Eden Sike Cave

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Eden Sike Cave

The Resurgence for Eden Sike Cave
Showing location of Eden Sike Cave in Cumbria
Location Mallerstang, Cumbria, UK
OS grid SD 7822 9701
Coordinates 54°22′05″N 2°20′12″W / 54.368162°N 2.336642°W / 54.368162; -2.336642Coordinates: 54°22′05″N 2°20′12″W / 54.368162°N 2.336642°W / 54.368162; -2.336642[1]>
Length 772 metres (2,533 ft)[1]
Altitude 397 metres (1,302 ft)[1]
Geology Carboniferous limestone
Entrances 1
Difficulty II[1]
Cave survey Northern Pennine Club 1960


Eden Sike Cave is a small cave in Mallerstang in the Eden valley in Cumbria, England 400 metres (440 yd) north of Hell Gill. The entrance is 391 metres (428 yd) north west of an obvious resurgence in a small shakehole. This drops into a passage where a wet crawl leads downstream towards the resurgence, and roomier going upstream. This soon deteriorates into more awkward going which eventually leads to a T-Junction. Left goes to a sump some 9 metres (30 ft) long which has been passed to a further 15 metres (49 ft) before becoming too tight. Right ascends some climbs past a roomy chamber into a tight, wet passage to where the airspace becomes minimal.[2]

The cave was originally explored by members of the Northern Pennine Club in 1960,[2] and extended in 1982 by Ian Broadhurst and Dave Lamont.[3] The sump was dived by members of the Cave Diving Group in 1975.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Brook, Dave (1994). Northern Caves Volume 3. The Three Counties System and the North West. Skipton: Dalesman Publishing Company Ltd. p. 228. ISBN 1855680831. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Smith, Brian (1967). "Around Hell Gill - Mallerstang". Northen Pennine Club 3 (1). Retrieved 31 December 2013. 
  3. ↑ Broadhurst, Ian (August 1982). "Eden Sike Cave Extension". Caves & Caving (British Cave Research Association) (17): 25. 


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