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Cave Attractions In Yorkshire

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Yorkshire , formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Due to its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform. Throughout these changes, Yorkshire has continued to be recognised as a geographical territory and cultural region. The name is familiar and well understood across the United Kingdom and is in common use in the media and the military, and also features in the titles of current areas of civil administration such as North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Y...
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Cave Attractions In Yorkshire

  • 1. Stump Cross Caverns Pateley Bridge
    Stump Cross Caverns is a limestone cave system between Wharfedale and Nidderdale in North Yorkshire, England.
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  • 2. White Scar Cave Ingleton
    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. It was first explored in August 1923 by two amateur geologists, Christopher Long and J.H. Churchill, but further discoveries have been made since then including The Battlefield, at 90 metres long it is one of the largest known cave chambers in Great Britain. Originally accessed through a vertical boulder choke, an access tunnel has been cut to include it on the visitor trail. It is open as a show cave, the entrance being from the Ribblehead to Ingleton road on the west of Ingleborough, with tours being run throughout the ye...
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  • 3. Mother Shipton's Cave and The Petrifying Well Knaresborough
    Mother Shipton's Cave is at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England, near to the River Nidd. Nearby is a petrifying well which is the oldest entrance-charging tourist attraction in England, open since 1630. The water of the well is rich in sulphate and carbonate which is deposited as a ramp and screen below, and in which artefacts are petrified as a tourist attraction.The place is associated with the legendary soothsayer and prophetess Mother Shipton , born Ursula Southeil, wife of Toby Shipton. According to legend she was born in the cave. The cave and dropping well, together with other attractions, remain open to visitors and are run by Mother Shipton's Cave Ltd.
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  • 4. Ingleborough Caves Clapham
    Ingleborough is the second-highest mountain in the Yorkshire Dales. It is one of the Yorkshire Three Peaks , and is frequently climbed as part of the Three Peaks walk.
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