Wookey Hole Caves Wookey Hole Caves Wookey Hole Caves () are a series of limestone caverns, a show cave and tourist attraction in the village of Wookey Hole on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset, England. The River Axe flows through the cave. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for both biological and geological reasons. Wookey Hole cave is a "solutional cave", one that is formed by a process of weathering in which the natural acid in groundwater dissolves the rocks. Some water originates as rain that flows into streams on impervious rocks on the
Ffynnon Beuno and Cae Gwyn Caves and the bones of extinct pre-iceage animals such as mammoth and woolly rhino. In 1963 it was designated as an SSSI for the palaeontological interest described above and for its species interest as a winter roost of lesser horseshoe bat. Ffynnon Beuno and Cae Gwyn Caves Ffynnon Beuno and Cae Gwyn Caves are two Scheduled Ancient Monuments which are also designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Denbighshire, Wales. Two caves, with entrances close to each other high on a valley side above the Vale of Clwyd. They were first excavated in 1883-5. Human tools have been found