This is quite an incredible thing to have in your back garden ... a 75m long souterrain!
I'll try and describe it:
After descending the steps you find yourself in a 27m long passage running east (all the passages are 1.5m wide and 1.5m high). The passage then turns right for 20m where it turns left and runs for 10m to a dead-end, but fear not! There's more.
Just before the dead-end there is a trapdoor in the ceiling which takes you up to another 4m long passage, which then drops back down into a 25m long passage, like a sort of vertical chicane. This passage terminates in a large room 13m long, 2m high and 2m wide, which runs across the end of the final stretch of passage.
Building this would have been a massive undertaking: certainly beyond my comprehension of time and labour scales. To make it even more amazing there are several other inaccessible souterains close by, which are just as grand in scale.
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