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Worlds End caves or mines? 3 months 2 weeks ago #48589

Hi All. New member here asking for some help to refresh a memory. Back in the mid 80's a group of us would wander down from Bangor to climb at Worlds End. We could park at the hairpin bend by the ford and spend a day or two by the crag. Maybe someone can help me with some details of a couple of holes we spent some time in.
One was a short, blind level, big enough for a group doss. Easy enough. Very close were two other holes. fading memory says that one was possibly natural. It had a stream coming out of it, with what may have been a diving line but I doubt that. It was a low crawl that slightly backed up when blocked with a human. Can't remember how far it went, I think we bottled out.
The second holes was a mussy slide down a depression into a small entrance obscured by undergrowth and years of leaf mold. Once in it opened into a worked level, at one point with a rising level blocked with stacked deads. I think we eventually gave up as the way on was more stacked than secure.
Both would be right at the right or lower end of the crag as you looked at it and roughly in the line of the small valley that dropped to the hairpin.
Anyway, can anyone point me to any more info about these? I can't find a name or any detail buts would like to know, for old time sake, a bit more. Might even return as I have got back into caving a bit nowadays.
Cheers all.
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Worlds End caves or mines? 3 months 2 weeks ago #48590

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I've copied the below paragraphs from www.cambriancavingcouncil.org.uk/registry/CoNW/CoNW.htm


World's End Cave Length 100m+ SJ234477 World's End

A crouching-sized entrance lowers after a few metres to a low wet crawl. This can be pushed by experienced enthusiasts for 36m passing a 3m long low airspace duck and a 1.2m waterfall to a sump. This marks the ultimate limit of ‘dry’ exploration. The sump has been dived and is described as "a comfortable bedding plane 3m wide". Then 11m into the sump , an air-bell is reached , after which the sump becomes lower and wider. 30m into the sump the passage splits. To the right soon becomes too tight, but to the left is a low squeeze beyond which it gets very narrow. At a depth of 3m (53m into the sump), is a constriction and a silt bank, beyond which lies 30m of larger passage which rises above water level. A duck then leads to a 3m high rift and the limit of diving exploration" (Source: Welsh Sump Index, Cave Diving Group 1986).

Several short mine levels can also be found in the same area.

The possibility of other sealed caves nearby was mentioned in 1961: “On approximately the same bedding plane from which flows the World’s End stream, other low cave entrances can be seen in the cliffs on the southern side of the gorge. These all require digging out if they go anywhere at all being fairly well choked with gravel and earth. It was possible to see along one for about ten feet”. Source: “A General Reference to the Caving Areas of North Wales” 1961, Derbyshire Caving Club, Bulletin No.1.


Take the footpath from the ford at World's End upstream. The entrance is to the left of the path and a small stream can be seen flowing within. Several short mine levels also exist nearby.
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Worlds End caves or mines? 3 months 2 weeks ago #48593

Thanks. That sounds like the stream cave.
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