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| Boggart's Roaring Hole, North Yorkshire | ||
| Boggart's Roaring Holes | ||
| North Hole | ||
| Middle Hole | ||
| Wet Hole | ||
| county:- | North Yorkshire | |
| locality type:- | cave | |
| locality type:- | shakehole | |
| coordinates:- | SD728738 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD7273 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD77 | |
| SummaryText:- | Elongated shakehole, North, Middle and Wet Hole; water emerges at White Scar Cave. Explored by Yorkshire Ramblers Club, 1899; and Gritsone Club, 1922. | |
| SummaryText:- | Grade III. | |
| 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 |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Balderston c1890 placename:- Boggart's Roaring Hole |
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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 45:- "..." "Boggart's Roaring Hole." "About five or six furlongs from Crina Bottom to the south south-east there is on Dowlass Moss a short and puny stream, which helps to drain the flat marsh behind; this meagre rill falls down a fine pot hole lying at the upper end of some conjoined shakeholes. At the lower extremity is a second opening, not wide and conspicuous as the first, but a mere rift partly closed at the top. This rent can be entered for a few yards on the north-eastern side; and there is another small hole above. We measured the depth through the later (sic) and found a stoppage at fifty-three feet; then on entering the yawning aperture the process was repeated with a similar result, but on throwing stones downwards these appeared to go much further than the line, clinking onwards. At length there was a cessation of the clatter, but there began to creep upwards another dull sound, something between a roar and a growl in its intonation, appearing to come from a deep cavern far to the south-west - hence the name of Boggart's Roaring Hole that we have applied to this place, which heretofore was nameless. Prompted by the results obtained from mere sound, we cast the line further in to see if the obstruction in the way of the plummet could be avoided, with the astonishing result that the depth proved to be nearly three times the amount already obtained. The line was then sent down from the opening above and shaken past the obstacle when the depth was found to be one hundred and forty-five feet, with a slope above of fifteen more." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Balderston c1890 map placename:- Boggarts Roaring Hole |
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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. BS1SD77G.jpg "Boggarts Roaring Hole" item:- private collection : 27.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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