Yordas Cave Entrance
The entrance to Yordas Cave, in Yordas wood Upper Kingsdale, Yorkshire. (Yordas was a Nordic giant with a penchant for eating small boys and devouring them in the cave.)
This used to be a show cave when you paid a fee to see it, but now few people go there. It is not signposted from the road so you have to know where you are going. I discovered the cave after reading A A Wainwright's Walks in Limestone Country filled with his delightful sketches of the routes and interesting things on the way.
He often makes little excursions from the main route with comments like this (referring to Rowten Pot, a little further down the valley...... The chasm, , unfenced, is dangerous, obviously so, but even more to be avoided is t smaller hole ten yards south. Anyone falling into this can rest assured that he'll not hit anything until he has dropped 235 feet. The pot was descended by design, not accident, in 1897. I love his sense of humour.
Yordas Cave Entrance
The entrance to Yordas Cave, in Yordas wood Upper Kingsdale, Yorkshire. (Yordas was a Nordic giant with a penchant for eating small boys and devouring them in the cave.)
This used to be a show cave when you paid a fee to see it, but now few people go there. It is not signposted from the road so you have to know where you are going. I discovered the cave after reading A A Wainwright's Walks in Limestone Country filled with his delightful sketches of the routes and interesting things on the way.
He often makes little excursions from the main route with comments like this (referring to Rowten Pot, a little further down the valley...... The chasm, , unfenced, is dangerous, obviously so, but even more to be avoided is t smaller hole ten yards south. Anyone falling into this can rest assured that he'll not hit anything until he has dropped 235 feet. The pot was descended by design, not accident, in 1897. I love his sense of humour.