The Andrews Pages Guides Index> Bemroses' Guide> This page Bemroses' Guide to Matlock ... , about 1869* The Royal Cumberland Cavern & Romatic Rocks Image from Bemroses' Guide     Bemroses' Guide Matlock's Scenery Caverns, Rocks, Museums, Church Bath to Dale Black Rocks to Parish Church High Tor & Antiquities Matlock Bank & Riber Walks & Places of Interest Mr. Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment Walker's Museum Matlock House & Rockside Royal Cumberland Cavern Clark Greaves Radfirth & Stevenson Midland Railway 01 Midland Railway 02 About the Guide Further Information About Matlock About Matlock Bath Find a Name p.11 'These caverns are, for the most part, mostly excavated mines, which have been worked, from age to age, by successive generations from the olden time, when those mighty masters of the world, the ancient Romans, left the memorials of their power and skill in Britain - till their subterranean chambers ceased to yield a remuneration for the toil of the exploring labourers.' p.14 'Messrs. Smedley's CUMBERLAND CAVERN is the oldest and, geologically considered, the most remarkable of these astonishing excavations; exhibiting singular cominations and winderful contrasts, that cannot fail to impress the ordinary observer, and to perplex the conjectures of the studious.' *'Bemroses' Guide to Matlock, Bakewell, Chatsworth, Haddon Hall, &c' by John Hicklin, Third Edition, pub Bemrose and Sons, London (no date, but about 1869). Reproduced here with the very kind permission and help of Sonia Addis Smith, whose book this is from. OCRed and images scanned by Ann Andrews, 2001 - 2004 More on site information about Matlock Bath's Caverns Gem of the Peak (1840) Lead Mining The following may also be of interest Matlock Images: Photographs, Postcards, Engravings and Etchings © 1996 - Ann Andrews (click link to contact). All Rights Reserved. Last Update: 1 August, 2007 About and Conditions of Use | Site Map, Matlock | Part of The Andrews Pages - www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com