Boxhead Pot, Yorkshire Dales National Park

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

#61 among attractions in Yorkshire Dales National Park

Nature, Natural attraction, Cave

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Boxhead Pot is a cave on Leck Fell, in Lancashire, England. It leads into the top end of Lost Johns' Cave, and is part of the Three Counties System, an 87 kilometres cave system which spans the borders of Cumbria, Lancashire, and North Yorkshire. ()

Discovered: 1994Length: 33 ftDepth: 344 ftCoordinates: 54°12'0"N, 2°30'20"W

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Yorkshire Dales National Park United Kingdom

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

Nearby attractions include: Gragareth, Lost Pot, Lost Johns' Cave, Three Counties System.

1.2 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Gragareth, Yorkshire Dales National Park
31 min walk • Gragareth is a mountain straddling the border between Lancashire and North Yorkshire in England. At 627 metres, its summit is the second highest point in the post-1974 county of Lancashire.
~160 ftNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Lost Pot, Yorkshire Dales National Park
1 min walk • Lost Pot is a cave on Leck Fell, in Lancashire, England. It leads into the top end of Lost Johns' Cave, and is part of the Three Counties System, an 87 kilometres cave system which spans the borders of Cumbria, Lancashire, and North Yorkshire.
~930 ftN
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Lost Johns' Cave, Yorkshire Dales National Park
5 min walk • Lost Johns' Cave is an extensive cave system on Leck Fell, Lancashire, England. With its three major vertical routes it is a popular place to practise single-rope technique because of the opportunity for exchange trips.
0.5 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Three Counties System, Yorkshire Dales National Park
13 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.
0.5 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Death's Head Hole, Yorkshire Dales National Park
14 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.
0.7 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Ireby Fell Cavern, Yorkshire Dales National Park
17 min walk • Ireby Fell Cavern is a cave system on Ireby Fell, Lancashire, England, near the border with North Yorkshire. It is a segment of the Three Counties System, linking the Rift Pot system to the south with Notts Pot to the north.
~1860 ftS
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Notts Pot, Yorkshire Dales National Park
9 min walk • Notts Pot is cave system on Leck Fell, Lancashire, England. It is described as 'the most concentrated vertical maze in Britain'.
0.5 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Rumbling Hole, Yorkshire Dales National Park
12 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.
~1890 ftN
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Short Drop Cave - Gavel Pot System, Yorkshire Dales National Park
10 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.
0.5 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Long Drop Cave, Yorkshire Dales National Park
14 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.
0.8 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Leck Fell, Yorkshire Dales National Park
22 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...

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Which popular attractions are close to Boxhead Pot?

Nearby attractions include Lost Pot, Yorkshire Dales National Park (1 min walk), Lost Johns' Cave, Yorkshire Dales National Park (5 min walk), Notts Pot, Yorkshire Dales National Park (9 min walk), Short Drop Cave - Gavel Pot System, Yorkshire Dales National Park (10 min walk).

Boxhead Pot, Yorkshire Dales National Park

Facts and practical information

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

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