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Caves and Karst of the Yorkshire Dales: A Field Guide
by Tony WALTHAM and Martin DAVIES

WALTHAM, Tony and Martin DAVIES (1987). Caves and Karst of the Yorkshire Dales: A Field Guide [Cave Studies Series 1]. Buxton: British Cave Research Association. £2.50 plus postage. ISBN-0-900265-04-3. 32pp, A5, with maps and photos.

An excursion guidebook to the karst landforms and some accessible caves within the Yorkshire Dales.

The Yorkshire Dales are a series of glaciated valleys carved into the upland area of the Central Pennines. The southern dales, centred on Ingleborough and Malham, cut into the thick bed of the Great Scar limestone, wherein lie some of the finest caves in Britain. Above the limestone plateaux rise hills formed mainly of shale, notably the Three Peaks of Ingleborough, Pen-y-ghent and Whernside.
Following a brief introduction to the geology and geomorphology of the area the reader is taken on four brief 'excursions' to the areas of Chapel-le-Dale, Gaping Gill (Ingleborough), Malham and Ribblesdale. The guidebook is based on an earlier publication from the committee of the 7th International Congress of Speleology (1977), by Glover, Pitty and Waltham. The text has been extensively revised by Tony Waltham and the maps re-drawn by Martin Davies

item: Caves and Karst of the Yorkshire Dales: A Field Guide (PDF 8.9MB)        Individual articles may be available below

by Tony WALTHAM and Martin DAVIES.
Full text of book (32 pages excluding cover). Please note that this is the original 1987 text without revisions.
Date: Published online 4 August 2016.

 

item: Wraparound outside cover (PDF 1.6MB)     

This is an exact A4 file that can be used to make a wrap-round cover for a perfect-bound booklet. For a full-bleed version you should enlarge this file by about 3% before printing on superA4 paper.
Date: Published online 4 August 2016.

 

item: Cave locations in GPX format (TXT 11KB)     

The grid references in this publication are available (courtesy Adam Cooper) in GPX format for overlay onto OS maps and for use in a GPS receiver.
Please note that this is a plain text file and, depending on your intended usage, you might need to rename it as a .gpx file.
Date: Published online 3 May 2019.