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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

evidence:-   perhaps descriptive text:- Balderston c1890
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.
image BLD1P076, button  goto source
page 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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