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  2. Mossdale Caverns - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Conistone - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Yorkshire Dales - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Langcliffe Pot - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Bob Leakey - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Caving in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. List of UK caving fatalities - Wikipedia

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    Porth yr Ogof – the scene of 11 fatalities. The following is a list of the 137 identified recorded fatalities associated with recreational caving in the UK. The main causes of death have been drowning when cave diving, drowning as the result of flooding or negotiating deep water, injuries incurred from falling from a height, and injuries incurred as the result of rock falls.