Rumbling Hole

Rumbling Hole

Infobox Cave
name = Rumbling Hole
photo = Rumbling hole entrance rigging.jpg
caption = Two cavers rigging the entrance pitch
location = Leck Fell, North Yorkshire, England
depth = convert|119|m|ft|0|lk=oncite book
title=Selected Caves of Britain and Ireland
isbn = 1-871-89043-8
year=1997
author=Des Marshal, Donald Rust]
length = convert|213|m|mi|1|lk=on
coordinates = coord|54|12.396|N|2|30.344|W|type:cave
discovery = 1932
geology = Limestone
difficulty = Grade 4
list of entrances =
* Rumbling Beck Cave coord|54|12.406|N|2|30.300|W|type:cave
* sink hole coord|54|12.396|N|2|30.344|W|type:cave
access = [http://www.cncc.org.uk/leck_fell.html CNCC Permit]
survey = [http://www.rrcpc.org.uk/easegill/rigging/leck/rumb1.gif] [http://www.rrcpc.org.uk/easegill/rigging/leck/rubl2.gif]

Rumbling Hole is one of the many fenced off sink holes near the road on Leck Fell, North Yorkshire, England. The entrance shaft is approximately 50m deep and often with a small waterfall cascading down the side opposite the single solitary Yew tree that grows at the edge of the vertical shaft and provides a convenient belay point for the entrance pitch.

A connection was made between Rumbling Hole and Lost John's Cave by Lancaster University Speleological Society in 1985. [cite web|url=http://www.es.lancs.ac.uk/luss/Exploration/Britain/Discover/lj_rh.html|title=Lost John's Pot/ Rumbling Hole Connection.|author=Colin Boothroyd]

During a visit to Rumbling Beck Cave (a short horizontal cave that sinks 30m away from the main sink-hole and discharges its stream into the main shaft) in late 2007, the Misty Mountain Mud Miners noticed an unexplored hole in the side of the shaft and, over six trips, pushed a new 350m long route down to 118m below surface level, [cite journal
author = Dave Ramsay
year = 2008
month = February/March
title = Rumbling extension
journal = Descent
issn = 0046-0036
issue = 200
pages = page 13
accessdate = 2008-02-02 ] installing £160 of fixed bolts. [cite web|url=http://www.white-rose.org.uk/modules.php?name=AvantGo&op=ReadStory&sid=54|title=Rumbling Hole: New Finds|date=22 November 2007]

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