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17 years ago
Hi Barney; I wouldn't say it's worth going all the way t Norfolk just to see that, we were on the way back from London when we visited. The mine which you enter is basically a hand-dug chalk pit which you can descend into via a ladder. At the bottom of which are galleries coming off in all directions, however these are all gated unfortunatly 😉

Whilst driving around Norfolk I noticed quite a lot of other sililar looking chalk pits, and wondered if they went underground, and if so what access was like, but unfortunatly I didn't gather much info on that...

I believe there's another ancient chalk mine in sussex, which I embarassingly didn't know about when I was once living there.


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Barney
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17 years ago
Aren't these type of chalk pits called deneholes?
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17 years ago
could well be, I bought a book on Grime's Graves whilst there; I'll try to dish it out...
Kein geneis kanaf - Cain gnais canaf
Byt vndyd mwyhaf - byth onddyth moyav
Lliaws a bwyllaf - Líows o boylav
Ac a bryderaf - ac o boryddarav
Kyfarchaf y veird byt - covarcav yr vairth
Pryt nam dyweid - poryth na'm dowaith
Py gynheil y byt - Pa gonail y byth
Na syrch yn eissywyt - na soroc yn eishoyth
Neur byt bei syrchei - nour byth bai sorochai

carnkie
17 years ago
"Barney" wrote:

Aren't these type of chalk pits called deneholes?



According to this site:

http://www.undergroundkent.co.uk/hangmans_wood_deneholes.htm 
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
Monty Stubble
17 years ago
I don't think they're called deneholes in Norfolk. I went there last summer and while the underground feature was a bit underwhelming it is worth a detour if you're in the area.

Have a look at the site on Google Earth - fascinating.
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