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| Big Meanie, Lancashire | ||
| Big Meanie | ||
| Hawthorn Pot | ||
| Nostril Pot | ||
| site name:- | Gragareth | |
| county:- | Lancashire | |
| locality type:- | pothole | |
| locality type:- | cave | |
| coordinates:- | SD667791 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD6679 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD67 | |
| altitude:- | 1100 feet | |
| altitude:- | 335m | |
| SummaryText:- | Explored by Manchester University Speleological Society and Happy Wanderers Cave and Pothole Club, 1971 | |
| SummaryText:- | Grade IV; permission from the Council for Northern Caving Clubs. | |
| references:- | Brook, D & Davies, G & Long, M H &Sutcliffe, J R: 1975: Northern Caves, vol.4 Whernside
and Gragareth: Dalesman Books:: ISBN 0 85206 259 1 |
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| evidence:- | perhaps descriptive text:- Balderston c1890 |
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| source data:- | Book, Ingleton, Bygone and Present, by Robert R and Margaret
Balderston, published by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, and
by Edmndson and Co, 24 High Street, Skipton, Yorkshire, about
1890. goto sourcepage 76:- "..." "... Turning to the west of Greygareth, there is a very fine and symmetrical shakehole close to the north side of Navel Pot, one hundred and fourteen yards round, with sixty feet the average length of the steep slopes, and with an ash tree nearly fifty feet high growing in the bottom." |
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