The West Wycombe Caves are a series of caves excavated between 1740 and 1750 by Sir Francis Dashwood to provide unemployed farm workers with jobs, and chalk to build a main road between Wycombe and High Wycombe. It is said that Sir Dashwood held meetings of the notorious "Hellfire Club" in the caves, which was made up of prominent members of society. The club had an infamous reputation for orgies, debauchery and devil worship. Legend also has it that a woman named Sukie, a chamber maid, had gone to meet her lover in the caves, dressed in a white wedding dress, but in a cruel practical joke she found a group of local lads there instead, and was stoned to death. Her ghost is said to haunt the caves. It is also said that the caves are haunted by Sir Paul Whitehead, who acted as the Steward of the Club. As a devoted member his last will and testament was that his heart be placed in an urn at the Dashwood Mausoleum. However in 1829 it was apparently stolen by an Australian soldier, and Whitehead is said to haunt the caves waiting for his heart to be returned.