Cryptic caves

[RobinGriffiths]

Yes, Dismal Hill it is. I love that name. You wonder about the state of mind of whoever called a hill Dismal Hill.

 

[Fulk]

Yes, it is a bit odd . . . it's not particularly dismal, and it's not much of a hill.

Anyway, here's another clue:

Is this a thief's haunt, or it it a cook's haunt? (8,4)

 

[Fulk]

So – maybe a clue's needed: This place has been 'in the news', as it were, on UKC recently.

 

[Fulk]

Another clue: The thief would be a rural thief and the place is in N Wales.

 

[langcliffe]

Ogof Hen Ffynhonnau?

 

[grahams]

Poacher's Cave?

 

[Fulk]

Poacher's Cave it is, grahams.

 

[grahams]

Unlike its namesake, this is no place for donkeys! (9, 5).

 

[andys]

Blackpool Beach? (it rings a bell but I'm not sure of the cave tbh!)

 

[grahams]

Near enough - Blackpool Sands, Mossdale. It's yours Andys.

 

[andys]

Okey dokey, try this well known Dales passage....

"Barely intelligible notes left by Aristotle perhaps?" ( 12,5 )

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Philisopher's Crawl ?

 

[andys]

That's the one Robin. Your go....

 

[RobinGriffiths]

How's about.. a bit contrieved..

Mariner's avian burrow. (7-4)

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Any takers. Mind it is a rubbish clue looking back at it.
Nevertheless..

We are in The Dales.

 

[Fulk]

Is there such a place as 'Sailor's Nest'?

 

[RobinGriffiths]

On the right track

 

[grahams]

Sparrow Cave?

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Supplementary clue. Thinks of a Carry On film.

 

[RobinGriffiths]

To try and unblock this... This is in Upper Ribblesdale.