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Sidcot Swallet is a cave near Burrington Combe in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Mendip Hills in Somerset England.It was named after the Sidcot School Speleological Society who explored it in 1925.A swallet also known as a sinkhole sink shakehole swallow hole or doline is a natural depression or hole in the surface topography caused by the removal of soil or bedrock often both by water flowing beneath.After Goatchurch Cavern Sidcot Swallet is probably the most popular cave on Mendip for novice parties.

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