Gragareth
Gragareth is a mountain straddling the border between Lancashire and North Yorkshire in England. At 627 metres, its summit is the second-highest point in the post-1974 county of Lancashire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Rowten Pot and Aquamole Pot.
Rowten Pot
Cave
Photo: Goatchurch, Public domain.
Rowten Pot is one of several entrances into the 27-kilometre long cave system that drains Kingsdale in North Yorkshire, England. Its entrance is a shaft some 27 metres long, 10 metres wide, and at the southern end 72 metres deep.
Aquamole Pot
Cave
Aquamole Pot is a limestone cave in West Kingsdale, North Yorkshire, England. It was originally discovered by cave divers who negotiated 168 metres of sump passage from Rowten Pot in 1974, to enter a high aven above the river passage.
Simpson Pot
Cave
Photo: Langcliffe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Named after Eli Simpson, Simpson Pot is a limestone cave in West Kingsdale, North Yorkshire, England. It leads into Swinsto Cave and thence into Kingsdale Master Cave, and it is popular with cavers as it is possible to descend it by abseiling down the pitches, retrieving the rope each time, and exiting through Valley Entrance of Kingsdale Master Cave at the base of the hill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Scar End and Masongill.
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.
Masongill
Hamlet
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Masongill is a small community on the western edge of the county of North Yorkshire, England. The village, in the Yorkshire Dales, lies near the border of Lancashire to the west, and the nearby hamlet of Ireby.
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.
Gragareth
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,060 feet
- Description: mountain in Lancashire, United Kingdom
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Leck, Lancaster, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.20865° or 54° 12′ 31″ northLongitude
-2.48009° or 2° 28′ 48″ westElevation
2,060 feet (628 metres)Open location code
9C6V6G59+FXOpenStreetMap ID
node 31361602OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Ladin—“Gragareth” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Gragareth”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل جراجاريث”
- French: “Gragareth”
- Ladin: “Gragareth”
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