Castleton, Derbyshire - illuminated canal, Speedwell Cavern - RP postcard c1960s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Illuminated Canal and Halfway House, Speedwell Cavern, Castleton, Derbyshire - real photo type
• Publisher:  Lilywhite Ltd., Brighouse
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  2d. brown Wilding defin.
• Postmark(s):  unclear cds - possibly Sheffield
• Sent to:  Ettrick, Selkerkshire, Scotland
• Notes / condition: 

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Castleton is a honeypot village in the Derbyshire Peak District, in England. The village lies at the western end of the Hope Valley on the Peakshole Water, a tributary of the River Noe. The village is situated between the areas known as the Dark Peak (to the north) and the White Peak (to the south). Castleton's population was 649 at the 2001 census.

The Speedwell Cavern is one of the four show caves in Castleton, Derbyshire, England.

It consists of a horizontal lead miners' adit (a level passageway driven horizontally into the hillside) leading to the cavern itself, a limestone cave. The adit is permanently flooded, resulting in Speedwell Cavern's (locally unique) feature: after descending a long staircase, the visitor makes the journey into the cave by boat (originally legged through by the guide, but now powered by an electric motor).

At the end of the adit, the visitor alights from the boat and walks into the cave to see the fluorspar veins, the stalactites and stalagmites, and the so-called ""Bottomless Pit"". This pit is an extremely deep vertical shaft, now choked to within 20 metres (66 ft) of the surface by rock spoil dumped by miners. The original depth of the shaft has been estimated, from the amount of spoil placed in the shaft over the years, at around 150 metres (490 ft).

A connection was discovered in 1999 between the Speedwell Cavern system and Titan, the largest natural shaft in the UK, which is 141.5 metres (464 ft) high.

type=real photographic (rp)

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=derbyshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted