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| Pin Hole, North Yorkshire | ||
| Pin Hole | ||
| Pinhole | ||
| site name:- | Whernside | |
| site name:- | Braida Garth Scar | |
| county:- | North Yorkshire | |
| locality type:- | pothole | |
| locality type:- | cave | |
| coordinates:- | SD707775 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD7077 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD77 | |
| altitude:- | 1185 feet | |
| altitude:- | 361m | |
| SummaryText:- | Grade II; permission from Braida Garth Farm. | |
| references:- | Balderston c1890 map 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:- | descriptive text:- Balderston c1890 placename:- Pin Hole, The |
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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 78:- "..." "On Braidey Garth Scar, opposite the house of the same name, lying in the valley below, are several holes of no great depth; the first of these, to the north of the rest, is:-" "The Pin Hole." "Which is an excessively small hole, fifteen feet deep, and into it a man or sheep might easily be precipitated, were not the aperture thickly stopped with branches of fir." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Balderston c1890 map placename:- Pinhole |
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| source data:- | Map, the hills in the Ingleton area, probably by Robert R
Balderston, engraved by Goodall and Suddick, Leeds, West
Yorkshire, about 1890. BS1SD77D.jpg "Pinhole" item:- private collection : 27.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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