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Mossdale Caverns is a cave system in the Yorkshire Dales, England. It is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of Grassington , and east of Conistone , where Mossdale Beck sinks at the base of Mossdale Scar.
Map: Biller Howe Dale 85.0 210.1 1983 Map: Birkham Wood 28.2 69.6 1988 Map: Birks Fell Caves 85.5 211.2 1989 Map: Birkwith Caves and Fell 178.4 440.8 1988 Map: Bishop Monkton Ings: 38.8 95.9 1986 Map: Black Keld Catchment 1401.3 3461.2 1999 Map: Black Scar Quarry 1.1 2.8
Robert Dove Leakey (23 June 1914 – 22 April 2013) was a British inventor, potholer and cave diver. He has been described as the "Edmund Hillary of potholing".He stood for Parliament in 2005 and 2010; he is thought to be the oldest candidate ever in a UK general election, shortly before his 96th birthday in May 2010.
Major incidents which have occurred in the area for which the Association is responsible include the Mossdale Caverns incident in 1967 during which six cavers drowned when the system suffered catastrophic flooding, [7] and an incident in Sleets Gill Cave in 1992 when rising water levels required two trapped cavers to be dived out through 200 m ...
The deepest cave in Northern Ireland is Reyfad Pot in County Fermanagh, 193 metres (633 ft) deep. A sea cave on the north side of Calder's Geo in Shetland was measured in 2014 at over 20 metres (66 ft) high and with a floor area of around 5,600 square metres (60,000 sq ft). This makes it the largest known cave chamber in the United Kingdom. [4] [5]
Located at 6031-6871 North Cave River Valley Road in Campbellsburg. Lawrence County: Spring Mill State Park's gristmill and Pioneer Village Visitors head over the bridge in the Pioneer Village at ...
Jim Eyre (1925–2008) was a British caver, known for being one of the first European cavers to explore the caves of Asia. [1] In 1946 in Lancaster , Eyre helped to found the Red Rose Cave and Pot Hole Club, where he was prominent in the earliest exploration of the Ease Gill Caverns .
Mossdale memorial cairn. Water exiting from Priest's Tarn flows south firstly through Crag Grainings and then into Blea Beck. Water was canalised here to feed the dams of the Grassington Moor lead industry. [3] The water flows to Grimwith Reservoir, some 5.3 kilometres (3.3 mi) to the south-east of the tarn, which feeds into the River Wharfe. [4]