Beer Quarry Caves has a 2,000-year history of quarrying. From the time of the Romans to the last century, beer stones were produced using roughly the same methods.
Its guides will take you on an hour-long tour of the incredible caves, with their vast corridors of domed ceilings and Beer stone pillars that have been likened to a massive underground cathedral.
Listen to amazing stories of local quarrymen who worked 14 hours a day in horrible conditions 200 feet below ground, as well as the employment of youngsters as young as eight years old.
Visit the small museum, which has a late-medieval Beer stone church window, to witness the stonemasons’ skill and the primitive equipment used by the quarrymen, who risked their lives to extract the stone from the underground workings.
