Photographs of the Hellfire Club Tunnels, West Wycombe

Photographs from the Hellfire Club, West Wycombe
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photographs (2006) of the English Hellfire Club – Medmenham Abbey and the tunnels at West Wycombe

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Map of the West Wycombe Caves

1. Entrance
2. Tool Store
3. Whitehead’s Cave
4. Lord Sandwich Circle
5. Franklins Cave
6. Children’s Cave
7. Banqueting Hall
8. Triangle
9. Miner’s Cave
10. River Styx
11. Inner Temple

(‘XXII’ refers to a marking on the wall, mentioned in a poem of the time… )

Sir Francis Dashwood

The Entrance to the Caves

Once more into the breach

The Only Living…

“Daemonic features abound…

Hell-Fire Francis?

Note the cross on its forehead…

West Wycombe Church – 300 ft (91m) above the tunnels

The Golden Ball

The Dashwood Mausoleum

photographs (2006) of the English Hellfire Club – Medmenham Abbey and the tunnels at West Wycombe

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Writer, photographer, environmental campaigner and "known troublemaker" Dave Walsh is the founder of Blather.net, described both as "possibly the most arrogant and depraved website to be found either side of the majestic Shannon River", and "the nicest website circulating in Ireland". Half Irishman, half-bicycle. He lives in southern Irish city of Barcelona.