Heaven's Door

Location


Grid Reference: SN 671 178

Altitude: 240m

Situated at the base of a large shakehole on the right of the footpath that leads to Llygad Llwchwr.

Access
No known restrictions.

Description
Heaven’s Door (Drws Nef in Welsh) is a recently explored cave, dug open by Mike Barnes in 2005. The cave is located near the upstream end of Llygad Llwchwr. A tight entrance which may require digging out leads to the head of a short pitch with a scaffold bar belay. A handline is useful. After a short section of dry cave, there are sumps both upstream and downstream. These has been dived, but no way into the Llwchwr master system found.

In wet weather the water level backs up considerably flooding most of the passages. Consequently, the whole cave is slippery and unpleasantly coated with silt. The cave is completely different in character to Llygad Llwchwr II which lies in the adjacent shakehole.

External link
Survey data on Garimpeiros website.