Caves of the Mendip Hills then rising up a fracture in the rock. Few caves on the Mendip Hills are more than deep or a few kilometres in length, (with some notable exceptions, such as Swildon's Hole which is over long), but a number are complex with several levels of passages which have been abandoned by the water, for example those around Cheddar. The catchment area of the Cheddar Yeo, which rises in Gough's Cave, measures . Dye marking shows that some of the water travels underground for up to , taking up to 14 days to reach Cheddar. When Banwell Bone Cave was discovered
Waitomo Caves Waitomo Caves The Waitomo Caves is a village and solutional cave system forming a major tourist attraction in the northern King Country region of the North Island of New Zealand, 12 kilometres northwest of Te Kuiti. The community of Waitomo Caves itself is very small, though the village has many temporary service workers living there as well. The word "Waitomo" comes from the Māori language "wai" meaning water and "tomo" meaning a doline or sinkhole; it can thus be translated to be "water passing through a hole". The caves are formed in Oligocene limestone. The limestone landscape of the Waitomo