Starting Handle Hole

Location
Grid Reference: SD 6691 7862

Altitude: 351 m

Right by the roadside in the verge, short distance down the road from the Lost Johns gate.

Description
A lid covers the entrance shaft (~10m), scaffolded for part of the way. At the bottom a short crawl quickly arrives at the 4m second pitch, a slope down to a rift and some climbs reaches Klunk Pitch, at the bottom a small passage reaches the final and longest pitch - Big Bang / Bucket. At the bottom of this pitch a junction is reached with a low passage - both ways quickly become to small/squalid for further progress.

Access
Access is through a Leck Fell Permit.

History
Originally investigated in the 70s? by the Happy Wanderers before being filled in. Digging restarted in the early 90s.