The Hole of Horcum
Looking south onto the Hole of Horcum, North York Moors.
The National Park provide some insight into this natural feature:
"The Hole of Horcum is one of the most spectacular features in the North York Moors National Park – a huge
natural amphitheatre 400 feet deep and more than half a mile across.
Legends hang
easily upon a place known as the ‘Devil’s Punchbowl’ – the best-known says that it was
formed when Wade the Giant scooped up a handful of earth to throw at his wife during
an argument.
Actually, it was created by a process called spring-sapping, whereby water
welling up from the hillside has gradually undermined the slopes above, eating the rocks
away grain by grain. Over thousands of years, a once narrow valley has widened and
deepened into an enormous cauldron – and the process still continues today."
The Hole of Horcum
Looking south onto the Hole of Horcum, North York Moors.
The National Park provide some insight into this natural feature:
"The Hole of Horcum is one of the most spectacular features in the North York Moors National Park – a huge
natural amphitheatre 400 feet deep and more than half a mile across.
Legends hang
easily upon a place known as the ‘Devil’s Punchbowl’ – the best-known says that it was
formed when Wade the Giant scooped up a handful of earth to throw at his wife during
an argument.
Actually, it was created by a process called spring-sapping, whereby water
welling up from the hillside has gradually undermined the slopes above, eating the rocks
away grain by grain. Over thousands of years, a once narrow valley has widened and
deepened into an enormous cauldron – and the process still continues today."