Tyning's Barrow Swallet is a cave between Charterhouse

Charterhouse, Somerset

Charterhouse, also known as Charterhouse-on-Mendip, is a hamlet in the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the English county of Somerset...

 and Shipham

Shipham

Shipham is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England on the western edge of the Mendip Hills near the A38, approximately south of Bristol. It is in the local government district of Sedgemoor. The parish includes the village of Rowberrow and the hamlet of Star...

 in the limestone of the Mendip Hills

Mendip Hills

The Mendip Hills is a range of limestone hills to the south of Bristol and Bath in Somerset, England. Running east to west between Weston-super-Mare and Frome, the hills overlook the Somerset Levels to the south and the Avon Valley to the north...

, in Somerset

Somerset

The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. The cave is close to GB Cave

GB Cave

GB Cave is a cave between Charterhouse and Shipham in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England, and is close to Charterhouse Cave, the deepest in the region....

 and also to Charterhouse Cave

Charterhouse Cave

Charterhouse Cave,on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, is the deepest cave in southern England.- History :Charterhouse Cave was first excavated in 1972...

, the deepest cave in the region.

Tyning's Barrow Swallet is 1.29 km (4,232.3 ft) in length and reaches a depth of 132 m (433.1 ft).

Access

The entrance is kept locked, and the key is available from the nearby farmhouse on payment of small goodwill fee.

See also

• Caves of the Mendip Hills
  Caves of the Mendip Hills
  The Caves of the Mendip Hills are formed by the particular geology of the Mendip Hills, with large areas of limestone worn away by water makes it a national centre for caving. The hills conceal the largest underground river system in Britain.- Geology :...