Winnats Pass & Horseshoe Cave - Castleton, Hope Valley, Peak District, Derbyshire, England, UK

Winnats Pass is a hill pass and limestone gorge in the Peak District of Derbyshire, England. The name is a corruption of ’wind gates’ due to the swirling winds through the pass. It lies west of the village of Castleton, in the National Trust’s High Peak Estate and the High Peak borough of Derbyshire. The road winds through a cleft, surrounded by high limestone ridges. Horseshoe Cave is a cave in Winants pass situated nearby to Speedwell Cavern and Treak Cliff Cavern. The cave also goes by the name of suicide cave. Apparently, the name dates from the 1930s when another young couple took their lives there. However, the National Trust information board states rather categorically that this is a myth. Interestingly, however, in 1927 there was a suicide in Winnats Pass. A Manchester labourer Fred Bannister was on a walking tour in the pass when he made the grim discovery. Entering a cave, he flashed his torch in the dark and came across the body of a young woman. The local police later found a seco