Rowten Pot

The first description of Rowten Pot appeared in verse in Thomas Dixon's A Description of the Environs of Ingleborough of 1781:<blockquote>The Routing-Chasm amazing to behold,<br />With dreadful yawn intimidates the bold:<br />The depth unknown, vast, dismal, dark and wide,<br />With rugged pointed rocks on every side;<br />A rapid stream falls in with hideous roar,<br />Growls thro the mountain to some distant shore:<br />Dismay arrests the man that ventures near,<br />His face turns pale, his courage yields to fear.</blockquote> In a guide book published in 1865, there is an account of a Mr. Hunter claiming to have made a complete descent, but the account is exaggerated and bears little…

A stream enters from just below the surface at the northern end. The cave is largely vertical, but at the bottom the stream flows through a short section of passage into the underground West Kingsdale river. This connects downstream with the Kingsdale Master Cave through three short sumps. The cave is usually descended using single rope techniques, and is popular with cavers, being spacious and offering a variety of aerial routes. The three short sumps which connect to the Kingsdale Master Cave can be free-dived. The water which descends Rowten Pot sinks 150 m to the west of the pot on the other side of Turbary Road, into a shallow horizontal cave system, known as Rowten Caves. This can be…