Botany Bay
Botany Bay is a locality in Thornton in Lonsdale, Craven District, England. Botany Bay is situated nearby to the locality Raven Ray, as well as near Ullet Gill.Places of Interest
Highlights include Rowten Pot and Simpson 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.
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.
Swinsto Cave
Cave
Swinsto Cave is a limestone cave in West Kingsdale, North Yorkshire, England. It leads into Kingsdale Master Cave and it is popular with cavers as it is possible to descend 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 Chapel-le-Dale.
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 2 miles east of Botany Bay.
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. Ingleton is situated 2½ miles south of Botany Bay.
Botany Bay
Latitude
54.18848° or 54° 11′ 19″ northLongitude
-2.45418° or 2° 27′ 15″ westOpen location code
9C6V5GQW+98OpenStreetMap ID
node 13889468050OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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