Cave details
A classic showcave where the first part of the tour is through large passageways and the second half of the tour is spent walking on elevated walkways over deep pools. There are 25 sumps on the main route through this resurgence cave, several of which are deep, some of which have nearly claimed lives. The first sump was the site of the first successful cave dive in Britain, in 1935, and the last sump is currently the deepest sump in Britain at 90m. The Wookey sumps also lay claim to the first recorded cave diving fatality in UK or Ireland, of James Gordon Ingram-Marriott on 9 April 1949.