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| Fluted Hole, North Yorkshire | ||
| Fluted Hole | ||
| county:- | North Yorkshire | |
| locality type:- | cave | |
| locality type:- | shakehole | |
| coordinates:- | SD734724 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD7372 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD77 | |
| SummaryText:- | Explored by Yorkshire Ramblers Club, 1904. | |
| SummaryText:- | Grade II; permission, Ingleborough Estate Office, Clapham. | |
| 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:- Fluted Hole placename:- Flute Hole placename:- Fairy's Throne |
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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 48:- "The Fluted Hole, or Fairy's Throne." "Leaving the column reared for us without hands - a grander we need never desire - and going but a little way further along the moor in the direction already pursued, another lovely piece of natural architecture is reached - the Flute Hole, or Fairy's Throne, a resting place of no great depth, fort-three feet being the full downward extent. Here the almost circular wall on the north-eastern side is symmetrically grooved, so as to appear as though a ring of massive pillars, planted so closely as to touch each other, has been extracted from the solid rock, leaving half of each limestone mould behind with sharp, projecting ridge sundering each channel, the fluted walls being pitted by the trickling waters in such a marvellous manner as to challenge the skill of the sculptor's chisel. Enthroned here , we will rest a while to regale ourselves before striding briskly across the moor to the east to reach, after traversing a space of little more than a mile, the yawning abyss so aptly named" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Balderston c1890 map placename:- Fluted 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 "Fluted Hole" item:- private collection : 27.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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