Alderley Edge mines open weekend

Derbyshire Caving Club are hosting an open-weekend – on 2nd and 3rd September – providing visitors with an opportunity to explore Wood Mine or Engine Vein at Aldlerley Edge.

To ensure your tour reserve a place on the club website (https://www.derbyscc.org.uk) or turn up on the day.

To make the trip easier and to add to the special nature of the Open Weekends, parts of the mine are floodlit and a circular tour is being arranged.

Anyone interested but unable to attend this weekend can arrange a private visit.

There will also be displays of the club’s surveying work, history and chemistry of metal extraction, tool making, practical demonstration of rock drilling, smelting, cave radio and cave rescue.

The club can also organise trips further into the mine and provide information about surface walks for those who do not want to venture below ground.