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Diccan Pot, North Yorkshire
Diccan Pot
Dicken Pot
county:-   North Yorkshire
locality type:-   cave
locality type:-   pothole
coordinates:-   SD775757
1Km square:-   SD7775
10Km square:-   SD77
SummaryText:-   Explored by Yorkshire Ramblers Club, 1923; and a complete descent by the Gritstone Club, 1932.
SummaryText:-   Grade IV; permission, North Cote, Selside; subject to sudden flooding.
references:-   Brook, A & Brook, D & Davies, G M &Long, M H: 1975: Northern Caves, vol.3 Ingleborough: Dalesman Books (Clapham, North Yorkshire):: ISBN 0 85206 312 1
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
placename:-  Dicken Pot
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
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Page 202:-  "..."
"DICKEN POT is a long passage running in a contrary direction to Long Churn, and it terminates in a lofty dome called 'St. Paul's.'"
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Balderston c1890
placename:-  Dicken Pot Cave
source data:-   Book, Ingleton, Bygone and Present, by Robert R and Margaret Balderston, published by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, and by Edmndson and Co, 24 High Street, Skipton, Yorkshire, about 1890.
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page 53:-  "..."
"Long Churn and Dicken Pot Caves."
"About one hundred yards north north-west of Alum Pot, is Long Churn Cave, and nearly a quarter-of-a-mile further is the upper mouth of Dicken Pot. ..."
"Dicken Pot is formed by a branch of the same stream in the higher part of its course, and was approached by us from its upper mouth, which is small, and found close to a fence, at the foot of an allotment. In one place there is a lofty cavity, called 'St. Paul's.' A large number of pot holes and shakeholes engulf streams, descending from the slopes of the mountain further north. Dicken Pot Cave has, in a great part of its course, a most wonderful appearance. It is grooved in the rock so near the surface of the ground, that it is open above in many places, having great cross-bars and projecting slabs of limestone partially roofing it in; in others the roof is solid, but we traversed one hundred and eleven yards of it, which presented this constantly changing character."
evidence:-   old map:- Balderston c1890 map
placename:-  Dicken Pot Cave
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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"Dicken Pot Cave"
item:-  private collection : 27.1
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