Lacy's Caves, Little Salkeld

Lacy’s Caves on the bank of the River Eden near Little Salkeld, Cumbria.
These five sandstone caverns were an 18th century folly, the creation of a Colonel Lacy of Salkeld Hall who owned this estate land. He even hired a man to live in the caves as a hermit! The white bands running through the sandstone are veins of quartz.