Pippikin Pot
| AKA: | Pippikin Hole |
|---|---|
| Area: | Ease Gill |
| Grade: | 4 |
| NGR: | SD66808009 |
| Lat/long: | 54.2155, -2.51059 |
| Elevation: | 326m |
| Length: | 3.20km |
| Depth: | 103m (Dived to 142m) |
| Rock Type: | Great Scar Limestone |
Warning
Entrance series is narrow and strenuous. Keep the return journey in mind.
Access
Leck Fell House.
Exploration
- Explored 1929 GC
- Main exploration 1970 HWCPC
References
| Publication | Title | Club | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| GC Journal, volume 3, number 3 (1929) | New Pots for Old (Potholers) | GC | Anon |
| NCFC Logbook (1937) | 13/14 June 1936 A poor day on Leck Fell | NCFC | Roberts, E.E. |
| Cave Science, number 19, page 129-136 & 155 (January 1952) | Notes on Yorkshire Cave exploration | Yorkie | |
| RRCPC Journal, number 1, page 11 (May 1962) | Casterton Fell | RRCPC | Ashmead, P. |
| The Bulletin of the British Speleological Assoc., number 85, page 13-15 (April 1970) | Some thoughts on the "Three Counties System". | Long, M.H. | |
| The Gritstone Club Journal New series, number 3, page 29-39 (Autumn 1970) | Leck Fell - Recent developments and theories | GC | Sutcliffe, R. |
| GC Journal (new series), number 3, page 36-40 (Autumn 1970) | Nippikin and Pippikin Pots | GC | |
| ULSA Review, number 7, page 1 (September 1970) | Discoveries and Extensions | HWCPC | Anon. |
| Journal of the CPC, volume 4, number 4, page 231 (Nov 1970) | Local News and discoveries | HWCPC | Mellor, D. |
| Descent, number 12, page 18-19 (May/June 1970) | Double discoveries in Yorkshire | HWCPC | |
| ULSA Review, number 7, page 1 (September 1970) | Discoveries and Extensions | ULSA/HWCPC | Anon. |
| Journal of the British Speleological Association, volume 6, number 48, page 29-32 (December 1971) | Leck Fell and the Three Counties System | Waltham, A.C. | |
| ULSA Review, number 8, page 1 (July 1971) | Discoveries and Extensions | HWCPC | Anon. |
| Journal of the CPC, volume 4, number 5 (1971) | Pippikin Pot | HWCPC | Anon |
| Journal of the CPC, volume 4, number 5, page 293 (Nov 1971) | Local discoveries | HWCPC | Mellor, D. |
| Descent, number 18, page 9 (September 1971) | Lancaster link hopes | HWCPC | |
| Journal of the CPC, volume 4, number 6, page 340-341 (Nov 1972) | Local News and Discoveries | Mellor, D. | |
| ULSA Review, number 9, page 11-12 (April 1972) | Pippikin Pot and the Development of the Drill | HWCPC | Calvert, Steve |
| ULSA Review, number 9, page 13-14 (April 1972) | Pippikin Pot - an interim description of the system | HWCPC | Anon. |
| The Geographical Magazine, volume 45, number 1, page 36-43 (Oct 1972) | Cavernous depths of Yorkshire | HWCPC | Waltham, A.C. |
| ULSA Review, number 9, page 15-18 (April 1972) | Pippikin Pot - an account of ULSA activity in the system. | ULSA | Yeandle, D. |
| Descent, number 25, page 12 (Sept/Oct 1973) | Avoid any gripping episodes in Pipikin | J R Johnson | |
| Journal of the LUCC, number 14, page 13-16 (Spring 1973) | Pippikin Hole - Cross Hall Extension | LUCC/ULSA | Thompson, R. |
| ULSA Review, number 12, page 1 (March 1974) | Digs and discoveries in brief | LUCC | Anon. |
| CDG Newsletter, number 37, page 14 (Oct 1975) | Pippikin Pot | CDG | |
| The Caver - NCC Journal, number 3, page 36 (March 1975) | Pippikin Pot | NCC | |
| Journal of the CPC, volume 5, number 6, page 350 (Nov 1978) | For the Record | CPC | J.C., P.N. |
| CDG Newsletter, number 52, page 23 (July 1979) | Pippikin Pot | CDG | |
| Journal of the CPC, volume 6, number 1, page 49 (1979) | For the Record | CPC | Anon |
| Caves & Caving, number 4, page 43 (May 1979) | Pippikin Hole | CPC | G Proudlove |
| Descent, number 49, page 6-15 (July/August 1981) | Classic caving:- No1 The Greater Easeghyll Traverse | Dave Barker | |
| BPC Bulletin, volume 6, number 4, page 46-48 (summer 1981) | Pippikin Pot - Top Sink The finest through trip in Britain | Crossley, G. | |
| Lancashire Caving and Climbing Club Bulletin (1981) | Pippikin Pot | LCCC | Lunt, K. |
| Descent, number 49, page 27 (July/August 1981) | Link Pot aids NCC success in Pippikin | NCC | |
| CDG Newsletter, number 62, page 20 (Jan 1982) | Pippikin Pot | CDG | |
| Caves & Caving, number 16, page 5 (May 1982) | Extensions in Pippikin | NCC | |
| NPC Journal, page 30-31 (1982) | Lower Streamway Pippikin Pot | NPC | Last Inlet |
| Caves & Caving, number 20, page 17 (May 1983) | Other LCCC finds | LC&CC | Karl Lunt |
| Caves & Caving, number 27, page 10-12 (Feb 1985) | Diving under Leck Fell | Geoff Yeadon | |
| Descent, number 62, page 10 (January 1985) | Just a few feet to go in link dive from Pippikin | CDG | |
| Descent, number 72, page 13 (September/October 1986) | 'Imminent' Gavel-Pippikin link will produce 40-mile system | CDG | |
| The Caver - NCC Journal, page 51-52 (1986) | Pippikin Pot - Autumn/Winter 1982 | NCC | Limbert, H. |
| The Caver - NCC Journal, page 53-54 (1986) | Odds & Sods in Pippikin | NCC | White, I. |
| Caves & Caving, number 41, page 34 (Autumn 1988) | Disappointment in Pippikin Pot | ||
| Descent, number 83, page 7 (August/September 1988) | Pippikin Pot | CDG | |
| Descent, number 89, page 16 (Aug/Sept 1989) | The Pippikin connection | CDG | |
| Descent, number 88, page 5 (June/July 1989) | Major northern link completed | CDG | |
| CDG Newsletter, number 92, page 17 (July 1989) | Pippikin Pot | CDG | |
| The Caver - NCC Journal, page 1-6 (1989) | Pippikin-Lost Johns-Gavel | NCC | Yeadon, G. |
| The Caver - NCC Journal, page 7-8 (1989) | Odds & sods in Pippikin | NCC | Thorp, J |
| ULSA Explorations Journal II, page 124-124 (August 1989) | Section 12, Easegill, Pippikin Pot | ULSA | Monico, P. |
| CDG Newsletter, number 100, page 28 (July 1991) | Pippikin Pot | CDG | |
| Caves & Caving, number 56, page 14 (Summer 1992) | Misty Mountain Series - Pippikin Pot | RRCPC | Neil Pacey |
| CDG Newsletter, number 116, page 23 (July 1995) | Pippikin Pot | CDG | |
| Caves & Caving, number 67, page 2 (Spring 1995) | Pippikin Pot | EPC/RRCPC | |
| Caves & Caving, number 74, page 5 (Winter 1996) | Pippikin Pot, Leck Fell | ||
| Descent, number 128, page 16 (Feb/Mar 1996) | Ease Gill snipets | RRCPC | |
| Caves & Caving, number 76, page 5 (Summer 1997) | Pippikin Pot, Leck Fell | CDG | |
| Descent, number 138, page 12 (Oct/Nov 1997) | Ease Gill connected to Witches Cave | CDG | |
| Descent, number 136, page 13 (June/July 1997) | Diving News | CDG | |
| Descent, number 135, page 14 (April/May 1997) | Diving News | CDG | |
| CDG Newsletter, number 122, page 11 (Jan 1997) | Pippikin Pot | CDG | |
| CDG Newsletter, number 124, page 19 (July 1997) | Pippikin Pot | CDG | |
| CDG Newsletter, number 125, page 9 (Oct 1997) | Pippikin Pot | CDG | |
| Caves & Caving, number 78, page 8 (Winter 1997) | Entering the Devil's Arsehole | OUCC/RRCPC | Dave Lacey |
| RRCPC Journal, page 12 (June 1997) | The Formative Years (1949-51) | RRCPC | Sykes, T. |
| RRCPC Journal, page 13-17 (June 1997) | The Formative Years (1949-51) | RRCPC | Leyland, W. |
| RRCPC Journal, page 23 (June 1997) | Pippikin | RRCPC | Sykes, T. |
| RRCPC Journal, page 69-70 (June 1997) | The 90's - Big Mean Porridge Machine | RRCPC | Wilkinson, P. |
| Descent, number 139, page 10 (Dec/Jan 1997) | Pippikin extension | RRCPC | |
| Descent, number 169, page 34-35 (Dec/Jan 2002) | We've got Extreme Ways | NCC | Pete O'Neill & Peter Macnab |
| Descent, number 168, page 15 (Oct/Nov 2002) | Gour Hall's extensions | NCC | |
| Descent, number 174, page 14 (Oct/Nov 2003) | Rescue from Pippikin Pot | ||
| WRPC 1954-2004, page 30-31 (2004) | Pippikin Pot - Andromeda Aven | WRPC | Sewell, Sweeny |
| Journal of the RRCPC, number 10, page 122-125 (2009) | Beelzebub's Hairy Ringpiece - Enteringthe Devil's Areshole | RRCPC | Lacey, D. |
| Journal of the RRCPC, number 10, page 125-128 (2009) | The Big Mean Porridge Machine | RRCPC | Hall, P. |
| Journal of the RRCPC, number 10, page 135 (2009) | Further work in the Misty Mountain Series | RRCPC | Pacey, N. |
| Journal of the RRCPC, number 10, page 136 (2009) | Electric Winegum | RRCPC | |
| Journal of the RRCPC, number 10, page 136 (2009) | Red Wall Chamber | RRCPC | Lieberman, S. |
| Journal of the RRCPC, number 10, page 137-138 (2009) | Bargain Passage, The Hobbit | RRCPC | Wilkinson, P. |
| Journal of the RRCPC, number 10, page 137 (2009) | Mudier than Mud itself | RRCPC | Ramsay, D. |
| Journal of the RRCPC, number 10, page 139-140 (2009) | Far Streamway | RRCPC | Carlisle, J. |
| Journal of the RRCPC, number 10, page 310 (2009) | The Bucket Mine area, near Gour Hall | RRCPC | Swire, P. |
| Descent, number 215, page 18-22 (Aug/Sept 2010) | The Three Counties Chasing a dream | MMMMC | Walsh, A. |
| Descent, number 243, page 11 (April 2015) | Pippikin hangers | Allshorn, S. |
References
GC Journal, volume 3, number 3 (1929)
Title: New Pots for Old (Potholers)
Club: GC
Author: Anon
NCFC Logbook (1937)
Title: 13/14 June 1936 A poor day on Leck Fell
Club: NCFC
Author: Roberts, E.E.
Cave Science, number 19, page 129-136 & 155 (January 1952)
Title: Notes on Yorkshire Cave exploration
Author: Yorkie
RRCPC Journal, number 1, page 11 (May 1962)
Title: Casterton Fell
Club: RRCPC
Author: Ashmead, P.
The Bulletin of the British Speleological Assoc., number 85, page 13-15 (April 1970)
Title: Some thoughts on the "Three Counties System".
Author: Long, M.H.
The Gritstone Club Journal New series, number 3, page 29-39 (Autumn 1970)
Title: Leck Fell - Recent developments and theories
Club: GC
Author: Sutcliffe, R.
GC Journal (new series), number 3, page 36-40 (Autumn 1970)
Title: Nippikin and Pippikin Pots
Club: GC
ULSA Review, number 7, page 1 (September 1970)
Title: Discoveries and Extensions
Club: HWCPC
Author: Anon.
Journal of the CPC, volume 4, number 4, page 231 (Nov 1970)
Title: Local News and discoveries
Club: HWCPC
Author: Mellor, D.
Descent, number 12, page 18-19 (May/June 1970)
Title: Double discoveries in Yorkshire
Club: HWCPC
ULSA Review, number 7, page 1 (September 1970)
Title: Discoveries and Extensions
Club: ULSA/HWCPC
Author: Anon.
Journal of the British Speleological Association, volume 6, number 48, page 29-32 (December 1971)
Title: Leck Fell and the Three Counties System
Author: Waltham, A.C.
ULSA Review, number 8, page 1 (July 1971)
Title: Discoveries and Extensions
Club: HWCPC
Author: Anon.
Journal of the CPC, volume 4, number 5 (1971)
Title: Pippikin Pot
Club: HWCPC
Author: Anon
Journal of the CPC, volume 4, number 5, page 293 (Nov 1971)
Title: Local discoveries
Club: HWCPC
Author: Mellor, D.
Descent, number 18, page 9 (September 1971)
Title: Lancaster link hopes
Club: HWCPC
Journal of the CPC, volume 4, number 6, page 340-341 (Nov 1972)
Title: Local News and Discoveries
Author: Mellor, D.
ULSA Review, number 9, page 11-12 (April 1972)
Title: Pippikin Pot and the Development of the Drill
Club: HWCPC
Author: Calvert, Steve
ULSA Review, number 9, page 13-14 (April 1972)
Title: Pippikin Pot - an interim description of the system
Club: HWCPC
Author: Anon.
The Geographical Magazine, volume 45, number 1, page 36-43 (Oct 1972)
Title: Cavernous depths of Yorkshire
Club: HWCPC
Author: Waltham, A.C.
ULSA Review, number 9, page 15-18 (April 1972)
Title: Pippikin Pot - an account of ULSA activity in the system.
Club: ULSA
Author: Yeandle, D.
Descent, number 25, page 12 (Sept/Oct 1973)
Title: Avoid any gripping episodes in Pipikin
Author: J R Johnson
Journal of the LUCC, number 14, page 13-16 (Spring 1973)
Title: Pippikin Hole - Cross Hall Extension
Club: LUCC/ULSA
Author: Thompson, R.
ULSA Review, number 12, page 1 (March 1974)
Title: Digs and discoveries in brief
Club: LUCC
Author: Anon.
CDG Newsletter, number 37, page 14 (Oct 1975)
Title: Pippikin Pot
Club: CDG
The Caver - NCC Journal, number 3, page 36 (March 1975)
Title: Pippikin Pot
Club: NCC
Journal of the CPC, volume 5, number 6, page 350 (Nov 1978)
Title: For the Record
Club: CPC
Author: J.C., P.N.
CDG Newsletter, number 52, page 23 (July 1979)
Title: Pippikin Pot
Club: CDG
Journal of the CPC, volume 6, number 1, page 49 (1979)
Title: For the Record
Club: CPC
Author: Anon
Caves & Caving, number 4, page 43 (May 1979)
Title: Pippikin Hole
Club: CPC
Author: G Proudlove
Descent, number 49, page 6-15 (July/August 1981)
Title: Classic caving:- No1 The Greater Easeghyll Traverse
Author: Dave Barker
BPC Bulletin, volume 6, number 4, page 46-48 (summer 1981)
Title: Pippikin Pot - Top Sink The finest through trip in Britain
Author: Crossley, G.
Lancashire Caving and Climbing Club Bulletin (1981)
Title: Pippikin Pot
Club: LCCC
Author: Lunt, K.
Descent, number 49, page 27 (July/August 1981)
Title: Link Pot aids NCC success in Pippikin
Club: NCC
CDG Newsletter, number 62, page 20 (Jan 1982)
Title: Pippikin Pot
Club: CDG
Caves & Caving, number 16, page 5 (May 1982)
Title: Extensions in Pippikin
Club: NCC
NPC Journal, page 30-31 (1982)
Title: Lower Streamway Pippikin Pot
Club: NPC
Author: Last Inlet
Caves & Caving, number 20, page 17 (May 1983)
Title: Other LCCC finds
Club: LC&CC
Author: Karl Lunt
Caves & Caving, number 27, page 10-12 (Feb 1985)
Title: Diving under Leck Fell
Author: Geoff Yeadon
Descent, number 62, page 10 (January 1985)
Title: Just a few feet to go in link dive from Pippikin
Club: CDG
Descent, number 72, page 13 (September/October 1986)
Title: 'Imminent' Gavel-Pippikin link will produce 40-mile system
Club: CDG
The Caver - NCC Journal, page 51-52 (1986)
Title: Pippikin Pot - Autumn/Winter 1982
Club: NCC
Author: Limbert, H.
The Caver - NCC Journal, page 53-54 (1986)
Title: Odds & Sods in Pippikin
Club: NCC
Author: White, I.
Caves & Caving, number 41, page 34 (Autumn 1988)
Title: Disappointment in Pippikin Pot
Descent, number 83, page 7 (August/September 1988)
Title: Pippikin Pot
Club: CDG
Descent, number 89, page 16 (Aug/Sept 1989)
Title: The Pippikin connection
Club: CDG
Descent, number 88, page 5 (June/July 1989)
Title: Major northern link completed
Club: CDG
CDG Newsletter, number 92, page 17 (July 1989)
Title: Pippikin Pot
Club: CDG
The Caver - NCC Journal, page 1-6 (1989)
Title: Pippikin-Lost Johns-Gavel
Club: NCC
Author: Yeadon, G.
The Caver - NCC Journal, page 7-8 (1989)
Title: Odds & sods in Pippikin
Club: NCC
Author: Thorp, J
ULSA Explorations Journal II, page 124-124 (August 1989)
Title: Section 12, Easegill, Pippikin Pot
Club: ULSA
Author: Monico, P.
CDG Newsletter, number 100, page 28 (July 1991)
Title: Pippikin Pot
Club: CDG
Caves & Caving, number 56, page 14 (Summer 1992)
Title: Misty Mountain Series - Pippikin Pot
Club: RRCPC
Author: Neil Pacey
CDG Newsletter, number 116, page 23 (July 1995)
Title: Pippikin Pot
Club: CDG
Caves & Caving, number 67, page 2 (Spring 1995)
Title: Pippikin Pot
Club: EPC/RRCPC
Caves & Caving, number 74, page 5 (Winter 1996)
Title: Pippikin Pot, Leck Fell
Descent, number 128, page 16 (Feb/Mar 1996)
Title: Ease Gill snipets
Club: RRCPC
Caves & Caving, number 76, page 5 (Summer 1997)
Title: Pippikin Pot, Leck Fell
Club: CDG
Descent, number 138, page 12 (Oct/Nov 1997)
Title: Ease Gill connected to Witches Cave
Club: CDG
Descent, number 136, page 13 (June/July 1997)
Title: Diving News
Club: CDG
Descent, number 135, page 14 (April/May 1997)
Title: Diving News
Club: CDG
CDG Newsletter, number 122, page 11 (Jan 1997)
Title: Pippikin Pot
Club: CDG
CDG Newsletter, number 124, page 19 (July 1997)
Title: Pippikin Pot
Club: CDG
CDG Newsletter, number 125, page 9 (Oct 1997)
Title: Pippikin Pot
Club: CDG
Caves & Caving, number 78, page 8 (Winter 1997)
Title: Entering the Devil's Arsehole
Club: OUCC/RRCPC
Author: Dave Lacey
RRCPC Journal, page 12 (June 1997)
Title: The Formative Years (1949-51)
Club: RRCPC
Author: Sykes, T.
RRCPC Journal, page 13-17 (June 1997)
Title: The Formative Years (1949-51)
Club: RRCPC
Author: Leyland, W.
RRCPC Journal, page 23 (June 1997)
Title: Pippikin
Club: RRCPC
Author: Sykes, T.
RRCPC Journal, page 69-70 (June 1997)
Title: The 90's - Big Mean Porridge Machine
Club: RRCPC
Author: Wilkinson, P.
Descent, number 139, page 10 (Dec/Jan 1997)
Title: Pippikin extension
Club: RRCPC
Descent, number 169, page 34-35 (Dec/Jan 2002)
Title: We've got Extreme Ways
Club: NCC
Author: Pete O'Neill & Peter Macnab
Descent, number 168, page 15 (Oct/Nov 2002)
Title: Gour Hall's extensions
Club: NCC
Descent, number 174, page 14 (Oct/Nov 2003)
Title: Rescue from Pippikin Pot
WRPC 1954-2004, page 30-31 (2004)
Title: Pippikin Pot - Andromeda Aven
Club: WRPC
Author: Sewell, Sweeny
Journal of the RRCPC, number 10, page 122-125 (2009)
Title: Beelzebub's Hairy Ringpiece - Enteringthe Devil's Areshole
Club: RRCPC
Author: Lacey, D.
Journal of the RRCPC, number 10, page 125-128 (2009)
Title: The Big Mean Porridge Machine
Club: RRCPC
Author: Hall, P.
Journal of the RRCPC, number 10, page 135 (2009)
Title: Further work in the Misty Mountain Series
Club: RRCPC
Author: Pacey, N.
Journal of the RRCPC, number 10, page 136 (2009)
Title: Electric Winegum
Club: RRCPC
Journal of the RRCPC, number 10, page 136 (2009)
Title: Red Wall Chamber
Club: RRCPC
Author: Lieberman, S.
Journal of the RRCPC, number 10, page 137-138 (2009)
Title: Bargain Passage, The Hobbit
Club: RRCPC
Author: Wilkinson, P.
Journal of the RRCPC, number 10, page 137 (2009)
Title: Mudier than Mud itself
Club: RRCPC
Author: Ramsay, D.
Journal of the RRCPC, number 10, page 139-140 (2009)
Title: Far Streamway
Club: RRCPC
Author: Carlisle, J.
Journal of the RRCPC, number 10, page 310 (2009)
Title: The Bucket Mine area, near Gour Hall
Club: RRCPC
Author: Swire, P.
Descent, number 215, page 18-22 (Aug/Sept 2010)
Title: The Three Counties Chasing a dream
Club: MMMMC
Author: Walsh, A.
Descent, number 243, page 11 (April 2015)
Title: Pippikin hangers
Author: Allshorn, S.
