Ease Gill Caverns, Yorkshire Dales National Park

Name: Ease Gill Caverns
Address: Yorkshire Dales National Park, United Kingdom

#109 among attractions in Yorkshire Dales National Park

Nature, Natural attraction, Cave

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The Ease Gill Cave System is the longest, and most complex cave system in Britain as of 2011, with around 41 miles 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. ()

Discovered: 1946Length: 41.01 miDepth: 449 ftCoordinates: 54°13'16"N, 2°31'0"W

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Yorkshire Dales National Park United Kingdom

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Ease Gill Caverns – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Three Counties System, Death's Head Hole, Rumbling Hole, Short Drop Cave - Gavel Pot System.

1.1 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Three Counties System, Yorkshire Dales National Park
27 min walk • The Three Counties System is a set of inter-connected limestone solutional cave systems spanning the borders of Cumbria, Lancashire and North Yorkshire in the north of England.
1 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Death's Head Hole, Yorkshire Dales National Park
26 min walk • Death's Head Hole is a cave on Leck Fell, in Lancashire, England. Its entrance is a 64-metre deep shaft. It leads into Lost Johns' Cave and is part of the Three Counties System, an 87-kilometre cave system which spans the borders of Cumbria, Lancashire, and North Yorkshire.
1.1 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Rumbling Hole, Yorkshire Dales National Park
29 min walk • Rumbling Hole is a cave on Leck Fell, in Lancashire, England. Its entrance is a 50-metre deep fenced shaft, and it rapidly descends a series of pitches to a low aqueous passage that has been connected to Lost Johns' Cave.
1.2 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Short Drop Cave - Gavel Pot System, Yorkshire Dales National Park
30 min walk • Short Drop Cave and Gavel Pot are different entrances into the same cave system on Leck Fell, in Lancashire, England. The main top entrance, Short Drop Cave, is a small hole in a fenced off shakehole near the main stream sink; Gavel Pot, a window into the system, is a large fenced shakehole some 40-metre deep requiring tackle to descend.
1 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Long Drop Cave, Yorkshire Dales National Park
27 min walk • Long Drop Cave is a cave on Leck Fell, in Lancashire, England. It leads into Death's Head Hole, and is part of the Three Counties System, an 87-kilometre cave system which spans the borders of Cumbria, Lancashire, and North Yorkshire.
0.7 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Leck Fell, Yorkshire Dales National Park
18 min walk • Leck Fell is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Lancashire, England. An area of typically heavily grazed open moorland of rough grass and remnant patches of heather with little or no tree cover, it is characterised by the virtual absence of surface drainage and an...

Ease Gill Caverns, Yorkshire Dales National Park

Facts and practical information

Yorkshire Dales National Park plan & book

Ease Gill Caverns – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Three Counties System, Yorkshire Dales National Park

Death's Head Hole, Yorkshire Dales National Park

Rumbling Hole, Yorkshire Dales National Park

Short Drop Cave - Gavel Pot System, Yorkshire Dales National Park

Long Drop Cave, Yorkshire Dales National Park

Leck Fell, Yorkshire Dales National Park