Ireby Main Sink
Ireby Main Sink is a cave in Leck, Lancaster, England. Ireby Main Sink is situated nearby to the cave Ireby 0.5, as well as near Ireby Fell Cavern.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ireby Fell Cavern and Notts Pot.
Ireby Fell Cavern
Cave
Ireby Fell Cavern is a cave system on Ireby Fell, Lancashire, England, near the border with North Yorkshire. It is a segment of the Three Counties System, linking the Rift Pot system to the south with Notts Pot to the north.
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 1,700 feet northwest of Ireby Main Sink.
Boxhead Pot
Cave
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 3,400 feet north of Ireby Main Sink.
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.
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 2 miles southeast of Ireby Main Sink.
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 3 miles southeast of Ireby Main Sink.
Ireby Main Sink
- Type: Cave
- Category: landform
- Location: Leck, Lancaster, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.1908° or 54° 11′ 27″ northLongitude
-2.50165° or 2° 30′ 6″ westOpen location code
9C6V5FRX+88OpenStreetMap ID
node 6919211108OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cave_entrance
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