Long Drop Cave

Long Drop Cave is a cave on Leck Fell, in Lancashire, England. It leads into Death's Head Hole, and is part of the Three Counties System, an 87-kilometre cave system which spans the borders of Cumbria, Lancashire, and North Yorkshire.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Rumbling Hole and Death’s Head Hole.

Rumbling Hole

Cave

Rumbling Hole is a cave on Leck Fell, in Lancashire, England. Its entrance is a 50-metre deep fenced shaft, and it rapidly descends a series of pitches to a low aqueous passage that has been connected to Lost Johns' Cave. Rumbling Hole is situated 510 feet southeast of Long Drop Cave.

Death’s Head Hole

Cave

Photo: Langcliffe, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Death's Head Hole is a cave on Leck Fell, in Lancashire, England. Its entrance is a 64-metre deep shaft. It leads into Lost Johns' Cave and is part of the Three Counties System, an 87-kilometre cave system which spans the borders of Cumbria, Lancashire, and North Yorkshire. Death’s Head Hole is situated 620 feet west of Long Drop Cave.

Lost Johns’ Cave

Cave

Photo: Goatchurch, Public domain.

Lost Johns' Cave is an extensive cave system on Leck Fell, Lancashire, England. With its three major vertical routes it is a popular place to practise single-rope technique because of the opportunity for exchange trips. Lost Johns’ Cave is situated 1,800 feet south of Long Drop Cave.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Masongill and Scar End.

Masongill

Hamlet

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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. Masongill is situated 2½ miles south of Long Drop Cave.

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. Scar End is situated 3 miles southeast of Long Drop Cave.

Kirkby Lonsdale

Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Kirkby Lonsdale is a town in Cumbria in northwest England, with a population of 2000 in 2021. It's best known for Devil's Bridge, the ancient crossing over the River Lune.

Long Drop Cave

Type: Cave
Description: cave in northern England
Category: landform
Location: Leck, Lancaster, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.2073° or 54° 12′ 26″ north

Longitude

-2.50772° or 2° 30′ 28″ west

Open location code

9C6V6F4R+WW

OpenStreetMap ID

node 6919205083

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=cave_entrance

Wikidata ID

Q20709524

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In Other Languages

“Long Drop Cave” goes by many names.

Egyptian Arabic: “كهف السقوط الطويل”

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Highlights include Humble Pot and Bumbling Hole.

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