adventurebarbie
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What are the funniest or most bizarre cave names we have?
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Cave Names - bizarre and funny ones
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Martin Wright
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Footnaws Hole.
If you don't get it, try it with a Yorkshire accent. What's it called? Footnaws.
If you don't get it, try it with a Yorkshire accent. What's it called? Footnaws.
langcliffe
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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)
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)
danthecavingman
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Catamite Hole!
scurve
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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.
This inspired the frankly ridiculous name, Archbishop Pyrenean Desman Tutu's Welly Pot, for another cave nearby.
Martin Wright said:
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
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
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
Description in paragraph 4: http://www.thelog.org.uk/BB-462.htmlWe 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... "
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