Ingleborough
Ingleborough is the second-highest mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, England. It is one of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, and is frequently climbed as part of the Three Peaks walk.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mick Melvin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gaping Gill and Great Douk Cave.
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.
Great Douk Cave
Cave
Photo: John Illingworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Douk Cave is a shallow cave system lying beneath the limestone bench of Ingleborough in Chapel-le-Dale, North Yorkshire, England. It is popular with beginners and escorted groups, as it offers straightforward caving, and it is possible to follow the cave from where a stream emerges at a small waterfall to a second entrance close to where it sinks 600 yards further up the hill.
Disappointment Pot
Cave
Photo: Petemonk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Disappointment Pot is one of the entrances to the Gaping Gill cave system, located in a steep grassy shakehole some 120 metres south-east of Gaping Gill Main Shaft.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chapel-le-Dale and Scar End.
Chapel-le-Dale
Hamlet
Chapel-le-Dale is a hamlet in the civil parish of Ingleton, North Yorkshire, England. It is in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in a valley of the same name, and was previously in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Scar End
Hamlet
Scar End is a settlement on the side of Twisleton Scar in the English county of North Yorkshire. This Scar itself is the end of a spur running westwards from Whernside, one of the Three Peaks, towards Ingleton, North Yorkshire, and the beds of limestone project to a height of 120 metres above sea level.
Selside
Hamlet
Photo: Andy Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Selside is a small village in Ribblesdale in North Yorkshire, England. It lies 2 miles north west of Horton in Ribblesdale. Selside was mentioned, in the form Selesat, in the Domesday Book, when it was held by Roger of Poitou.
Ingleborough
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,372 feet
- Description: mountain in the United Kingdom
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Ingleton, Craven District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.16629° or 54° 9′ 59″ northLongitude
-2.39787° or 2° 23′ 52″ westElevation
2,372 feet (723 metres)Open location code
9C6V5J82+GVOpenStreetMap ID
node 249351568OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Western Panjabi—“Ingleborough” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Инглебороугх”
- Cebuano: “Ingleborough”
- Chinese: “英格尔伯勒”
- Chinese: “英格爾伯勒”
- Dutch: “Ingleborough”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل اينجليبوروج”
- French: “Ingleborough”
- German: “Ingleborough”
- Ladin: “Ingleborough”
- Russian: “Инглборо”
- Swedish: “Ingleborough”
- Western Panjabi: “انگلبرا”
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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”. Photo: Mick Melvin, CC BY-SA 2.0.