Warrendale Dale Knotts Cave is hidden on Warrendale Knotts 60m above the Settle to Attermire footpath. The cave isn't the easiest to find, located behind a limestone block and a patch of nettles. There are approx 20m of passage, all crawling :-(
Monday, 17 October 2011
Warrendale Knotts Cave
Warrendale Dale Knotts Cave is hidden on Warrendale Knotts 60m above the Settle to Attermire footpath. The cave isn't the easiest to find, located behind a limestone block and a patch of nettles. There are approx 20m of passage, all crawling :-(
Saturday, 8 October 2011
Spider Cave
Spider Cave is a high opening in Beacon Scar. The debris strewn passage quickly lowers to a crawl which enters a small chamber. A squeeze through to the left enters a passage which is too narrow to follow :-(
Monday, 3 October 2011
Brent Scar Cave
Brent Scar Cave is a high fissure to the south of Victoria Cave. The passage closes in after about 5 metres :-(
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Notice
“Notice: By vic.cap.20.s.75. any person not fastening this gate after having passed through is liable to a penalty of forty shillings.”
I spotted this old sign in Buckinghamshire. The shilling was a unit of pre-decimal currency discontinued in 1971.
Monday, 26 September 2011
Hardwick Hall
Hardwick Hall is an Elizabethan Derbyshire house built for Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury. Bess's initials “ES” are displayed prominently on the rooftop pavilions.
It's easy to see the inspiration for the rhyme “Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall”. The huge windows were intended as a statement of wealth at a time when glass was a luxury.
