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Mud Foot Hole, North Yorkshire
Mud Foot Hole
county:-   North Yorkshire
locality type:-   pothole
locality type:-   cave
coordinates:-   SD728726 (?) 
1Km square:-   SD7272
10Km square:-   SD77
references:-   Balderston c1890
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Balderston c1890
placename:-  Mud Foot Hole
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 BLD1P045, button  goto source
page 45:-  "..."
"Mud-foot Hole."
"On Dowlass Moss, to the south-east of Crina Bottom, and about half a mile from that place, is another hole with"
image BLD1P046, button  goto source
page 46:-  "two apertures and some chinks at one end. This rift has the appearance of being connected with a deep chasm, but a steep bank of mud some distance down arrests the descent of the plummet or stones thrown in to test the depth. Measured from above the three orifices are found to be respectively forty-five, forty-seven, and forty-five feet deep."
evidence:-   old map:- Balderston c1890 map
placename:-  Mud Foot Hole
source data:-   Map, the hills in the Ingleton area, probably by Robert R Balderston, engraved by Goodall and Suddick, Leeds, West Yorkshire, about 1890.
image
BS1SD77G.jpg
"Mud Foot Hole"
item:-  private collection : 27.1
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