Thrupe Lane Swallet
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox Cave Template:Infobox SSSI Thrupe Lane Swallet (Grid reference Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".) is a Script error: No such module "convert". geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, notified in 1992. It is also a Geological Conservation Review site.
The name Thrupe Lane comes from the nearby hamlet of Thrupe, which in Anglo-Saxon meant dairy farm.[1]
The swallet is a small, single pothole cave system that is dominated by a series of deep (Script error: No such module "convert".) and mainly vertical passages, which follow fault lines, natural joints in the rock and mineral veins.[2] It shows a form of cave development not seen elsewhere in the Mendips and contains the tallest vertical shaft in any known cave on the Mendip Hills, Atlas Pot, which is Script error: No such module "convert". deep.[3] The stream that flows through the cave is one of those that feeds St Andrew's Wells in the grounds of the Bishop's Palace in Wells.[4]
Thrupe Lane Swallet was first entered in 1974 following digging by three caving groups. The entry shaft has been blasted open to ensure a stable entrance.[5]
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- English Nature website (SSSI information)
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