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62: 241:, England. Located adjacent to Jingling Beck, it is a lenticular-shaped 45-metre (148 ft) deep shaft that descends straight from the surface. At the bottom the rift extends to the north and descends steeply into a further chamber, at the end of which the initials of the original explorers may be seen scratched into the rock. A narrow shaft in this second chamber drops into a complex of small crawls and rifts, which approach close to a passage in the One-armed Bandit Series of 46: 69: 278:
A few metres to the north-west of Jingling Pot, the water of Jingling Beck sink into Jingling Cave. Jingling Cave is about 375-metre (1,230 ft) long. Initially low, and requiring crawling, it gradually increases in height, passing under a couple of windows where the roof has collapsed. After a
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with minimal displacement by the waters of Jingling Beck, which now bypass the entrance except in exceptionally wet weather. The water probably originally flowed through to the One-armed Bandit Series in Aquamole Pot, and thence down to the West Kingsdale main drain.
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Balderstone reports in 1890 that he had plumbed it to a depth of 141 feet (43 m), and he also describes with great accuracy Jingling Cave which he claims to have explored for 225 yards (206 m).
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A Description of the Environs of Ingleborough, and Principal Places on the Banks of the River Wenning
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Jeffries, Alan (November–December 1969). "Grampian discover sporting way down Jingling Pot".
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A more prosaic description was provided by John Hutton in 1784 in an Appendix to
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damp 3 metres (9.8 ft) climb down, the passage enters the much larger
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The first descent of Jingling Pot was made in June 1897 by members of the
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Whitaker, Katie (1996). Nardine, N; Secord, A; Spary, E.C. (eds.).
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Northern Caves. The Three Counties System and the North-West
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Jeffreys, Alan (July 1969). "A new Way Down Jingling Pot".
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Caves and Karst of the Yorkshire Dales: Volume 2. The Caves
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cave formed within the Great Scar Limestone Group of the
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North Yorkshire
Tynemouth
Jingling Geordie's Hole

Map showing the location of Jingling Pot
Kingsdale
North Yorkshire
UK
OS grid
SD 69896 78369
54°12′01″N 2°27′46″W / 54.200249°N 2.462821°W / 54.200249; -2.462821
Carboniferous
Limestone
Cave survey
cavemaps.org
limestone
Kingsdale
North Yorkshire
Aquamole Pot
karst
Visean
Carboniferous Period
strike-slip fault
Rowten Caves
John Covel
Ingleton
Oakey Hole
Somersetshire
Peak
Thomas West

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