Cave Names - bizarre and funny ones

langcliffe

Well-known member
Ftfagos (actually, it's very well named).
Pay Sank (very clever)
Boggart's Roaring Hole (a bit of imaginative Victorian hyperbole by Balderstone)
Any Welsh cave without proper vowells (e.g. Pwll Y Gwynt and Cym Dwr)
 

martinb

Member
SamT said:
SamT said:
Paracetem 'ole

I should have added this was near the pre-existing 'Hangover Hole'


And when we found a little cave with voice and sight connection (but sadly, not body sized) to Hangover Hole, we called it 'Sober Connection' as we hadn't been to the pub!
 

scurve

Member
In Northumberland, there's Seagull's Welly Pot. So named because a used condom was found in the same shakehole, and in these parts such things are known as seagull's wellies.
This inspired the frankly ridiculous name, Archbishop Pyrenean Desman Tutu's Welly Pot, for another cave nearby.
 

Ian P

Administrator
Staff member
Martin Wright said:
Footnaws Hole.

If you don't get it, try it with a Yorkshire accent. What's it called? Footnaws.

I was of the understanding this was a polite interpretation of ?Foot and Arse? the name of the field it was in / near.

I would be interested to know for sure as it is something I occasionally tell grown up groups I take caving.

Pitlamp ? Langcliffe ? Anyone ?

Regards
Ian
 

braveduck

Active member
As I understood it in the early days before water tracing made the connections clear ,
when anybody asked where the water came from and went to,they always got the answer .

Footnaws  ;)





 
 

mikem

Well-known member
This offers both explanations for Footnaw's:
http://oldfieldslimestone.blogspot.com/2013/04/turn-dub-and-footnaws-hole-windows-into.html
but Red Rose provide Ian's answer:
http://www.rrcpc.org.uk/newsletters/NL_V47_N2_A1.htm
& it is on the 1851 & 1896 OS:
https://maps.nls.uk/view/102344497

Starting handle - it's what they found there...

On the subject of "Desman" Tutu:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19260705

An essential reference for this sort of thing down south (but better the 2nd edition):
https://stellabooks.com/books/richard-witcombe/who-was-aveline-anyway/2112226
 

mikem

Well-known member
We have "Butch's Arse"

It's on Mendip, in Wigmore Swallet
so the story goes, Alan Butcher (SMCC, Dinosaur, etc.) expressed the opinion on the 15 year long dig at Wigmore - "that cave will never go, as long as I have a hole in my arse... ":D  :D  :D  :D
Description in paragraph 4: http://www.thelog.org.uk/BB-462.html
 

Graigwen

Active member
langcliffe said:
Ftfagos (actually, it's very well named).
Pay Sank (very clever)
Boggart's Roaring Hole (a bit of imaginative Victorian hyperbole by Balderstone)
Any Welsh cave without proper vowells (e.g. Pwll Y Gwynt and Cym Dwr)

Cym Dwr?

Is that anywhere near Cwm D?r?

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