Description

WEST WYCOMBE
1.
9623
The Cave
SU 8294 9/3 9.1.54.
II*

2.
1750-52. One of the landscape features of Sir Francis Dashwood's C18 scheme
embracing park and hillsides. U shaped retaining walls of flint rubble
forming entrance to manmade caves running for about ¼ of a mile under the
hill. Yard partly obscured by modern wood hut occupying one third to ½
of yard area. Walls have gables and pinnacles, round and pointed arched
niches. Pointed arched doorway to caves. Supposed scene of Hell-Fire
Club meetings.

Listing NGR: SU8294294812

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17541672

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)