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| White Scar Caves | |
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| Location | Chapel-le-Dale, North Yorkshire, England |
| Coordinates | grid reference SD712745 |
| Discovery | 1923 |
| Geology | Limestone |
| Access | Show cave |
White Scar Caves are a network of caves under Ingleborough hill in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in the North of England.
Discovered in August, 1923 by two amateur geologists, Christopher Long and J.H. Churchill, they contain the Battlefield Cavern, one of the largest known cave chambers in Great Britain, at 90m long.
They are open as a show cave, the entrance being from the Ribblehead to Ingleton road on the west of Ingleborough (grid reference SD712745).
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