Great Douk Cave

Infobox Cave
name = Great Douk Cave
photo = Entrance_great_douk_cave_yorkshire.jpg
caption = Entrance to Great Douk Cave
location = Chapel-le-Dale, Ingleborough
depth =
length = convert|914|m|ft|0|lk=oncite book
title=Selected Caves of Britain and Ireland
author=Des Marshal, Donald Rust
id = ISBN 1-871-89043-8
year=1997]
coordinates =
survey =
discovery = first through trip accomplished in 1934
geology =
list of entrances =
* Main (lower) entrance coord|54|11.25|N|2|23.3|W|type:cave
* Little Douk (skylight)
* Middle Washfold (main exit)
difficulty = Grade I
hazards =
access = Free

Great Douk Cave is a great beginners caving trip. It starts at the bottom of a tree-lined collapse close to the track where a small stream cascades from a passage at east end and sinks into the rubble beside a long-term cave dig.

A simple but greasy two metre climb up at the water fall gains a walking size passage. Continue for approx 800m until it lowers into a crawl, bear left at a junction, and then climb into a roof passage that leads out onto the moor at Middle Washfold entrance.

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