Ease Gill Kirk
Ease Gill Kirk is one of the most atmospheric places in the Yorkshire Dales. It is a steep sided limestone gorge found towards the lower end of Ease Gill before it joins with Leck Beck. For the most part the gorge is dry, only after a prolonged period of heavy rain does the waters of Ease Gill make it as far as Ease Gill Kirk.
The walls of the ravine are absolutely peppered with caves!
The Caves under and around Ease Gill on the Cumbria/Lancashire of border of the UK form part of the longest and most complex system in Britain, the Three Counties System .The system extends beneath Casterton, Leck and Ireby Fells around the western and southern flanks of Gregareth Hill, with around 89Km of passages. The caves are formed in the Carboniferous (Dinantian) Great Scar Limestone. They contain a wide range of passage types, sediments and speleothems
Hopefully you have enjoyed a good explore and a rest here as we will start it head back. There is so much to discover around these parts and I will cover it in another walk with even more facts I promise!