Flood Entrance

That Name!!
Sometimes known as "Flood Exit", it really should be "Flood Entrance". The first description of the cave was by Greenwood in the Journal of the Yorkshire Ramblers, Volume 3 No 10, published in 1910, in an article entitled "Flood Entrance: Gaping Gill".

It was known as "Flood Entrance" by Arthur Gemmel in "Underground Adventures" in 1952, as well as by Thornber in "Pennine Underground" in 1959, and more recently, in "Northern Caves" and Elliot and Lawson's "SRT Rigging Guide".

The name "Flood Exit" seems to have originated from the Craven Pothole Club. Thus we find Mitchell in "Yorkshire Caves and Potholes" published in 1946, and Howard Beck in "Gaping Gill" published in 1984, both members of the CPC, referring to it as "Flood Exit".

It is important to keep the original names where practical. Doing so shows respect for the original explorers, and prevents confusion.