Hillier\'s Cave - Citizendia

Hillier's Cave
Location	Stoke St Michael
Coordinates	grid reference ST65734753
Discovery	1954
Geology	Limestone

Hillier's Cave (grid reference ST65734753) is a cave in Fairy Cave Quarry, near Stoke St Michael in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. Stoke St Michael is a village and Civil parish on the Mendip Hills 4 miles north east of Shepton Mallet, and 8 miles west of Frome, in the A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude Fairy Cave Quarry ( is between Stoke St Michael and Oakhill in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. Stoke St Michael is a village and Civil parish on the Mendip Hills 4 miles north east of Shepton Mallet, and 8 miles west of Frome, in the The Mendip Hills (commonly called The Mendips) are a range of Limestone hills situated to the south of Bristol and Bath in Somerset Somerset ( or) is a county in south west England The County town is Taunton, which is in the south of the county England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland

It falls within the St. Dunstan's Well Catchment Site of Special Scientific Interest. St Dunstan's Well Catchment ( is a Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, covering near Stoke St Michael in the Mendip Hills, Somerset A Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a Conservation designation denoting a Protected area in the United Kingdom.

The cave was discovered on 13th February 1954, when blasting at one of the working faces opened up a cave passage, and is now choked with sludge waste from the quarry. ^[1]

The Fairy Caves Management Committee administers the access to this cave on behalf of the quarry owners.

References

^ Johnson, Peter (1967). The History of Mendip Caving. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.

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