Langcliffe Pot

Langcliffe Pot was first spotted in December 1935 by members of the Craven Pothole Club (CPC), and they made the first descent the following April when the first 45 m of traverse in the downstream passage was explored to a pool. Soon after, they dye tested the Langcliffe Pot and Rigg Pot streams and various others to Black Keld. Another party from the same club descended in 1954 and pushed on for a further 400 m along what is now known as Craven Crawl before turning back. In August 1968 a team from the Yorkshire Underground Research Team explored over 1 km beyond the CPC limit as far as the Kilnsey Boulder Crawl. They weren't too impressed with the place, and handed over the baton to the…

The entrance lies within a shakehole where a small hole between blocks leads to a ledge at the top of a 26 m shaft. This lands in a chamber with a narrow rift passage leading off which degenerates into the Craven Crawl, 200 m of low, wet passage. At a junction with an inlet, the passage enlarges into Stagger Passage, 600 m of walking and stooping. At the start of a deep canal it passes a passage on the left which is the main way to the alternative entrance of Oddmire Pot. The canal passage continues to meet a major junction at Hammerdale Dub, where over a 1000 m of upstream passages also lead back towards Oddmire Pot. Downstream, 1500 m of boulder-strewn streamway finishes where the water…