Priddy Mineries

Priddy Mineries (grid reference ST547515) is a nature reserve previously run by the Somerset Wildlife Trust.

The site is one of the beauty spots of Mendip partly due to these pools with the changing colours of the vegetation and the pines and the heather slopes.

It is adjacent to Stock Hill woodland,[1] and one of the paths form part of the long distance national footpath, the Monarch's Way.

The buddle pits and condensation flues are the remains of the Waldegrave lead works of that time.

The site is of great interest to industrial archaeologists and also to cavers on account of the existence of Waldegrave swallet (opened 1934) and the possible rediscovery of Five Buddles Sink or Thomas Bushell’s Swallet (named after the man who first discovered it).