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Gaping Gill

Ingleborough, North Yorkshire

A shaft 98 metres deep, with England's tallest unbroken waterfall.

On the slopes of Ingleborough, the stream Fell Beck plunges about 98 metres down a shaft into Gaping Gill, one of the largest underground chambers in Britain. It is the tallest unbroken waterfall in England.

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When
First descended 1895
Where
54.1500, -2.3700
Group
Caves & grottoes

Visiting

A long walk from Clapham. Winch meets run for a week in May and August.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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