Perilous Pot

Perilous Pot is a cave in Leck, Lancaster, England. Perilous Pot is situated nearby to the cave Excellent Pot, as well as near (Get Down) Shep Pot.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Notts Pot and Boxhead Pot.

Notts Pot

Cave

Notts Pot is cave system on Leck Fell, Lancashire, England. It is described as 'the most concentrated vertical maze in Britain'. Notts Pot is situated 440 feet south of Perilous Pot.

Boxhead Pot is a cave on Leck Fell, in Lancashire, England. It leads into the top end of Lost Johns' Cave, and is part of the Three Counties System, an 87 kilometres cave system which spans the borders of Cumbria, Lancashire, and North Yorkshire. Boxhead Pot is situated 1,400 feet north of Perilous Pot.

Lost Pot

Cave

Lost Pot is a cave on Leck Fell, in Lancashire, England. It leads into the top end of Lost Johns' Cave, and is part of the Three Counties System, an 87 kilometres cave system which spans the borders of Cumbria, Lancashire, and North Yorkshire. Lost Pot is situated 1,500 feet north of Perilous Pot.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Masongill and Scar End.

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. Masongill is situated 1½ miles south of Perilous Pot.

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 2½ miles southeast of Perilous Pot.

Ingleton

Village

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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 3½ miles southeast of Perilous Pot.

Perilous Pot

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

54.1961° or 54° 11′ 46″ north

Longitude

-2.50581° or 2° 30′ 21″ west

Open location code

9C6V5FWV+CM

OpenStreetMap ID

node 6919211100

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=cave_entrance

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