Kents Cavern
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🏆Award-winning attraction, events & café
👣Stone Age home to Neanderthals
🌎UNESCO Global Geopark Shop and restaurant open daily. Great place to relax.
Prehistoric caverns, on the South Devon coast, open to the public and part of the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark. Regular tours throughout the day.
POV: You're 6 years old and having the best day of your life 🦖✨
Towering dinosaurs, giant skeletons, and an underground adventure through one of Britain's most ancient caves... what's not to love?
The Age of the Dinosaurs exhibition is included with our brand-new Cave Entry ticket, launching next week!
Keep your eyes on our socials for more updates, sneak peeks, and exciting news coming soon. 👀
Today we asked Quinn a very important question...
🦖 What's your favourite dinosaur?
As one of our tour guides, Quinn spends a lot of time surrounded by prehistoric giants, so he definitely has a few to choose from. Watch to find out which dinosaur tops his list and why.
Now it's your turn... what's YOUR favourite dinosaur? Let us know in the comments below 👇
07/06/2026
🌍 As Cave Week comes to a close, we're taking a moment to celebrate the incredible underground worlds that exist beneath our feet.
Caves are more than just rock formations. They preserve stories spanning hundreds of thousands of years, protect unique ecosystems, and help us better understand the people, animals, and environments that came before us.
Here at Kent's Cavern, those stories are written into every passageway and chamber. From Ice Age animals to some of Britain's earliest human ancestors, our cave has been helping uncover the story of humanity for generations.
This Cave Week, we've celebrated caves across the UK and beyond, but the work of protecting and preserving these remarkable places continues every day.
Here's to our cave heritage, the discoveries still waiting to be made, and the generations who will explore them in the future. 🦴⛰️💚
Have you visited a cave before? Let us know your favourite below ⬇️
🌍 Happy World Environment Day 🌍
When we think about protecting the environment, we often picture forests, oceans, and wildlife. But beneath our feet lies another fragile world that needs protecting too.
For thousands of years, Kents Cavern has preserved the stories of ancient humans, Ice Age animals, and the natural forces that shaped our planet. As a UNESCO Global Geopark site, protecting this incredible cave system isn't just about preserving the past – it's about ensuring future generations can experience, learn from, and be inspired by it.
Every visit, every conservation effort, and every step taken to protect our natural heritage helps safeguard these remarkable spaces for years to come.
This World Environment Day, we're celebrating the importance of preserving not only the world above ground, but the hidden wonders beneath it too.
🌿 Protect the planet. Preserve our heritage. Inspire the future.
04/06/2026
🥉 We're incredibly proud to announce that Kent's Cavern has been awarded Bronze in the International Tourism category at the VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2026.
This award is a reflection of the passion, dedication and hard work of every single member of our team. From our guides and visitor experience staff to our café team, cleaners, maintenance team, office staff and everyone behind the scenes, this achievement belongs to all of them.
We'd also like to extend a huge thank you to our partners, supporters, local tourism businesses and, of course, the hundreds of thousands of visitors who choose to spend their time exploring our cave each year. Your support allows us to continue sharing this extraordinary place with people from across the globe.
To be recognised on a national stage alongside some of the very best tourism attractions in the country is a tremendous honour, and we're grateful to everyone who has played a part in our journey.
Here's to continuing to welcome visitors from around the world to one of Britain's most important prehistoric sites. ❤️
🧀 Happy Cheese Day!
We know Kents Cavern is 400 million years old, home to Ice Age animals and some of Britain's earliest humans...
But today we're asking the important questions.
"What is this?"
"Cheese."
If all this talk of cheese has made you hungry, you'll find plenty of it in our gift shop and on the menu at Firestone Kitchen.
🦖 Shadows from a lost world.
Everything we know about dinosaurs comes from clues left behind millions of years ago. Fossils, footprints and fragments of bone help us piece together creatures we'll never see with our own eyes.
Watching these dinosaur shadows dance across the cave walls feels like a glimpse into that distant past, where imagination meets discovery.
Step into the Age of the Dinosaurs at Kents Cavern and come face to face with prehistoric giants hidden throughout the caves.
🎟 Included with standard cave admission.
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Ever wondered what it’s like to walk around Kents Cavern in complete darkness?
Well now’s your chance.
Join us for a full guided tour through the caves with absolutely no lights whatsoever…
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30/05/2026
Small dinosaur. Big attitude. 🦖
Meet Compsognathus Longipes, one of the smallest dinosaurs ever discovered. Living around 150 million years ago during the Late Jurassic period, this fast little carnivore may have been tiny, but it was still a skilled hunter.
Could you imagine coming face-to-face with one of these? 👀
Discover more prehistoric giants and tiny terrors at Kent’s Cavern this summer.
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27/05/2026
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our brand new Explorer Ticket self-guided experience over the bank holiday weekend! 🦕✨
It was fantastic seeing so many people exploring the caves at their own pace, discovering the stories, history, and adventure hidden underground.
The weekend was a huge success and we loved every moment of it. Keep your eyes on this space… there’s plenty more exploring still to come 👀
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Ilsham Road
Torquay
TQ12JF
Opening Hours
| Monday | 10am - 4pm |
| Tuesday | 10am - 4pm |
| Wednesday | 10am - 4pm |
| Thursday | 10am - 4pm |
| Friday | 10am - 4pm |
| Saturday | 10am - 4pm |
| Sunday | 10am - 4pm |