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On 31 May 1941, while searching for a fallen tobacco pipe, Leakey found an entrance which led to the subsequent exploration of Mossdale Caverns. [ 3 ] It is a very challenging cave system prone to flooding, with many passages involving long wet crawls while other sections can be neck-deep in water; many of Leakey's explorations were conducted ...
Visitors can try caving at one of the show caves: White Scar Cave, Ingleborough Cave or Stump Cross Caverns near Greenhow. [48] The systems include: Gaping Gill System [49] Alum Pot System [50] Mossdale Caverns [51] Leck Fell Caves [52] Easegill System [53] White Scar Caves in Chapel-le-Dale near Ingleton [54] Ingleborough Cave [55] in Clapdale ...
While working as an aircraft designer in the Second World War, a reserved occupation, he discovered the 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) long Mossdale Caverns north of Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales. [1] He was called up for military service in 1942, the year after his brother Nigel was killed in action, and served as a paratrooper in India and Burma.
The village is set in characteristic limestone scenery, including Mossdale Caverns, the dry gorge of Conistone Dib and the limestone outcrop of Conistone Pie. [4] Above the Dib the Dales Way path connects Kettlewell, to its north, and Grassington, to its south, providing distant views over Wharfedale. [5]
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]
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 ...
During the Second World War, Bob Leakey discovered the 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) long Mossdale Caverns north of Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales. After the war, Graham Balcombe formed the Cave Diving Group in 1946. [10] The Cave Research Group of Great Britain separated from BSA in 1948. [8]
Jim Eyre (second left) outside County Pot in 1955 during the early exploration of Ease Gill Caverns. Jim Eyre (1925–2008) was a British caver, known for being one of the first European cavers to explore the caves of Asia. [1]