Thrupe Lane Swallet

Thrupe Lane Swallet
Location Croscombe
Depth 120 metres
Length 1417 metres
Coordinates grid reference ST603458
Geology Limestone

Thrupe Lane Swallet (grid reference ST603458) is a 0.5 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, notified in 1992. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

A Swallet, also known as a sinkhole, sink, shakehole, swallow hole, or doline is a natural depression or hole in the surface topography caused by the removal of soil or bedrock, often both, by water flowing beneath the water-table at considerable depth.

Thrupe Lane Swallet is a small, single pothole cave system that is dominated by a series of deep (117m) and mainly vertical passages, which follow fault lines, natural joints in the rock and mineral veins.1 It shows a form of cave development not seen elsewhere in the Mendips.

References

  1. ^ "Thrupe Lane Swallet". English Nature. Retrieved on 2007-01-29.

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Geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset
Summary:
SSSIs:
Ben Knowle  · Blue Anchor to Lilstock Coast  · Brean Down  · Brimble Pit and Cross Swallet Basins  · Bruton Railway Cutting  · Cheddar Complex  · Cloford Quarry  · Cook's Wood Quarry  · Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill  · Doulting Railway Cutting  · Emborough Quarries  · Glenthorne  · Godminster Lane Quarry and Railway Cutting  · Greylake  · Ham Hill  · Hobbs Quarry  · Holwell Quarries  · Hurcott Farm  · Hurcott Lane Cutting  · Lamb Leer  · Langport Railway Cutting  · Laycock Railway Cutting  · Leighton Road Cutting  · Low Ham  · Maes Down  · Maesbury Railway Cutting  · Miller's Hill, Milborne Wick  · Moon's Hill Quarry  · Priddy Caves  · Priddy Pools  · Rodney Stoke SSSI  · Sandpit Hole and Bishop's Lot  · Seavington St Mary  · Shepton Montague Railway Cutting  · Snowdon Hill Quarry  · St. Dunstan's Well Catchment  · Thrupe Lane Swallet  · Vallis Vale  · Viaduct Quarry  · Windsor Hill Quarry  · Wookey Hole  · Wookey Station  · Wurt Pit and Devil's Punchbowl
Neighbouring areas
Avon  · Devon  · Dorset  · Wiltshire
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Mendip Hills
Settlements:
Rivers and lakes:
Caves and gorges:
Quarries:
SSSIs:
Asham Wood · Axbridge Hill and Fry's Hill · Banwell Caves · Banwell Ochre Caves · Barns Batch Spinney · Blagdon Lake · Bleadon Hill · Brimble Pit and Cross Swallet Basins · Burledge Hill · Burrington Combe · Chancellor's Farm · Cheddar Complex · Cheddar Reservoir · Cheddar Wood · Chew Valley Lake · Cloford Quarry · Compton Martin Ochre Mine · Cook's Wood Quarry · Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill · Dolebury Warren · Draycott Sleights · Ebbor Gorge · Emborough Quarries · Harptree Combe · Hobbs Quarry · Holwell Quarries · Kingdown and Middledown · Lamb Leer · Priddy Caves · Priddy Pools · Perch · Rodney Stoke · St. Dunstan's Well Catchment · Sandpit Hole and Bishop's Lot · Shiplate Slait · Viaduct Quarry · Windsor Hill Quarry · Wurt Pit and Devil's Punchbowl
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Coordinates: 51°12′37″N 2°34′08″W / 51.210163, -2.568784

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