Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	Cow Pot, Casterton
	Cow Pot
locality:-	Casterton Fell
civil parish:-	Casterton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	cave
coordinates:-	SD66438085
1Km square:-	SD6680
10Km square:-	SD68
altitude:-	1000 feet
altitude:-	305m
SummaryText:-	Explored by Yorkshire Ramblers Club, 1899; further by Northern Pennine Club, 1948; and British Speleological Association, 1969.
SummaryText:-	Grade IV; permission from Council of Northern Caving Clubs.
references:-	Brook, D & Davies, G & Long, M H &Sutcliffe, J R: 1975: Northern Caves, vol.4 Whernside and Gragareth: Dalesman Books:: ISBN 0 85206 259 1
evidence:-	old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 48 2)  placename:-  Cow Hole
source data:-	Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
evidence:-	descriptive text:- Balderston c1890 placename:-  Cow Pot
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.   goto source page 74:-  "..." "Cow Pot." "Only about a couple of fields' breadths to the east of Bull Pot in the course of a diminutive stream is a peculiar zig-zag sided rift called Cow Pot, into which the brook descends as a fall for thirty feet, with a second leap of"   goto source page 75:-  "twenty more, and a third not easily descried beyond; the full depth at the lower end being seventy-seven feet. The character of the rock work is beautiful, and exquisite ferns deck the crevices."
evidence:-	old map:- Balderston c1890 map placename:-  Cow Pot
source data:-	Map, the hills in the Ingleton area, probably by Robert R Balderston, engraved by Goodall and Suddick, Leeds, West Yorkshire, about 1890. BS1SD68Q.jpg "Cow Pot" item:-  private collection : 27.1 Image © see bottom of page

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