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Hunt Pot, North Yorkshire
Hunt Pot
site name:-   Horton Moor
site name:-   Pen-y-ghent
county:-   North Yorkshire
locality type:-   cave
locality type:-   pothole
coordinates:-   SD826740
1Km square:-   SD8274
10Km square:-   SD87
evidence:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
placename:-  Huntpit Hole
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
Tour to the Caves in the West Riding of Yorkshire, late 18th century 
image WS21P275, button  goto source
Page 275:-  "..."
"... About a mile or two above Horton, upon the base of Pennegant, we visited Hulpit and Huntpit-holes. The one, if we could have descended into it, would have appeared like the inside of an enormous old Gothic castle, the high ruinous walls of which were left standing after the roof was fallen in: the other was like a deep funnel, and it was dangerous to come near its edges. Horton-beck, or brook, runs through the one, and Bransil-beck through the other of these pits, but through which I cannot remember: ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Balderston c1890 map
placename:-  Hunt Pot
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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"Hunt Pot"
item:-  private collection : 27.1
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