Deepest caves
| Rank | Cave Name | Length (km) | Vertical Range (m) | Region | Type | More Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peak Cavern - Speedwell Cavern | 17.59 | 248 | Peak District | Part mine | Short description |
| 2 | Charterhouse Cave | 4.37 | 228 | Mendip | All cave | |
| 3 | Lancaster - Easegill - Pippikin - Lost John's | 60 | 211 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 4 | Giants Hole - Oxlow Caverns | 4.8 | 211 | Peak District | Part mine | Short description |
| 5 | Gaping Gill System | 16.9 | 197.5 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 6 | Penyghent Pot | 5.2 | 196 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 7 | Ireby Fell Cavern - Notts Pot - Large Pot - Rift Pot | 23.4 | 183 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 8 | Wookey Hole | 3.66 | 182 | Mendip | All cave | Short description |
| 9 | Meregill - Roaring Hole | 4.6 | 181 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 10 | Nettle Pot | < 1 | 180 | Peak District | All cave | |
| 11 | Gingling Hole | 6.9 | 177 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 12 | Longwood Swallet | 1.65 | 175 | Mendip | All cave | Short description |
| 13 | Long Kin West | < 1 | 168 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 14 | Swildon's Hole | 9.41 | 167 | Mendip | All cave | Short description |
| 15 | Kingsdale Master Cave | 27 | 165 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 16 | Dale Head Pot | < 1 | 165 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 17 | Manor Farm Swallet | 1.17 | 162 | Mendip | All cave | Short description |
| 18 | Eastwater Cavern | 2.8 | 160 | Mendip | All cave | Short description |
| 19 | Black Shiver Pot | < 1 | 157 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 20 | Strangle Pot | < 1 | 157 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 21 | Tatham Wife Hole | 1.219 | 155 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 22 | Winnats Head Cave | < 1 | 148 | Peak District | All cave | |
| 23 | St. Cuthbert's Swallet | 6.7 | 145 | Mendip | All cave | Short description |
| 24 | Rhino Rift | < 1 | 144 | Mendip | All cave | Short description |
| 25 | Birks Fell Cave | 3.6 | 142 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 26 | Quaking Pot | < 1 | 142 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 27 | Broken Finger Pot | < 1 | 137 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 28 | Trapdoor Pot | < 1 | 137 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 29 | Pillar Holes | < 1 | 136 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 30 | GB Cave | 1.95 | 134 | Mendip | All cave | Short description |
| 31 | Echo Pot | < 1 | 134 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 32 | Tyning's Barrow Swallet | 1.28 | 132 | Mendip | All cave | |
| 33 | Marble Steps Pot | 1.273 | 131 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 34 | Alum Pot System | 2.454 | 129 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 35 | Upper Flood Swallet | 3.615 | 128 | Mendip | All cave | Short description |
| 36 | Juniper Gulf | < 1 | 128 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 37 | Big Sink Cave (or swallet) | 1.2 | 126 | Forest Of Dean | All cave | Short description |
| 38 | Crescent Pot | 1.146 | 122 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 39 | Reservoir Hole | < 1 | 122 | Mendip | All cave | |
| 40 | Thrupe Lane Swallet | 1.417 | 120 | Mendip | All cave | Short description |
| 41 | Foul Pot | < 1 | 120 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 42 | Redmire Pot | 1.6 | 117 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 43 | Lancliffe Pot | 9.6 | 116 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 44 | Spectacle Pot - Vesper Pot | < 1 | 114 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 45 | Long Kin East - Rift Pot | 1.5 | 113 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 46 | Nick Pot | < 1 | 113 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 47 | Washfold Pot | < 1 | 112 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 48 | Growling Hole | < 1 | 111 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 49 | Wigmore Swallet | 1.125 | 110 | Mendip | All cave | |
| 50 | Little Hull Pot | 1.097 | 110 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 51 | Hurnel Moss Pot | < 1 | 110 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 52 | Newby Moss Cave | < 1 | 110 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 53 | Borrins Moor Cave | 1.433 | 108 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 54 | Marble Sink | < 1 | 108 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 55 | Clearwell Caves | 24 | 107 | Forest Of Dean | Part mine | Short description |
| 56 | Hangman's Hole | < 1 | 106 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 57 | Strans Gill Pot | < 1 | 105 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 58 | Car Pot | < 1 | 104 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 59 | Pasture Gill Pot | < 1 | 104 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 60 | Marble Pot | < 1 | 103 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 61 | Sell Gill Holes | < 1 | 101 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 62 | Slaughter Stream Cave | 14 | 100 | Forest Of Dean | All cave | Short description |
| 63 | Ban y Gor (Ban-yr-Gore) Cave | < 1 | 100 | Forest Of Dean | All cave | Short description |
| 64 | P5 | < 1 | 99 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 65 | Knacker Trapper Hole | < 1 | 98 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 66 | Newby Moss Pot | < 1 | 96 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 67 | Little Crapnell Swallet | < 1 | 93 | Mendip | All cave | |
| 68 | Long Drop - Death's Head - Big Meanie | 1 | 92 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 69 | Eldon Hole | < 1 | 92 | Peak District | All cave | Short description |
| 70 | Magnetometer Pot | 4.6 | 91 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 71 | Lizard Pot | < 1 | 91 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 72 | Gough's Cave | 2.135 | 90 | Mendip | All cave | Short description |
| 73 | Blue John Caverns | 1.324 | 90 | Peak District | Part mine | |
| 74 | Langstroth Pot | 1.1 | 90 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 75 | Hammer Pot | 1.036 | 90 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 76 | Jean Pot | < 1 | 90 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 77 | Waterways Swallet | < 1 | 89 | Peak District | All cave | Short description |
| 78 | Grange Rigg Pot | < 1 | 87 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 79 | Sunset Hole | < 1 | 86 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 80 | Coronation Pot | < 1 | 83 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 81 | Low Douk Cave | < 1 | 82 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 82 | The Mohole | < 1 | 82 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 83 | Brackenbottom Pot | < 1 | 80 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 84 | Bull Pot | < 1 | 79 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 85 | Devil's Limekiln | < 1 | 79 | Devon | All cave | Short description |
| 86 | Knotlow Cavern | 2.6 | 76 | Peak District | Part mine | Short description |
| 87 | Sleets Gill Cave | 2.4 | 76 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 88 | Chanterelle Pot | < 1 | 76 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 89 | Craftman's Pot | < 1 | 76 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 90 | Cuckoo Cleeves | < 1 | 76 | Mendip | All cave | |
| 91 | Hunger Hill Swallet | < 1 | 76 | Peak District | All cave | Short description |
| 92 | Kuling Hole | < 1 | 76 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 93 | Scars Hole | < 1 | 75 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 94 | White Pit | < 1 | 73 | Mendip | All cave | |
| 95 | Miss Graces Lane Swallet | 4 | 72 | Forest Of Dean | All cave | Short description |
| 96 | Darnbrook Pot | < 1 | 71 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 97 | P8 (Jackpot) | 1.8 | 70 | Peak District | All cave | Short description |
| 98 | Christmas Swallet (P9) | < 1 | 70 | Peak District | All cave | |
| 99 | North Hill Swallet | < 1 | 70 | Mendip | All cave | |
| 100 | Read's Cavern | < 1 | 70 | Mendip | All cave | Short description |
| 101 | Penyghent Long Churn | < 1 | 69 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 102 | Twin Titties Swallet | < 1 | 69 | Mendip | All cave | |
| 103 | Haytime Hole | < 1 | 68 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 104 | Jingling Pot | < 1 | 67 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 105 | Lamb Leer Cavern | < 1 | 67 | Mendip | All cave | Short description |
| 106 | Out Sleets Beck Pot | < 1 | 67 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 107 | Waterwheel Swallet | < 1 | 67 | Mendip | All cave | |
| 108 | Snatcher Pot | < 1 | 66 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 109 | Dowel Dale Side Pot | < 1 | 65 | Peak District | All cave | |
| 110 | Hurtle Pot - Jingle Pot System | 2.37 | 64 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 111 | Catamite Hole | < 1 | 64 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 112 | Cow Hole | < 1 | 64 | Mendip | All cave | |
| 113 | High Hull Pot | < 1 | 64 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 114 | Hunt Pot | < 1 | 64 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 115 | Slanting Cave | < 1 | 64 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 116 | Goatchurch Cavern | 1.532 | 63 | Mendip | All cave | Short description |
| 117 | Sludge Pit Hole | < 1 | 62 | Mendip | All cave | |
| 118 | Carlswark Cavern | 3.243 | 61 | Peak District | Part mine | Short description |
| 119 | Hardrawkin Pot | < 1 | 61 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 120 | Hull Pot | < 1 | 61 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 121 | Thrupe Swallet | < 1 | 61 | Mendip | All cave | |
| 122 | Mossdale Caverns | 10.5 | 60 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 123 | Heale Farm Cave | < 1 | 60 | Mendip | All cave | |
| 124 | Lord's Top Dig | < 1 | 60 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 125 | Pen Park Hole | < 1 | 60 | Mendip | All cave | Short description |
| 126 | Rose Cottage Cave | < 1 | 60 | Mendip | All cave | |
| 127 | Rough Pot | < 1 | 60 | Northern Dales | All cave | Short description |
| 128 | The Churns | < 1 | 60 | Northern Dales | All cave | |
| 129 | Upper Hesleden Cave 2 | < 1 | 60 | Northern Dales | All cave |
If you don't see the cave you want, but you know it should be in the England section, remember that this list only shows caves with at least 60 m depth of natural passage. Other caves may show up in the list of longest caves in England.
However, if you are looking for a specific cave that does have at least 60 m depth of natural passage, and should be listed here, please let me know about it so I can update the database.