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White Scar Cave

Ingleton, North Yorkshire

Found by a student, with one of Britain's largest caverns.

In 1923 a Cambridge student, Christopher Long, squeezed through a crack in the hillside near Ingleton and found a cave with waterfalls and stalactites. Later explorers found the Battlefield Cavern, around 100 metres long, one of the largest in Britain, full of thousands of straw stalactites.

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When
Discovered 1923
Where
54.1700, -2.4300
Group
Caves & grottoes

Visiting

Guided tours run most of the year.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

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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