Map 2025 - Flipbook - Page 2
Journey through 400
million years of history
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Kingsteignton
Step into the
Stone Age
Our Story
400 million years ago
Devonian Limestone
rocks formed
400,000 years ago
Neanderthals
enter Britain
2.5 million years ago
Cave system formed
by water
Teignmouth
A381
Newton Abbot
Kents
Cavern
Kingskerswell
Torquay
175 million years ago
Continents as we know
them are formed
A380
500,000 years ago
First human species
occupy Kents Cavern
Paignton
40,000 years ago
Neanderthals become
extinct in Britain
1865-1880
The Great Excavation
by William Pengelly
A385
Brixham
1824
First systematic
exploration of the caves
by Fr. John MacEnery
1927
Britain’s oldest human
fossil discovered
Check out the Kents Cavern guidebook
for even more information on the history
of Kents Cavern and Stone Age Britain
42,000 years ago
Britain’s first
Homo sapiens shelter
at Kents Cavern
1924
Agatha Christie publishes
‘The Man in the Brown Suit’.
Location in the first chapter
inspired by Kents Cavern
300,000 years ago
Mammoth, woolly rhino,
hyena and other Ice Age
megafauna living
in Torquay
2025
You visit
Kents Cavern!
To book
tickets scan
the QR code
or go online at
kents-cavern.co.uk
01803 215136 | caves@kents-cavern.co.uk
91 Ilsham Road, Torquay, Devon, TQ1 2JF
