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Adventure landscapes

This module appeals to students' sense of wonder and adventure, virtually dropping them into dramatic places above and below ground and allowing them to explore the physical processes that formed them and continue to shape them

  • Key Stage Three,
  • Module,
  • Landscape systems,
  • Environmental interactions and management
  • Overview
  • Caves, Crags and Cannibals?
  • Cheddar Climbing and Conflict
  • Underworld
  • Save our caves
  • Into Titan
  • Over the sea to Skye
  • A walk around the Quiraing
  • Assessment

Into Titan

Key questions

What and where is Titan?

What would it be like to explore the largest vertical cave in the UK?

What/Where is Titan?

Titan is the UK's largest vertical cave. It is located at Hurdlow, Castleton, Derbyshire.

What would it be like to explore the largest vertical cave in the UK?

The vertical cavern, named Titan, measures a vertical drop of approximately 140m from top of the main shaft, some 60m higher than the previous record at Gaping Ghyll in the Yorkshire Dales. Water has passed down joints and along bedding planes for thousands, possibly millions of year dissolving the limestone as it flowed generating tunnels and caverns beneath the surface.

Links

  • Map of Titan location

  • Caving equipment

Starter

What to wear

It is essential you know what to wear before venturing on a caving expedition - even a virtual one.

  • What are the key features of a cave environment

  • What would it be appropriate to wear going into this environment

  • What would you need to take into a cave to explore safely

Main Activity

Welcome to Titan.

This picture is looking down from the top of Titan. Caver Dave Clucas is in the 130m Passage that connects with the surface shaft (top-middle of the photo). Dave Nixon is at The Event Horizon, which is only half way down. See if you can spot him HINT: follow the rope on the right hand side down into the cave, he is wearing red and blue. Photo: © Robbie Shone 

Locate Titan on a map. Zoom out from the cave’s entrance to see that Titan is located near Castleton, Derbyshire.

Then visit Titan on Google Earth using the Google Earth placemark - Titan/Castleton or locate it on an OS map.

Make a list of the equipment needed to explore the cave.

Plenary

Listen to some of your class mates' sound tracks. Then listen to the original BBC video again with the sound turned up. Spot the difference? Perhaps you can vote on whose was most like the official BBC video? 

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