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Ease Gill Caverns

Cave system in Britain

Cave system in Britain

FieldValue
nameEase Gill Cave System
photoEaster Grotto Easgill.JPG
photo_captionEaster Grotto
locationCumbria, UK
grid_ref_UKSD 6640 8072
elevation294 m
depth137 m
length66000 m
discovery1946
geologyLimestone
entrance_count10
coordinates
mapUnited Kingdom Yorkshire Dales
survey[cavemaps.org](http://cavemaps.org/cavePages/Ease%20Gill__Lancaster%20Hole.htm)

The Ease Gill Cave System is the longest, and most complex cave system in Britain as of 2011, with around 41 mi of passages, including connections only passable by cave diving. It spans the valley between Leck Fell and Casterton Fell. The water resurges into Leck Beck.

The first-discovered entrance, Lancaster Hole, was found by George Cornes and Bill Taylor on 29 September 1946. A small draughting opening on Casterton Fell, Cumbria, opened immediately onto a 110 ft shaft. Passages from the base of the shaft were explored over the succeeding weeks and months by members of the British Speleological Association, including Jim Eyre. The underground course of the Ease Gill (the local master cave) and high-level fossil passages above it were found and followed upstream to a series of complex inlet passages. In succeeding years, these have been connected to surface caves, including Top Sinks, County Pot and Pool Sink.

The cave passages adjoining the Ease Gill main streamway were connected to Link Pot and Pippikin Pot in 1978, and Pippikin was itself connected to Lost Johns' Cave by diving in 1989.

With its many entrances, the Ease Gill system offers cavers a wide variety of through trips; the Ease Gill streamway is regarded as one of the finest in the UK.

Entrances

Entrances include:

  • Top Sink
  • Pool Sink
  • The Borehole
  • Slit Sinks
  • Wretched Rabbit
  • Corner Sink
  • County Pot
  • Cow Dubs II
  • Cow Pot
  • Lancaster Hole
  • Link Pot
  • Mistral Hole
  • Pippikin Pot
  • Bull Pot of the Witches

References

Bibliography

References

  1. [http://cavingnews.com/20111107-three-counties-system-connects-to-create-uks-first-100-kilometre-cave-system Three Counties System Connects to Create UK’s First 100 Kilometre Cave System] {{Webarchive. link. (16 January 2013 Caving News, 7 November 2011)
  2. [http://www.rrcpc.org.uk/easegill/index.htm Lancaster-Ease Gill Cave System] Red Rose Cave & Pothole Club, Lancaster 2013
  3. [http://www.ukcaves.co.uk/cave-easegill Three Counties System.] UK Caves Database, Mark Wilton-Jones, 2018
  4. [http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/arb/yorkshire/easegill.html Yorkshire Cave Areas: Easegill] not dated, Dundee Satellite Receiving Station, Dundee University
  5. "Leck Beck Head Catchment Area".
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