Sidcot Swallet

Sidcot Swallet is a cave near Burrington Combe, in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. It was named after the Sidcot School Speleological Society who explored it in 1925.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Goatchurch Cavern and Pierre’s Pot.

Goatchurch Cavern

Cave

Photo: Goatchurch, Public domain.

Goatchurch Cavern is a cave on the edge of Burrington Combe in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.

Pierre’s Pot

Cave

Pierre's Pot is a karst cave in Burrington Combe on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. The cave was discovered in 1983 and has two main levels, the lower level being reached through an extremely tight rift. Pierre’s Pot is situated 380 feet northeast of Sidcot Swallet.

Aveline’s Hole

Cave

Photo: Rodw, Public domain.

Aveline's Hole is a cave at Burrington Combe in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. The earliest scientifically dated cemetery in Britain, 10,200 and 10,400 years old, was found at Aveline's Hole, constituting the largest assemblage of Mesolithic human remains found in Britain. Aveline’s Hole is situated 1,300 feet north of Sidcot Swallet.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Burrington and Black Down.

Burrington

Village

Photo: Rodw, Public domain.

Burrington is a small village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is situated in the unitary authority of North Somerset, just off the A368 between Blagdon and Churchill.

Black Down

Locality

Photo: Jsommer, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Black Down is the highest hill in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, in south-western England. Black Down lies just a few miles eastward of the Bristol Channel at Weston-super-Mare, and provides a view over the Chew Valley.

Rowberrow

Hamlet

Photo: Rodw, Public domain.

Rowberrow is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Shipham in the Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England.

Sidcot Swallet

Type: Cave
Description: cave in Somerset, England
Category: landform
Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.32124° or 51° 19′ 17″ north

Longitude

-2.75402° or 2° 45′ 15″ west

Open location code

9C3V86CW+F9

OpenStreetMap ID

node 600671465

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=cave_entrance

Wikidata ID

Q7508021

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