Hellfire Caves

 cave / cave(s), invisible, tourist attraction

In the 1750s the "Hellfire Caves" were excavated from an old quarry by Sir Francis Dashwood, partly to give work to unemployed locals and partly to create an out of the way spot for his "drinking" club to gather. Today, the caves are populated with costumed effigies of Dashwood's friends.Benjamin Franklin was a good friend of Sir Francis and visited the caves (he often stayed at West Wycombe Park (a couple of hundred yards away) - he was colonial agent to the Pennsylvania Assembly.The underground "rooms" are named, from the Entrance Hall, through the Circle, Franklin's Cave, the Banqueting Hall, the Triangle, to the Miner's Cave; finally, across a subterranean river named the Styx, lies the final cave, the Inner Temple.