Skirwith Cave
Skirwith Cave is a major resurgence solutional cave on Ingleborough in Chapel-le-Dale, North Yorkshire, England; it was a show cave between 1964 and 1974.Photo: Snebbit, Public domain.
- Access is restricted and requires permission.
- Type: Cave
- Description: Cave in North Yorkshire, England
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include White Scar Caves and Beezley Falls.
White Scar Caves
White Scar Caves is a show cave in the civil parish of Ingleton, North Yorkshire, England, under Ingleborough in the Chapel-le-Dale valley of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. White Scar Caves is situated 2,600 feet north of Skirwith Cave.Beezley Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Steve Fareham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beezley Falls is a waterfall, which is situated 3,500 feet northwest of Skirwith Cave.
Ingleton Viaduct
Bridge
Photo: Peter Bond, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ingleton railway station was one of two stations serving the village of Ingleton, North Yorkshire, England. It was originally open for just ten months between 1849 and 1850, and did not reopen until 1861. Ingleton Viaduct is situated 1 mile west of Skirwith Cave.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ingleton and Scar End.
Ingleton
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ingleton is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The village is 17 miles from Kendal and 17 miles from Lancaster on the western side of the Pennines.
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.
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. Chapel-le-Dale is situated 2½ miles northeast of Skirwith Cave.
Skirwith Cave
- Categories: solutional cave and landform
- Location: Ingleton, Craven District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.1588° or 54° 9′ 32″ northLongitude
-2.44629° or 2° 26′ 47″ westOpen location code
9C6V5H53+GFOpenStreetMap ID
node 12530346010OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cave_entranceWikidata ID
Q20128088
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In Other Languages
“Skirwith Cave” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “سكيرويث كهف”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كهف سكيرويث”
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