Great Douk Cave

Great Douk Cave
Entrance to Great Douk Cave
Location	Chapel-le-Dale, Ingleborough
Length	914 metres (2,999 ft)
Discovery	first through trip accomplished in 1934
List of entrances	Main (lower) entrance 54°11.25′N 2°23.3′W Little Douk (skylight) Middle Washfold (main exit)
Difficulty	Grade I
Access	Free

Great Douk Cave is a great beginners caving trip. It starts at the bottom of a tree-lined collapse close to the track where a small stream cascades from a passage at east end and sinks into the rubble beside a long-term cave dig.

A simple but greasy two metre climb up at the water fall gains a walking size passage. Continue for approx 800m until it lowers into a crawl, bear left at a junction, and then climb into a roof passage that leads out onto the moor at Middle Washfold entrance.

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  Waterfall entrance to Great Douk Cave

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  Squeezing through a gap in Great Douk Cave

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  Squeezing through another gap in Great Douk Cave

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  Middle Washfold entrance