Boggarts Roaring Holes

Location
Grid Reference: |Crina%20Bottom;54.156832;-2.426454&centre=54.152196;-2.419344&scale=15 SD 7285 7283

Altitude: 451 m

A large elongated shakehole with three holes : North Hole, Middle Hole, Wet Hole.

Description
Middle Hole provides access to the 2001 extensions. Daylight shaft lands on a ledge, the large slope is the original pot, the extensions lie the other way down a short narrow slope which emerges directly at the next pitch.

The extensions consist of an interesting mixture of blasted crawls and pitches, of which there are 9.

A good choice for damper weather.

Access
Permission is not required.

History
Apparently the name is not traditional, but was given by the Balderstons. They write that having thrown a stone down, "at length there was a cessation of the clatter, but there began to creep upwards another dull sound, something between a roar and a growl in its intonation, appearing to come from a deep cavern far to the south-west - hence the name of Boggart's Roaring Hole which we have applied to the place, which hitherto was nameless".

References and Further Reading

 * 1) Balderston R. & M., 1888, "Ingleton: Bygone and Present", Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London and Edmondson & Co. Skipton. pp.45
 * 2) St.Lawrence H., Boggarts Roaring Holes, RRCPC Journal 10, pp.38-41