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White Scar Caves

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31: 47: 54: 295:, Christopher Long and J.H. Churchill, but further discoveries have been made since then including "The Battlefield", one of the largest known cave chambers in Great Britain at 90 metres (300 ft) long. Originally accessed through a vertical 91: 46: 419: 104: 429: 434: 30: 336: 310:
road on the west of Ingleborough, with tours being run throughout the year. The visitor facilities include a shop and café.
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Cambridge Underground - the journal of Cambridge University Caving Club
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The system is open as a show cave, the entrance being from the
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Map showing the location of White Scar Caves
Chapel-le-Dale
North Yorkshire
England
OS grid
SD 7128 7452
54°09′56″N 2°26′29″W / 54.165626°N 2.441345°W / 54.165626; -2.441345
Carboniferous
limestone
Cave survey
cavemaps.org
www.whitescarcave.co.uk
show cave
Ingleton
North Yorkshire
Ingleborough
Chapel-le-Dale
Yorkshire Dales National Park
solutional
resurgence
Carboniferous
limestone
amateur
geologists
boulder choke
Ribblehead
Ingleton
ISBN
0852064829

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