Boxhead Pot

Location
Grid Reference: |Car%20Park;54.203503;-2.505293|Lost%20Johns;54.202486;-2.506273&scale=16&centre=54.201563;-2.505844 SD 67130 78337

Altitude: 370 m

Parking is at the usual Leck Fell parking spot - as indicated on the CNCC permit.

From the parking space, walk back down the road for 120 m to a gate. Go through this into the Lost Johns' enclosure, and over the stile. Head south across the fell for 220 m to two large shakeholes - the first with a tree is Lost Pot, the one beyond it with the obvious pipe protruding from the middle is Boxhead Pot.

Description
Once through the pipes you can admire the shoring work before continuing down onto a loose boulder slope, this leads to the head of the Main Pitch.

The Main pitch descends 71m to the floor, part way down this a deviation provides access to a swing onto the Kendal Flyover route. This descends a few shorter pitches to land on a ledge.

From the ledge you can descend a short pitch to the bottom of Lost Pot Aven, where a connection to the bottom of Boxheads Main pitch is found, close by a small passage taking the water leads to a climb/pitch and a further short climb brings you to The Tube - a small and wet obstacle that connects through to the Lost Pot Inlet and thus the Leck Fell Master Cave in Lost Johns' Cave.

The other route from the ledge, a crawl, provides access to the Tate Galleries. This provides a dry route via crawls, traversing, climbs, nice formations and a pitch into Lyle Cavern, followed by a climb down to the Leck Fell Master Cave. This route is useful should the Tube be too wet or too small for certain cavers.

Rigging Topo

Access
Access is through a Leck Fell Permit. A closed season operates in the months of April, May and June.