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Weathercote Cave
Weathercote Cave is a natural solutional cave in Chapel-le-Dale, North Yorkshire, England. It has been renowned as a natural curiosity since the eighteenth century, and was accessible to paying visitors until 1971. The entrance is a large shaft about deep, dominated by a waterfall entering at one end.
==Description==
The entrance lies in the floor of the Chapel-le-Dale valley below the Hill Inn, and is enclosed by a substantial wall. A path leads from a doorway in the wall to the open shaft, some long and up to wide. The underground Winterscales Beck emerges from a passage at the north end, and falls some down the shaft. The top of the waterfall is overhung by a massive wedged boulder known as Mohammed's Coffin. At the near end of the shaft, a flight of 51 steps descends beneath a natural rock arch, to the bottom, where a number of short passage all lead to sumps, the main one of which has been connected to Jingle Pot, another daylight shaft located down the valley, and thence to Hurtle Pot, a further down the valley. The total length of explored passages in the combined system is , and the total depth is . The water can be followed upstream of the waterfall through a series of low aqueous passages and small chambers. When the beck is in full spate, the shaft can fill to the top, and overflow down the valley.〔
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