Great Douk Cave, Yorkshire Dales National Park

Name: Great Douk Cave
Address: Yorkshire Dales National Park, United Kingdom

#4 among attractions in Yorkshire Dales National Park

Nature, Natural attraction, Cave, Top attraction

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Great Douk Cave, Yorkshire Dales National Park

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Great Douk Cave is a shallow cave system lying beneath the limestone bench of Ingleborough in Chapel-le-Dale, North Yorkshire, England. It is popular with beginners and escorted groups, as it offers straightforward caving, and it is possible to follow the cave from where a stream emerges at a small waterfall to a second entrance close to where it sinks 600 yards further up the hill. It lies within the Ingleborough Site of Special Scientific Interest. ()

Discovered: 1936Length: 2999 ftCoordinates: 54°11'15"N, 2°23'19"W

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Yorkshire Dales National Park United Kingdom

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Great Douk Cave – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Gaping Gill, White Scar Cave, Ingleborough, Ribblehead Viaduct.

2.6 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Gaping Gill, Yorkshire Dales National Park
68 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.
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White Scar Cave, Yorkshire Dales National Park
67 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.
1.5 miS
Flat-topped peak with fortress ruins
Ingleborough, Settle
39 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.
1.7 miNE
Bridge
Ribblehead Viaduct, Yorkshire Dales National Park
45 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.
2.9 miS
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Bar Pot, Yorkshire Dales National Park
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Whernside, Yorkshire Dales National Park
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1.9 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Alum Pot, Yorkshire Dales National Park
49 min walk • 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.
2.8 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Flood Entrance Pot, Yorkshire Dales National Park
72 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.
2.9 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Yordas Cave, Yorkshire Dales National Park
75 min walk • Yordas Cave is a solutional cave in Kingsdale, North Yorkshire, England. It has been renowned since the eighteenth century as a natural curiosity, and was a show cave during the nineteenth century.
2.5 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Juniper Gulf, Yorkshire Dales National Park
64 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.
2.8 miN
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Yorkshire Three Peaks, Yorkshire Dales National Park
73 min walk • The mountains of Whernside, Ingleborough and Pen-y-ghent are collectively known as the Three Peaks.