Gower

Area Map

This caving area consists of the Gower Peninsula, to the West of Swansea. It is more famous for its bone caves than sporting caves; with the exceptions of Tooth Cave and Llethryd Swallet. Karstification is somewhat immature in this area and as a result there are more than 10 catchments. The most significant of which is the Llethryd area, others include Bishopston Valley and the Caswell area.

Geology
The Gower Peninsula is mostly made of Carboniferous Limestone (the same band which is seen in the Forest of Dean and the Mendip Hills) with Millstone Grit and Old Red Sandstone and a layer, in most places, of glacial drift deposits which are non permeable and therefore limit karstification. The limestone also has a steep dip compared to most other caving areas in the UK. This ranges from around 20 degrees, similar to most of the Mendip Hills, to vertical.



Caves

All caves of 30m or more in length are included, but most sea caves are omitted.


 * Bacon Hole
 * Bat Hole
 * Barlands Quarry cave
 * Bishops Wood Cave
 * Bobs Way Cave
 * Bovehill Pot
 * Burry Head Cave
 * Cat Hole Lower
 * Cat Hole Upper
 * Guzzle Hole
 * Hardings Down Cave
 * Ilston Cwm Cave
 * Inner Sound Cave
 * Kittle Hill Caves
 * Leather's Hole
 * Llanrhidian Cave
 * Llethryd Quarry Cave no.1
 * Llethryd Swallet
 * Llwyn-y-bwch Swallet no.4
 * Meander Cave
 * Mewslade Quarry Caves
 * Middle Daw Pit Cave
 * Minchin Hole
 * Ogof Carreg Mawr
 * Ogof Ffynnon Wyntog
 * Ogof Bishopston
 * Ogof Ci Coch
 * Ogof Hentecil
 * Ogof Wyntog
 * Ogof Ystlum
 * Old Quarry Pot
 * Paviland Cave
 * Port Eynon Point Cave
 * Ravenscliff Cave
 * Red Chamber
 * Scree Cave
 * Stembridge Cave
 * Stouthall Cave
 * Thurba Head Cave
 * Thom Nicol's Hole
 * Tooth Cave
 * Tree Caven
 * Upper Daw Pit Cave A
 * Weaver's Cave
 * White Lady Pot
 * Wooley's Cave
 * Worms Head Cave

Sinks and resurgences


 * Bat Hole
 * Beggars Pit
 * Blind Pit
 * Bishopston Sink
 * Bishopston Valley Risings, East and West
 * Burry Head Rising
 * Caswell Bay East Rising
 * Caswell Bay West Rising
 * Caswell Valley Sink or Murton Sink
 * Church Swallet
 * Courthouse Lower Rising
 * Courthouse Main Flood Rising
 * Courthouse Middle Sink
 * Courthouse Pram Sink
 * Courthouse Upper Sink
 * Decoy Pond Sink
 * Devils Spring
 * Freshwater Cave
 * Holy well
 * Ilston Resurgence
 * Ilston Sinkhole
 * Killy Willy Resurgence
 * Killy Willy Sinkholes
 * Kitchen Well
 * Llethrid Swallet
 * Llwyn-y-bwch Swallets
 * Lower Resurgance
 * Mewslade Bay Sea Cave no.1
 * Mewslade Resurgance
 * Moor Mills Sink
 * Murton Stream Sink
 * Newton Stream Sink
 * Nicholaston Hall Swallet
 * Nicholaston Pill East Spring
 * Nicholaston Pill West Spring
 * Nicholaston Resurgences
 * Nicholaston Sinks
 * Ogof Ffynnon Wyntog
 * Oakdale Swallet
 * Parc-le-breos Sink
 * Periswood Farm Swallet
 * Pitton Swallet
 * Ram Grove Spring
 * Resurgence
 * Rogers Well
 * Stonyford Sink
 * Tree Cavern
 * Trinity Well
 * Underhill Well
 * Wellhead Resurgance
 * Widgate Rising

Mines


 * Long Ash Mine
 * All Slade Mine