Caves · North West England
Boxhead Pot
Boxhead Pot is a cave in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 45 min–1.5 h
- Nearest railway station
- Bentham · 9.4 km
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
Boxhead Pot is a named cave entrance in the United Kingdom. Coordinates: 54.1999°, -2.5058°. This entry is part of The Great Britain Guide, a free, ad-free, open-data tourist directory.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Leck Beck Head Catchment Area SSSI
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Boxhead Pot is a cave on Leck Fell, in Lancashire, England. It leads into the top end of Lost Johns' Cave, and is part of the Three Counties System, an 87 kilometres (54 mi) cave system which spans the borders of Cumbria, Lancashire, and North Yorkshire.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
The Boxhead Pot shafts were originally climbed from below in the late 1980s by Mick Nunwick. In the autumn of 1994, Northern Cave Club cavers found an open and unstable hole in a shakehole, which they descended to land at the bottom of the NPC Avens in Lost Johns'. The cave was named after Alan Box, a club member who had died in a Spanish cave the previous year. The entrance was stabilised in 1995.
Description
The entrance is in a deep shakehole 30 m south of Lost Pot. A vertical pipe leads directly onto the top of a 34 m shaft which lands on an unstable boulder ledge. Below that a 68 m deep spacious shaft descends to the bottom of one of the two NPC Avens at the top end of Lost Johns' Cave (Lost Pot enters from the second aven).
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 54.1999, -2.5058
- County
- Lancashire
- District
- Lancaster
- Parish
- Leck
- Postcode
- LA6 2JE
- Parliamentary constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale
- Nearest railway station
- Bentham — 9.4 km
Sources
- osm: n1819310751 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Boxhead Pot (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Boxhead Pot?
- Boxhead Pot is in Lancashire, North-West England, United Kingdom (postcode LA6 2JE), in the parish of Leck.
- Is Boxhead Pot a protected site?
- Yes — Boxhead Pot is part of the Leck Beck Head Catchment Area SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- Is Boxhead Pot free to visit?
- Yes, Boxhead Pot is free to enter.
- How do I get to Boxhead Pot?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode LA6 2JE. It sits within the Morecambe and Lunesdale parliamentary constituency.