St Leonard's Church

Sunday 3rd September 2000 Leader Roy Gudgeon

 North Craven 
 Heritage Trust 

We started the four-mile ramble at St Leonard's Church. From here we headed towards Southerscales, and Phil Hudson gave members information about the ancient possibly bronze age sites, before we reached Braithwaite Wife Hole. From there we travelled across reasonably dry ground to the Douk Cave system before crossing the main road again to visit Weathercote Cave.

This cave is not accessible to the public, but was one of the 'show' caves in the Victorian era, and tourists travelled for miles to descend to see the delights of this particular pot-hole. For this occasion permission had been obtained for members to descend to the base of the 80-foot waterfall, and it was extremely impressive even though we had not had rain for some time. The walk concluded at St Leonard's Church, where Bill Mitchell rounded off an excellent afternoon, by giving details about the Church and artefacts in the Churchyard. R.K.G.

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St Leonard's Church - Photo Maureen Ellis


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St Leonard's Church - Photo Maureen Ellis