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Dorking Caves, South Street, Dorking Dorking caves were
artificially cut into the soft Greensand, probably over several hundred years.
The caves are open to the public for guided tours. They are entered through a
discreet doorway adjacent to the War Memorial in South Street. At street level
there are extensive galleries, used until recently as wine cellars. Dorking has
been famous for its wine for several hundred years, and there are many records
of it being stored underground, both locally produced wine and that which been
imported - legally and smuggled. From the wine cellars a series of shafts lead
down deep under Rose Hill to a chamber of uncertain age and purposed. Domed,
with a bench around its circumference, the chamber is believes to date from the
late 17th century. It may have been excavated as a gentleman's folly, as a
meeting place for religious dissenters, for the local witches coven, or just as
somewhere for the men folk of Dorking to go to quality test the wine. At several
places the galleries and shafts cross cut well shafts from the houses of Rose
Hill.
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