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Peak Cavern - Castleton

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Peak Cavern - Castleton
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Peak Cavern - Castleton is shown and named in a reusable Geograph picture. The saved point is the picture's recorded map point.
Peak Cavern in Castleton, Derbyshire, is a limestone cave formed by the dissolution of Carboniferous limestone through glacial and post-glacial processes. It has a long history of human use, including as a tourist attraction since the 18th century and contains archaeological evidence of prehistoric activity.

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Photo: Fiona Avis · CC BY-SA 2.0