Ingleborough Cave
Ingleborough Cave is a show cave close to the village of Clapham in North Yorkshire, England, adjacent to where the water from Gaping Gill resurges. That part of the cave that is open to the public follows a fossil gallery for some 500 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Peter Martin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gaping Gill and Bar Pot.
Gaping Gill
Cave
Photo: Bob Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gaping Gill is a natural cave in North Yorkshire, England. It is one of the unmistakable landmarks on the southern slopes of Ingleborough – a 98-metre deep pothole with the stream Fell Beck flowing into it. Gaping Gill is situated 1 mile north of Ingleborough Cave.
Bar Pot
Cave
Photo: Chris Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bar Pot is one of the entrances to the Gaping Gill cave system being located about 340 metres south of Gaping Gill Main Shaft, on Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales. Bar Pot is situated 4,200 feet north of Ingleborough Cave.
Flood Entrance Pot
Cave
Photo: Langcliffe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Flood Entrance Pot is one of the entrances to the Gaping Gill cave system located about 300 metres south of Gaping Gill Main Shaft. It was the first alternative entrance into the main system to be explored, and it is now a popular entrance into the system, with a fine 38-metre pitch landing in Gaping Gill's South-East Passage. Flood Entrance Pot is situated 1 mile north of Ingleborough Cave.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Clapham and Wharfe.
Clapham
Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Clapham is a village in the civil parish of Clapham cum Newby in North Yorkshire, England. It lies within the Yorkshire Dales National Park, 6 miles north-west of Settle, and just off the A65 road.
Wharfe
Hamlet
Photo: Kate Jewell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wharfe is a hamlet about a mile north east of the village of Austwick, North Yorkshire, England. Its postcode is LA2 8DQ. The name means 'The bend', The hamlet is the only settlement in Crummackdale, the upper valley of Austwick Beck. Wharfe is situated 2 miles southeast of Ingleborough Cave.
Feizor
Hamlet
Photo: jim walton, CC BY 3.0.
Feizor is a hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, England. Feizor is situated 3 miles southeast of Ingleborough Cave.
Ingleborough Cave
- Type: Cave
- Description: cave in United Kingdom
- Categories: show cave, tourist attraction, and landform
- Location: Austwick, Craven District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.13508° or 54° 8′ 6″ northLongitude
-2.37774° or 2° 22′ 40″ westElevation
1,322 feet (403 metres)Open location code
9C6V4JPC+2WOpenStreetMap ID
node 1383310653OpenStreetMap feature
attraction=yesOpenStreetMap feature
natural=cave_entranceGeoNames ID
2646209Wikidata ID
Q1663064
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Ingleborough Cave” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Ingleborough Cave”
- Dutch: “Ingleborough Cave”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كهف انجليبورو”
- French: “Ingleborough Cave”
- German: “Ingelborough Cave”
- German: “Ingleborough Cave”
- Swedish: “Ingleborough Cave”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ingleborough Cave”. Photo: Peter Martin, CC BY-SA 2.0.