| GB Cave | |
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| Location | Charterhouse, Somerset, UK |
| OS grid | ST 47595623 |
| Coordinates | 51°18′10″N 2°45′11″W / 51.302811°N 2.753105°W |
| Depth | 134 metres (440 ft) |
| Length | 1,950 metres (6,400 ft) |
| Elevation | 253 metres (830 ft) |
| Discovery | 1939 |
| Geology | Limestone |
| Access | locked |
| Cave survey |
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| Registry | Mendip Cave Registry[1] |
GB Cave is a cave between Charterhouse and Shipham in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.[2]
The cave was first entered on 19 November 1939, after ten months of digging, by the University of Bristol Spelæological Society, and was named in recognition of the two members, F. J. Goddard and C. C. Barker, who had done most of the work involved in its discovery.[3][4][5] The cave is located within the Cheddar Complex and the 17-acre GB Gruffy nature reserve and is close to Charterhouse Cave, the deepest cave in the region.[2]
Ladder Dig broke through in 1966 to gain access to the extremely well-decorated Bat Passage.[6]
The entrance to the cave is kept locked, and access is controlled by the Charterhouse Caving Company.[7]
- ^ "GB Cave". Mendip Cave Registry & Archive. Retrieved 30 March 2012.
- ^ a b "GB Gruffy". Wildlife Trusts Somerset. Retrieved 22 May 2007.
- ^ Goddard, F.J. (1944). "G.B. Cave, Charterhouse on Mendip". UBSS Proceedings. 5 (1). UBSS: 104–113.
- ^ Johnson, Peter (1967). The History of Mendip Caving. Newton Abbott: David & Charles. ASIN B0000CNIE0.
- ^ Witcombe, Richard (2009). Who was Aveline anyway?: Mendip's Cave Names Explained (2nd ed.). Priddy: Wessex Cave Club. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-9500433-6-4.
- ^ Norton, M.G. (1966). "Interim report on the Ladder Dig Series, G.B. Cave, Charterhouse-on-Mendip, Somerset". UBSS Proceedings. 11 (1). UBSS: 63–70.
- ^ "Home page". Charterhouse Caving Company. Retrieved 11 May 2020.