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Caves, Mines & Underground in Manchester
Caves, Mines & Underground in Manchester: every place written up honestly, with the details parents actually need.
12 places 4 free to visit
Casbah Coffee Club Historic Site
Liverpool · ages 0-16
Walk into the actual basement club where the Beatles played their first gigs, on a pre-booked tour that traces the birth of Merseybeat.
Booking required
from £11.50Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker
Lane
A genuine Cold War nuclear bunker 40ft underground, packed with authentic equipment and a spy mouse trail for the kids to follow.
CaféGift shopGroup bookingsSchool visits
Houdini's Escape Room Experience - Leeds
Leeds · ages 2-18
Sixty minutes locked in a themed room working through puzzles and riddles as a team, with the game master watching the clock.
Booking requiredCard onlyGroup bookings
FreeLancashire Mining Museum CIO
Manchester
Wander round a real colliery site with a 98ft headgear to gawp at, colliery cottages and a miner's canteen to poke round, all free to get in.
Café
FreeMount Sion Steam Crane
Manchester
Free crafts and guided nature or wildlife walks around a historic steam crane site on a Canal Fun Day.
FreeNational Coal Mining Museum for England
Wakefield · ages 0+
Free entry to a 42 acre former colliery, with the real draw being a guided trip 140 metres underground.
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Old Queen's Head
Sheffield
A Grade II listed Tudor building in Sheffield with a courtyard to explore and pub food to fill you up after.
Food on siteRestaurant
from £13.75Peak Cavern
Castleton
Walk a guided showcave under the gorge with a rope-makers story - chilly low section, from £13.75 online for children.
Booking required
FreePonden Kirk & Fairy Cave
Keighley
A rocky crevice cave and gritstone outcrop on the moors above Haworth, tied to the Brontë novels.
from £14.50Speedwell Cavern
Castleton · ages 5-15
A boat ride into a flooded lead mine to see the Bottomless Pit, down 106 steps in Castleton.
Booking requiredParking
from £8Treak Cliff Cavern
Castleton · ages 5-17
A 45-minute self-guided walk into a real cavern hung with Blue John stone, but it's steps and slopes, not a pram job.
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from £1Western Approaches
Liverpool
Wander a real WWII bunker beneath the city streets, from the wartime shop fronts to the Operations Room where the maps still sit.
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Good to know: caves, mines & underground in Manchester
Are any of them free?
Yes, Lancashire Mining Museum CIO, Mount Sion Steam Crane, National Coal Mining Museum for England and Ponden Kirk & Fairy Cave are free to visit.
What does a paid visit cost?
Paid entry starts from £1 at Western Approaches. Prices, ages and facilities are listed on every place page, taken from each venue's own published price list.
Whereabouts are they?
You'll find caves, mines & underground in Liverpool, Lane, Leeds, Manchester, Wakefield and 3 more. Every place we list is in or around Manchester, and each listing has the full address and directions.
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