Caves : Wookey Hole
Wookey Hole Caves are a series of limestone caverns, show cave and a tourist attraction in the village of Wookey Hole on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset, England. The River Axe is what flows through the caves and caverns on its journey towards the Bristol Channel. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for both biological and geological reasons.
Wookey Hole cave is a “solutional cave”, one that is formed by a process of weathering in which the natural acid in groundwater dissolves the rocks. Some water originates as rain that flows into streams on impervious rocks on the plateau before sinking at the limestone boundary into cave systems such as Swildon’s Hole, Eastwater Cavern and St Cuthbert’s Swallet. The rest is rain that percolates directly through the limestone. The temperature in the caves is always a constant 11°C (52°F) Visited With My Wife.
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