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Balch Cave (grid reference ST65734753) is a cave in Fairy Cave Quarry near Stoke St Michael in the limestone of the Mendip Hills in Somerset England. The cave is part of the complex of passages feeding to St. Dunstan’s Well Catchment Site of Special Scientific Interest and an abandoned Bristol Water abstraction point. It is named in honour of Herbert E. Balch who was famous for his exploration of the Caves of the Mendip Hills.The cave was broken into by quarry blasting in November 1961.