The Hellfire Caves consist of almost a mile of underground passages with various figures depicting the life and times of the members of the infamous Hellfire Club.
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ESSENTIAL INFO
They were originally excavated in the 1750's on the site of an ancient quarry by Sir Francis Dashwood (who later became Lord le Despencer) in order to provide work for unemployed farm workers following a succession of harvest failures.
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S ROCKE, slyne lancaster
Monday, 16-Aug-2004 21:57:47 BST
This artical brought back some good memories for me as i used to work at the George and Dragon Hotel in the village.The Hotel has a "monks hole" where i was told monks hid from persecution and that a staircase ran from over in the corner of this hideaway to a tunnel which ran under the road to facilitate their escape. How true this is i do not know, but to enter this "monks hole" one drew a partition to one side, that looked like a panelled wall, unless you were shown what it was you wouldn't have known it was there. I would love to now if this story had an truth to it but it is a nice story wether or not. Sue
