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Cwm Porth Caverns (d), Cwm Porth Caverns (M/N), Waterfall Cave, Ampitheatre Cave


NGR: SN 92835 11822
265 m.asl

Powys , Northern Outcrop - Central (Penwyllt to Penderyn)
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Sink Cave
Access Ask for permission at Cwm Porth Farm. Follow the track from Porth-yr-Ogof for 180 metres past the farm. On the left is a small wood containing the entrance.
Description This is an area of caves formed on the gritstone / limestone boundary. In total 35 individual caves have been documented across the six main groups.
History Peter Bird, Tony Oldham et al., 1962
Hydrology Tests
Conservation
Gallery

Brendan Marris
2013
Survey
BEC 1963; BSA; CCC
References
Belfry Bulletin 190 (1963), Roger Stenner, New Caves at Ystradfellte
Proc.BSA 5, (1967) pp.17-46, Burke,A.R., Geomorphology and Spelaeogenesis of Vertical Shafts in Carboniferous Limestone at Ystradfellte, Breconshire
Proc.UBSS 15(2), 1979, pp.107-127, O.C.Lloyd, The Hepste River Caves and a Study of the Hepste-Mellte Area
Caves of the Mellte Valley, Allan Ockenden, 1991
WSG Bulletin 9(8) 1997 Duncan Minty, Hydrological Investigations in the central Brecon Beacons
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Cambrian Cave Registry entry 563
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