by Wetton Mill or the Darfar Bridge and re-emerges a mile or so further down stream. |
Posted by stubob21st September 2004ce Edited 11th December 2005ce |
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Elderbush Cave (Cave / Rock Shelter) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
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Posted by stubob 27th September 2011ce |
Falcon Low (Cave / Rock Shelter) — Images |
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Posted by stubob 27th September 2011ce |
Seven Ways Cave (Cave / Rock Shelter) — Images |
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Posted by stubob 27th September 2011ce |
Thor's Cave (Cave / Rock Shelter) — Miscellaneous |
| The cave scenes in Ken Russel's film adaptation of Bram Stoker's The Lair of the White Worm were filmed in Thors Cave. |
Posted by stubob 12th June 2010ce |
Thor's Cave (Cave / Rock Shelter) — Links |
Staffordshire Past TrackA romantic pen and wash drawing of the cave from the valley below, from the early 19th century. The website also has a photo of the site from 1909, here. |
Posted by Rhiannon21st November 2009ce |
Thor's Cave (Cave / Rock Shelter) — Folklore |
Thor's cave has obtained a diversity of names. Dr. Plot calls it Thyrsis cavern, Thor's house, Thurshole, and Hobhurst cave, some of which names appear to have originated with the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, who now call it Huzzes Tar, which according to traditions handed down from father to son, was formerly the retreat of a very mysterious being called Hobhurst.From Samuel Carrington's 'Account of the Excavations and Discoveries in Thor's Cave, Wetton Dale...' in Reliquary 6, April 1866. I'm sure Stubob will know which is the latter cave, after his feats of mountaineering, and the likelihood of anyone being able to stable a horse in it. |
Posted by Rhiannon 31st March 2009ce |
Cheshire Wood Cave (Cave / Rock Shelter) — Images |
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Posted by stubob 1st May 2008ce |
St Bertram's (Cave / Rock Shelter) — Fieldnotes |
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Access is only possible after mid to late summer when the Manifold River dries up and runs underground. Always wondered what the folk back in the day made of this....unless they had it figured already. Follow river-bed round to the back of Beeston Tor Farm and there are two entrances, 10ft, above the river bed....one is very obvious, about 6ft up in the cliff wall (a blind tube of around 100ft) to the right of this (about 30ft) is a fissure looking opening into St Bertrams itself. It's worth taking a torch as the tunnel at the back of the cave leads into quite accessible tubes and chambers if you don't mind crawling now and again. |
Posted by stubob 11th November 2007ce |
Falcon Low (Cave / Rock Shelter) — Miscellaneous |
| Excavated in the 1950's and 60's the cave deposits held the remains of 2 adults and 4 children accompanied by flint flakes, Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery, a deer antler and animal bones. |
Posted by stubob 28th October 2007ce |
Cheshire Wood Cave (Cave / Rock Shelter) — Fieldnotes |
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Cheshire Wood Cave is located on a high crag at the top of the woods, about 15ft below the ridge line. Access is pretty tricky from below although if you have a head for heights approaching the cave from above is easier and was possibly the original way of entry. The mouth of the cave is large and impressive with a further crawl in the back of chamber. Getting a good photo of the cave was almost impossible such is the steepness of the slope below the cave mouth. |
Posted by stubob 25th October 2007ce |
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