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By the latter years of the 19th century, caving was established as a sport in the British Isles but remained largely the preserve of a very few adventurers and scientists. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] One of the oldest established clubs, Yorkshire Ramblers' Club , was founded in 1892 and began exploring the Marble Arch Caves from 1907. [ 7 ]
The longest cave system in the UK is the Three Counties System in the Yorkshire Dales, with 86.7 km (53.9 mi) of passageways.It includes the Ease Gill system, the Notts Pot / Ireby Fell Cavern system, the Lost Johns' Cave system, and the Pippikin Pot system, all of which are connected.
Penelope Powell (14 October 1904 - 1 October 1965) was a pioneering cave diver.She was Diver No. 2 for the first successful cave dive using breathing equipment in Britain [1] at Wookey Hole Caves in the Mendip Hills, Somerset on 18 August 1935.
The Yorkshire Subterranean Society is a caving club based at Helwith Bridge near Horton in Ribblesdale in the Yorkshire Dales. The Yorkshire Subterranean Society is more commonly known as the YSS. The YSS organises regular Caving and Walking meets to the Yorkshire Dales twice a month and other UK Caving areas through the year.
Great Douk Cave is a shallow cave system lying beneath the limestone bench of Ingleborough in Chapel-le-Dale, North Yorkshire, England.It is popular with beginners and escorted groups, as it offers straightforward caving, and it is possible to follow the cave from where a stream emerges at a small waterfall to a second entrance close to where it sinks 600 yards (549 m) further up the hill.
Later work led by Edgar Kingsley Tratman explored the human occupation of Rhinoceros Hole, [40] and showed that the fourth chamber of the great cave was a Romano-British cemetery. [41] [42] During excavations in 1954–1957 at Hole Ground, just outside the entrance to the cave, the foundations of a 1st-century hut and Iron Age pottery were seen ...
Langcliffe Pot is a cave system on the slopes of Great Whernside in Upper Wharfedale, about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) SSE of Kettlewell in North Yorkshire.It is part of the Black Keld Site of Special Scientific Interest where the "underground drainage system which feeds the stream resurgence at Black Keld is one of the largest and deepest in Britain, although only a small proportion of its cave ...
Gaping Gill (also known as Gaping Ghyll) is a natural cave in North Yorkshire, England.It is one of the unmistakable landmarks on the southern slopes of Ingleborough – a 98-metre (322 ft) deep pothole with the stream Fell Beck flowing into it. [3]