Alum Pot, Yorkshire Dales National Park

Name: Alum Pot
Address: Yorkshire Dales National Park, United Kingdom

#17 among attractions in Yorkshire Dales National Park

Nature, Natural attraction, Cave

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Alum Pot is a pothole with a large open shaft at a surface elevation of 343 metres on the eastern flanks of Simon Fell, North Yorkshire, England. It connects with nearby Long Churn Cave and Diccan Pot. The pot is accessed via a 1-km private track on payment of a small fee from Selside Farm in the hamlet of Selside in Ribblesdale. Alum Pot has variously been known as Allan, Alan, Allen, Hellen and Hell'n. ()

Length: 522 ftDepth: 341 ftCoordinates: 54°10'31"N, 2°20'47"W

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Yorkshire Dales National Park United Kingdom

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Alum Pot – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Gaping Gill, White Scar Cave, Ingleborough, Great Douk Cave.

2.3 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Gaping Gill, Yorkshire Dales National Park
60 min walk • Gaping Gill is a natural cave in North Yorkshire, England. It is one of the unmistakable landmarks on the southern slopes of Ingleborough – a 98-metre deep pothole with the stream Fell Beck flowing into it.
3.9 miW
Natural attraction, Cave, Park
White Scar Cave, Yorkshire Dales National Park
100 min walk • White Scar Caves is a show cave in the civil parish of Ingleton, North Yorkshire, England, under Ingleborough in the Chapel-le-Dale valley of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It is a solutional resurgence cave formed in Carboniferous limestone, some 6 kilometres long.
2.2 miW
Flat-topped peak with fortress ruins
Ingleborough, Settle
56 min walk • Ingleborough is the second-highest mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, England. It is one of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, and is frequently climbed as part of the Three Peaks walk.
1.9 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Great Douk Cave, Yorkshire Dales National Park
49 min walk • Great Douk Cave is a shallow cave system lying beneath the limestone bench of Ingleborough in Chapel-le-Dale, North Yorkshire, England.
3.1 miSW
Natural attraction, Cave, Park
Ingleborough Cave, Yorkshire Dales National Park
78 min walk • Ingleborough Cave is a show cave close to the village of Clapham in North Yorkshire, England adjacent to where the water from Gaping Gill resurges. That part of the cave which is open to the public follows a fossil gallery for some 500 metres. The passage is spacious, and well decorated with stalagmitic formations.
2.6 miN
Bridge
Ribblehead Viaduct, Yorkshire Dales National Park
67 min walk • The Ribblehead Viaduct or Batty Moss Viaduct carries the Settle–Carlisle railway across Batty Moss in the Ribble Valley at Ribblehead, in North Yorkshire, England.
5.2 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Shopping
Ingleton Pottery, Yorkshire Dales National Park
134 min walk • Ingleton Waterfalls Trail is a well-known circular trail beginning and ending in the village of Ingleton in the English county of North Yorkshire, now maintained by the Ingleton Scenery Company.
2.5 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Bar Pot, Yorkshire Dales National Park
63 min walk • Bar Pot is one of the entrances to the Gaping Gill cave system being located about 340 metres south of Gaping Gill Main Shaft, on Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales.
2.4 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Flood Entrance Pot, Yorkshire Dales National Park
63 min walk • Flood Entrance Pot is one of the entrances to the Gaping Gill cave system located about 300 metres south of Gaping Gill Main Shaft.
1.5 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Juniper Gulf, Yorkshire Dales National Park
39 min walk • Juniper Gulf is a pit cave in on the side of Ingleborough in Yorkshire, England. It is a popular single rope technique trip for cavers, especially known for its final 50-metre pitch.
2.4 miNE
Protected area
Ling Gill, Yorkshire Dales National Park
62 min walk • Ling Gill is a gill in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. Cam Beck, a tributary of the River Ribble, flows through the gill. Ling Gill is a rare example of a sub-alpine ash woodland. The site is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a national nature reserve, not open to the public.