Yorkshire cave areas: Leck Fell

• Ireby Fell Cavern, with pitches named from a nursery rhyme: Ding, Dong, Bell, Pussy and Well. The pitches are technically easy and not too deep, and the bottom contains some nice rift passage and the beautiful Duke Street with its wide scalloped ceiling, making this a popular trip.
  • Photograph of passage off Duke Street at bottom
• Marble Steps Pot
  • Photograph of entrance rift
  • Photograph of first pitch above rebelay
  • Photograph of first pitch below deviation
  • Photograph of first pitch below deviation
  • Photograph of main chamber
• New Rift Pot and Large Pot are two that are connected at the bottom by a muddy duck, making for fun exchange trips!
• Lost John's is a complex cave and has three major routes down making it a good trip for larger groups. All three meet for a hairy traverse called BattleAxe leading out over the Valhalla pitch head to avoid the roaring torrent. Unfortunately loose boulder slopes at the bottom make exploring the further reaches more risky.
• Notts Pot, another complex cave, connected via sumps to Ireby Fell Cavern and Lost John's.
• Rumbling Hole, a large entrance but with a tight connection at the bottom to Lost John's
• Lost Pot, another connection to the Lost John's system.
• Boxhead Pot, named in memory of Alan Box, is a new entrance on the fell which connects through a rather wet tube at the bottom to Lost John's. The pot was bolted up from the bottom and found to be so near to the surface that, with a little help, the action of winter floods opened it up to daylight.

Access

Permits are required. For details please see the Leck Fell web page.

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