The first recorded mention of Spider Hole is in a BEC bulletin in 1947, entitled “Dig at Stewarts Hole”…… No other mention of Spider Hole or Stewarts Hole is recorded again until Mendip Nature Research Council mentioned it in their newsletter. They describe the cave and the fact they had removed a largish boulder to allow them to explore a 15 foot tube to a boulder collapse. They considered there was open cave beyond but never went back to try and get through. Apart from being entered in the early cave guides there are few other articles about the cave until it is listed in Rich Witcomb’s “Who was Aveline Anyway”. This references its alternative name as Stewarts Hole, belonging to Peter Stewart of the MNRC who dug there in the 1950’s.
