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Buxton, Derbyshire

            Poole's Cavern

A two-million-year-old natural limestone cavern located beneath the 1,449 ft Grin Low on the outskirts of Buxton.

The name derives from an outlaw, Poole, who reputedly used the cavern as a lair and a base to rob travellers in the fifteenth century.

Archeological explorations in 1981 and 1983 have suggested that the cavern was occupied from the Bronze Age. Some of the finds have been interpreted as suggesting that one of the chambers was used for religious purposes by Romano-Britons.

Officially opened as a show cavern in 1853 by the 6th Duke of Devonshire, the cavern was already a tourist attraction, being listed as one of the Wonders of the Peak by Charles Cotton in 1683.

Mary, Queen of Scots, is claimed to have been an early visitor  during her imprisonment at nearby Chatsworth House.

Under the management of the Duke's overseer, Frank Redfern, the entrance to the cavern was widened and, in 1859, a system of gas lamps was installed to light the cavern. These lamps remained in use until the cavern closed in 1965. It reopened in 1976.

The cavern currently open to the public is around 1,020 ft in length, and includes chambers named the Roman Chamber, Great Dome, Poached Egg Chamber and Sculpture Chamber.

Features of interest include large stalactites/stalagmites called the Flitch of Bacon and Mary Queen of Scot's Pillar. There are also many wonderful rock formations which have been brightly coloured by minerals leached out of the lime-tips on the hillside above.

The cave system is believed to extend further, but has not been explored.

In 1998 a video camera, lowered down a borehole, revealed the existence of a further chamber, branded "Seventh Heaven".

Taken on: October 2, 2017

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