Katnot

Location
Grid Reference: |Path;54.213179;-2.344515|Gearstones;54.214921;-2.339604&scale=17&centre=54.213645;-2.340471 SD 7780 7970

Altitude: 300m.

Description
Climb over broken down blocks in entrance to drop down into very pleasant streamway. The streamway gradually lowers and after a few hundred metres becomes low crawling in the stream for another approx 200m at which point inlets are reached and the way on becomes flat-out in the stream. About 100m from the entrance there is a small bypass that cuts across a corner in the main passage. Down to the right in the entrance leads to a sump.

Access
Prior permission not required.

From the Hawse road at Ribblehead there are two footpaths west of Gearstones that lead to footbridges over the Ribble. Access is best from the westerly most footbridge as the easterly one is walled (with barbed wire on top) from the field in which the cave lies. The cave is between the two footbridges on the south-east side of the river. The river is in a small gorge, the cave is above the gorge.