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Juniper Gulf, North Yorkshire
Juniper Gulf
county:-   North Yorkshire
locality type:-   cave
locality type:-   pothole
coordinates:-   SD765733
1Km square:-   SD7673
10Km square:-   SD77
SummaryText:-   Entrance descended by Yorkshire Ramblers Club, 1905; explored by the Gritstone Club, 1924.
SummaryText:-   Grade IV; parts impassable after heavy rain.
references:-   Brook, A & Brook, D & Davies, G M &Long, M H: 1975: Northern Caves, vol.3 Ingleborough: Dalesman Books (Clapham, North Yorkshire):: ISBN 0 85206 312 1
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Balderston c1890
placename:-  Juniper Gulf
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.
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page 52:-  "..."
"Juniper Gulf."
"In the same allotment, but further to the north-east, a stream enters a frightful rift, on the edges of which are a few stunted bushes of juniper. The main fall does not enter this abyss at the absolute brink, but at a point about sixteen feet below the verge, to fall fifty-one feet further, the total depth at the upper end being sixty-seven feet, and"
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page 53:-  "at the lower seventy-nine or eighty. The narrowness and depth of the chasm, with the roar of the fall in wet weather, is something terrible, whilst a pool of water is descried far below, at the upper extremity of the rift."
"A considerable stream runs close to the wall, to the north-east of the allotment, and then passes into the next field where it becomes engulfed in a cave of no imposing appearance, having its mouth about eighteen feet below the surface of the ground."
evidence:-   old map:- Balderston c1890 map
placename:-  Juniper Gulf
source data:-   Map, the hills in the Ingleton area, probably by Robert R Balderston, engraved by Goodall and Suddick, Leeds, West Yorkshire, about 1890.
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"Juniper Gulf"
item:-  private collection : 27.1
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