Niki joined me on a day's rambling about looking at/for holes in the general area of Eyam and Middleton Dale, something I'd been meaning to do pretty much since I moved to Derbyshire.


We started out on the road between Eyam and Foolow, managed to find Linen Dale Cave quite quickly and then visited the impressive shakehole where Waterfall Swallet is and the almost as impressive shakehole of Little Waterfall Swallet.

We then turned our attention to Middleton Dale and spent pretty much the rest of the day rootling around finding holes and trying to work out what they were. We didn't get underground very far, which was probably just as well because the Middleton Dale caves are pretty muddy places, but we did have one trip into a mine near the end of the day and Niki showed me how strong she is.

Actually the boulders are made of polystyrene, left behind after a film shoot for Peak Practice but they were rather good fun!!