BLUE JOHN CAVERN Home
of Blue John stone, most of this cavern, much modified by mining can be
viewed on the tourist trip. The tour commences with a short
flight of steps into a chamber where various miners' implements are on
display. This is followed by a long flight of steps down into the
natural caverns. Adjacent to these steps is a shaft which can be
viewed from above and below. The first large chamber is the Grand
Crystallised Cavern, dome shaped and coloured with many minerals.
This is followed by the Waterfall Cavern so called because one
side of it is covered in flowstone resembling a waterfall.
Passing the Balancing Rock you come to Lord Mulgrave's Dining Room, where his Lordship entertained his miners to a meal. The tour ends at the largest chamber in Blue John Cavern, the Variegated Cavern, 200 feet (60m) wide at the far end of which can be seen stalactites.
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