Caves · North West England
Ingleborough Cave
In or near Clapham.
Ingleborough Cave is a cave in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 45 min–1.5 h
- Nearest railway station
- Clapham · 3.9 km
- Paid entry
- Dog-friendly
Getting there & planning your visit
To visit Ingleborough Cave, the nearest railway station is Clapham, located 3.9 km away. The postcode for sat-nav is LA2 8EE, and please note that entry is paid.
About
Ingleborough Cave is a named cave entrance in the United Kingdom. Admission charged. Coordinates: 54.1351°, -2.3777°. This entry is part of The Great Britain Guide, a free, ad-free, open-data tourist directory.
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Summary from the official site
Ingleborough Cave is a well-lit show cave located in the Yorkshire Dales, offering visitors a chance to explore 500 meters underground. The cave features a self-guided experience along concrete footpaths, showcasing impressive geological formations and rich history dating back to its discovery in 1837.
Read more on the official property page.
Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Ingleborough SSSI
- National Nature Reserve: INGLEBOROUGH
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Ingleborough Cave (formerly known as Clapham Caves) is a show cave close to the village of Clapham in North Yorkshire, England, adjacent to where the water from Gaping Gill resurges. That part of the cave that is open to the public follows a fossil gallery for some 500 metres (1,640 ft). The passage is spacious, and well decorated with stalagmitic formations. Beyond the show cave, the fossil gallery continues until it meets the main stream. The water can be followed upstream through passages under Trow Gill, to where it emerges from a sump at Terminal Lake which has been connected by divers to Gaping Gill, and followed downstream into Lake Pluto which has been connected by divers to Beck Head Stream Cave. A connection has also been made with Fox Holes, a cave near Trow Gill. A small stream in the show cave drops into a rift called the Abyss. An underwater connection has been made between the passage at the bottom and Beck Head Cave, the resurgence for the Gaping Gill water.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
- Coordinates
- 54.1351, -2.3777
- District
- North Yorkshire
- Parish
- Clapham cum Newby
- Postcode
- LA2 8EE
- Parliamentary constituency
- Skipton and Ripon
- Nearest railway station
- Clapham — 3.9 km
- Official site
- ingleboroughcave.co.uk
Sources
- osm: n1383310653 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Ingleborough Cave (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Ingleborough Show Cave - geograph.org.uk - 626114.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Ingleborough Cave?
- Ingleborough Cave is in North-West England, United Kingdom (postcode LA2 8EE), in the parish of Clapham cum Newby.
- What is Ingleborough Cave?
- Ingleborough Cave is a cave in the United Kingdom.
- How do I get to Ingleborough Cave?
- The nearest railway station is Clapham, about 3.9 km away. Drivers can use postcode LA2 8EE.
- Is Ingleborough Cave a protected site?
- Yes — Ingleborough Cave is part of the Ingleborough SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the INGLEBOROUGH National Nature Reserve.
- How do I get to Ingleborough Cave?
- The nearest railway station is Clapham, about 3.9 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode LA2 8EE.