New Goyden Pot
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Location
Grid Reference: SE 102 754.
Altitude: 195m
Parking is at the farm or on the road. Follow the Nidderdale way from the farm up the valley till it meets the river bed and straight opposite is the small entrance to New Goyden pot. Note: There is no access straight accross the fields from the road.
Access
Presently permission for access has been granted by Mr Harker of Thrope Farm, no need to call.
Description
Overall
Two fine pitches drop you into an impressive large phreatic tunnel. Upstream leads to a duck and small section beyond plus on route is access to unstable area know as South Avens and alternative entrance Thrope Edge Pot. Downstream passes the Main Inlet and Dry Wath Inlet then just before the middle sump a climb leads through to the Planatarium with further passages beyond including Hardy Pools passage.
Detail Dry Wath inlet - Follow the stream from either the Main Entrance or Thrope Edge Pot to the first right hand bend. Note the water coming in from your left, Main inlet, this is the New Stream water coming through from Frog pot. After the bend climb up onto the ledge on the left and along it until you see a narrow cleft in the wall with a rope hanging down. This is the entrance to Dry Wath inlet and the original way in by the early explorers. Awkward climb up and then hands and knees crawl above the narrow trench until you are able drop down into the small streamway. An aven on the left can be climbed past numerous sharp flakes to a choke above. Way on is crawl in the streamway. Some way in a small passage on the left leads quickly to a ~sump that connects with passages the other side that can be accessed by progressing on along the streamway. Further on a climb on the right leads up to a tight and awkward *bypass to the Dry Wath pitch, best explored from the other direction. Further along the stream after going round a couple of sharp bends the passage splits. Straight ahead lead to a choke inlet while going back and right leads up to the base of a pitch, Dry Wath pitch. This 15 m pitch goes up to a series of passages. Directly above the waterfall side is the orginal entrance to New Goyden now blocked. At the other side of the pitch passages lead off right and left. Left leads after just a few metres to a choke. A way down through the choke leads to a tight section of passage that *bypasses the pitch and connects with the first section of passage in Dry Wath inlet. Right from the pitch head leads to a hole in the floor and beddings right and left. The rift in the floor can be descended to a wider section and to the ~sump at the bottom. Left along the bedding at the head of the rift leads to a series of cavities and small stream. Right along the bedding leads through to Frog pot (present dig not yet connected).
Hardy Pools Passage
History
Extended 1956 by the CPC; 1973/74 by ULSA; 1980-1982 by the CDG. Collapsed entrance re-opened by the Black Sheep Diggers 1998
References
Northern Caves 1 Wharfedale & North East
- Northern Caves Volume 1, Wharfedale and the North-East. Nidderdale section page 160-161
