Yorkshire cave areas: West Kingsdale

• Bull Pot, five pitches with little horizontal development lead to a sump. A bit of fun for a Sunday trip or for novices.
• Jingling Pot, a single open shaft of 45m, with an interesting underground route to the bottom called Lateral Cleft. Rigging the belay from a tree which overhangs the shaft provides for an interesting ascent when it can be heard creaking!
  • Jingling entrance
  • Jingling entrance
• Rowten Pot, a classic Yorkshire pot with a big open shaft. Linked to Valley Entrance by three short, free-diveable sumps (given a suitable mentality).
  • Rowten entrance
• Yordas Cave is often visited by the public as it has a large walk-in entrance but a traverse during floods can show a different character.
• Valley Entrance, popular with novices as it has only a single small pitch into the Kingsdale Master Cave. The duck near the entrance seems to be lower now than in previous years but the Master Cave can still contain dangerous undercurrents into the sump.
  • Exiting the duck.
• Simpsons Pot and Swinsto Pot, join Valley Entrance at the bottom in the Kingsdale Master Cave. They are popular pull-through trips but the advent of bolted SRT routes disguises the fact that they are still pots to be respected.

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