Details for White Scar Cave

Imagine a subterranean landscape, beautifully lit, with gushing streams and waterfalls, exotic cave formations, and a huge ice-age cavern adorned with thousands of stalactites. This is White Scar Cave.

The tour begins near the original entrance found by Christopher Long, a student who discovered the cave in 1923. The path winds its way past cascading waterfalls, between massive banks of flowstone, and through galleries decorated with cream and gold coloured stalactites and stalagmites. Under the steel-grid walkways you can see the stream rushing and foaming on its way.

...past cascading waterfalls, between massive banks of flowstone..

Your guide will show you curious cave formations, including the Devil's Tongue, the Arum Lily and the remarkably lifelike Judge's Head.

The highlight of the tour is the 200,000 year old Battlefield Cavern. Over 330 feet long, with its roof soaring in places to 100 feet, this is one of the largest caverns in Britain. It contains literally thousands of delicate stalactites, which hang from the roof in great clusters.

...prehistoric mud pools, which have never been disturbed by man..

A special feature of the cavern are the prehistoric mud pools, which have never been disturbed by man. Glowing high in the Battlefield Cavern is a cluster of fluorescing stalactites.

Schools & Groups

White Scar Cave represents an educational and fun day out for school-children....